"Historic, dangerous decision"

Good-bye, Great Britain; hello, Little England. Now, Scotland might vote to leave the U.K., and so might Northern Ireland. The nation that masterminded Europe’s fate for 400 years will slink off into an offshore Austria, a remnant of the once-mighty Habsburg Empire. Little Britain is a place of quaint villages and peculiar habits, like warm beer — but the country will no longer matter. Just imagine a Little Britain in 1939. Hitler would have rolled right over it, and then Europe.

A resurgence of the Right within ruling Conservative party and possibly coup attempt against Jeremy Corbyn.
Not since the Germans voted Hitler into power has a democratic electorate inflicted so much harm on its glorious history and its prospects. In fact, the situation today is worse. The Germans did not know what they were buying. Yet today, the future — a lethal loss of economic and political power — stared the British right in the face, and they chose self-demotion anyway.

History won’t be kind to the 52 percent who bolted from greatness. Nor to the Brussels’ backroom bureaucrats and oblivious governments, who respond to every sign of popular resentment by grabbing at another piece of national sovereignty. Brexit screams: You have gone one bridge too far. Don’t even think about more integration now.

Europe must keep Britain moored. If not, the EU will shrink into an irrelevant outpost of Eurasia. Could this nightmare be dispelled? Dear Brits, please vote again — for your own sake, and Europe’s.

Josef Joffe is editor of Die Zeit and a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Raggamuffin wrote:This "hill shepherd" thing is becoming very offensive. The British people voted, and now the ones who lost are very angry and are lashing out, banging on about "old" people ruining the lives of young people, etc. However, that doesn't excuse an Aussie sticking his beak in and being offensive about those who chose to leave. Veya didn't think that the UK was important anyway, and he spends a lot of time slagging off Europe, so why does he care?

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:This "hill shepherd" thing is becoming very offensive. The British people voted, and now the ones who lost are very angry and are lashing out, banging on about "old" people ruining the lives of young people, etc. However, that doesn't excuse an Aussie sticking his beak in and being offensive about those who chose to leave. Veya didn't think that the UK was important anyway, and he spends a lot of time slagging off Europe, so why does he care?

Oh tut-tut, raggs.  Stick a cork in it.

Can anyone tell me what a "hill shepherd" is, and what's its relevance?

Ben Reilly wrote:

Good-bye, Great Britain; hello, Little England. Now, Scotland might vote to leave the U.K., and so might Northern Ireland. The nation that masterminded Europe’s fate for 400 years will slink off into an offshore Austria, a remnant of the once-mighty Habsburg Empire. Little Britain is a place of quaint villages and peculiar habits, like warm beer — but the country will no longer matter. Just imagine a Little Britain in 1939. Hitler would have rolled right over it, and then Europe.

A resurgence of the Right within ruling Conservative party and possibly coup attempt against Jeremy Corbyn.
Not since the Germans voted Hitler into power has a democratic electorate inflicted so much harm on its glorious history and its prospects. In fact, the situation today is worse. The Germans did not know what they were buying. Yet today, the future — a lethal loss of economic and political power — stared the British right in the face, and they chose self-demotion anyway.

History won’t be kind to the 52 percent who bolted from greatness. Nor to the Brussels’ backroom bureaucrats and oblivious governments, who respond to every sign of popular resentment by grabbing at another piece of national sovereignty. Brexit screams: You have gone one bridge too far. Don’t even think about more integration now.

Europe must keep Britain moored. If not, the EU will shrink into an irrelevant outpost of Eurasia. Could this nightmare be dispelled? Dear Brits, please vote again — for your own sake, and Europe’s.

Josef Joffe is editor of Die Zeit and a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

http://www.politico.eu/article/britains-out-now-what-brexit-symposium-political-commentators-experts/

Didge wrote:Anyway you are forgeting a number of factors.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Didge wrote:Anyway you are forgeting a number of factors.

I didn't write it. All this bad news, all these negative opinions about Brexit, are not being manufactured by the lefties here on NewsFix. They exist out there in the world, expressed by people who are simply exercising their freedom of speech.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Didge wrote:Anyway you are forgeting a number of factors.

I didn't write it. All this bad news, all these negative opinions about Brexit, are not being manufactured by the lefties here on NewsFix. They exist out there in the world, expressed by people who are simply exercising their freedom of speech.