In the aftermath of Britain’s historic referendum on EU membership, we may pause to reflect that April 22 was the inflection point in the campaign.
The opinion polls until that date were projecting a Leave vote at 40 per cent… and then President Barack Obama landed on British soil to issue a dire warning as to the consequences for our “special relationship” should we have the audacity to vote Leave. By early May, the Leave vote had risen in the polls to 48 per cent.
The moral of this story? It looks as though the British don’t enjoy being pushed around!