Posted on 06/27/2016 7:34:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Australia's republican movement says membership has surged in the wake of the Brexit vote, as Australians question the benefits of remaining part of “little Britain”.
An “AusExit” campaign, including calls to remove the Union Jack from the flag and remove the British monarch as head of state, has gained momentum since Friday, when Britain voted to leave the European Union.
Peter FitzSimons, the chairman of Australia’s republican movement, said Australia had belonged to the British empire but the historic ties between the nations had become less relevant because “Great Britain barely exists anymore”.
“It’s one thing for the monarchists to say ‘we should be staying so very closely aligned to Great Britain’ … but how do you feel about staying so closely aligned to little Britain?” he told ABC Radio.
"From the moment that Brexit came through, social media came alive, with people saying 'this is ridiculous, let us be our own people, let us get away from this'.”
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Where are all the comedy skits mocking Brexit voters, the smirking biting social commentaries now in dinosaur media rags? Oh wait you guys LOST. Socialists don’t find it very funny when they LOSE. I have some ex-pat friends living in Northern Ireland who everyday now whine and complain about the Brexit vote on Facebook. Before the referendum they were all smug and jolly. Now it’s all anger all the time. Liberalism never about being tolerant and respecting other opinions. It’s about being evil, angry, tyrannical and covetous. My friends wife, I dared confront her with logic in one of her rambling whiny posts. She unfriended me...oh boo hoo. Hurt your feelings with the truth witchy poo.
I'm gonna have to try that with some of my wife's relatives on FB. Maybe they'll do the same!........................B^)
LOL! For the win!
well, it is about time they moved away from this. Australia’s interests diverge heavily from England’s now — they align more with the USA’s and with democratic countries in Asia.
No freakin’ way. MY head would explode.
On this day, the anniversary of the biggest battle in the Revolution, yet.
The Aussies and Canadians, etc, owe their commonwealth, relative independence and amicable relationship with UK to the USA. UK never made that mistake again!
But I’m fine with being totally separate from them. No one tells us when to send our men to do their wars, and we don’t have royals on our currency. That’s fine with me.
fun and necessary.
the UN is OIC and marxist driven. They are who is telling the EU and Obama how to import “refugees”
These refugees in Europes case are being primarily used to erase western Christian culture.
In Barrys case its a combination of “syrian” refugees, assorted mulsims and then more replacements from central America.
Nor a one of these cultures is capable of building their own meaningful civilization, so they have to tear down what Christianity built.
Hows that go? Level the playing field?
FUN FUBO
Looking like the Roman Empire more and more every day.................
There are plenty of reasons for Australia to both leave and stay in the Commonwealth. Brexit has absolutely nothing to do with any of them.
Precisely - and where this wasn't done (India, Pakistan, most of Africa) the former colonies eventually agitated for and became Republics because they were angry at having their right to self determination denied. Most still chose to remain in the Commonwealth but it's a different experience.
For the original Dominions (except for Ireland where there was a much greater historical imperative because of centuries of subjugation - Dominion status came too late to undo all the hatred, and South Africa where apartheid eventually lead to Britain trying to reassert dominance), the transition has been friendlier and smoother. We choose to remain Commonwealth Realms - it's entirely our choice, and Britain allowed us to gradually take control of our own affairs as we grew. There were tensions at times - Britain was not happy with Australia in 1941 when the Australian government insisted its first priority was to defend Australia rather than the United Kingdom, and Australia wasn't happy that the British fleet we'd relied on for our defence were largely being recalled to Britain either. But even when there were tensions like that, both sides understood why and couldn't really argue with the right of the other position.
Your position certainly makes perfect sense for an American proud of his country. But just as a matter of record, Britain hasn't been able to send Commonwealth troops to war since 1931, and there's no requirement for any Commonwealth country to have the royals on our currency either (although, as far as I know, all the Commonwealth Realms still do, there are only sixteen Commonwealth Realms out of 53 members. 32 Commonwealth countries are Republics and five have their own separate Royal families).
Not so much “and then”. Lacking blue collar union or activist lawyer credentials, Malcolm in the Middle just saw the Liberal (that’s conservation) side of politics smoother for his Ambition.
(Although Malcolm and Green politicians are from the same select social class.)
Brexit Leader: Hillary ‘Feels She Has A Divine Right’ To Be President [VIDEO]
Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit-supporting UK Independence Party, slammed Hillary Clinton arguing, “It’s almost as if she feels she has a divine right” to be president of the United States.
In an interview with CNN’s Richard Quest from Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday, the host asked Farage if he “admire[s] Donald Trump” to which Farage replied, “Donald Trump dares to talk about things other people want to brush under the carpet. What Mr. Trump is doing in America is very different than what I am trying to do in the United Kingdom. My problem in politics is far greater than Donald Trump’s. We literally have lost our sovereignty, lost our borders, lost our ability to regulate.” (RELATED: Farage: The Problems That Led To Brexit Are ‘Nothing’ Like What Is Going On In America)
Quest interjected that Trump “would say the same thing about U.S. borders,” to which Farage replied, “The problem that you’ve got in the U.S. is illegal immigration. Our problem is legal immigration to half a billion people.”
Excellent. All political issues are present in, and resolved by, The Godfather.
Didn’t he lead the republican side at the time of the referendum? I know he wrote a book making the argument for it.
But the old men of the ARM want to revisit the issue for no good reason
I wonder if they would actually do this
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