In addition to wishing you all a Happy Memorial Day, I would like to express the heartiest of congratulations to Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party! The Brexit Party was formed just six weeks ago to contest the EU parliamentary elections held in the U.K. on May 23rd. We now know the results: the two main parties in Britain, Labour and the Conservatives, sunk to third and fifth place, respectively, while the Brexit Party won a crushing victory, with over 30% of the vote. The doubters will say that the British electorate is still divided on the question of Brexit, and they would be right about that, but the spectacular rise of the Brexit Party proves two things. First, it proves that a significant portion of British voters are mortified by Parliament's stonewalling on the question of Brexit, and they demand rapid progress towards implementing the people's will as expressed in the June 2016 referendum. Second, it proves that the ruling Conservative Party is courting doom if it ignores the passionate pro-Brexit sentiments of its base. As the articles below indicate, Britain will soon have a new Prime Minister, and it is very likely that he (or she) will support Brexit, and will even be willing to contemplate a no-deal Brexit. That's fine by me, needless to say, but it is certainly in the cards that the prospect of a no-deal Brexit will produce a vote of no confidence in the government, and thus a general election. The results of such an election are impossible to predict...but we can't rule out, incredible though it may seem, a victory for the Brexit Party and a Prime Minister Nigel Farage! If the British elite wants to avoid such a scenario, and it most assuredly does, I suggest it get busy delivering Brexit to the British people, and fast!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-election-britain-farage/uks-nigel-farage-demands-a-seat-at-brexit-talks-idUSKCN1SX0C9
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu/race-to-succeed-uk-pm-may-centers-on-no-deal-brexit-battle-idUSKCN1SW0E5
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48418524
Dr. Waddy: This is intensely dramatic news. The world's most consequential democracy enters a decisive phase. It appears that those who believe Britain has led the world in the establishment of well founded government devoted to workable advances in human well being, have concluded that continued EU membership is inimical to that evolution. The EU is incipiently dominated by those devoted to presumptuous bureaucratic control of those processes best left to freely generated human enterprise and consequence. And Britain, as its political tradition affirms, cannot abide that!
ReplyDeleteIt is undeniable historical fact that Britain has empowered a political tradition demonstrably more supportive of human well being than that of any other nation (especially when one considers its avatars: The U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
And so, it is unacceptable that Britain should submit to the administrative control of cultures with far less positive histories, as is required under EU administrative law. Continued membership in the exponentially presumptuous and centralized EU is an affront to the confident and proven Brits and I don't think they will back down.
That's a superb argument, Jack: how can the world's foremost experts on democratic governance profit from surrendering a portion of their sovereignty to a body lorded over by the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Eastern Europeans, and other democratic novices? How indeed. Coming soon: an article on Nigel Farage.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy:Thank you so much and I'm looking forward to the article. Farage may be a figure of consummate historical importance. PM? He could be a good one; like Churchill he knows his country's greatness.
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