BRITAIN LEAVES EU! – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:17 A.M. ET:  Journalism is all agog today over the nerve of Britain to assert its independence.  The most clarifying comment I've seen comes from British conservative writer Nile Gardiner: 

The momentous victory for the Brexit campaign signals a new era of freedom for the British people.

Britain outside the EU will be a stronger ally for the United States.

After more than four decades of being shackled to the European Union (previously the European Economic Community), Great Britain has declared its independence.

The vote for Brexit (52 percent of Britons cast ballots to leave the EU) is a vote for sovereignty and self-determination. Britain will no longer be subject to European legislation, with Britain’s Parliament retaking control. British judges will no longer be overruled by the European Court of Justice, and British businesses will be liberated from mountains of EU regulations, which have undermined economic liberty.

COMMENT:  Well said.  We might add that this is also a victory for the apparently strange concept that political leaders should occasionally listen to their people and understand what they are saying.  In Britain, as in America, the elites only talk to each other and to "representatives" of groups popular on the political left.

We may well have had a bit of the Trump effect in Britain yesterday.

June 24,  2016