It was a nice gesture, really. The BREXIT ploy gave bargain seekers the discounts in equities they craved, all the while the British people were played as fools–arguing with one another over a referendum that might never see the light of day.
Markets are certainly behaving as if the fix is in. Nigel Farage, the man at the vanguard of the Brexit campaign, says that he’s nervous the wishes of the people will not be honored and is detecting backsliding amongst many of the ‘leave’ campaigners in parliament.
Somewhere, some sneaky German is smirking.
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The British who’ve been mocking Republicans for nominating Trump, now find themselves in the same boat.
The establishment holds a ‘heads we win, tails you lose’ vote, as always, to make the people feel like they actually live in a real direct democracy.
I know it’s hammering the obvious, but the referendum was specifically declared as “non-binding”– that was printed right on the ballots. Now, whether the elected representatives are bound to a majority decision is a different matter altogether. Presumably they are bound to the will of whatever area elected them. But it looks like nobody wants to catch the radioactive potato.
Democracy and conservative civil rights are dead. Farage is a hero and has done all any man could have done.
Well maybe if they had actually had a plan in place for leaving.
Maybe just go back to the way they did things for 200+ years since the industrial revolution? I’m sure they kept notes on how to run things.
This snarky German wants the BREXIT to happen so the grand experiment turned clusterfuck that is the EU ends.
This is an opportunity for Nigel Farage to propel his political career by sticking to his Leave Campaign. Any fake Leave politician will be voted out of the office. ROFL. You don’t mess with the Will of the People on these types of issues.
Farage already chickened out of running to be Prime Minister during the period of time when UK will be working on the EU exit and negotiating replacement agreements on trade/travel/etc with all the countries that currently have agreements with UK through an agreement with EU.
Now, he’s finger pointing.
The opportunity you describe is real, but he doesn’t seem interested in it.
Doesn’t work like that ott. He’d need to join Conservative party and leave UKIP, which he founded. He won’t do that.
That wasn’t the excuse he gave. He said he wouldn’t run, because he wasn’t an MP.
Sure sounds like the UK is going to split hairs on the interpretation of the referendum results until they get the least painful marriage of leaving the EU while keeping things as close to status quo as possible.
No wonder there isn’t anyone racing to be the next patsy of a PM.
The result of this scenario surely leaves both sides of the Brexit vote unhappy.
The will of the people is only the will of the people as long as the people who control the messaging about the will of the people agree with the will of the people.
Otherwise all bets are off.