Weekend June 25, 2016
Here are a few clues as to how the vote was going to turn out in England. Bear with me I am going somewhere with this.
Name the King and Queen of Spain. What you didn't know Spain had a monarchy?
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, daughters Leonor Princess of Asturias and Intanta Sofia.
Okay try to redeem yourself with this one. Name the King of the Netherlands.
King Willem-Alexander
Now, to make my point, how many of the Royal Family of England can you name, if you are having trouble just walk to the check out aisle of any major grocery store and
look at all their names splashed on multiple magazine covers.
My point is that no one does Royalty and History like England does.
Mark Steyn points out that the most popular male baby name in England is now
Mohammed....
Really how is that going to sit with the Rule Britania crowd.
Reports of voting in England show that it was the more middle and working class that voted to exit.
Gee does that sound like a Donald Trump supporter? Of course it does, which is how PM Cameron got it so wrong. Do you suppose the PM hangs out in
working class pubs to get a take on what the ordinary bloke thinks? Uh no and neither do Hillary or Obama, the latter having told the Brits he would personally move England to the
'back of the que' if Brexit succeeded. Can we link the outcome to Obama's lecture I wonder?
At any rate, negative mood is exclusionary. And so the average Brit is weary of the rules being made in Brussells without their say so, hmmm sounds like that taxation without representation thing that irritate we Americans a couple of centuries back.
And unlike the other 27 EU members, the Brits retained their currency, the Pound. That alone was an indication of wavering commitment. And frankly I suspect selling the pound is as wrong headed as expecting the vote to go to remain in the EU. Already the EU wants a speedy exodus. Why, well we can't have too many of the rest thinking about doing the same thing.
My wife asked me what I thought prior to the vote. My take was that the ants would tire of bailing out the party till you drop grasshoppers. Really now, has anything changed in the PIGS Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain other than an extension of credit from the EU Central Bank? Who will pay when the bill comes due?
Even the world's most reluctant capitalist, Vladimir Putin saw through this one saying 'I think it is understandable why this happened. First no one wants to feed and subsidize weaker economies.' Gee well put Vlad!check out other quotes on page A6-7 in the weekend WSJ.
Hurrah for the British, now it's our turn. time for a Dutch Referendum, Bye Bye EU says Geert Wilders, Dutch Freedom Party Leader
Let June 23 go down in history as our independence day says Nigel Farage, UK Independence Party Leader
Expect more and more exclusionary votes and actions as ordinary citizens rebel against unchecked immigration. Obam uses the phrase Comprehensive Immigration Reform to disguise open borders. He threatens more of it even as the Courts deny his right to unilaterally authorize more of it.
The Invasion has begun with shootings at Boston Marathon, Fort Hood, San Bernadino, Garland (where the police shot the perp first), and Orlando.
And in Europe Charlie Hebedo, Brussels, and various incidents in England.
Negative mood is on the march.
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