Tuesday, June 21, 2016

BREXIT VOTE FAST APPROACHING

By Bob Walsh

The question will be decided in a vote this coming Thursday. A pall has been cast over the whole process with the assassination of a new but prominent M.P. last week. Jo Cox was murdered by a neo-Nazi in her constituency near Leeds last week. She was a staunch believer in the notion that the U.K. should continue to be a member of the E.U.

Financial analysts are asserting that one year after a U.K. exit the British economy would be about 1% smaller than it is now. Many denizens of the U.K. would be happy to trade that for increased political sovereignty, especially in the face of the wave of Islamic refugees flooding much of Europe right now.

A lot of the polling on this question was discontinued after the assassination of Mrs. Cox. The last numbers I saw indicated the question was breaking pretty much evenly. It will be very interesting to see what happens.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The assassination of Jo Cox could tilt the vote toward keeping the Brits in the E.U.

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