Americans watching the spectacle currently unfolding in the British government should not be fearful that the entire British political system is cracking up. It isn’t. The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) has been contemplating its national strategic direction since World War II.............Britain has often been of Europe but has never really been in it, and it has much more in common with the other largely Anglo-Saxon and English-speaking democracies than with the continental powers.
The current absurd state of affairs arose when prime minister David Cameron, in office between 2010 and 2016, promised a referendum on staying in Europe or leaving, certain that there could not be a vote to leave. But there was, 52% to 48%, in 2016.
Cameron had to resign and was replaced by Theresa May, who claimed to be leaving when she was really advocating an arrangement of remaining in Europe with some modifications..............Mr. Johnson has said he will try to negotiate a satisfactory arrangement with Brussels, but that he will leave without a compromise departure arrangement if he can’t reach an acceptable one, and that he will not seek another extension of the departure date, which was supposed to occur last March.............
I predict that the Johnson government will make an electoral arrangement with the Brexit party of Nigel Farage and will in a landslide victory against the fragmented opposition, a mélange of mountebanks, Marxists, and regional autonomists and separatists..........To Read More.....
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