Elite Call BREXIT “The Most Disastrous Event Since World War II”
SilverDoctors.com
June 30, 2016
The EU referendum was ultimately the expression of a choice between big and small government.
This opportunity hardly strikes us as the most disastrous event since World War II.
Submitted by Tim Price, Sovereign Man:
So the British people have finally spoken. The Establishment, however, chose not to hear them, turning its perpetual tin ear to criticism from below.
As the flag-bearer for an unaccountable, hypocritical and increasingly bewildered elite, Martin Wolf for the Financial Times showed precisely why Remain lost:
“The fear-mongering and outright lies of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage, The Sun and the Daily Mail have won.. This is probably the most disastrous single event in British history since the second world war.”
The London establishment has taken the Brexit news with quiet dignity.
The BBC – like the Financial Times, another media institution that persists despite itself – also struggled to make sense of the UK’s extraordinary decision to enter divorce proceedings with the EU.
Extraordinary not because it was irrational, or xenophobic, or economically illiterate, or sado-masochistic, though that is what the Establishment evidently believed.
Brexit was extraordinary because of the massed domestic and international forces that the British people managed to overcome:
All of the main political parties, the IMF, the OECD, the CBI, the TUC, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, most chief executives of FTSE 100 companies, and David Beckham.
So what did 17.4 million British people vote for?
One can only speak for oneself. I voted for economic independence from a failing totalitarian socialist economic bloc.
The EU’s greatest economic monument, the euro, simply isn’t working.
That’s because what may be appropriate today for an economy like Germany’s is unlikely to be appropriate for an economy like Greece.
(Greece, by the way, should never have been allowed to join in the first place – but then institutionalised corruption is another of the euro zone’s fatal flaws.)
Yet the euro force-feeds a one-size-fits-all across the continent, which unsurprisingly is the slowest-growing region in the world.
The euro is emblematic of the EU as a whole– it is too big to function properly, especially when there’s little commonality amongst the EU’s disparate cultures.
Yet whenever skeptics expressed concern at the EU’s direction of travel and its acceleration regardless, it was met with a standard response: the answer is more Europe.
Well, not any more.
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