Can you ever recall ONE VOTE causing a shit storm anything like this? ONE VOTE takes out:
1. The head of government and his most powerful cabinet officer.
2. The leader of the opposition and his entire (essentially) shadow cabinet.
3. The country. One vote and the identity of the country is in flux. What is this...human civilization "thing" on the island of Great Britain now? Not a member of that European Union thing; doesn't look like it's going to be either that entity-formerly-known-as-Great Britain or that-entity-formerly-known-as-the-United Kingdom.
If the American Civil War had started with a single vote there would be an historical parallel. But it didn't. A single act pulled the thread that unraveled Europe into World War I but that single act was an assassination not a vote. You could see the American Civil War coming, hell, they could see it coming then. Nobody saw World War I coming.
Almost everybody (not that one guy, though!) saw dire consequences to Leave but this? All of the above? Brexit is not going to result in general war in Europe but as The New York Times put it yesterday Brexit has loosened the strands of the European order that the United States imposed after World War II-hasn't unraveled it but, boy, the United Kingdom was the strongest strand in that fabric and this ONE VOTE has removed that strand. Cameron: NICE job. Lol.
1. The head of government and his most powerful cabinet officer.
2. The leader of the opposition and his entire (essentially) shadow cabinet.
3. The country. One vote and the identity of the country is in flux. What is this...human civilization "thing" on the island of Great Britain now? Not a member of that European Union thing; doesn't look like it's going to be either that entity-formerly-known-as-Great Britain or that-entity-formerly-known-as-the-United Kingdom.
If the American Civil War had started with a single vote there would be an historical parallel. But it didn't. A single act pulled the thread that unraveled Europe into World War I but that single act was an assassination not a vote. You could see the American Civil War coming, hell, they could see it coming then. Nobody saw World War I coming.
Almost everybody (not that one guy, though!) saw dire consequences to Leave but this? All of the above? Brexit is not going to result in general war in Europe but as The New York Times put it yesterday Brexit has loosened the strands of the European order that the United States imposed after World War II-hasn't unraveled it but, boy, the United Kingdom was the strongest strand in that fabric and this ONE VOTE has removed that strand. Cameron: NICE job. Lol.
