As a friend confided to me in one general election, all
the people and policies on offer are just different degrees of shit and
none of them are the ones he’d go for. For once, the voter had a simple
choice between going along with what every organ of the establishment
was telling them they should do or waving two fingers at the lot of
them. They duly turned out in record numbers to wave their fingers and
despite the howls of outrage from the establishment and the rampant
hysteria of the media in the aftermath of the results, they’d do exactly
the same thing again, only more so if given a second opportunity.
For the last week the mainstream media in conjunction with
an outraged establishment, have been hyper-ventilating their way
towards an explanation of why such a simple exercise of basic democracy
was somehow wrong because it came up with a result they didn’t agree
with. ...........
The ongoing Euro crisis and the resultant serfhood for
generations of the southern EU states to Brussels was the stumble, the
unrestricted flood of shiftless migrants into Europe last year was the
trip and Brexit is the fall which I think will break it unless it
fundamentally reforms and backs off political union to its originally
intended aim of a free market and nothing more – but I think the damage
has been done.
All across the EU, the watching member states and their
citizens, who’d been assured withdrawal from the EU was impossible, are
starting to agitate for their own referendum. The only people responding
to that democratic impulse are extremist parties who are gradually
gaining political power as discontent seethes because it’s being ignored
by the disconnected mainstream parties. They do so at their peril, as
the British political establishment have just learnt to their cost.
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of contagion."
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