Crack

Pat Buchanan in one of his rare useful observations says that the European experiment is cracking up. He does not mean binging on cocaine.

But the most startling news on the nationalist front last week came in Venice and the Veneto region, where 89 percent of a large turnout in a non-binding referendum voted to secede from Italy and re-establish the Venetian republic that vanished in 1866.

Exulted Luca Zaia of the separatist Northern League, “The will for secession is growing very strong. We are only at the Big Bang of the movement — but revolutions are born of hunger and we are now hungry. Venice can now escape.”

The proposed “Repubblica Veneta” would embrace five million inhabitants of Veneto. Should it succeed in seceding, Lombardy and Trentino would likely follow, bringing about a partition of Italy.

Sardinia is also reportedly looking for an exit.

In readying their referendum, Venetians journeyed to Scotland to observe preparations by the Scottish National Party for the vote this fall to sever the 1707 Act of Union with England.

I wonder what Nigel Farage has to say. Click the link and find out.


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6 responses to “Crack”

  1. Allen Avatar
    Allen

    What’s the point if they end up in the EU?

  2. OregonGuy Avatar

    Do you have a headline for the article?
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  3. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    big deal ignorant southern white trash want to secede from the union so that can restore confederacy and bring back slavery.

  4. Neil Avatar
    Neil

    cap*, I’m OK with it just so long as they don’t stop making Prosciutto di Parma.

  5. Bobnormal Avatar
    Bobnormal

    Jeez Simon, are you shilling for FT now?
    Links that require registration are bad form, IME, otherwise, of course Europe is cracking up, it’s current form is only about 200 years old (Germany, Italy, &c.)and Xenophobia is just another part of humanity, like it or not.
    Bob

  6. Simon Avatar

    Bob,

    I report where I find information. No one is making you look.