{"id":181413,"date":"2016-07-04T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/04\/like-a-dog-that-has-finally-caught-the-car\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:55:00","slug":"like-a-dog-that-has-finally-caught-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/04\/like-a-dog-that-has-finally-caught-the-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Dog That Has Finally Caught the Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 340px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OQhOcDFbflQ?rel=0\" width=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As more political fallout from the Brexit vote accumulates we have another supporter of leaving the EU is calling it quit.<\/p>\n<p>The head of UKIP, Nigel Farage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/05\/world\/europe\/nigel-farage-ukip-brexit.html\">is stepping down as head of the party<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">He spent nearly 20 years pushing for Britain to leave the European Union, and having succeeded in his aim, he is now taking his leave.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Nigel Farage, the politician who probably did more than any other to force the referendum on British membership in the European Union, resigned on Monday as leader of the right-wing populist U.K. Independence Party, saying, \u201cI\u2019ve done my bit.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Farage, 52, has quit the post before \u2014 twice. But on Monday he sounded as if he meant it this time, telling reporters that \u201cmy political ambition has been achieved\u201d and that \u201cI want my life back.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But since the \u201cBrexit\u201d vote he has also been encouraged to quit by Arron Banks, the self-made insurance millionaire who has been a main funder of the party, known as UKIP, and of the unofficial Leave.EU campaign, and who sees the possibility of a more broadly based political party that can appeal to disaffected Labour voters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But his push for a referendum, first as a member of the European Parliament and then as the leader of UKIP, arguing that Britain could manage immigration and regain full sovereignty only from outside the European Union, struck a deep chord with many Britons. It fed into the euroskeptic wing of the Conservative Party and made many Conservative legislators fear that UKIP would deny them an election victory in 2015.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that any of them expected to win the referendum, and now they don&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>This is rather ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more political fallout from the Brexit vote accumulates we have another supporter of leaving the EU is calling it quit. The head of UKIP, Nigel Farage is stepping down as head of the party: He spent nearly 20 years pushing for Britain to leave the European Union, and having succeeded in his aim, he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1110,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-european-union","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}