Posted on 06/02/2016 3:33:44 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Leaders of the campaign to end Britain's membership in the European Union hope next month's referendum will make June 23, 2016, a date as luminous in modern British history as May 3, 1979, when voters made Margaret Thatcher prime minister.
Michael Gove, secretary of justice and leader of the campaign for Brexit — Britain's withdrawal from the EU — anticipates a “galvanizing, liberating, empowering moment of national renewal.”
For Americans, Britain's debate about Brexit is more substantive, and perhaps more important, than their dispiriting presidential choice. American conservatives would regard Britain's withdrawal from the EU as the healthy rejection of political grandiosity.
Gove's friend, Prime Minister David Cameron, who opposes Brexit, says the referendum is “perhaps the most important decision the British people will have to take at the ballot box in our lifetimes.” Advocates of Brexit agree but add: If Britons vote to remain in the EU, this might be the last important decision made at British ballot boxes because important decisions will increasingly be made in Brussels.
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Make Great Britain Great Again!
Brexit - The Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0
Thx Cameron, you sold out your country.
They won’t have a real Independence Day until they throw off the yoke of the nanny government.
Rule Britannia: https://youtu.be/rB5Nbp_gmgQ
Afraid you'd have to reincarnate the Iron Lady for that to happen. With Mohammed being the most popular baby name in GB birthing hospitals, sadly probably wouldn't happen even then.
“For Americans, Britain’s debate about Brexit is more substantive, and perhaps more important, than their dispiriting presidential choice.”
George Will projecting...
I find our choice quite exciting... and probably so do most of the Brits who are for Brexit.
“American conservatives would regard Britain’s withdrawal from the EU as the healthy rejection of political grandiosity”, while American liberals would regard Britain’s continued membership in the EU under the subjection of those countries that Britain defeated in war after war during the last 400 years as their proper comeuppance.
Wonder if the British people are getting a continuous onslaught of fear mongering and shaming from their media about “what the rest of the world” is thinks of them for possibly leaving the E.U.?
They may have imported too many gibsmedats to ever really be Britain again.
“The UK will stand up for itself. If not, we can wish her fair-the-well.”
It’s not going to happen, the Brits will vote to stay just as the Scots voted to stay in the UK.
And after the vote Cameron’s position will be unassailable, he will have two general election victories under his belt, as well as the Scottish vote and the virtual destruction of the Labour Party and Liberal Democrat opposition, with the UKIP people beaten along with his rival Boris Johnston, Cameron will come across as the great leader and statesman.
There will be a successful vote to leave the EU in the near future but it will be in somewhere like Denmark not Britain.
The politics of the referendum is interesting, especially if they do favor leaving the EU.
Does this gin up another independence bid from the intractable lefties in Scotland? Does it destabilize the Ulster situation with a referendum to unite Ireland? What does Wales do? Not much united in this Kingdom.
There will always be an England, but there many never be a Great Britain again.
Like I say, I believe the “remain” vote will win so it’s pretty much a moot point.
I agree however that if the UK did vote to leave then the entire constitutional basis of the UK would be ripped to shreds. Perhaps Wales and Scotland would vote to leave the UK, they would certainly be given a fast track to EU membership if they did (unlike during the Scottish vote last year when it was heavily hinted by Brussels that an independent Scotland would not be automatically granted membership of the EU).
We could find that we end up with the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland, which would not be very appealing to the English, being stuck with the UK’s problem child. Customs and border posts would go back up along the Irish border (and at the Larne/Stranraer ferry crossing, which would be hurtful for the Ulster loyalists, if Scotland did split), although the Brexit people insist the Irish would retain their common travel area privileges, but then the Scots and the Welsh would expect something similar in which case you have a very confused situation, where a small archipelago is half in, half out of the EU.
It would certainly be the most destabilising constitutional event in a century or more.
Interesting though it is, however, I think the Brits in general, like the Scots before them, will vote to keep a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse.
Excellent movie
Astute analysis. I hadn’t considered the cumbersome travel restrictions which might result from a tattered union, half in half out of the EU. Consider as well the prospect of unfettered EUO immigration to some but not all of the former UK. Devolution indeed.
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