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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIt's time for London to leave the UK
Its hard to digest what happened this morning in the UK, especially when Boris Johnson and Michael Gove the supposed triumphant victors of the whole charade are standing in front of you looking like theyre speaking at a funeral. This is a glorious opportunity for Britain, Boris said in the tone of a political prisoner reading out a false confession. And in many ways he is a prisoner of his own politics. He played with the idea of Brexit, probably expecting a narrow victory for Remain and the opportunity to ride the momentum of angry pro-Leave sentiment right to the Prime Ministers office. Now, instead, he faces the possibility of actually having to steer Britain out of the EU and into a brave new world of probable recession, continued austerity and isolation from our nearest neighbours.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-latest-london-independence-time-to-leave-uk-eu-referendum-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-a7100601.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-latest-london-independence-time-to-leave-uk-eu-referendum-sadiq-khan-boris-johnson-a7100601.html
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It's time for London to leave the UK (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2016
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Hav
(5,969 posts)1. Interesting
Probably exaggerated but I have a feeling that Farage might have preferred a remain as well. It is much easier to rail against something to get votes than taking responsibility for potentially negative consequences of the actual political issues you were proposing.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)3. They should visit Kansas or Michigan to see how that works.
BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)4. Exactly - he'll no longer
have the EU as an all-purpose scapegoat. Karma!
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)2. It's never gonna happen tho.
Strange times
localroger
(3,605 posts)5. Johnson and Gove
...are like dogs that have been chasing this car for years, and now that they caught it they realize they're not sure what to do with it.
JSup
(740 posts)6. That might work...
...I imagine the dues the UK could get giving London permission to transport goods through their nation would be lucrative since London would be completely landlocked.