Sorry – or not – for shouting in the headline. But I do not know what is more astounding – that a party formed six weeks ago, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party, would win an election by over 10 percentage points or that the “news” media would downplay that. Come on, this is a historic event! Who has ever heard of a six week old party winning an election, any election, in a landslide?
Some of the efforts to downplay that are comical, including dodgy math.
But even with this resounding result, it is not guaranteed that the UK will finally leave the EU. The EU is like the Hotel California (You can check out, but you can never leave.). In the EU elections are only respected if they have the correct result, don’tcha know.
Nonetheless, the Brexit Party victory is a big punch in the face to the UK and EU establishments. It will be interesting to see how they once again try to thwart the will of the people.
Nonetheless, the Brexit Party victory is a big punch in the face to the UK and EU establishments. It will be interesting to see how they once again try to thwart the will of the people.
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