Europe: Weak, Feeble, Parochial

The Prime Minister informs us that she plans to trigger Article 50 and initiate the Brexit by March of next year:

Dismissing the arguments of some opponents of Brexit that the results of withdrawal negotiations under Article 50 of the EU treaties should be put to a second referendum, Mrs May said: "Come on! The referendum vote was clear, it was legitimate, it was the biggest vote for change this country has ever known. Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it."

The elites lost this one, which is remarkable.

She's taking exactly the right tac:

Britain must look beyond Europe for economic success, the Prime Minister said on Sunday as she suggested there would be no deal on immigration to keep the UK in the single market.
Setting out her first detailed blueprint for Brexit, Theresa May said that the UK would become “truly global” as she listed eight nations including China, India and Singapore prepared to sign major free trade deals with the UK

A hundred years ago, heck 50 years ago, Britain ruled a cosmopolitan empire which spanned the globe. The sun never set upon that empire and the isles were packed with people who had served along all points of the compass, from Cownpore to Aden to Nairobi to Singapore.

Since the 1970s Britain has been a part of Europe. Its a small place, insular and parochial where the latest football score is the most important news event. A continent where the average person can't place California, Texas, or Florida on the map. A continent blissfully unaware that there's a war on, whose nations barely make a contribution to NATO operations, who can't even see the Russian colossus on their doorstep:

 Maggie, I tried to name a daughter after you.

Brexit can't come soon enough:

A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016.
Blaming the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said: “It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.”
The report makes a whopping 23 recommendations to Theresa May’s Government for changes to criminal law, the freedom of the press, crime reporting and equality law.

Yeah, because hurt Muslim feelings are the problem in Europe right now. That's exactly what I thought as Muslims were assaulting women in Cologne.

Whitehall told the Euro's to get bent:

In a written statement to the ECRI, the Government said: “The Government is committed to a free and open press and does not interfere with what the press does and does not publish, as long as the press abides by the law.”

 I like this Theresa May woman.