Still undecided about how to vote in tomorrow’s EU Referendum? Don’t know who to believe? How about taking a step back and getting a dispassionate, independent view?
Inside Croydon asked three American academics, in London to observe the process, JOHN SHIVELY, JACK VAN DAM and Dr MARK PETERSON, for their take on tomorrow’s generational decision
This year may be one of those “inflection points” social pundits blather about, we Americans living through the explosion of Donald Trump decided to examine whether Brexit will create a similar inflection point here in Britain with tomorrow’s Referendum over the UK’s European Union membership.
Here’s what we knew before we arrived:
In January 2013 Prime Minister David Cameron made the unexpected announcement of a referendum on the EU question in reaction to a dissident element of the Conservative Party, rising UKIP popularity, and the Scottish separatist threat.
It would be hard to imagine an American politician winning by such a large margin, as David Cameron did in 2015 and then following through on such a risky commitment.
However, British political rules are different. It appears that David Cameron violated the Chinese proverb, “Be careful what you wish for, you may get it”.
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