Posted on 06/23/2016 10:57:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Why did they do it? That, we’ll pick apart in the next few weeks. I think that Leave genuinely ran the better campaign, more hopeful and upbeat.
Immigration mattered a great deal – although one YouGov poll ranked it third behind democracy and the economy. It’s possible that voters grasped the essential point about this referendum better than we the commentators did.
It was a vote of confidence in Britain. Should we run our affairs or should we delegate it to foreign bureaucrats? When I was leaving my polling station, I said to a chap: “I found voting quite emotional.” He replied that this was the day we got our freedom back. That’s how it feels for millions of Britons.
Not how it feels, perhaps, for Londoners or Scots. We’ve seen a new division emerge within our country. Scotland increasingly defines its politics as Left-wing and Europhile. London is simply a different country: the metropolis triumphant. The young may have overwhelmingly voted Remain, too – but, hey, they will grow older someday. The young who voted Remain in 1975 overwhelmingly voted Leave in 2016. In part, perhaps, because they didn’t like being characterised as ancient bigots by the Remain side. Top tip for winning future elections: don’t call the electorate “thick” or “losers”. It, er, turns them off.
What happens now? We drink. We be happy. We sing a song. Then we piece back the country and get on with the great project of building the British century. We voted the right way because we’re a nation with a sense of destiny. The world is ours now. Go get it.
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Independence Day Two has surely premiered!!!
Hollywood is on the side of the corporatist elites but how ironic......
This was the day the British people defied their jailers
WIll the USA follow Britain in the November election ??????
I think it will be a landslide
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From your lips to God’s ears. Hope the landslide starts with Juan McNasty and that freaking moron Paul Ryan.
And it has as well for decades in the U.S. But here the people are ignored, lied to and deceived by those in government.
I’m damned proud of my ancestral brothers. I hope the spirit continues across the pond. Then perhaps Churchill’s English-speaking people will create a new birth of freedom in the world, once again.
Liberty still lives in a majority of hearts in the British citizenry.
The utter failure of the tyrants in Brussels is exposed. If things were going well after 17 years, Britain would never have brought this question to a vote, let alone voted to leave.
How will the British government react?
God bless those UK voters, more than enough to say they refuse to be enslaved and grifted by a corrupt tyranny they have no say in how is run by Germany/”Brussels”.
It's called growing up.
But alas, many never do. Nothing is more pathetic than old progressives.
This is the issue that unites the common people against the establishment elites. Recent elections throughout Europe have resulted in similar outcomes which have dumbfounded sitting governments. The results of the Republican primaries in this country have shown the same concerns of the common folk. Trump was the ONLY candidate to seize on the issue befuddling the other candidates. Trump is also the only candidate who has bravely taken the popular stance that radical Islamic Muslim terrorism is evil. It will be very interesting to see what the response will be.
Wonderful news! Liberty still prevails.
Bump for Greatness.
A great day in British history!
So do I!
So am I. Gloucestershire. Lots of fam still there.
Go freedom and self-determination!
Somerset here...well, I have Scottish blood too, so I’m on both sides I guess!
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