The country is headed to very rough, storm tosses seas, and nobody is at the helm.
The storm is here as the UK just had it's credit rating cut by S&P.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/27/sp-cuts-united-kingdom-sovereign-credit-rating-to-aa-from-aaa.html
Certainly not David Cameron who will go down as the worst PM in British history-maybe the PM that begun the unravelling of Britain itself.
Cameron's answer to this mess that he caused in an act of suicidal political expediency is to kick the can down the road to the next PM.
The storm is here as the UK just had it's credit rating cut by S&P.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/27/sp-cuts-united-kingdom-sovereign-credit-rating-to-aa-from-aaa.html
Certainly not David Cameron who will go down as the worst PM in British history-maybe the PM that begun the unravelling of Britain itself.
Cameron's answer to this mess that he caused in an act of suicidal political expediency is to kick the can down the road to the next PM.
"No one seems capable of stepping forward and offering reassurance. The Leavers, who disagreed on what Brexit should look like, do not think it is their responsibility to set out a path. They reckon that falls to Number 10 (where they have appeared in public, it has mostly been to discard the very pledges on which they won the referendum). Number 10, however, seems to have done little planning for this eventuality. It seems transfixed by the unfolding chaos; reluctant to formulate answers to the Brexiteers’ unanswered questions. As Mr Cameron reportedly told aides on June 24th when explaining his decision to resign: “Why should I do all the hard shit?”
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/27/sp-cuts-united-kingdom-sovereign-credit-rating-to-aa-from-aaa.html
The voice of leadership. As the Economist says normally the opposition party would come out with criticism to capitalize on the PM's shame along with it's own proposals. Not Labour, though who are mired in their own civil war to take out Jeremy Corbyn.
"Ordinarily the opposition might take advantage of the vacuum: calling on the government to act, offering its own proposals, venturing a framework. But Labour has turned in on itself, a parade of shadow ministers resigning this afternoon in what seems to be a concerted coup attempt against Jeremy Corbyn, the party’s useless leader. In a meeting tomorrow Tom Watson, the party’s deputy leader, is expected to call on Mr Corbyn to quit. Of the need for stability and leadership following Thursday’s vote the party has little to say."
Meanwhile the Brexit team that forced this whole silly vote, has no answers at all. They want Cameron to figure out what Brexit actually looks like-and he doesn't want to to the hard shit.
"IT WAS a troubling exchange. On live television Faisal Islam, the political editor of SkyNews, was recounting a conversation with a pro-Brexit Conservative MP. “I said to him: ‘Where’s the plan? Can we see the Brexit plan now?’ [The MP replied:] ‘There is no plan. The Leave campaign don’t have a post-Brexit plan…Number 10 should have had a plan.’” The camera cut to Anna Botting, the anchor, horror chasing across her face. For a couple of seconds they were both silent, as the point sunk in. “Don’t know what to say to that, actually,” she replied, looking down at the desk. Then she cut to a commercial break."
The voters famously started googling Brexit and the EU after they voted. It doesn't seem like anyone in the government or in the Brexit camp googled before the vote either.
What a proud day for Britain. George Will absurdly calls this a return to British manliness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/britains-welcome-revival-of-nationhood/2016/06/24/3c7fbc8c-3a33-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html
If having total market and political chaos is what defines manliness, then the Brits are very manly indeed.
P.S. While George Will, Erick Erickson and other conservatives have rightly opposed Trump, most of them are buying into this absurd idea that what happened in Britain is in any sense worth admiring or emulating.
https://newrepublic.com/article/134657/anti-trump-conservatives-hailing-brexit
Which is also Trump's illusion.
The only conservative I'm aware of who sees Brexit for the fiasco it is, is Jennifer Rubin.
https://newrepublic.com/article/134657/anti-trump-conservatives-hailing-brexit
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/27/sp-cuts-united-kingdom-sovereign-credit-rating-to-aa-from-aaa.html
The voice of leadership. As the Economist says normally the opposition party would come out with criticism to capitalize on the PM's shame along with it's own proposals. Not Labour, though who are mired in their own civil war to take out Jeremy Corbyn.
"Ordinarily the opposition might take advantage of the vacuum: calling on the government to act, offering its own proposals, venturing a framework. But Labour has turned in on itself, a parade of shadow ministers resigning this afternoon in what seems to be a concerted coup attempt against Jeremy Corbyn, the party’s useless leader. In a meeting tomorrow Tom Watson, the party’s deputy leader, is expected to call on Mr Corbyn to quit. Of the need for stability and leadership following Thursday’s vote the party has little to say."
Meanwhile the Brexit team that forced this whole silly vote, has no answers at all. They want Cameron to figure out what Brexit actually looks like-and he doesn't want to to the hard shit.
"IT WAS a troubling exchange. On live television Faisal Islam, the political editor of SkyNews, was recounting a conversation with a pro-Brexit Conservative MP. “I said to him: ‘Where’s the plan? Can we see the Brexit plan now?’ [The MP replied:] ‘There is no plan. The Leave campaign don’t have a post-Brexit plan…Number 10 should have had a plan.’” The camera cut to Anna Botting, the anchor, horror chasing across her face. For a couple of seconds they were both silent, as the point sunk in. “Don’t know what to say to that, actually,” she replied, looking down at the desk. Then she cut to a commercial break."
The voters famously started googling Brexit and the EU after they voted. It doesn't seem like anyone in the government or in the Brexit camp googled before the vote either.
What a proud day for Britain. George Will absurdly calls this a return to British manliness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/britains-welcome-revival-of-nationhood/2016/06/24/3c7fbc8c-3a33-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html
If having total market and political chaos is what defines manliness, then the Brits are very manly indeed.
P.S. While George Will, Erick Erickson and other conservatives have rightly opposed Trump, most of them are buying into this absurd idea that what happened in Britain is in any sense worth admiring or emulating.
https://newrepublic.com/article/134657/anti-trump-conservatives-hailing-brexit
Which is also Trump's illusion.
The only conservative I'm aware of who sees Brexit for the fiasco it is, is Jennifer Rubin.
https://newrepublic.com/article/134657/anti-trump-conservatives-hailing-brexit
I think I saw some other conservatives criticizing Brexit, but bizarrely (for Erickson) it mostly seems to be centered on the tin-foil-cap wearing "anti-globlist" crowd over at Breitbart (and presumably WND and Drudge as well) who breath much the same air as do the "alt-right" crowd whom he despises. In the US of course. I left a few comments over at TheResurgent's facebook reprint of Erick and pals pro-Brexit pieces, telling them they were totally wrong, and they own this (in the US) right alongside their pal Donald Trump... and responses I got from other commenters there were along the lines of "What? Are you a RINO?" ... What an utter "bollocks" response!
ReplyDeleteLet's hope that #NeverTrumpers, #DumpTrumpers AKA #Trexiters are just as blind about their attempt to remove Trump at the convention, and that their attempt is close but ultimately unsuccessful, causing further chaos and pain the GOP, and by the time November rolls around, they've all been blackballed from any and all conservative circles... forcing them to "Go their own way" like Will.
ReplyDeleteI think Rush used to call one of his schemes to have Republicans vote in the Dem primaries "Operation Chaos"... I think that's a good name for what the Brexit people and the entire GOP in this country are doing to themselves.
I saw a stat somewhere that said something like 96% of economists thought Brexit was a bad idea ... I don't know if those were just UK economists or not (perhaps I saw it on Wren-Lewis' site?). Anyway, if that's true, quite a few conservatives (outside Jen) knew it was a bad idea, I would think: I can't imagine you could coral 96% of economists and not have a bunch of conservatives in the mix.
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