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The Brexit contagion: How France, Italy and the Netherlands now want their referendum too
The Telegraph ^ | June 24th, 2016 | Matthew Holehouse, Brussels

Posted on 06/24/2016 6:49:53 AM PDT by Mariner

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France, Italy and the Netherlands

Last night, I thought that the Eastern European countries would be the first in line to do their own Brexit. I believed this due to the migrants flooding over their countries. These three countries, kind of, surprise me.

21 posted on 06/24/2016 7:21:00 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Iron Munro

May Iman Obama become another Bill Clintoon re his political backing. Basically, everything/person Clintoon has backed has lost big in an open election.

“Lame duck Barack Jug-Ears Obama should embark on a Goodbye Tour in Europe.

He should travel to each EU country to advise them against voting to leave the EU.

He could have a significant impact.

After all - Look what he did for Britain...”


22 posted on 06/24/2016 7:21:41 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (La Raza thugs in America are Mexico's form of Isis terrorism/terrorists/invaders!!)
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To: Mariner

Normal God fearing productive people in the US need to either take over the gov’t or secede.


23 posted on 06/24/2016 7:24:37 AM PDT by umgud (ban muslims, not guns)
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To: Vigilanteman

Exactly.

The EU had a good exemplars to follow. The United States. Switzerland.

A federal system with narrowly defined powers for the central government. A list of rights that cannot be breached.

Instead, they quickly moved to a bureaucratic, unelected oligopoly, whose model was the nanny state.


24 posted on 06/24/2016 7:25:16 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Mariner

Yep, they’re going to prove their existence is completely a manufactured need. Cut yourself from them and you realize you never needed them, false dependency.


25 posted on 06/24/2016 7:27:23 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: katana

The EURO should be eliminated with a return to national currencies. Greece is a prime example. They cannot devalue their currency to help themselves get out of their economic doldrums. The Euro waits them down like an anchor.


26 posted on 06/24/2016 7:32:08 AM PDT by kabar
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To: marktwain
A federal system with narrowly defined powers for the central government. A list of rights that cannot be breached.

Instead, they quickly moved to a bureaucratic, unelected oligopoly, whose model was the nanny state.

Yep, it took us 200 years more or less to get to get to the nanny state.

But the European countries had a head start. They were all nanny states when they joined.

27 posted on 06/24/2016 7:33:31 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: katana
Free trade among sovereign European nations makes sense. Allowing a bunch of unelected foreigners to overrule your laws and traditions and control your borders doesn’t. It’s dawn and wake up alarms are ringing across Europe.


If they had simply left it as the “Common Market”, which the UK voted to join, then most of Europe would be relatively booming now.

But, politicians being politicians, the EU kept on voting to expand it's own power and no one stopped them. This was helped by the fact that almost all of the candidates for the MEP positions were pro-Europe.

28 posted on 06/24/2016 7:33:36 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: Vigilanteman
Not only that, but if the EU leaders had given Cameron s-o-m-e concessions when he tried to renegotiate Britain's deal, the referendum vote would most likely have ended with a Remain victory. As it was he was forced to bluff (lie!) in front of the Parliament to hide the fact that the maximalists in the EU bureaucracy had given him exactly naught. He was not able to campaign on a “new deal”.

Clearly the EU Commissioners knew about the British disdain of the EU, and they knew a referendum was forthcoming. And still they could not budge.

They are just as idiotic and authoritarian as the pre-Reformation Popes. And we know how that ended....

29 posted on 06/24/2016 7:46:32 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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But it’s beyond Merkel, right? She’s got a hand up her @ss manipulating her mouth.

I agree. She has more hands up her @ss manipulating her than Miss Piggy.

30 posted on 06/24/2016 7:46:34 AM PDT by seawolf101 (This)
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To: LibertarianLiz

First world countries with good benefits for doing nothing are always the destination goals of Muslim “migrants”. Those who can’t afford to be generous to leeches are merely pass-through points.


31 posted on 06/24/2016 7:46:50 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: katana
Well-said, katana. Succinct and precise.

My reaction to the morning's headlines was,

Good News for breakfast, for once.

Thank you, British cousins, for having the nerve.

32 posted on 06/24/2016 7:48:06 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Mariner

They were told the EU would be Great and all they got was the USSR


33 posted on 06/24/2016 7:56:35 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ScaniaBoy
Good comparison. I have Catholic friends who actually agree with me that the Reformation, in the long run, improved and may have even saved the church.

Especially when you look at the string of corrupt pre-Reformation Popes who were obsessed with building political and economic power to the neglect of affairs of the Church.

By the time the 30 years war ended (1648), these corrupt Popes were gone and the new breed was concentrated on affairs of the Church and saving Europe from the invasion of Muslim hordes later that same century.

There was neither an evil nor a corrupt Pope elected until Pope Frank came on the scene just three years ago when the College of Cardinals felt it would be fashionable to elect one from a third world country (Argentina) who still had ancestral ties to a traditional country (Italy).

34 posted on 06/24/2016 7:56:53 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: seawolf101
"Merkel is a freaking disaster"

She is Jeb in a dress. Thank G-d we dodged that hot mess and if I am correct we will dodge Kim Jung Shrill...

35 posted on 06/24/2016 8:01:05 AM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: kabar

Well, they’ve voted for Grexit how many times now? How well has that worked out for them? Germany won’t let them go.


36 posted on 06/24/2016 8:01:25 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: taildragger

It is a preview of November. Mr. Trump in the White House.


37 posted on 06/24/2016 8:03:07 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Jack Hammer
Jack Hammer wrote:

An idea whose time never came. Say Buh-bye EU!"

Prayers answered...Sidney Portier sings "AMEN"
38 posted on 06/24/2016 8:03:23 AM PDT by wtd
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To: Mariner

I’ve lost a lot of money on paper this morning over this exit; however, the destruction of the EU when the other member nations abandon it is a good thing.

The pompous EU who ordered nations to take in Muslims is a good reason to destroy it. Angela Merkel, being a good little chubby statist and a NWO cheerleader needs to have the German people toss her into the Rhine.

Next, the destruction of the UN is in order.

Then, the expulsion of ALL Muslims in the west. Muslims should NEVER be permitted to emigrate to a non-Muslim nation.


39 posted on 06/24/2016 8:11:15 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Mariner

You can’t stuff fundamentalist and radical islam down the throats of westernized people and expect them to think it is just fine and dandy.

Whether France, Britain, Germany, or the good ole USA, we want to keep OUR culture and have only people who want to become part of us and who love us to settle in our country.

Why should we accept slavers, women abusers, murderers, and Islamic executions into our midst?

Only an already enslaved person would put up with that.


40 posted on 06/24/2016 8:14:34 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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