This description of Brexit is BS:
“Brexit is a defeat, a rebellion against the concept that working together makes Europeans stronger,” German Marshall Fund fellow Rosa Balfour told the New York Times.
No, Brexit is a defeat for an imperial EU that makes independent countries mere provinces under the heel of the imperial class.
Britain can still work together with EU members through NATO and other multi-lateral deals, including bilateral deals with other independent (for now) European countries.
Brexit is in fact a glorious victory for Britain and for the proto-subjects on the continent who might draw comfort from this victory.
But I won't breathe easily until the transition period ends sometime late this year. The Brexit vote may be Britain's Fourth of July, but America's Declaration of Independence was just the beginning of true American independence.
Maybe this Brexit Day is like the Treaty of Paris formalizing independence from the imperial master.
... to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse, between the two countries upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony[.]
That would be a true basis for working together rather than Britain being just one of a team of oxen yoked together for one purpose the EU driver determines.
But Britain didn't really accept our independence in 1783--and loomed over us in loyal Canada--until after the War of 1812--a.k.a. our Second War of Independence.
So let's see how the rest of the year goes--and what role Northern Ireland and Scotland play--and whether the EU really accepts the results, eh?
Heck, maybe the British need a failed European Union counter-attack to unify the parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland divided over Brexit and get their own "Era of Good Feelings" in the aftermath.
I wonder how the EU will react to a new America-British trade pact? Will the EU try to impose some sort of continent-based trading system to punish Britain?
History doesn't repeat itself, but it can certainly sort of rhyme sometimes.
UPDATE: Are these the first shots of the counter-attack or just stray shots from people who haven't got the word that the war is over?
European fugitives could seek to escape justice by fleeing to their home countries after Brexit, it has emerged.
Austria, Germany, and Slovenia confirmed they would not extradite their nationals to the UK during the 11-month transition period which starts tomorrow.
Yes, their laws require this. I guess the answer to my question will come from whether they close the loophole--which they knew was coming.
Still, Macron has decided to bolster the morale of the Resistance in Britain:
French President Emmanuel Macron plans to travel to London to award the city with France’s highest award, the Legion d’Honneur, on the 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle’s June 18, 1940, appeal to the French Resistance from the U.K. capital.
“I am coming to London in June to award the city the Legion d’Honneur, in tribute to the immense courage of a whole country and people” during World War II, Macron said in a letter to “British Friends” released on social networks on Saturday.
Call me cynical but this sounds like a tribute to the Remainers who dominate London and not to Britain itself.
So there you go.
UPDATE: Heh:
