British Prime Minister David Cameron resigned his post on Friday morning, following his country’s referendum to leave the European Union, adding political leadership to the U.K.’s growing list of uncertainties.
Cameron, in power since 2010, had called the so-called Brexit referendum of his own accord after promising conservative factions of his party in 2013 that he would hold such a vote if he won re-election last year. Thursday’s referendum badly weakened Cameron and means Britain will be the first country to withdraw from the 28-member EU.
Cameron had spent months advocating that citizens vote to remain in the union, and warned a decision to leave would drastically harm the economy. Voters ultimately spurned his appeals, with about 52 percent favoring Brexit.
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…and it appears that this vote outcome was motivated by the same type of xenophobia that is behind the popularity of Donald Trump here in the U.S. The older and more conservative Britains were afraid of the immigrants that EU membership might have brought to Britain. Therefore, they did not want to be a part of the EU. Here in the US, many folk have a fear of immigrants from the countries South of the US. So, many folk support Don Trump for president because he says he’ ll send all the immigrants back to where they came from.
This is another futile attempt to impose a world wide separate but equal. It might work for a while but not for long. I wonder how this is going to affect our day to day lives in Texas. The U.S. stock market took a dive on the day after the vote.