{"id":13509,"date":"2016-06-27T23:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T03:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2016-06-27T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T03:04:41","slug":"brexit-an-indictment-of-direct-democracy-or-vulgar-politics-as-usual-the-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/27\/brexit-an-indictment-of-direct-democracy-or-vulgar-politics-as-usual-the-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: An Indictment of Direct Democracy or Vulgar Politics as Usual? | The Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2016\/06\/brexit-an-indictment-of-direct-democracy-or-vulgar-politics-as-usual\/?utm_content=buffere3682&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"268\" width=\"386\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thediplomat_2016-06-26_00-05-58-386x268.jpg?resize=386%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ankit Panda:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider Boris Johnson, the man who appears best positioned to emerge as the UK\u2019s next prime minister. In becoming the public face of the Brexit campaign in defiance of fellow Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, Boris seized on the opportunity he saw in the aftermath of the Cameron government\u2019s own politically cynical ploy to hold a non-binding referendum on EU membership&#8230;. Boris, heeding Machiavelli\u2019s warning that \u201cthere is nothing more important than appearing to be religious,\u201d took on the role of the high priest of Tory euroskeptics in favor of leaving the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.Direct democracy by mean of referendum, in the context of Brexit, was a tool evoked of political necessity (Cameron seeking temporary political ballast) and taken advantage of for political ambition (Boris\u2019 skewering of Cameron). That the people of the UK voted and told us what they really think is ultimately a neutral event, on balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..The takeaway from \u2018Brexit\u2019, thus, shouldn\u2019t be a hardening of contempt for popular will and the one-person-one-vote principle that underwrites all forms of modern democracy, but to continue to expect politicians to be politicians.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave it to Boris Johnson to prove me right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2016\/06\/brexit-an-indictment-of-direct-democracy-or-vulgar-politics-as-usual\/\">Brexit: An Indictment of Direct Democracy or Vulgar Politics as Usual? | The Diplomat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ankit Panda: Consider Boris Johnson, the man who appears best positioned to emerge as the UK\u2019s next prime minister. In becoming the public face of the Brexit campaign in defiance of fellow Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, Boris seized on the opportunity he saw in the aftermath of the Cameron government\u2019s own politically cynical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/27\/brexit-an-indictment-of-direct-democracy-or-vulgar-politics-as-usual-the-diplomat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brexit: An Indictment of Direct Democracy or Vulgar Politics as Usual? | The Diplomat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-big-picture","category-uk-europe-countries-regions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brexit: An Indictment of Direct Democracy or Vulgar Politics as Usual? | The Diplomat - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brexit: An Indictment of Direct Democracy or Vulgar Politics as Usual? | The Diplomat - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Ankit Panda: Consider Boris Johnson, the man who appears best positioned to emerge as the UK\u2019s next prime minister. 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