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Posted on 01/20/2026 9:01:37 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Brexit referendum was supposed to succeed by failing. Things did not go according to plan.
There’s a lesson here for Alberta and Canada, as the province heads for a likely Albexit independence referendum later this year.
But before we talk about the future, let’s revisit an unhappy past.
Former British prime minister David Cameron wanted to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the European Union, and the threat of a vote on Britain’s continuing membership in the EU was seen as a helpful negotiating tool. Mr. Cameron had also been subject to years of referendum pressure from his party’s fringe, which he wanted to mollify.
If all had gone as planned, Britain would have extracted a better deal from Brussels, while the Euroskeptic wing of the Conservative Party would have been crushed for a generation in a Brexit referendum defeat.
Mr. Cameron walked the country to the edge of the cliff in the hope that voters would recoil from the abyss.
The surprise victory of the “Leave” side instead ended Mr. Cameron’s political career. And the better deal with the EU went into the dustbin, while his successors were forced to negotiate the country’s exit from the bloc.
British politics, instead of being moderated by the referendum, was radicalized. A decade later, the erstwhile Conservative fringe, now a party known as Reform, has split from the Tories – and leads the polls.
A strategy of appeasing the fringe while scaring the center into concessions blew up. Britain’s economy took a permanent hit, since Brexit meant erecting barriers to trade with Europe, the country’s main trading partner. Which brings us to Albexit.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
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4 million new Americans. Attach it to Montana or Idaho. More representatives in the house.
and Senators :D
No, attach it to Washington so we can turn this benighted state back to the red.
This is really a question for Canadians.
Good thinking.
It’s only contiguous to Montana, and has over four times the population. It’s strongly conservative. It should be its own state
Only Montana shares a border with AB.
Alberta’s GDP is 15% of Canada. First domino...
Alberta should decide what they want...
It might not any military value, but it has a bunch of oil.
Part of the reason Alberta wants to leave Canada is that the Canadian government requires that Alberta send a bunch of money to Ottawa so it can be given to other provinces.
The oil makes Alberta worth having.
Yes, it does.
It looks like Canada is using the Marxist system by redistributing wealth from the haves to the have-nots.
Dear god NO. That would be a near guarantee for democrat Senators and Representatives. There are a few conservatives here and there, but a conservative there is like a democrat here.
Join us!
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Those calling for a referendum were hardly a “fringe”. It had been promised by one British PM after another for a generation.
Brexit did not hurt the British economy and they did not erect trade barriers with Europe.
The threat of Brexit did not get Britain any concessions from Brussels.
Since its behind a paywall, I can only assume the rest of the article is as full of lies and BS as this little snippet is.
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