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On Breitbart London, James Delingpole
commented on yesterday's vote in Scotland for or against independence from Great Britain.
With hindsight, we can all tell ourselves that last night's
victory for the "No" vote was inevitable. With almost the entire
British political establishment - including three prime ministers - behind it,
not to mention an exceedingly rare and unlikely union of the left and right
media (and The Daily Mail shall lie down with The Guardian and the BBC...), as
well as three hundred years of history, the continuation of the Union ought to
have been a foregone conclusion.
But that is certainly not how it has felt in the last fortnight.
Hence the unseemly scramble we witnessed in the last few days as Cameron and co
headed north to grovel and abase themselves on broken glass promising Scotland
anything and everything just so long as it remained in the Union.
And so it has come to pass: a small tactical victory has been
gained at the expense of a massive strategic defeat.
. . .
Great Britain could
emulate the federal system of the US, with its newly Balkanised states granted
the freedom to set their own local tax levels, either running themselves into
the ground on the high-tax, overregulated, socialistic California model or emulating
the can-do spirit of Texas and become thriving models of free-market
capitalism.
Gov. Kasich: are
you paying attention? Where is your “can-do spirit” to get off the federal dole
and lead the effort to turn Ohio into a thriving model of free-market
capitalism? Ohio can’t get there with Common Core, Obamacare, and expanded
Medicare dragging it down.
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