Krauthammer: ‘In 10 Years You Could Have a Britain That’s Only Wales & England’

‘The problem is that the institution that was created to achieve [peace] became a bureaucratic monstrosity’

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Charles Krauthammer predicted tonight that Brexit will ultimately lead not only to the unraveling of the European Union, but also Great Britain. He appeared on Fox News's "Special Report."

Here's a rush excerpt:

KRAUTHAMMER: "This is a problem that began long before the immigration wave. This is a result of what you talked about, the origins of the EU and how the idea of a very utopian idea and successful for a while, was corrupted. The idea was after the two world wars, the worst in human history, they wanted to create something and they did, that would ultimately reconcile Germany and France. That began as a European coal commission, it had to do with commerce, it grew to encompass 28 countries and succeeded in the sense that for the first time in 1,000 years, the idea of intraeuropean war was inconceivable. Nobody could even imagine Germany, France, Italy going to war against each other. The problem is that the institution that was created to achieve that, and it is a great achievement, became a bureaucratic monstrosity, which tried to add onto the economic union, a political union that people were never asked for. When they had referendum, it was rejected and the eu would go around it. It created a supernationalist institution which suppressed nationalism. Which you can only do for so long and this is the first exit. But the one thing I think that those who revel in this and I understand why the British wanted to do it, it’s sort of suppressed and it supplant the their own democracy the most venerable in the world, is that I think it will lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom. Apart from the eu, which I think inevitably will not survive. As a result of this. But Scotland wants out. Because it wants to be in the European union. And think of northern Ireland. It took decades to figure that out. To reconcile them. As of today, if you’re in northern Ireland. Can you walk into the republic of Ireland without a passport. It’s essentially your country. The minute that Britain leaves the eu, that becomes a frontier where you need a passport. The northern Irish are going to want to secede and join Ireland. I think in ten years you could have a Britain that is only Wales and England."

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