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- Jul 15, 2022
- 2 min
Boris is Gone, But His Brexit Legacy Remains to Punish the British People
Electing populist, narcissistic, scandal-prone morons has a steep price tag as Americans learned with Donald Trump. To be fair, Boris Johnson is a lot smarter than Donald Trump, but they both had a tendency to play fast and loose with the truth concerning even the most consequential issues facing their nations. Boris handled the pandemic much better than Trump and his support for Ukraine has been exemplary. However, he will always be remembered as the cheerleader and architec
- Feb 9, 2022
- 2 min
As Brexit Continues to Hobble the UK Economy, Manufacturers Warn of More Hardship to Come
We have reported on the aftermath of Brexit before in these pages and the results are fairly bleak. Brexit has driven the desire for Scottish independence, tanked British exports, reduced the available labor force, and led to shortages throughout the economy. The whole thing was an amazingly bad idea. Bloomberg: "Brexit has been a drag on growth. It brought new red tape on commerce between Britain and its largest and closest market, and removed a large pool of EU labor from t
- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
Brits Turn on Brexit as Fuel, Food & Labor Shortages Worsen. Only 18% Think it's Going Well
With fuel, food, and labor shortages worsening, and a mountain of new customs forms to fill out, even those that originally championed Brexit are rethinking their support. According to recent polling by YouGov, only 18% of Brits believe that Brexit is going well with 53% saying it's going badly. The others were neutral or didn't know enough to answer. Despite all the promises of a "Global Britain" by Brexiteers, economists had warned that pulling out of the European Union wou
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Pro-Independence Parties Win Scottish Elections as Brexit Tanks the UK's Economy
The Scottish National Party [SNP], led by Nicola Sturgeon, won almost half the seats in the Scottish parliament elections. Together with the Scottish Green Party, which is also pro-independence, there is now a clear majority favoring a referendum on leaving the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opposes such a vote, setting the stage for a lengthy battle over the future of Scotland. NPR: FIRST MINISTER NICOLA STURGEON: "It is the will of the country. And giv
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
This Week's Scottish Elections May Decide the Future of the United Kingdom
Scottish parliamentary elections will be held this week and, as usual, independence is the central issue although the pandemic and the economy will also influence the outcome. Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party [SNP] hopes to win a majority on Thursday and force another referendum to end the 314-year union with the United Kingdom. SNP needs just four more seats to capture control of 65 in the 129-seat parliament and force Boris Johnson to allow another
- Jul 6, 2020
- 2 min
New Polling Shows Most Scots Want to Leave the UK Over Brexit & Johnson's Botched Covid-19 Response
Recent polling shows that a majority of Scots favor independence, with the most recent "Panelbase" poll finding that 54% would vote to leave the United Kingdom with only 46% opposed. Support for independence has been building slowly since the UK voted to leave the European Union which most Scots opposed. Scots are also fed-up with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis. The last vote on Scottish independence in 2014 failed when 55% voted to stay, bu
