Congratulations British Brethren and Sisters--You Stood Up For Yourselves And Your Children, And For Freedom

OS and The Wonderful Lovely Mrs. OS stayed up late into the evening watching the results from the Brexit vote. We get the BBC News channel on satellite, and those guys were completely flummoxed.

Fox Business did a fine job--they were expecting the vote to go the other way, and had to regroup a bit, which they did with broad grins on their Murdochian faces.

The Sky News coverage, streamed via Drudge, won the night. They were on top of it!

We knew the Remain goose was well and truly cooked when the results arrived from Birmingham (Leave), Wales (Leave), and Cameron's own constituency (Remain, but not that wide a margin). The Leave margins were always wider than the Remain margins, except in places like Cambridge, which live in their own academic/business/banker bubble, immunized from reality.

The next couple of days of market selloff and GBP selloff were to be expected, and may continue. So be it. Equilibrium will return, when it is located. OS and the Mrs are looking forward to some travel to The Green and Pleasant Land while on the strong dollar!

This morning was priceless, when Nigel Farage showed back up in Brussels to give-em-hell. 

Ya'll just gotta take a few minutes to enjoy it.

So, congratulations. Don't gloat too long, and be kind to your neighbors who voted the other way. They are genuinely anxious about the future, and your positive attitude and good cheer will help pave the way for them. Remember what it felt like when a vote you passionately believed in didn't go your way, and act with compassion.

Nigel Farage: 'We Now Live In A German-Dominated Europe' (And That's Just The Polite Part Of His Speech!)

Farage lets fly, and the cameras record the smirks of the targets of his words. Their shamelessness and amusement say as much as he does about our situation. They as much as admit that Farage speaks the truth, but what does truth matter when one has accumulated that sort of power? It reminds OS of Nancy Pelosi's dismissiveness toward any who dared object to the Obama spending orgy of 2009, or the health care debacle of 2010. It reminds OS of George Bush's slimy deal with Teddy Kennedy to ram through a huge immigration bill in the dead of night just before Memorial Day 2007, voters be damned, all those people who voted for him, contributed to him, worked for him, endured abuse for him--screw 'em all.

Power trumps truth. Mammon reigns.



Cranmer adds his thoughts to this speech, which may be a watershed moment.

It was encouraging to hear other delegates cheer Farage on, in contrast to the calm smirks of the New Lords Of Europe.

Nigel Farage: Shades of 1776

Bravo, Mr. Farage.

Could we please lease him to address our Congress? They still haven't seemed to get the message, yet.