[nathanbedford]

The oratorical brilliance and charisma of Nigel Farage not diminished, it was the in-flood of refugees that crystallized the choice for Britains just as it has crystallized the choice for Americans in this electoral season.

We conservatives love to blame Barack Obama for turning Brits to vote against the European union, but we much better might thank Angela Merkel for it was she who in a mindless spasm of political correctness invited the whole world into the whole of Europe. Oddly, Britain had less to lose than other countries because it had a certain insulation from the open borders of the whole European Union and it had retained its own currency. But Angela Merkel's diktat in effect robbed every European of a voice in shaping his own cultural, economic, political destiny. In short, her open borders policy robbed every soul in the European Union of liberty.

The English have withstood continental threats successfully since shortly after 1066 coming from the Spanish, the French, the Germans, and the Russians. They have earned their reputation as the Mother of Parliaments and they have led the way in defining liberty as an individual matter. It is no accident that England gave us John Locke. So it is not surprising that ordinary Britons reverted to character and stood for liberty and sovereignty and stood against an insidious threat perhaps more dangerous for its insidiousness than an armada, a Napoleon, a Hitler, or Karl Marx.

The point of open immigration, of course, is essentially diabolical. It serves not just a world utopian vision of open borders and the withering away of the state by the imposition of one Über state, it keeps leftists in power and assures the ultimate destruction of a culture which reveres liberty and which understands viscerally, if not cognitively, that liberty and sovereignty are inextricably connected.

Small wonder Barack Obama as one of his first acts as President of the United States rankly insulted the English people and their exceptional heritage by returning the bust of Winston Churchill, he knew an enemy people when he saw them.

Despite two generations of waves of alien cultures immigrating into Britain, there was evidently enough left of this stubborn English-Speaking People to summon up a faithful respect to their unquestionably unique heritage. This is hardly a populist heritage, it is a constitutional heritage, a constitutional heritage running back 1000 years but without a written document which we Americans rightly boast of. This was not an aggressive populist demonstration, rather it was an example of decent people asserting their claim to representative democracy against a grand scheme cynically calculated by leftists who despise representative democracy to destroy a government system because it destroys its culture. It was hardly a populist economic revolt, indeed I'm sure many Brits who voted against the European Union did so with the assumption that they would pay some degree of economic cost to retain their liberty. They are all the more to be admired for it.

We should honor the British People for their profound choice as an example of representative democracy and not confuse it with a paroxysm of populism.

The victory in Britain does not certify a victory for Trump in America anymore than a thermometer causes a fever but the result in Britain, coming as it does in the wake of Trump's remarks and paralleling as it does Trump's effective campaign against unrestrained and dangerous immigration, tells us that the fever for liberty in Britain might well exist in American. The irony would be delicious, we conservatives have so often watched in despair as one European socialist nostrum after another (think Obama care) have been inflicted on America. Now we are perhaps beginning to see principles of conservatism awakening the conscience of a Great People.

[Vigilanteman]

Brilliant!

[Neoliberalnot]

Good one Nate. A stick in the eye of the globalist so tyrants.

[ConservativeMind]

Well said, sir.

[moose07]

Well Said, Nathan.
:)

[TigerClaws]

Trump needs to win here and Le Pen in France.

We need to fight with Russia (white, Christian nation) against the Muslim invaders and not against them.

[American in Israel]

I ditto the brilliant!

[Guenevere]

Excellent post

[Art in Idaho]

Bravo! Very well said. Hip, hip, hooray for the British!

The victory in Britain does not certify a victory for Trump in America anymore than a thermometer causes a fever but the result in Britain, coming as it does in the wake of Trump's remarks and paralleling as it does Trump's effective campaign against unrestrained and dangerous immigration, tells us that the fever for liberty in Britain might well exist in American. Lets hope so.

Fight for Freedom America!

Trump 2016!

[corkoman]

Bravo. Thank you for your post.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Nathanbedford my main reason for supporting Trump and not budging regardless of his off the cuff remarks, was the immigration situation! I live in CA. I was SICK TO DEATH of being considered a racist because I wanted our border secured!!! I am SICK TO DEATH of Mexican flags being held high, I am SICK TO DEATH that my state WILL NEVER see another Reagan as governor due ONLY to IMMIGRATION, Trump has ALOT of warts that is true, BUT he is the only one STRONG enough to say what I have been screaming, under my breath of course, for years!! This election cycle is about NOTHING MORE than immigration Americans ARE FED UP!!! I would LOVE for this country to be in a place right now where we could actually elect a conservative truth is we CAN’T due to IMMIGRATION!! I despise globalism!!! I want my DAMNED country back! I was up ALL night watching the vote from Great Britian it was a nail biter but those Brits came through, the globalists tried to mess with their DAMNED teapots and BAM got their asses handed to them on a British silver platter!!!

[citizen]

well said, sir. hear, hear!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Excellent post!

[dontreadthis]

that was a very satisfying read for me, thanks.

[gleeaikin]

It appears that a lot of people in Great Britain are having morning after remorse. Who knows, they might even have a revote since it appears many are shocked to learn what the Brexit actually means. Also the stay vote among younger voters was much stronger than by older voters. Meanwhile, if you are worried, here is an article on what this may mean financially for us and world markets.

http://time.com/money/4381538/brexit-stock-market-reasons-not-to-panic/

[DuncanWaring]

Rudyard Kipling, “The Beginnigs”:

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.

Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.