Will Gives his Expert Analysis of the EU sans UK from NJ

Brexit makes the EU stronger, no? The Brits wrung some serious concessions out of Brussels when they joined, payment rebates and the like, its own currency, and they've been a royal pain in the arse ever since. 

The EU had no center of gravity as France and Germany (Jupiter and Saturn if you will) competed for the dominant position with Britain circling like a rogue star. With Britain gone that leaves Pierre and Fritz to have at it. Macron thinks he runs things or that he is at least co-equals with Frau Merkle. After a century and a half Paris still doesn't get how Europe works with Germany united.

As far as Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain (PIGS), well, 'Wer ist dein Papa!'

There's also the matter of the Eastern Europeans, Hungary and Poland especially, who've been sniping at Brussels over mass migration for half a decade now. They like the economic benefits but not the EU edicts. 

But the EU could always get new members. Scotland wants to leave Britain (Freedom!). Yeah, sure. We recall one of the SNP Independence campaign posters: Free tuition, free prescriptions, no nukes. Was this really about a free Scotland? Since they want to join the EU, probably not. When Americans think of Scots they think of warriors and industrialists, iron willed Calvinist pioneers shooting up red coats and taming the wilderness. Those are the Scots that came to America and Canada. Modern Scotland is a nation full of train-spotters; a bunch of welfare lay-abouts with the most incompetent independence movement this side of Quebec. They should leave and join.

We've rambled on about our mother's ancestral homeland, a proud descendent of the Orangemen she was. Our grandfather, from whom we get our middle name (Thompson) always told her to wear Orange on St. Patrick's Day. And so we do...and so we do.

The Great Unraveling: I don't think they're kidding.

Hearken  back with me now to the Scottish Independence vote of ...2014? Ah, fuck I really don't care. The entire thing was stupid and pointless. One of the indy side's promises was free pills and free college while simultaneously kicking the Royal Navy out of Faslane. How was that going to work?

Now here in America we're accustomed to thinking of Scotsmen as broad-shouldered, red bearded, booming voiced can-do men. Try this sentence, 'Colonel Mackenzie, I need a good man to lead the counterattack...' There you go. The real Scotland is more like Train Spotting. Its a nation full of layabout, check cashing welfare addicts. Most of those can-do Scotsmen came to America a long time ago. My ancestors arrived in the 1760s and proud New York Tories we were.

To that point, one of the Scot indy crowd's talking points was politics. Traditionally the country is much further to the political left of the rest of Great Britain. Take another look at those indy promises. It reads like a 1980's era Labour manifesto, commie bastards.

Politics is one of the talking points of the Calexit crowd. California has gone blue in every election since 1992. It has more enviro-regulations, more gun control laws, more work regs, higher taxes, etc etc, than the rest of the country. California has bragged that it is part of the 'western wall' of gun control. The state is gearing up to lead various legal challenges against the Trump Administration.

The left's mass freak out over President Trump has yet to subside. We are seeing boycotts, we are seeing people quit jobs, even end relationship over Trump. Much of the left has no religion except politics. Look at the way they took Hillary's loss here, or the Brexit loss over in Britain. This is a major part of who they are.

I think its time to take this Calexit seriously.