Quick Take: Why Britain Voted to Leave the EU

Countries band together to promote trade, defend human rights, protect the environment and repel threats. They sign treaties and join international groups, and each time they do, they agree to give up a bit of independence. That happened in a big way with the creation of the European Union, a free-trade zone and global political force forged from the fractious states of Europe. The question always was, could this extraordinary experiment hold together? Faced with the choice in a June 23 in-or-out referendum, the U.K. voted to leave the bloc it joined in 1973. The way many Brits saw it, the trade-offs no longer serve their interests; they prefer the idea of living outside the EU, as Norway and Switzerland do. They brushed aside the uncertainty that a breakup would cause and voted for what's become known as Brexit.
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The Soros Fallacies On Europe

One World Government: Hedge fund manager and "stateless statesman" George Soros has been shoring up the European Union, advocating for it as the embodiment of his Open Society vision and, now, as a bulwark against a resurgent, menacing Russia. He gets it wrong on every front. The famous left-wing speculator, who made himself a billionaire by shorting the British pound in 1992, ironically is now billing himself as an advocate for Britain by trying to persuade British voters to say "yes" to staying in the European Union in an upcoming referendum.


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Islamic Law Is Adopted By British Legal Chiefs

Solicitors told how to draw up Sharia-style wills penalising widows and non-believers.  By John Bingham 22 Mar 2014 Islamic law is to be effectively enshrined in the British legal system for the first time under guidelines for solicitors on drawing up “Sharia compliant” wills. Under ground-breaking guidance, produced by The Law Society, High Street solicitors will be able to write Islamic wills that deny women an equal share of inheritances and exclude unbelievers altogether.

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Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care

"The aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level." Read more at the New York Times... Read More......

Gordon Brown apologizes for unacceptable health care

There can be "no excuses" for what happened to patients at Stafford Hospital, the Prime Minister said today as he apologised to families caught up in the scandal. ∴ Gordon Brown promised relatives they would be entitled to an independent review of case notes and said standards "fell far short" of what people could expect from the NHS.

A damning report form the Healthcare Commission yesterday detailed a catalogue of failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Stafford and Cannock Chase hospitals. ∴ Dehydrated patients were forced to drink out of flower vases, while others were left in soiled linen on filthy wards. ∴ Relatives of patients who died at Staffordshire General Hospital told how they were so worried by the standard of care they slept in chairs on the wards. Read the rest at the Daily Mail...

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