I’ve never been happier to get it wrong. I’m speaking of course of the vote in the United Kingdom to leave the supranational European Union.
One of the most active campaigners to leave the bureaucratic, sovereignty destroying EU, had seemed to concede defeat as the polls closed in Britain but, within an hour and half later, it was clear that victory was won: Britain is on the way to being Britain again.
(If I were a Brit I’d be lobbying hard to get the two-year exit process underway so that soon I could have my regal navy blue passport back and ditch the burgundy EU version!)
As expected, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will resign as Tory-leader and all the politicking one would expect is underway in the British Isles.
The story reported that Texas Nationalist Movement president Daniel Miller was featured in the UK’s Leftwing newspaper The Guardian “drawing parallels between separatist sentiments in the Lone Star State and the United Kingdom in an article headlined, “Why not Texit?””
“A rising tide raises all ships,” Miller said. “People will say, ‘if the UK can, then why not us?”
Well to begin with the two situations are not really comparable – Texas being a state in the United States is a very different thing than the UK being a member of the EU. But more importantly, Texas along with others lost a civil war and rejoined the Union without right to leave. There simply is no equivalent of the EU Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which spells out the legal process for quitting the union.
Texas is Texas, it’s like a whole other country but, it isn’t – anymore.
Yea Brexit! But, it’s no model for Texas.
One of the most active campaigners to leave the bureaucratic, sovereignty destroying EU, had seemed to concede defeat as the polls closed in Britain but, within an hour and half later, it was clear that victory was won: Britain is on the way to being Britain again.
(If I were a Brit I’d be lobbying hard to get the two-year exit process underway so that soon I could have my regal navy blue passport back and ditch the burgundy EU version!)
As expected, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will resign as Tory-leader and all the politicking one would expect is underway in the British Isles.
Before the vote there was this headline in the Houston Chronicle: Texas secessionists hope for boost from Brexit vote.
The story reported that Texas Nationalist Movement president Daniel Miller was featured in the UK’s Leftwing newspaper The Guardian “drawing parallels between separatist sentiments in the Lone Star State and the United Kingdom in an article headlined, “Why not Texit?””
“A rising tide raises all ships,” Miller said. “People will say, ‘if the UK can, then why not us?”
Well to begin with the two situations are not really comparable – Texas being a state in the United States is a very different thing than the UK being a member of the EU. But more importantly, Texas along with others lost a civil war and rejoined the Union without right to leave. There simply is no equivalent of the EU Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which spells out the legal process for quitting the union.
Texas is Texas, it’s like a whole other country but, it isn’t – anymore.