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For Trump and Brexit voters, echoes of the same frustrations
AP ^ | 6/26/2016 | Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin

Posted on 06/26/2016 1:46:32 PM PDT by orchestra

MAYBOLE, Scotland (AP) — At the heart of the campaign that led Britain to vote to leave the European Union was a desire to regain independence lost amid a globalized world. It's the same kind of feeling that Donald Trump rode to become the presumptive Republican nominee in the U.S., where he campaigns to put "America first" and "make America great again."

"I love to see people take their country back. And that's really what's happening in the United States," Trump told reporters this weekend during a visit to his golf resort in western Scotland.

The anxiety that drove the stunning "Brexit" decision has been brewing for at least a decade in the United Kingdom, as waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe arrived as the global economy plunged into recession. In the years since, right-leaning leaders have stoked populist concerns about their impact on wages, as well as fears about the loss of ethnic identity, which runs deep in parts of largely white rural England and Wales.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: brexit; scotland; trump

1 posted on 06/26/2016 1:46:32 PM PDT by orchestra
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and are ignored or marginalized by the ruling class and media assclowns in exactly the same way


2 posted on 06/26/2016 1:48:26 PM PDT by bigbob
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All things pointing to a Trump win...


3 posted on 06/26/2016 1:49:13 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.—but the Constitution which at any time exists, ‘till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.”

“The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the Guardian of the Weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes—to preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the Constitution designates.—but let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.” (excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796)


4 posted on 06/26/2016 2:23:36 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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Trump needs to go here, immediately => bilateral trade deal with Britian!)

Barack Obama’s White House Hate The United Kingdom?
By NIGEL FARAGE MEP
6 Nov 2015

Ever since President Obama’s first day when he removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office I have wondered: Just how anti-British is Obama?

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico illustrated his contempt for our country with his repeated references and heavy emphasis to British Petroleum. But he’s gone one better this week. His Trade Envoy Michael Froman said, and was endlessly quoted by the BBC, that the USA would not seek a bilateral trade deal with the UK if we left the European Union (EU).

This is all bizarre. The USA has a trade deal with Oman, so why on Earth would it not want one with its greatest friend in the world?

It is clear that Obama supports supranational government and the new global order. And I must congratulate Breitbart London for exposing the fact that both Froman and his wife had previously worked for the European Commission.

Jeb Bush has provided the first counter-punch by making it clear that of course America would favour such a trade deal if the UK were to leave the EU.

(...)

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/06/why-does-barack-obamas-white-house-hate-the-united-kingdom/


5 posted on 06/26/2016 2:27:45 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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Out knocking doors on this hot but gorgeous day! @ladylifes
6 posted on 06/26/2016 3:35:54 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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7 posted on 06/26/2016 3:40:48 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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