Brexit may be over. Instead of propelling Brexit, Trump’s election may make Parliament think again. Parliament, not a popular referendum, has sovereignty in England under its unwritten constitution. Yes Nigel Farage, UKIP’s leader, may have met Trump in New York, but Prime Minister May had to wait in line to talk to the Orange One — yeah really in line, behind even Erdogan.
Does the United Kingdom want to forsake its influence, its protection, within the European Union, on the hope and the prayer that the Orange One will somehow shine favor on the United Kingdom, even while the United States is engulfed in the wrenching effort to rid itself of 1 percent of its population, and that is just for starters? And in addition, risking the departure of Scotland, making the United Kingdom a bit of a rump state. You know you have chosen the wrong path when Ulster is thinking of joining the Irish Republic as the better alternative. It is just poor Wales that appears to have no choice.
Popular referenda are no democracy. They are the refuge of scoundrels and scandal sheets. Yes they do the work of Rupert Murdoch in the UK, who did quite an effective job in the US, with Fox News, what not, plus the WSJ, and Fox’s effects on NBC and CNN and ABC and the printed media.
Maybe the United Kingdom will wake up and realize the deliberations of its great Parliament are the means to reaching decisions. After all the Third Reich was born of the ballot box. Direct democracy in the age of oligarchy and concentrated wealth is but the manipulation of the masses by the forces of greed and hate.
Simply in terms of self preservation, the United Kingdom should clearly see that the “Special Relationship” is trumped by its shared interests with Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Belgium, Spain and France, to name a few countries on whom it can rely. Unless of course Britain wants to ally itself with Putin and his friend in the White House.
Perhaps Prime Minister May will want to suck up to Trump the way Tony Blair sucked up to W. Did not work out well. And that was when the Republican Party had some sanity.