Posted on 12/10/2018 3:51:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
They came on buses and trains, carrying British and English flags and homemade signs. Elderly veterans wore their uniforms and medals. Young men handed out political flyers.
As the crowd swelled under leaden skies, a wail of bagpipes signaled the start of the march. A march for Brexit – a clean break from the European Union – and against Prime Minister Theresa May and any other politician who dares to defy the 17.4 million Britons who voted in 2016 to leave. “Hard Brexit, Traitor May,” read one flag.
Sunday’s pro-Brexit march by UKIP, a populist anti-EU party, was modest in numbers, less than 5,000 at its peak, and easily outnumbered by a counter-protest by left-wing groups. But it was the first stirrings of what could be a broader backlash to an idea now gathering force in Britain: that the exit from the EU should be delayed or shelved altogether.
On Monday, an EU court ruled that Britain could reverse its withdrawal unilaterally before March 29, 2019, the date of its departure. Hours later, Ms. May abruptly postponed a critical vote due Tuesday on her proposal for leaving the EU after failing to persuade lawmakers to support it. She vowed to reopen talks with EU leaders, but didn’t set a deadline for another vote.
This political impasse has fueled cross-party calls for a second referendum as a way out.
That prospect is a red flag to the men and women who marched Sunday against a “Brexit Betrayal” that many say would be the final straw. Some invoked the yellow-vested rioters in France, echoing the warnings by May’s allies that Britain risks civil unrest if Brexit is cast aside.
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Boy, there’s a Fake News Headline if I ever saw one.
As Trump remains president a far left backlash continues to mount
Somehow, being a subject of the Lisbon Treaty just doesn’t get people’s juices going like being a native son of a real nation...
A “backlash” against the madness would be desirable across the developed world. Even here, Trump is being stymied by a rock-solid leftist opposition, kin to the EU leaders who despise the subjects over whom they rule. And then there’s Canada . . .
Is this what Euro Spring looks like?
Indeed.
It’s appalling that countries and regions can’t just vote their way out of the EU, no penalties. The citizenry didn’t vote to lose their sovereignty, their leaders were bought off to hand it over.
More like the Right rejecting the FAR Left.
... and a mixed metaphor to boot!
“...a wail of bagpipes signaled the start of the march....”
Whatever the bagpipes are for so am I.
“On Monday, an EU court ruled that Britain could reverse its withdrawal unilaterally before March 29, 2019..”
Oh how gracious of you c...suckers.
” Go back and get the right answer. “
EU leaders are nothing but a bunch of dictators. I am surprised how few have been killed in the Paris riots. Wait till Macron’s snipers start getting the range.
The entire point of the EU was to kill “nationalism” which was blamed for 2 world wars. In its place nations would be replaced with an unelected burecracy that could NOT be voted out of existance.
The weak point of the plan is that if you don’t want it any more, and you can’t vote them out what you are left with is violence; kill them out.
Left vs. right has more or less morphed into globalism versus nationalism as the defining political conflict of our time. Will we live in free and independent nations or submit to the bureaucratic tyranny of global government.
“The citizenry didn’t vote to lose their sovereignty, their leaders were bought off to hand it over.”
I think almost any citizen of any country would oppose more than a trickle of immigrants unless they were seduced by self serving leaders.
Hey you are right: Left vs Right; Globalism vs Nationalism
Started by our president.
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