For the past week or so I've been following British politics with respect to the "Brexit" referendum. The so-called pundits and eck-spurts weren't taking the "Leave" campaign seriously, suggesting that the voters wouldn't dare vote for this, and afterwards this would all be settled and the European Union would continue on as before. I'll be honest and state that I didn't think that they'd actually do it either, even though I wanted to see the "Leave" folks win this one.
No one of course, asks me for advice in these sorts of things, and I likely wouldn't have given it anyway as that I'm a citizen of the U.S. and not of the U.K., and therefore it's not like I have a place to tell them how they should run their country. But if pressed, I might have told them to go ahead and vote "Leave" anyway while they had this chance, because their fatass politicians likely would not allow them this kind of vote in the future.
It should of course, go without saying, that the bureaucrats in the EU aren't happy about this. They have spent decades building their own empire, starting out as a trade union and marching slowly towards the creation of a European superstate bent on tearing down borders and sovereignty of the member states. A trade union makes sense to me, but that wasn't what the fatass politicians running it wanted. Their actions and attitude lent credence to the conspiracy theorists claiming that the end goal was one big giant world government. If that was what was really their goal, their march toward that goal line has ended as that the ball has been fumbled and now the other side has it.
In the aftermath, we now have momentum going to other movements over there who want their countries back. There are Dutch, French and Germans who no longer wish to carry the water for the Greeks, Portuguese and Italians, and they are understandably frustrated at why this Union has been shoved down their throats. They too want to vote on this, and the fatass politicians have to be greatly concerned about this.
As for where Europe goes from here, I think we'll see a shrunken European Union before the elites start building it back up again. The European Parliament will try to sneak in binding legislation that will prohibit future referenda as they build it back up again.
I don't personally think the elites want the EU to become the World Government, but I do see them wanting to become a de facto United States of Europe, and they'd be OK with the U.S.E. being one of six or seven superstates that has long been the goal of communitarians worldwide.
Stay tuned, folks. The fatass politicians aren't going to graciously accept this.
