As the results of the British referendum on remaining in the European Union rolled in, and the victory of ‘Brexit’ became apparent, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage summarized its meaning:
‘Dare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom!
‘This, if the predictions now are right, this will be a victory for real people, a victory for ordinary people, a victory for decent people.
‘We have fought against the multinationals, we have fought against the big merchant banks, we have fought against big politics, we have fought against lies, corruption and deceit.
‘And today honesty, decency and belief in nation, I think now is going to win.
‘And we will have done it without having to fight, without a single bullet …’
As ordinary British people celebrated, the London elite – and their international comrades – reacted with fury. The ignorant masses – whom, they rather stupidly claimed, were Googling ‘What is the EU’ after voting to rid themselves of it – were ‘racist,’ ‘reactionary,’ and – of course – ‘isolationist’ Know-Nothings who had thrown away a glorious future for an ‘uncertain’ although supposedly much ‘darker’ withdrawal into ‘Little England.’
There has been much discussion in these circles about who’s to ‘blame’ for the Brexit vote – the assumption being, naturally, that it’s a Bad Thing, a disaster for which someone must take responsibility. The best of these head-scratchers comes courtesy of Glenn Greenwald, who writes:
This post was published at David Stockmans Contra Corner by Justin Raimondo ‘ June 27, 2016.
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