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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]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:49PM (6 children)
Yeah! I can't wait to work hard and pay for the entire planet's deadbeats, instead of just the local deadbeats around here!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:54PM (5 children)
Who said anything about socialism?
(Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:11AM (4 children)
Who said anything about socialism?
"Right-wing assholes", "borders are a thing of the past", and "uneducated idiots" are "code words" for "socialism".
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:34AM (3 children)
Who said anything about socialism?
"Right-wing assholes", "borders are a thing of the past", and "uneducated idiots" are "code words" for "socialism".
No, they are not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:58AM (1 child)
Nowadays the first and the third are synonyms for socialists.
UKIP are pretty damn socialist, but only for the "right" (aka white) ones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:52PM
I'll give you the standard response: pay back the hundreds of thousands of dollars for public services you've enjoyed. We already have partial socialism, as it should be. The people who think capitalism is pure evil are idiots. The people who think socialism is evil are even bigger idiots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:19PM
Yes they are. You can also add *racist* and *sexist* and ...come to think of it maybe *ist* :P