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posted by on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the five-easy-pieces dept.

This weekend comes word that two of the masterminds behind the United Kingdom’s ongoing divorce from the European Union, Nigel Farage and Arron Banks. The duo just returned from the United States, where they reportedly helped raise a million bucks for one of the Calexit campaigns floating around — a scheme that would split the state into two eastern and western regions.

Farage and Banks are known as the Bad Boys of Brexit, and for good reason. As the controversial leader of the UK Independence Party, or Ukip for short, the one-time broadcaster Farage stirred up the anti-immigration pot in England among the white British working class. Banks, who co-founded the Leave.EU group, angered many when he claimed that Britain’s UK membership is “like having a first class ticket on the Titanic.’’ He also got into hot water with his controversial move to commission a poll after the murder of British politician Jo Cox, asking respondents whether the crime would have an impact on public opinion.

Now the Bad Boys have brought their shtick to California, according to a report in the Daily Mail which says the pair are helping exit backers trying to pit the eastern, more rural side of California against the western ‘coastal elite’ liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The plan would be to create a Republican stronghold in the new state cleaved off California’s eastern flank, thus giving the GOP two more senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 presidential election.

Mercury News continues:

Meanwhile, a second Calexit campaign is underway. It’s called Yes California and it would see the state seceding from America entirely. If that initiative successfully finds a place on the ballot, a Yes vote would repeal clauses in the California Constitution stating “California is an inseparable part of the United States and that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land, ‘’ according to a statement from California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office said.

[Ed note: corrected typo in this story's last paragraph and expanded same to include the entire paragraph from which it was extracted. --martyb]


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:52PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:52PM (#485560)

    The constitution says you can not do it unless you get Congress and the State legislature to agree to it. To split the any state into 2 or more parts would probably require a lot of ass kissing.

    Section 4.3
    " New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress."

    So you would need to get Congress to say yes AND the California legislature to agree. It would probably be a tough sell on both accounts. Not impossible but tough.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:21AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:21AM (#485577)

    Or they could secede, split, and join the union as "new" (slightly used) states.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:53AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:53AM (#485751)

      Minus the parts that get vaporized in the process.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:06PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:06PM (#485896)

      FTFY: Or they could secede, split, be conquered, and join the union as "new" (slightly destroyed) states.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:56AM (#485752)

    Maine separated from Massachusetts (and West Virginia separated from Virginia, which was part of the Confederacy at the time, so that one doesn't really count).