Everything that could go wrong with Britain’s imminent departure from the European Union seems to have done so. With only 59 days to go until the U.K. automatically crashes out of the bloc, British lawmakers still haven’t approved a deal with EU leaders that would avoid a cataclysmic rupture. The odds are not good. The House of Commons decisively rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposal earlier this month, handing her the biggest parliamentary defeat for a British government in the country’s history. Members will vote on Tuesday on amendments to May’s “Plan B” legislation that could avoid, or guarantee, a no-deal Brexit.
As an American, following this debacle is like watching one sinking ship from the deck of another sinking ship. The Brexit vote was a foreshock of sorts, a surge of ethno-nationalist populism that preceded President Donald Trump’s election by six months. “Basically, they took back their country,” Trump told reporters when he landed in Scotland the day after the referendum. He rode a similar confluence of factors—unabashed xenophobia, the Great Recession’s unhealed wounds, a […]
Stephan, your pre-article analysis of a hard Brexit is correct. It will lead to the breakup of the UK. So will the overt attempted coup of Venezuela lead to the eventual breakup of The Untied States. As more and more countries see that continued support for the Yankee Greenback is facilitating The American Empire by the insane clown president, as Matt Taibbi calls him then your country too, will undergo what the USSR went through in 1989. The old world is rapidly dying. As Greta has stated so remarkably: “System change, not climate Change”. It takes a young girl with Aspergers to call a spade a fu&*!n’ shovel.
BTW, it’s all related. Much of the world operates under neoliberal capitalism, which, cannot be fixed, moderated, humanized or ecologized.
If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend the CNN film also titled Brexit. It shows exactly how this came about. The technologies used are very scary and in use in the US today
I’ve been unable to find a link to this film. Stephan, I wish you’d have your webmaster develop a *Follow* link, for those of us wishing to have a more substantive discussion; also to reply so the initial message sender so they may respond to a query.
John — I will explore this with Beth.
Jon, I have enabled some additional discussion functions. Threading commenting is now functioning again.