But I digress. It's a bit of a surprise when even the Washington Post is devoting a lot of attention to the pathetic results that somehow put a squirming toffee-nosed dough-faced clod like Cameron in for another fiver.
Alluding to "Little Britain," a show nobody in America ever watched, the Post writers ask if Camoron is going to be presiding over "Little England."
Continuing...
Yesterday was V-E Day, when the United Kingdom was celebrating its finest hour. Seventy years later, it could be contemplating the beginning of its end in its current form,” said David Torrance, a British political analyst and author. “The next five years will be a twin debate about two unions — the European Union and the United Kingdom.”
The questions of whether Britain stays whole and whether it remains in Europe are deeply entangled, with the outcome of one expected to heavily influence the other.
If Britain leaves Europe despite notably pro-European sentiment in Scotland, the chances of Scotland’s newly empowered nationalists leading another drive for independence would instantly rise — despite a promise that last year’s failed bid was a “once-in-a-generation” event.
That’s one reason that Europe is likely to be settled first. Cameron’s reelection fired the starting gun on what is sure to be an emotional and high-stakes debate over Britain’s future in the E.U.
Cameron promised a referendum on the matter by the end of 2017, but some are pushing for the vote to come far sooner so that uncertainty doesn’t hang over Britain’s economic and political fortunes for the next 2 1 /2 years.
Polls suggest that if the vote were held today, Britain would choose to stay in the E.U. But the energized voices for “out” are gearing up for the fight, in the belief that the country could better manage itself without meddling from Brussels.
Opponents of an exit say it could be catastrophic, leading to an exodus of jobs and a muffling of Britain’s voice both in Europe and beyond.
Cameron has projected ambivalence on the issue, saying he wants the country to remain inside Europe, but only if he can win critical changes to the E.U. charter — changes his European allies have repeatedly said they are unwilling to grant.
The question will divide not only the country but also Cameron’s government, with some of his top lieutenants likely to push for an exit. Conservatives to retain power in British elections View Photos Voters defied predictions of a deadlocked election and put the Conservative Party on the cusp of a majority in Parliament.
“This will not break in any way smoothly along party lines. Part of his cabinet will campaign to leave and part of his cabinet will campaign to stay,” said Ian Kearns, director of the European Leadership Network.
But the vote could break along national lines within the U.K., with Euroskeptic English voters potentially overriding the will of the more Europe-friendly Scots.
“The E.U. referendum is going to trigger a debate over the role we play in the world, and on that, the different parts of the U.K. disagree quite profoundly,” Kearns said.
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Americans mostly are insular and selfish when it comes to world politics; 10 degrees to the left of center if they're getting cheap sneakers from child-labor in China, 40 degrees to the right if swarthy, hummus-faced terrorists kill an American who was just minding his own business and making faces while posing in front of the Sphinx.
Americans really have no idea what the deal is with Ireland, what Scotland is about except for a Mel Gibson movie and Craig Ferguson, and what's in Wales besides a place where "Number Six" is imprisoned and forced to wear a straw hat.
As far as Americans know, a "Tory" is the guy in the red coat who looked like an asshole because of The Swamp Fox. And that's probably the 2% in the country who are over 50 and used to watch Walt Disney's TV show.
So for anyone in the USA to actually look up from Kardashian's ass and notice that things are fucked up in Great Britain, is pretty remarkable. Then again, for Camoron to be such a clueless moron is remarkable, too.
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