WASHINGTON ¨C The ¡°leave¡± campaign won the referendum on withdrawing Britain from the European Union because the arguments on which the ¡°remain¡± side relied made leave¡¯s case. The remain campaign began with a sham, was monomaniacal with its Project Fear, and ended in governmental thuggishness.
The sham was Prime Minister David Cameron¡¯s attempt to justify remain by negotiating European Union concessions regarding Britain¡¯s subservience to the EU. This dickering for scraps of lost sovereignty underscored Britain¡¯s servitude and achieved so little that remainers rarely mentioned it during their campaign.
Project Fear was the relentless and ultimately ludicrous parade of Cassandras, ¡°experts¡± all, warning that Britain, after more than a millennium of sovereign existence, and now with the world¡¯s fifth-largest economy, would endure myriad calamities were it to end its 23-year membership in the EU.
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