Given preliminary results from today’s general election, it behooves Britons to beware what they voted for. Because the election of Boris Johnson as prime minister might prove a pyrrhic outcome at best. Boris Johnson appears on course to secure a crushing majority of 86, and take Britain out of the EU in January [a.k.a. Brexit],… Read more.
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Brexit: Forget Leaving, Britain a Greater EU Contagion if It Remains
Just years ago, Grexit had the European Union reeling with existential angst. Notably, the fear was not that Greece would leave, but that its chronic indebtedness posed too great a communal burden to allow it to remain. Further that bailing out Greece would create a domino effect – with other poor, debt-ridden member states (aka… Read more.
EU: Britain Trying to Have Its Cake and Eat It Too
Public disillusionment in Britain with the European Union is such that Prime Minister David Cameron felt compelled last Wednesday to pledge to hold an “in-out referendum” on UK membership if he is re-elected in 2015. The next Conservative manifesto in 2015 will ask for a mandate from the British people for a Conservative government to… Read more.