FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2016
The Really Big Story in The Blower’s “Thursday’s Tactics” E-dition wa yesterday’s BREXIT Vote.

Breitbart says British voters chose to “leave” the European Union on Thursday, defying the polls — and Obama, who had urged Britain to “remain” in the EU. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had also urged Britain to stay in the EU. Only Donald Trump had backed the campaign to leave.

Republican strategists had panned Trump’s decision to travel to the UK in the midst of campaign turmoil, and in the wake of his blistering attack on Hillary earlier this week.

Now, however, it looks like a risk that paid off handsomely, in the currency of foreign policy credibility.

Obama’s advice may have pushed some voters to “leave.” In April, he warned British voters they would be at the “back of the queue..”

Meanwhile, Obama’s Pal Prime Minister David Cameron couldn’t wait to resign in disgrace, saying the news headline should be “England commits economic suicide.” By voting to leave the EU, they have just shot themselves in the head. Besides an expected recession in the U.K. and a ripple effect on the continent and world-wide, it is expected that Scotland may again try to separate from England with different results from the last time. Scotland very much wanted to remain in the EU so they may tell England to kiss off this time, so they can rejoin the EU themselves. The U.K, or what’s left of it, could eventually become an isolated pariah, nearby but offshore from its more prosperous European neighbors. France is probably wondering why they wasted all that money on digging the Chunnel.

Stock markets in the U.K. and world-wide are jolted, and the GB Pound is dropping like a rock. In fact, the Pound Sterling is now worth less than a quarter of a pound of hamburger. There are no winners in this clusterf… except perhaps those that bet against the odds, and their gains will be quickly eaten up by the fact that everything they buy will now cost more, due to the weakened Pound.

That’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Churchill’s: “this is not the beginning, nor the end, but perhaps the beginning of the end.”

The people that brought us this will probably be be asking for a do-over sooner or later. It is likely that there will soon be t-shirts for sale with a target on them saying “Shoot me, I voted for the BREXIT.” Some people may take them up on it.

Whistleblower Business Editor Merrill Forbes says American investors didn’t exactly seem to like the news either, since stock markets all over the world dropped precipitously upon news that the English had committed economic suicide by voting to leave the EU. Interestingly, Trump was in Scotland at the same time to pump up two of his failing golf courses. He thought it was great, because with the GBP dropping 12 to 15 percent as well, he said more people could now afford to go there. The man is an economic genius, he’ll tell you. The bookies completely misjudged the English voters on that one, as odds were 7/1 against just the day before. And it was only the English too, as the Scotland voted strongly the other way. In fact, the Scots are so angry at the outcome that they will probably vote to leave the U.K. and rejoin the EU as their own country. The British Prime Minister has already quit, as expected, even though he said yesterday that he would not. He probably doesn’t want to be associated with such a mess.

The whole thing must scare the hell out of Hillary, because Trump has only 3/1 odds against winning. When the impact of the so-called Brexit sets in on the English, so they might ask for a do-over. Reports are that a pretty big percentage of the dolts who voted for it didn’t even know what the EU was. They were probably about like the people that voted in prohibition here, back in the ‘20s. You can imagine their shock when they go to buy something next week and it costs 20% more because of the weakness of the Pound.