RUMBLES FROM FRANCE – AT 12:10 P.M. ET:   Britain has now voted for "Brexit," to pull out of the European Union (Brexit - meaning "British exit").  The vote was a major international bombshell.  But now there are rumblings from France, where support for the EU has been waning.  If France goes, can the EU survive?  From The Hill: 

A French right-wing leader is promising a nationwide referendum on whether the country should leave or remain in the European Union if she gets elected.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's anti-immigration National Front, on Saturday said she would hold an EU referendum if elected president next spring, according to The Associated Press.

Le Pen also denounced "mass immigration" and called Islamism "the new totalitarianism of the 21st century."

The United Kingdom held a similar referendum this summer, with the majority of voters voting to leave the EU. The country has not yet begun the process of the so-called Brexit.

COMMENT:  French politics are fluid right now, but we must take Le Pen seriously.  Her stock has been rising, and a promise to hold a EU referendum could make her more popular.  That promise could also lead other candidates for the presidency to make the same pledge, guaranteeing a referendum, British-style. 

A French vote to leave would probably kill the European Union and cause a mass upheaval in the organization of Europe.  Without France and Britain, what would be left of the EU? 

This is what elitist bureaucrats get when they ignore the feelings of the people they're supposed to be serving.

September 3, 2016