Richard North remains disgruntled and claims there is less to the exit than meets the eye. Who knows, I don’t follow the details enough to have a clue what is going down. It is clear that North doesn’t like Boris, sort of the British equivalent of a NeverTrumper. OTOH, North has been pushing Brexit for years, so it isn’t like he wants to remain.
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So Remain has lost. It has been defeated. No longer can they use their unequal wealth and influence to thwart the democratic will. The people have seen to that. But something else has been defeated too, or we should hope it has: the downbeat, dystopian, fearful cynicism about the ability of Britain to run its own affairs and the ability of ordinary Britons to make up their own minds. If Boris wants to hold on to his army of working-class, reasoned, sensible voters, he should push a message of positivity, democracy and rationality.
Douglas Murray
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Tony Blair, John Major, Michael Heseltine, and others might have spent the last three years helping their country. They might have helped secure the best possible deal between the U.K. and the EU when the two parted ways. Such men, along with our former EU commissioners, such as Blair’s former right-hand man Peter Mandelson, might have been exceedingly useful during this process. Instead they did something else. Like a whole slew of the Remain establishment in the U.K., most of them actually worked with Brussels to conspire against Britain: to thwart Britain’s attempts to exit the EU. They warned Brussels of what the Brits would do. They told Brussels how to outmaneuver us. And much more. Some even asked them to punish us. All to ensure that what the British public had asked for at the ballot box in 2016 was not acted on.
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In 2005, when the French public were given a vote on whether they wanted to accept the ratification of the new EU constitution, they voted “Non” by 55 percent. They got it anyway. In the same year, the Dutch public were asked whether they would accept that constitution. They voted “Tegen” (“Against”) by 61 percent. They got it anyway. Other countries across the EU that were going to hold votes canceled them after these unforeseen eruptions of democracy. In 2008 the Irish public were offered a chance to vote on whether they wanted to accept the Lisbon Treaty, which bound the countries of the European Union ever closer together. They said “No” by 53 percent. But that was the wrong answer. So a year later the Irish government and the authorities in Brussels conspired to go back to them with almost exactly the same question, though better framed, and got them to approve it this time. The Irish were made to vote until they came back with the right answer.
So it is understandable, perhaps, that Verhofstadt (a former prime minister of Belgium) would be used to getting his way,
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Well, it turns out that they underestimated the British.
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Three and a half good years have been wasted. The public has learned an awful lot of things along the way. But Britain is ready to get going again. And perhaps Brussels has also learned something: that a vote still means something to the British public, and that trying to go against what we decide at the ballot box is something we regard as fundamentally undemocratic, distinctly un-British, and, in the final analysis, really not fair play.
“He is, of course, Hungarian” – huxley
“And not only Hungarian, but of royal blood. He is a Prince.” — or a Martian, as the case may be.
This comment cross-posting is starting to remind me of Marvel Comics.
huxley on December 21, 2019 at 12:10 am said:
It’s not well-known but Martians have visited Earth, mated with Earth women, and left offspring behind in Budapest:
The Hungarian scientists were seemingly superhuman in intellect, spoke an incomprehensible native language, and came from a small obscure country. This led to them being called Martians, a name they jocularly adopted.
The joke was that Hungarian scientists are actually descendants of a Martian scout force which landed in Budapest around the year 1900, and later departed after the planet was found unsuitable, but leaving behind children by several Earth women, children who all became the famous scientists.
I say it’s going to be a cold break-out. Any EU negotiations will just be Brussels and the Remainers playing for time.
I like Spike’s version: the Remoaners.
Pedal to the metal, Boris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INqsTksbgbs
Richard North remains disgruntled and claims there is less to the exit than meets the eye. Who knows, I don’t follow the details enough to have a clue what is going down. It is clear that North doesn’t like Boris, sort of the British equivalent of a NeverTrumper. OTOH, North has been pushing Brexit for years, so it isn’t like he wants to remain.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/20/the-end-of-remain/
https://babylonbee.com/news/britons-horrified-as-boris-johnson-removes-mask-revealing-self-to-be-donald-trump
British Progressives Horrified As Boris Johnson Removes Mask Revealing Self To Be Donald Trump
AesopFan: I knew it!
In retrospect how could anybody have been fooled? Trump’s German ancestry is fraudulent. He is, of course, Hungarian, which is to say Martian.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/31/brexit-for-real-this-time/
“He is, of course, Hungarian” – huxley
“And not only Hungarian, but of royal blood. He is a Prince.” — or a Martian, as the case may be.
This comment cross-posting is starting to remind me of Marvel Comics.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/12/20/frances-rampant-anti-semitism/#comment-2471765
huxley on December 21, 2019 at 12:10 am said:
It’s not well-known but Martians have visited Earth, mated with Earth women, and left offspring behind in Budapest:
The Hungarian scientists were seemingly superhuman in intellect, spoke an incomprehensible native language, and came from a small obscure country. This led to them being called Martians, a name they jocularly adopted.
The joke was that Hungarian scientists are actually descendants of a Martian scout force which landed in Budapest around the year 1900, and later departed after the planet was found unsuitable, but leaving behind children by several Earth women, children who all became the famous scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
This comment cross-posting is starting to remind me of Marvel Comics.
AesopFan: Don’t get me started on all the Doctor Doom connections!
LOL
My kids, who roll their eyes when I talk politics or books, are going to this put on my tombstone:
“Don’t get her started.”