The bad boys of Brexit join fight to break up California- Nigel Farage has been hired by the R's

[octoberlib]

They made their names breaking Britain away from Brussels, but Nigel Farage and his money man Arron Banks have now set themselves an even tougher target — splitting California in two.

The self-styled “bad boys of Brexit” have just returned from the state, where Farage helped raise $1m (£800,000) for a campaign to set up a referendum to divide California down the middle.The British pair believe the same political playbook as Banks’s Leave.EU campaign would triumph by pitching ordinary people against the liberals of Los Angeles.

The plan is to hold a statewide referendum on the day of the US mid-term elections in 2018.Banks said: “It would be portrayed as the Hollywood elites versus the people, breaking up the bad government. Seventy-eight per cent of people in California are unhappy with their government. It’s the world’s sixth largest economy and it’s very badly run.”

A breakaway state in eastern California, separate from the coastal cities that overwhelmingly vote Democrat, would be likely to be won by the Republicans, giving the party two new senators and extra votes in the electoral college in the 2020 presidential race


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/the-bad-boys-of-brexit-joinfight-to-break-up-california-k86ptklw3

[Ccarmona]

1. There's No Tax Base in the East

The vast majority of the State's wealth is concentrated within the western 75 miles of the State. It's a fools plan.

[octoberlib]

2. I believe there's two competing Calexit plans. Both of them will lose.

[flamingdem]

11. Both are apparently Russian inspired

That Putin is a busy man

[Salviati]

7. Never underestimate the willingness of morons to shoot themselves in the foot.

[MattP]

3. So it would be like west va and va in income disparity?

[octoberlib]

6. Bingo!

[MattP]

4. Oarnge, Riverside, and San Diego went for Hillary so what are they hoping to accomplish

[mulsh]

5. If it gets going there's a federal law that prohibits stuff like this. Perhaps a quick word to one

of the more reliable people in the DoJ will expedite a look at these guys. As amusing as it is to me for English scumbags bilking CA reich wingers I'd be more amused| if these guys spent a lot of uncomfortable hours with DoJ attorneys.

I'm pretty sure California has similar laws on our books, we're a very litigious state out here. I'm just too lazy to look up CA codes right now.

http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml

[Wounded Bear]

8. US Constitution, Article 4

Section 3

1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

Seems unlikely.

[drm604]

9. Brexit seemed unlikely.

Trump being elected seemed unlikely. Take nothing for granted.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Yes, they did...

Dems in the Senate won't let that happen.

[flamingdem]

10. Get that British wanker out of our politics

California is FINE as it is. Don't waste our time with a stupid referendum.

[stillcool]

12. Gerrymandering?

Sometimes the best way to keep people together is to try and split them apart.

[WinkyDink]

13. OFGS. California isn't "splitting."

[roamer65]

14. Deport his seditious ass back to Britain.