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United Kingdom Fracturing

Calls for independence are surging across Great Britain. Not only is Ireland discussing a possible reunification with Northern Ireland, but Wales and Scotland are separately pushing for independence from Great Britain. In other words, instead of the British Isles consisting of two nations — Ireland and Great Britain — the new configuration could see as many as four or five separate nations.

“Westminster’s time is coming to an end,” John Swinney of Scotland, Rhun ap Iorwerth of Wales and Michelle O’Neill of Northern Ireland said in a joint declaration from the first summit of their new Celtic Alliance in Cardiff, Wales.“We believe that constitutional change is coming,” they said. “We believe the future of our nations belongs in the European Union. … No Westminster government has the right to block democracy or undermine the principle that our people will decide their own future.”

This comes after President Donald Trump visited Ireland over the weekend. Big comms surfaced after that trip.

Are we now near the precipice?  How will British Prim Minister Andy Burnham respond to the possible dissolution of  Great Britain? What lies in store for Burnham as well as other members of the Old Guard across the planet? Pray. Here’s more from And We Know.

Socialist To Be Prime Minister

Keir Starmer will tender his resignation today as Prime Minister of Great Britain. American President Donald Trump confirmed as much on Sunday.

The only remaining question: Who will succeed Starmer? There’s quite a lot of speculation, mostly focusing on Andy Burnham, a Labour Party member of Parliament. Burnham  just won re-election by a clean margin over his Reform Party opponent, taking roughly 55 percent of the vote in his northern district of Makerfield.

Burnham is even more of a leftist than Starmer. A politician who identifies as a Socialist, Burnham is an outspoken opponent to nationalism, calling it “an ugly brand of politics.”

Can the Right stop his new regime? That will require Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain working together, rather than cutting each other off.  Hard to say if that can happen.  Here, analyst David Starkey discusses Burnham with Mark Littlewood. Their take? Burham will crash and burn, but the right is in danger as well.

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