So they actually did it. My home nation, the United Kingdom, voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union and go it alone.
And while the Leave campaigners will say democracy won, and the British people have spoken, it’s not quite as simple as that.
If you look at the breakdown of the votes, it was England and Wales who voted the UK out of the EU. Scotland overwhelmingly voted to stay, as did Northern Ireland.
So, not so much “the British people have spoken” as much as “Little England messe...
Published on June 27, 2016 07:48