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Thought you’d finally heard the last of Nigel Farage?

Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2016

 “I am very keen to help the independence movements that are springing up elsewhere in the European Union because I’m certain of one thing: you haven’t seen the last country that wants to leave the EU.”

For the neocons and associates, Brexit is nothing but the first domino which will lead to the disintegration of the EU. They see it as the new Soviet Union and would bring it down as, according to them, they brought down the Soviet Union. The EU or, rather, Euroland, now the pertinent organization, has become a barrier to certain City of London interests. In the event of collapse, they are confident they could dominate the residual “independent nations”.

While the brexiteers say they need more time to work out their strategy towards the EU, Farage has stepped down from his party leadership to kick start the real strategy: to fan the flames of euroscepticism and xenophobia the length and breadth of Europe.

Independent

4th July, 2016

Having won his war to get Britain out of the EU, he now wants to win the peace. Nigel Farage may be about to embark on a European tour

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All quiet on the Brexit front

Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2016

Cailean Bochanan

4th July, 2016

Suddenly an eerie silence descends on Britain’s tumultuous political scene.

One or two shots are still going off: Gove has a drink problem according to the Johnson camp; Leadsom may have been stashing money offshore it is suggested and has been outed as a Remain supporter until only recently. Any remaining obstacles to Theresa May as prime minister are being removed. That’s all.

On the other side of the house the anti-Corbyn forces are going quiet. It looks like Corbyn will be staying.

The coup has failed. Neocon forces, those who gave us the Iraq War, have not seized control over both sides of the House.

Having “taken our country back” we now await events elsewhere to give us direction. Specifically, the US presidential elections. If our relationship with the EU is now in question the “special relationship” is no less so. Under Obama it appeared to come to an end and even now Kerry is talking up reversing Brexit. Trump may applaud British isolationism but intends the same for his own country. Clinton, if the FBI don’t take her out, remains the great hope of the Atlanticists and neocons. She promises the renewal of the Anglo-American partnership and hegemony.

We can expect May’s cabinet to reflects Britain’s suspension between Europe and America: on the one hand Gove or Fox, who would seek to trigger article 50 and commence hostilities against Europe and on the other Osborne, who still wants another special relationship. that with China, and , therefore, implicitly, to reverse Brexit.

Last Thursday vote has resolved nothing. The people have decided without, on either side, having the remotest clue what the stakes were. We are now undergoing a crash course in the geopolitical forces that are to shape the century.

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Liam Fox pencils in January 1, 2019, for Brexit

Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2016

Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, the Vote Leave campaigner added: “We need to spend money on our national security because you need to buy insurance in a dangerous world.”

Didn’t take long before the national security state raised its head. The Brexit agenda is a neoconservative agenda.

Evening Standard

3rd July, 2016

Tory leadership hopeful Liam Fox has pencilled in a date on which Britain could formally exit the EU if he becomes Prime Minister.

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May: cuts to EU migration MUST WAIT

Posted by seumasach on July 3, 2016

Theresa May has emerged as the realist candidate, as opposed to the more swashbuckling four brexiteers. She knows that ending free movement would collapse large sectors of the British economy and that it’s not going to happen. Just like leaving the single market isn’t going to happen. Just like Brexit isn’t going to happen. She has already put back formally leaving via article 50 until next year. It doesn’t matter how many people voted for Brexit, it isn’t going to happen because it would trigger the economic, social and political collapse of Britain. That Brexit is a completely unrealistic prospect for Britain has become clear in the last few days. It should have become clear during the campaign. We are now in the mother of all messes. In order to extricate ourselves as soon as possible it is now up to the brexiteers themselves to admit that they had failed to grasp the situation or dishonestly tried to deceive the people.

Daily Express

THERESA May has claimed voters will have to wait for EU migration to fall to “sustainable” levels despite the nation voting to leave the free movement bloc.

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Globalists v. globalists

Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2016

Cailean Bochanan

2nd July, 2016

Pundits of every hue, seduced by the image of true -born Englishmen wielding pitchforks in the face of the dark forces of Mammomisn, are interpreting the Brexit vote as a victory over “the globalists”. As if the likes of Rupert Murdoch are not globalists.

Rather than elite versus people the contest is very much within elites and both sides are globalists.

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Russia may gain from Brexit

Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2016

This is Why Russia May be Among Biggest Winners After Brexit

Sputnik

2nd July, 2016

Russia could be the winner after Britain, one of the most avid supporters of anti-Russian sanctions, will leave the European Union, Frank Holmes, managing director of US Global Investors, wrote in an article.

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UK home secretary rules out invoking Article 50 on Brexit before 2017

Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2016

We heard that article 50 could not be invoked until we had a brexit prime minister i.e. until the Autumn. But the game is to string things out as long as possible. Now we’re into 2017 by which time we hope to have set the eurosceptic ball rolling. Look out for further delays allowing for the French elections in April, 2017. And so on ad infinitum. As May says:”Brexit means Brexit”. Oh, yes!

Sputnik

30th June, 2016

The UK home secretary emphasized that invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on leaving the European Union should not happen before the end of 2016.

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John McDonnell: Brexit will end free movement of people

Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2016

At the same time as fighting off a conspiracy to remove the Labour Party from the scene altogether it is important that Labour develops some kind of coherence on the so-called Brexit question. It is true that Brexit will end the free movement of labour but it will also put pay to McDonnell’s wish list. It will  end Britain’s membership of the single market: there no point in renaming this as “access” to the single market to get round the problem. As for the City, it will inevitably lose it’s passport outside the EU. Brexit is, above all, a response to Cameron’s failure to negotiate suitable opt-outs from EU, single market rules. Damned if they stay , damned if they leave, City of London interests have placed all their hopes in a domino effect of referenda across Europe leading the collapse of the EU project itself. That’s why neocons like Gove, who see the EU in the same terms as they saw the Soviet Union, are now to the fore. Apart from as this wrecking project, Brexit will never happen. Obviously, on that basis, there is no difficulty in arguing for remain. As for the City of London, it’s future lies in its transformation through the deal with China which some in the British political class appeared to support but which cannot happen until we have formally committed to not leaving i.e. not invoking article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Guardian

The free movement of people around the European Union will end with Brexit, John McDonnell has said as he outlined an economic blueprint for Labour to prepare the nation for departure.

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Brexit: why nobody wants to trigger Article 50

Posted by seumasach on July 1, 2016

The UK will not be part of the ensuing discussion; as Article 50 states: ‘The member of the European Council or of the Council representing the withdrawing Member State shall not participate in the discussions of the European Council or Council or in decisions concerning it.’

Money Observer

1st July, 2016

If the UK does formally leave the EU it will have to renegotiate hundreds of trade agreements. But the UK parliament ‘does not currently have the capacity to cope with a full Brexit’, says a House of Commons spokesperson.

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“Brexit means brexit’?

Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2016

Cailean Bochanan

30th June, 2016

This is all becoming quite surreal. The fall of Boris Johnson seems to be a result of his attempt to present the Brexit vote as a mandate to renegotiate our membership of the EU. The theory must have been that the Europeans heartbroken to lose us, would do anything to ingratiate themselves to us.

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The Brexit Fraud

Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2016

Cailean Bochanan

30th June, 2016

The British people have just voted to leave the EU but the prime minister has refused to leave. His heart just isn’t in it. Nor does he want to step down now. Surely, as prime minster he is obliged to accept the result of the referendum which he called and duly invoke article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, specially crafted to the needs of a country which has been on the way out for some time.

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