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UK Voters Decide to Leave EU
With all the results in, it appears that voters in the UK have chosen Brexit. “Leave” defeated “Remain,” 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent, a lead that held most of the night. ITV, Sky, and BBC have officially declared victory for the sovereignty movement.
Scotland and Northern Ireland were the strongest regions for remaining in the European Union, while England and Wales had the lion’s share of Euroskeptics.
You can see the vote count and read late-breaking news via The Telegraph.
Brexit enthusiast Nigel Farage made the following remarks in response:
“If the predictions now are right, this will be a victory for real people, a victory for ordinary people, a victory for decent people. We have fought against the multinationals, against the big merchant banks, against big politics, against lies against lies, corruption and deceit, and today honesty and decency and belief in nation I think now is going to win.
We will have done it without having to fight, without a single bullet having been fired.
I hope this victory brings down this failed projects and brings us to a Europe of sovereign nation states trading together.
Let June the 23rd go down in our history as our independence day.
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Jim: you’ve done yeoman’s work on Brexit. Thank you!
It’s Done. it’s done.
Does anybody really expect anything to really change? Maybe the elites can use this vote to negotiate themselves a better more lucrative deal for themselves and their cronies but as for leaving the EU or anything changing for the man on the street, it just is not going to happen. Of course that is if the vote stands at all and does not get over turned during the recount process.
This sums up most people’s thoughts, I would think.
If it is anything like the earlier treaties, when Brussels lost, they ignored the nos, pushed on and just held another election, until the nos got tired and they eventually won. I expect something similar this time, but maybe there will be a bit of real progress from an American conservative point of view.
Rule, Britannia!
Congrats to UK freedom lovers. Very happy that “our” Englishman (and soon to be fellow citizen) was home to take part. Can small gov Americans find inspiration in this vote to help US turn away from choosing between two EVILS in November? “Never surrender”!!
Good for the United Kingdom. Now let’s see if it sticks.
Absolutely fantastic! I recall reading at closing of polls Nigel Farage was disheartened enough to say that the Leave movement wouldn’t win the vote.
Bureaucracy smitten is a good thing. Cheers to the Brits. Difficult days ahead but in spite of English weather, sunnier days in the longer run.
America now needs its own exit from the paralysis of our bureaucracy, corruption, and self-serving leftist establishment.
Sweeter still, on our side of the pond, we can thank the most magnificent B. Obama for his winsome contribution by threatening our British friends.
Nice work Barry.
Scotland voted to Remain 1.6 million to 1.0 million — a considerably larger margin than voted to remain in the UK.
If I were in charge of the Scottish National Party, I’d immediately be on the phone to EU officials trying to negotiate an arrangement where Scotland is allowed to remain in the EU by leaving the UK. Then I’d call a press conference and announce “if England wants to leave the EU, let them leave. We’re staying.”
Wow earlier in the night Farage made an almost concession speech and yet now they did it! ^-^7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGPFyqBnOAg
I believe that Boris Johnson is being hounded by the IRS for back taxes. He was born in the US and they, IRS, consider him a US citizen. I would happily contribute to a fund to cover his back taxes if he would return “home” and run for president.
It is, isn’t it? Barry strikes again!
I did not know that. Maybe he’ll go down in history as the first man to serve as both Prime Minister of the UK and President of the USA.
One of my first thoughts. Like he can even spell “queue” … The anti-midas touch Appropriately so.
I’m predicting the type of hateful posts by some British facebook friends will be very similar to what many Americans will be saying if Trump wins.
Thank you for the help Mr President ;)
With 97 present of the results in, It looks like this is real.
So there are two big questions:
What impact is this going to have on the average citizen? (I doubt any of the currency speculators will be made homeless.)
What country will be the next to leave?
That’s fantastic. Free association will remove the rot from the healthy. A win-win scenario for freedom.
Adding another liability to the EU will accelerate it’s deserved annihilation as a repulsive passive aggressive fiction.
I doubt anyone was thinking of Obama. Lets not be too caught up in ourselves. Remember come next January America will be lead by either Trump of Hillary, so things will still be bad. But maybe England can hold the line for 4 years while we get our stuff together.
Except that the posts about Trump will probably be true. Child beating puppy killer that he is.
Oh, I expect this will turn out to be quite fantastic for Britain, as soon as they can take off the yoke.
Decades of leftist propaganda has convinced Conservatives that it’s hard going without the teat of the state, but in reality, the economy booms once the dead hand is removed.
Foot Note: Keep an eye out for comrade Putin.
DOOD! If Scotland left the UK it would be bankrupt within the first hour. I’m sure Germany would love another Greece.
I’m also all for this.
TUCK
Couldn’t agree more.
Good to know there’s thrash in the lion’s tail yet.
But think how stupid the flag would look without the blue.
They shot Cecile because he was uppity.
Too late. We are ruled from afar by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from an utterly alien culture: Washington, DC. They run those of our industries they don’t decide to put out of business. They hyper-regulate and micro-manage all aspects of our lives. Brits could vote to Leave their overlords, but we have no such option. It’s a terrible irony that the colonies who threw off the yoke of oppression over two hundred years ago have shackled themselves with unbreakable chains, while their former colonial masters have found a way to reclaim their own liberty. But bravo to our British friends!