Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A tremendous political drama with broad ramifications for Global Climate Policy is unfolding in Britain, as referendum votes are tallied for whether Britain should remain part of the European Union.
While the general consensus is the result is running neck and neck, with an almost 50:50 split in the vote, Chris Hanretty, reader in Politics at the University of East Anglia, home of the infamous Climatic Research Unit, thinks the chances of Britain voting to remain part of the EU is zero.
EU referendum rolling forecasts
03:00 Fifth forecast update
My predictions continue to be much more pessimistic for Remain than the betting markets, though they seem to be in between estimates from Michael Thrasher and JP Morgan.
Predicted probability of Britain Remaining: 0
(81 of 382 areas reporting.)
Predicted vote share for Remain: 47.1 percent.
(90% prediction interval: 46.1 to 48.1 percent)
Read more: https://medium.com/@chrishanretty/eu-referendum-rolling-forecasts-1a625014af55#.rv1inwb7a
The British EU referendum vote has potentially major consequences for global climate policy. Prominent greens seem to want Britain to remain part of the anti-democratic EU, because this would bind elected British politicians to continue to adhere to strong European Union green targets.
A British vote to leave might even trigger a soviet style unravelling of the entire EU – France, Holland and Italy are also preparing to hold referendums to leave the EU, if Britain votes to leave.
More to come, when the count is complete.
UPDATE (EW): Brexit is looking even more likely – other major polling organisations are predicting a victory for Britain leaving the European Union.
Sky News
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2016/06/24/voting-continues-in-brexit-referendum.html
Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/23/eu-referendum-result-live-counting-leave-remain-brain-in-europe
etc.
UPDATE 2 (EW) – BREXIT Wins, Prime Minister David Cameron, who supported remain, resigns. If the “Brexit Contagion” spreads, this may be a fatal political blow to the hardline green policies of the European Union.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-referendum-results-live-brexit-wins-as-britain-votes-to-leave/
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EU is coming apart like a cheap wind turbine.
Höffentlich!
Comment of The Day, billpatt.
Andrew
There is no such thing as cheap wind turbine. But they do fall apart.
There’s such a fantastic feeling here in Britain today that can’t be described in words. We’re all abuzz. We have control of our own destiny back. The EU is undemocratic, and we had to swallow decisions taken against our interests by people we couldn’t vote out! There was a horrible feeling of being strangled here, of powerlessness. We are free, once again, and we may even see the moaning Scots drift off too! They’d be crazy, but wtf, who cares? We could do with off-loading the constant problem of Northern Ireland onto them, by paying them to adopt it. And we clearly need to off-load Gibralter too, now that they have decided they’d rather be in the EU.
Great day for Great Britain.
Want to buy my domain: http://www.helpscotlandtoleave.com?
The Brexit movie made by the same person who did the Global Warming Swindle convinced many I think particularly the case of Switzerland who never joined any club anywhere and still does not.
Good to hear since I was a co-producer on Brexit-The Movie
Excellent job! I recommended that video to many people. I didn’t even know that Patrick Moore videoed an interview before he died. I very much liked that man – he wrote to me once and I still have the letter.
Ditto
I also was impressed with the movie, and had several people watch it. Generally, the response from the leftists was that it was all a pack of lies, but they never had a response to my challenge of showing me ONE lie.
IMO it was a brilliant piece of work.
I noticed that too. Switzerland seems to have done okay …
Britain will no longer have a support of intellectual giants Federika Mogherini, Martin Schultz, or Jean Claude Juncker. Their handling of the Brexit fallout will be as impressive as their handling of the Greek crisis. Don’t cry, it is too late to reconsider.
Bye-bye Draghi!
Lettuce not forget, for his indefatigable and unwanted nose-sticking into their business which boomeranged nicely, to thank the Big Zero. So, a big Bronx cheer, and – altogether now, THANKS, OBAMA!
I think the USA and Western World should now begin to decommission the United Nations. Like the European Union, the UN has proved itself successful ONLY at building up pointless, unaccountable bureaucracies. In all the noble, world-government style purposes imagined for it at the time of its founding, the United Nations has proved itself a failure, and a massive, expensive failure at that. Let’s stop wasting our money and end its bureaucratic parasitism.
Agree 100%. Ditch the UN and all of its NWO crap.
Where’s the Viscount? I would like Monkton’s opinion on this.
Perhaps he is celebrating?
Next up, Texit? https://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/texas-secessionists-inspired-by-brexit-if-trump-fails-texit-seems-to-be-our-best-remedy/
I posted this comment previously but since this seems to be a persistent question, I post the same answer again although it was for a slightly different question:
The question has already been raised and resolved. The U.S. Civil War (1861 to 1865) was about succession. It is not allowed. There will be no state departures in the U.S.of A. Period. 500,000 casualties in that war shows that it won’t happen again EVER.
However your question is not even a serious one. The United States have been the United States since 1786 …. more than 200 years. And in spite of immigration issues, English is still the common language throughout the U.S. and the culture in every state is still uniquely American. Compare this to the EU: 48 years old. No common language. Significant cultural differences between members.
If you want to ask a genuine question, ask how the departure of Scotland will affect England. There you have strong common bonds.
The link you posted is just some click bait article and demonstrates again why many are upset with the federal government and the elites who think they know best …….
Dave In Michigan’s comment is well written, succinct, and accurate. While excellent political theater, talk about Texas (or any other state) exiting the Union is at best a succinct way of expressing dissatisfaction with the perceiver (accurate or not) weakening of the 10th amendment to the US Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The War of Northern Aggression did not settle the issue of secession. Clearly, the Declaration of Independence shows it is legal.
The linked exchange which you belittled included a comment by the governor of Texas. In many areas of the country, secession is being seriously considered. If Clinton be elected, the sentiment will swell.
The present federal regime is more onerous than under George III. Either power flows back to the states, local government, private associations and the people, as per the Constitution, or we’ll follow the example of 1776.
The Daily Kos ran a poll in 2009, when then governor Perry discussed the possibility of secession. It found that 57% opposed the idea while only 38% supported it. Among Native Texans v. Yankee immigrants, the figures could well be reversed.
And a similar poll of British American colonists in 1766 might have returned even less support for independence from the Crown.
Doubtful. Unlike the EU, we are intimately linked with the rest of America. We have huge timelines of interconnections, an immense border, and we would gain no real benefit from leaving.
Besides, we settled the matter of secession rather bloodily 151 years ago, y’all. The father of my state and namesake of my city died of a broken heart from that tragedy. Let’s not repeat that mistake again.
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(To echo the very accurate ‘blue skies’ sentiment above,
a blue background for this #(:)) …)
Proverbs 25:25
Aah… from America.
For this venerable country who invented freedom, democracy, the industrial revolution, actual economics, etc. etc. and spread it and the English language and culture around the world, this is a wonderful event. People talk about the 48% being the losers. Take heart all of you. A big portion of the 48 were simply scared. They will have no problem coming back into the fold when they see that they were inveigled by the elitist doom sayers to take the safe route.
Not so for the new world order elitists. This will be a big chapter in world history books. The failure of the “takeover”, the rebirth of independence from the mean, hateful, elitists who peddle an ugly grey global agenda for their “inferiors”. Had this not happened now, a future revolt would have had to be bloody.
The UN which has been a bastion, a resource and an orchestrator and office central of this elitist ugliness is also now ready to fall apart. It has housed the marxbrothers (I’m particularly proud of this term which was coined to dodge the moderator, and the ‘gang green’ which I felt nicely identified today’s elitist militia and useful fools).
A brexit-type revolution is also happening in the US evidenced by the remarkable support for Donald Trump despite his seemingly politically suicidal gaffes. He has the economy and his priorities on who a president’s constituency is and he will get it all figured out with help from smart people in other sectors.
Germany and France, who don’t really understand who and what the English-speaking peoples are will be perplexed and amazed. Eastern Europeans, not so. They get it and they will be saying bye bye, too. Look for an association of Eastern European countries that will be just fine. The Mediterranean countries? well they will continue being what they are as they never really joined the union in spirit.
So Romania now has a Pres O. and EU partly built military base. I guess they can convert it to a theme park or Disney World thingy.
[Reply: “Marxbrothers” doesn’t dodge the moderators. I find it cute. It does dodge the word filter… poor dim thing… 🙂 -ModE]
Agree that many In voters will realize that they’ve been lied to by elitist scare mongers, although there may be some hardship over the next two years as the exit is engineered.
Corbyn should follow Cameron’s good example and resign.
Gary Pearse wrote: “For this venerable country who invented freedom, democracy, the industrial revolution, actual economics, etc. etc. and spread it and the English language and culture around the world, this is a wonderful event. People talk about the 48% being the losers. Take heart all of you. A big portion of the 48 were simply scared. They will have no problem coming back into the fold when they see that they were inveigled by the elitist doom sayers to take the safe route. ”
Excellent point.
Congrats Brits on leaving the EU (Evil Union) hopefully it is a sign sanity will return to the world or at least to the “West”!!!!! God speed!!
Cheers!
Joe
Sadly it won’t do anything in regards to the needless crap climate policy that is far more aggressive than that belonging to the other 27 nations of the EU. We still have this thing called the Climate Change Act, and it would take an act of Parliament to repeal it, and we still have the same clueless, poorly advised and brainwashed eejits in both the House of Commons and the Lords today, as we did yesterday.
There is hope. Boris Johnson is a mild climate skeptic or realist:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/12060976/I-cant-stand-this-December-heat-but-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-global-warming.html
Maybe some of his Tory comrades and the few Labour skeptics, such as the Courtney family and other coal advocates, plus UKIP’s Chris Monckton, can start to turn things around.
One can only hope. Once a revolution starts, who knows where it might end?
PROGRESS…
… as opposed to “progressives” !
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (former French President, one of the great promoters of “Europe”, considered one of the “fathers” of Europe) just now on TF1 (I only got the end of the interview):
My interpretation of what he was saying:
– there is no brexit disaster, and no need to panic;
– free trade can, should, and will continue with GB;
– EU institutions couldn’t work as designed anyway.
The EFTA worked better than the creeping communism of the EU has done so far.
YIPPEEEEEE!
“Prominent greens seem to want Britain to remain part of the anti-democratic EU,
Yes, who needs to get elected when you can lobby a like minded unelected bureaucracy?
Alarmist Remainians claim that Brexit is a result of global warming.
Are they “Remainians” or “Outlierians”?
Labels are important and should be accurate, don’t you know.
Well, I’d say “Remainians,” for by their language, they are clearly from AGW Land, and you cannot outlie those guys.
Can’t argue that logic – “Remainians” it is, er, they are!
There are Remainians and Brexiteers in a fight for supremacy. As the Brexiteers won, the Remainians now put the blame for their defeat on the weather and climate change. But the “Twelve-Star-Wars on Blue Ground” will go on anyway.
Look at the little tiny blue dot on this map in the sea of red covering East Anglia and Essex:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/23/leave-or-remain-eu-referendum-results-and-live-maps/
Yup, that’s Norwich, lair of the troglodytes of the UEA.
Sorry I haven’t time to reply to all the responses to my question. I think the take home message is that most here do not want to see the break up of the United States, for which I’m glad. I’d hate to think that Texit was regarded as anything but a joke.
Also I agree completely that the EU is not the same as the US, and I didn’t mean to imply they were. But I think it’s precisely because Europe consists of many nations and peoples and languages, that it’s better that there be some sort of union. If the EU goes and we are just left with a collection of nation states then it could become increasingly dangerous. The problem is that all the nations of Europe are pretty artificial – everywhere there are people who feel they would be better of in a different nation or independent. No EU, with all it’s faults, raises the specter of increasing division and conflict. The dark ages may return, to quote Churchill
Oh come on!
Heck, even I would support a Westxit … Let CA, OR and WA go.
But they don’t get to vote to secede from the union.
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The rest of the country gets to vote on THEM leaving!
I’d vote to expel New England, NJ, eastern NY and PA, the Baltimore and DC areas first.
Only parts of the West Coast are the problem. Expel the Bay Area and LA County, the Portland and Seattle metro areas, plus Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis areas. If Canada doesn’t want them, they can stew in their own Dumpocrap Machine political pots.
The remainder would be a great country again.
This idea that individual states makes conflict more likely has no foundation in the modern era. We are all trading with one another both at the commodities level and at government level even those countries not in the EU.
Conflict is just as likely, if not more so (think families), in a multinational grouping as in a multination trade group. Think about WW1. Cousin on cousin.
Churchill was not a supporter of the EU nor was Thatcher. Any antidemocratic, dictatorial form of governing 500,000,000 people is bound to fail as did the USSR and China only survives by force of arms.
We were trading with each other before WW I. We were even trading with Germany during WW I.
I never mentioned Thatcher – here opposition to Europe is well known. Churchill may not have wanted the UK to be part of a European state, but he did advocate for a United States of Europe, and specifically with the purpose of keeping the peace in Europe:
http://churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html
Man alive, Bellman. Your side lost. What’s the point of arguing on and on here? You are mischaracterizing Winston Churchill — what are you, an AGWer? That’s THEIR style!
Owen (in Georgia) already refuted that one waaaay up this thread:
(Here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/23/uea-brexit-remain-vote-probability-zero/comment-page-1/#comment-2244035 )
Have fun playing History Twister and Let’s Play Pretend Political Science and Economics. You are obviously not seriously trying to learn, here.
And…. lol, recalling your namesake (from The Bellman’s Speech, by Lewis Carroll), you are veeerry likely just a sock puppet ….
He said it in 1946, and is specifically referring to Word War 2
Mr Winston Churchill speaking in Zurich
19th September 1946.
http://churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html
Texit isn’t the joke you like to think it is. As long as things constitutionally stay the way they are, it won’t happen – but if the left succeeds at getting rid of the 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments, which they are trying to do right now, we’re outta here.
No one is trying to get rid of those things. That’s just crazy talk.
“No one” is apparently the same thing as several prominent Democrats. Pay attention to Feinstein or Murphy on recent gun control measures. Besides contempt for the 2nd amendment, they also have disregard for most of the rest of the Bill of Rights.
Only if you’ve been brainwashed by the gun nuts of the NRA, who apparently think everyone deserves their own assault rifle, I guess to be able to defend themselves from the zombie uprising.
Bruce,
Assault rifles are illegal without extensive and expensive Class III status.
An assault rifle is a select-fire weapon, ie capable of full-auto fire. If low-powered, semi-auto rifles such as those used by Islamic terrorists to commit mass murder in CA and FL were somehow magically made to disappear, then the terrorists would use far deadlier full-power, full-auto firearms like .30 cal assault rifles and machine guns.
By “gun nut”, I assume you mean the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution. Semi-auto, .223 firearms are militia weapons, according to the Supreme Court, as indeed should be obvious, since the standing army uses full auto-capable .223 firearms.
Are you going to ban semi-auto handguns ans shotguns, too? The terrorists could have killed even more people with those. As if banning them will make millions of semi-auto firearms suddenly disappear. All such an unconstitutional act would do is make tens of millions of law-abiding, tax-paying citizens into criminals.
All you will do is make new opportunities for drug smugglers and human traffickers to run more lethal, full auto firearms and explosives into the US across the open border so dear to Democrat hearts.
Bruce,
To illustrate the difference between an assault rifle and a semi-automatic rifle, please watch this video of an AKM firing full auto:
NB: The CO movie theater mass murderer tried to use a drum magazine on his AR-15, but it jammed, as any competent shooter would have predicted. The fool didn’t know how to clear a jam, so dropped the rifle and switched to one of his pistols.
Here is an AR-15 evaluated against a shotgun as a home defense weapon. Please compare and contrast with the full-auto AKM. Thanks.
And now you know.
Thanks. Yeh, I’ve seen all the “arguments” the gun nuts use. Sorry, not buying it.
Dear Bruce,
Yes, they are, by making definitions that are functional lies. Like “assault weapon” that is chosen to sound like the already illegal without special licence “assault rifle”. If you can’t tell me the difference, then you have been duped. “Assault weapon” in California is defined to include pistols and shotguns. Didn’t know that? Maybe you ought to learn more…
Did you know that California already has an effective assault weapons ban? Yet San Bernarido happened.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/what-california-teaches-about-assault-weapon-bans-they-fail/
Dear Bellman,
Sir Winston Churchill also said, in 1946, very accurately, … an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. When The Berlin Wall went up, things looked to stay that way permanently, a Socialist “paradise” out of which its people would never escape.
But, they did.
1989 — Berlin Wall — falls
Tyranny has its day, but, in the end, Truth wins.
Liberty frightens some people. Those people like lots of rules. Rules (along with the police to enforce them) make them feel safe. Those of us who would rather die than live as a slaves need to encourage and exhort and educate them about the consequences of statism, but we must never allow them to rule.
Inside a prison, it is very safe. Don’t trade your God-given right to be free from the control of the state — for anything.
Courage!
Janice
But a consequence of the leave vote could, if some get their way, be to close borders, and stop me from being able to freely move across Europe. That’s a freedom I really enjoy at the moment. Closing borders is more state control.
The borders won’t be closed, but controlled. A sovereign nation has the right to decide whom to let into the country and whom to keep out. Britain or England will still let you in, presumably, but the decision will be made in London, not Brussels.
Sorry should have said controlled rather than closed.
I’m already in Britain, it’s getting into Europe I’m talking about. At present we have an EU that makes it easy for people to travel through Europe. At present I could get a job anywhere in the EU and have the same rights as any national in that country. If stop this arrangement with the EU then my freedom to live and work in EU countries could be curtailed. I might need a work permit and a visa.
I suspect none of this will happen, because we will hopefully opt for a Norwegian style arrangement, and we won’t actually give up any of the EU agreements – but at present nobody knows exactly what we’ve signed up for by voting leave – that will be for state to decide.
Actually, we need to break up the country into at least five separate countries, by region: north east, south, south west, North west and Midwest for starters. That would include northern CO separating from Southern CA.
I’d go for a pro-American state of California wrapped around an anti-American coastal enclave from Marin to LA Counties, or two such enclaves, interrupted by SLO, Big Sur and Carmel.
What a great surprise they Britain had the bollocks to do this! I surely hope to see a nice follow up of all the things that actually come to pass compared to the inexhaustible list of fear mongering lefty predictions. Excuse now, me while I go and work on my WWIII survival bunker here in the Andes.
You’ve picked the right spot to ride out WWIII. Chile is not only almost literally the ends of the earth, but it is near the antipode of the center of human population, which is somewhere around Tajikistan. The population antipode lies in the “Sea of Chile”, that part of the South Pacific between Chile and Easter Island.
Democracy has prevailed, over unaccountable and bloated bureaucracy of the EU. Congrats UK!
Congrats UK! Now make your donation to the Clinton Foundation and we can begin negotiations anew. Act now and you can save 3 percent off what you would have paid Brussels in dues.
Brussels will have to shift their focus towards their survival in the years ahead. That could affect their ability to maintain their push on CAGW. I wonder If the UK will now take a second look at their position on the subject of global warming?
Back in the age of the dinosaurs (or was it even earlier? the days of pond slime??? so long ago, I don’t remember…) I was born in England. I spent 30 years there then moved to France. When i told people I was moving there, they just looked at me and said “Why? why would you do that? they don’t speak English! They eat FROGS”.
I spent 10 years there before moving to the US.
The Common Market was in place then, and it was working. There was nothing political about it, at least in principle. That was (IMHO) its great strength.
I learned a lot about the French. For example, I learned that English and French culture are MUCH closer than English and American — English people find this hard to believe, but it’s true. Get off the plane, in America, pick up your rental car and you immediately find that rather than having traffic lights on each corner of a junction as in the rest of the world, there is just one set in the middle of the junction, and that pulling up to the red light and stopping as anywhere else is not a good thing.
Then you notice that rather than having yellow lines on the outside of the road and white lines down the middle, its white lines down the outside and yellow lines down the middle.
Things just go downhill from there.
I often wonder what the world would be like if rather than spending most of history fighting each other, the English and the French had cooperated a bit more.
There is a comment above about French socialists.
Really, they are no worse than English (or that rare creature, the American socialist).
I will go so far as to say that socialists, in general, are not a bad lot. They act as a social conscience if nothing else. They do let their idealism overrule common sense some times, and seem particularly sensitive to progressive perversion, but they do have their place.
Philip Peake wrote:
“I will go so far as to say that socialists, in general, are not a bad lot. They act as a social conscience if nothing else. They do let their idealism overrule common sense some times, and seem particularly sensitive to progressive perversion, but they do have their place.”
Hello Philip,
I suggest that you are describing “old-socialists” – at least some of them were reasonably sensible and fact-based.
The “new-socialists” who have taken over the environmental movement are another breed – their campaigns to eliminate DDT and fossil fuels have caused and will continue to cause enormous damage to humanity and the environment.
When history is accurately written, the suffering and premature death of hundreds of millions of people will be attributed to these socialist fanatics. The death toll from their destructive environmental and energy policies and gross misallocation of resources will challenge the combines death totals of Mao, Hitler and Stalin (about 180 million).
Some of the new-socialists are neo-Malthusians – Club of Rome types, and that is their stated intention. They want world human population to be reduced by more than 90%.
http://www.green-agenda.com/
“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
– Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations.
Many others are just gullible followers, who cannot differentiate between what “feels good” and what “does good”. Their intentions may be good, but they support destructive, often imbecilic policies that do great harm to humanity and the environment.
The modern environmental movement consists of a handful of scoundrels and millions of imbeciles. George Carlin explained this phenomenon when he said:
“You know how stupid the average person is, right? Well, half of them are stupider than that!”
Regards to all, Allan 🙂
Allan, yes, that was who I was talking about. The socialists seem to have been infested by the progressives these days. It’s important to distinguish between them.
Progressives are probably more corrosive to the socialist movement than the communists.
At least in England, the socialists did a lot of good. The NHS would never have existed without them (and having experienced “socialized” medicine in the UK and France and the alternative in the US, I will take the socialized version, with all its deficiencies any day. Most of those deficiencies are fixable, for any government with any backbone, willing to clean out that which needs cleaning.
Similarly, labor laws would not be what they are, or even not exist, without socialists.
However, they do need to be counter balanced by a healthy conservative movement.
Progressives are totally corrosive to any society. They live in a world view which can only exist in their heads, but are willing to use any level of corruption and violence to try to achieve it. They are humanities greatest enemies right now.
Good answer Phillip.
Enjoy your weekend!
The vote heard round the world!
Congrats to the Brits for showing they still have guts. They got out before they got too far in because they still had their own currency. Thank goodness they didn’t give that up for the Euro like Blair and others wanted. Berlin and Brussels can bully Greece and other weak nations but found out the hard way that Britain is still an equal and will not tolerate being dictated to by a bureaucracy designed in 1942 by Reich Economic Minister Dr. Walhter Funk, who jointly sponsored a study, published in Berlin in 1942, on precisely how to establish such a Germany-dominated “federation.”
To the Scots I can only say why would you want to go from one foreign ruler to another? If you want to be independent, and yes that is 100% up to you, then be independent not a vassal of B&B. Don’t reject or select things just because the English choose it. Judge each item independently.
Except for Wales, the Leave vote wasn’t by the Brits but by the English. Maybe the actual Welsh voted to stay, but there were enough English retirees and others in Wales to swing the decision to Out from In. Well, OK, the Cornish are non-English Brits, too.
The other Brits, ie Scots and Northern Irish (well, not technically British) voted to stay.
Well the Scots did get most of the returned money from the English taxation to the EU so they are hardly impartial observers.
This will end if they did join the EU without the restof theUK’s contribution but no doubt the nationalists will not mention that bit. They will lose the council tax subsidies as well so apart from oil they will have nothing to offer anyone.
Spain had a referendum on the Europe Constitution Treaty in 2005, with a result of 77% yes, but with a ridiculous 42% turnout.
Spain was receiving a lot of “structural” help money at the time.
Then Spain discovered how many structurally useless buildings, museums, airports, etc. they had build, in the name of Roosevelt politics, which “always work”.
TRM
Yes!!!
The EU is another victim of CAGW = Catastrophic Anthropogenic Government Whoring.
The anti-native and [class] diversity (e.g. racist) factions’ social justice (e.g. “Arab Spring”) inspired humanitarian disaster that caused the global humanitarian refugee crises were first-order causes of Brexit.
Academic-Government?