JK Rowling
Scotland will seek independence now. Cameron's legacy will be breaking up two unions. Neither needed to happen.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/746203541929234433
David Cameron. I never liked him. But have we ever seen such a self inflicted wound before? Like the great author, JK Rowling says, this never needed to happen.
The really important thing is that promising this referendum solved a short-term political problem for David Cameron back in 2015."
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/746184962181840896
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cameron-loses-his-big-brexit-gamble-1466740195?cb=logged0.7020124192307933
He has badly mangled Britain, and at least there's some poetic justice that he has destroyed his own legacy with a stroke.
Greg in a comment talked about how bad the status quo is, about young people in terrible debt.
True. But this is not going to help such kids in Britain. The kids overwhelmingly voted for Remain-and the kids were all right.
https://twitter.com/jeremyweate/status/746343279164194817
What can be more ugly than the old taking revenge on the young?
Scotland will seek independence now. Cameron's legacy will be breaking up two unions. Neither needed to happen.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/746203541929234433
David Cameron. I never liked him. But have we ever seen such a self inflicted wound before? Like the great author, JK Rowling says, this never needed to happen.
The really important thing is that promising this referendum solved a short-term political problem for David Cameron back in 2015."
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/746184962181840896
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cameron-loses-his-big-brexit-gamble-1466740195?cb=logged0.7020124192307933
He has badly mangled Britain, and at least there's some poetic justice that he has destroyed his own legacy with a stroke.
Greg in a comment talked about how bad the status quo is, about young people in terrible debt.
True. But this is not going to help such kids in Britain. The kids overwhelmingly voted for Remain-and the kids were all right.
https://twitter.com/jeremyweate/status/746343279164194817
What can be more ugly than the old taking revenge on the young?
Three promises the pro-Trump-supported Brexit people are already backing away from:
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Jennifer Rubin on this:
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The waves of alienation, dissatisfaction and anger lapping over American politics also hit Britain and other industrialized societies. The hangover from the 2008 worldwide recession continues, shaking confidence in institutions (public and private), elites and markets. The economic collapse was the most traumatic — but not the only — shock to large segments of industrialized societies — especially to older, less-educated, less-skilled workers displaced by technology and globalism. (Young people in the United Kingdom voted overwhelming to remain in the E.U., older people to leave.) Coupled with a sense that their country — much like themselves — has been disrespected and buffeted by ominous forces, the temptation is to indulge in conspiracy theories, blame outsiders and resort to political nihilism. Soon leaders don’t lead, hucksters emerge to play on fear and instantaneous social media intensifies public mood swings and propagates all sorts of myths. (Foreigners are stealing our jobs! Free trade is bad!)
She seems to get it
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