The nightmare begins to unfold: Marine Le Pen begins yelling for French referendum

And Geert Wilders is doing the same in The Netherlands. Another facet of David Cameron’s grave irresponsibility in pledging a referendum in the United Kingdom was that he actually made a referendum on leaving an option and a possibility. It was never considered an option before: you’re in and that’s it. This made the whole thing workable. Now it’s like a marriage in which husband and wife each keep a suitcase handy and immediately start packing it and threatening to walk out so as to get what they want, because they can’t understand what it means to cooperate with somebody, or because they’re just plain nasty. Read the BBC report here.