Posted on 06/26/2016 3:31:48 PM PDT by blam
Gabriel Roth
June 26, 2016
The "Leave" campaign won an unexpectedly decisive majority in Thursday's referendum on Britain's EU membership. So why do Brexit's biggest backers already seem so discombobulated?
Commenters described "Leave" icon and possible next prime minister Boris Johnson as "rather pale" and "uncharacteristically subdued" the morning after.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, spent Friday morning distancing himself from the "Leave" campaign's promise that Britain's EU funds would be redirected to the National Health Service; and Tory European Parliament member Daniel Hannan admitted that renegotiating Britain's relationship with the EU wouldn't actually decrease immigration.
Sorry, "Leave" voters who wanted to either curb immigration or fund the NHS! (That's pretty much all of them.)
Across social media were reports of "Leave" voters waking up with buyer's remorse. Some were counting on a "Remain" victory and wanted only to "send a message" or press the EU for reforms-a bit like playing a game of chicken with 64 million people's hands on the steering wheel.
The United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU can't happen until the country sends the EU an "Article 50 notification," a formal announcement that it intends to withdraw. That notification starts a two-year countdown during which Britain and Europe negotiate the terms of their separation. At the end of two years, regardless of the state of those negotiations, Britain's out.
So who sends the notification, and when? Neither the EU charter nor the Brexit referendum specifies. (The vote was nonbinding, although both sides assured voters their decision would be implemented.) Prime Minister David Cameron could plausibly have done it on Friday, but he didn't. Such a step, he said, should be taken by his successor (probably Johnson).
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Seems to me its the EU isolated and frozen in place, lacking a plan B should Britain exit
With the UK leaving the EU, the EU lost one of its two nuclear powers (UK, France). Does this mean Germany will build nukes?
It would not shock me if Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson are the perpetual complainer type. Always saying they could do it better but if actually put in charge, they cannot accomplish anything.
Note: I am in favor of gettting rid of the EU. It is a cancer and does not serve the countries it rules over.
Agree. It won’t.
We will have to storm the Bastille and rebiuild the guillotines before this crap stops.
The blade sharpeners will have to run continuously in order to deliver much deserved justice to politicians.
On both sides of the ocean.
Please, please, get me tickets when Dorkbama the Muslim dick, the Hillabeast, Chicken man Kerry, and Pelosi the rich man boinker are scheduled for the blade.
They leave and still have no control over their borders? Makes no sense. Before they were part of the EU they had control of their borders.
Two out of three?
75% of the British Parliament is on record being in favor of staying in the EU.
52% of the British people have voted to Leave.
What do you think will happen?
Hilarious article! Losers, and now sore losers!
The revolution has started - small setbacks can be expected...
Gabriel Roth: another creative writer serving as a concern troll.
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