British political caste collapses after Brexit

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British political caste collapses after Brexit
by  Van Rossem | 30-06-16 | 13:54 | 140 reacties
http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2016/06/anarchy_in_the_uk.html

   

  "Theresa May ((Conservatives) also has an opinion : "Brexit means
   Brexit", says the Home Secretary in a little speech wherein she herself
   announces to apply as candidate for the new leader of the Tory party
   and successor to Cameron as prime minister.  Michael Gove has in the
   meantime taken on the same plan, so Boris the Bullet Dodger says 'fuck
   this shit' and withdraws - with a back full of daggers -
   https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/748472778580340736
   as Prime  Minister candidate (video below). The value of the pound rebounded
   immediately in the news - LOL. 
   https://twitter.com/business/status/748472917114126337
   "This feels like Italian politics", it  was laughed at with Bloomberg.  And
   then the total deception and  unmasking of Jeremy Corbyn has not even
   been discussed. Pretty much  everyone who was someone with Labour has
   resigned with the British `PvdA' (Dutch Labor), but the crazy  party leader
   refuses to make his  little seat available. 
   In short : not the stock-exchanges, but the British Administrative Elites
   collapse after Brexit. Farage already said it on Tuesday in European Parliament :
   "The only upheaval is  political upheaval."
   Disclaimer: We understand nothing of small numbers and where they do understand
   - with DasKapital for instance but BOOH! @  their concluding remarks - they still think
   that all of gold will turn  into lead by Brexit.  But until that time its the feast of the
   smoldering elites in the House of Commons and the screaming toddlers in
   Brussels.  Anarchy in the UK - 40 years later but still right now. 
   Only: Who will be filing Article 50 in Brussels  ?

   

   https://twitter.com/khaddon/status/748474115233841152

   

Boris Johnson, voormalig burgemeester van Londen en leider van de 'Leave-campagne' ©AP
Boris Johnson, former Mayor of Londen and leader of  the 'Leave-campagne' ©AP
"Boris Johnson staat schaakmat": deze theorie over de Brexit gaat viraal
"Boris Johnson is checkmated": This theory concerning Brexit goes viral
28-06-16, 13.14u - Door: Karen Van Eyken - Bron: The Guardian, The Independent
http://www.demorgen.be/buitenland/-boris-johnson-staat-schaakmat-deze-theorie-over-de-brexit-gaat-viraal-b048f284/

And here's that response on the guardian Brexit blog :

Teebs 5d ago
Guardian Pick
"If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises
   that he has lost.
   
   Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually
   lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.
   
   With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled
   the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political
   careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost
   him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.
   
   How?
   
   Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for
   leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether
   implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that
   notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that
   was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the
   sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly
   abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his
   successor.
   
   And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in:
   the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar
   border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with
   all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits
   abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legistlation to be torn
   up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.
   
   The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not
   bound to commit itself in that same direction.
   
   The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have
   one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader,
   trigger the notice under Article 50?
   
   Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and
   consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
   
   Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his
   home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been
   out-maneouvered and check-mated.
   
   If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow
   through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not
   run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he
   runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over -
   Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a
   recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris
   Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just
   that: an act.
   
   The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them,
   leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
   
   When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50
   straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael
   Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the
   formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal
   departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an
   irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.
   
   All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say
   that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of
   pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put
   the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led
   the Brexit campaign."
   [ ... ]
   THX332211 -> Teebs
   5d ago
     "Very interesting comment, Teebs.

      When I saw Boris yesterday I actually thought that he realised he had
      made a giant mistake - that he (Brexit) was never meant to win and now
      it has it's dawned him the terrible mistake he's made. "

[MikeWB]

Post Brexit, odds that Trump will be the president have increased. I now have no doubts that he will win. Unless there's a lot of voting fraud going on, Trump will win.