It was Harold Wilson, Britain’s Labour Prime Minister who oversaw the passage of the last UK referendum on Europe (the EEC as it was known back then) in 1975, who famously said, “A week in politics is a long time.”…
Thursday’s Brexit vote was about far more than immigration. For a millennium, Britain has been a proudly sovereign nation. But in the four decades since joining the European Union, Britain’s sovereignty has been increasingly threatened by European integration. At the…
The European Union’s leaders said they wanted the United Kingdom to remain in the EU. But Brussels offered only minimal concessions to British Prime Minister David Cameron, undercutting his effort to sell the benefits of continued EU membership. Now the…
The president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, picking up on the precedent set by British voters, desires that the Southwestern empire where I make my home hold its own vote on seceding from the top-heavy politburo that seems to run…
Following the Brexit vote, I posed six questions. One of them was whether Labour would oust Jeremy Corbyn. While the Brexit vote cost David Cameron his job, his resignation has made things relatively painless for the Tories at least for…
Yet another wrinkle in the wake of the Brexit vote concerns Scotland. Over the weekend, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon suggested the Scottish National Parliament could block Brexit. Scotland is the most staunchly pro-EU segment of the UK with 62%…
The importance of last week’s “Brexit” vote cannot be diminished, even by those on our side of the Atlantic who insist on seeing only its possible effects on our November presidential election. In defining the importance of Brexit, the reactions…
In a shocking repudiation of their own political establishment and the European elites, 51.9 per cent of the British voting electorate decided on June 23 to sever relations with the European Union. Immigration angst, unemployment, partial surrender of sovereignty to…
And now for a few more words about the Brexit. First, the media are roaring about Britain leaving the EU as if it were a coup by a group of thieves who broke into Westminster at 2 in the morning…
“The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” So supposedly said the Iron Duke of Wellington, referring, of course to the crushing defeat of Napoleon by the Allies on an 1815 Belgian battlefield and the rousing…