Republican strategist Mike Murphy just made this statement on Meet The Press a few moments ago, and I think it's a brilliant insight. Donald Trump and the drumpfodder have latched on to this idea of being "politically incorrect" and have turned it on its head into their own version of PC. But at the end of the day, all they're doing is being equally PC, just under an alternate color. This is yet another example of the patent absurdity of the Trump mentality.
Anyone who watched the UK General Election last year would have seen Nigel Farage's UKIP (Trump like Farage, they're similar, no policies and lots of charisma sort of politics, ie, they're selling themselves and not their product) go from being staunchly pro-non-PC to then dropping it as soon as non-PC was used against them. Ironically it was a kid making an app that did it.
Are you saying that Farage was wrong for steering the UK out of the E.U?????? Seriously???? And PLEASE explain to me why you think Hitlery is a better choice......she is the same ol same ol.
Yes, I think Farage was wrong for steering the UK out of the EU. Especially as he had no plan, and no one else had a plan for what happened if they voted to leave.
The UK hasn't left yet, the pound is low, at $1.29 right now, it was at $1.39 at its LOWEST point and $1.54 at its highest point in the last year.
Confidence in the economy is low, and the UK only got out of the previous recession and back on its feet recently.
Unemployment will begin to rise.
In order to have a good trading deal with the EU (which makes up 50% of it's trade) the UK might have to join the Schengen Agreement, but that for the leave people is unacceptable so the UK will be stuck with a bad deal.
As for "independence" as they were trying to claim they would get, that's rubbish. They complain about immigration, but mostly about non-EU immigration, i.e. Muslims from Pakistan, for example, and that was the BRITISH GOVERNMENT's fault, not the EU government. As for the Polish etc, well the Germans put a block on them for a few years, so they all went to the UK. The BRITISH GOVERNMENT's fault again.
Most of the issues they were talking about had nothing to do with the EU.
That's not to say there weren't reasons for leaving. However the biggest problem is the UK didn't bother trying to change the EU from within. Now the EU will do as it wishes and the British will have to conform on many things or risk losing loads of money.
So it's a choice between being a little brother, or being poor.
Many of the Brexit people simply don't understand the reality. Farage was criticized by those even in his own party for not being organized or stuff like that. He was just charismatic. He'd sell himself.
I think if there were a vote based on the FACTS (because both sides seemed not to bother with them) and based on what people know today, they'd vote to stay.