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John Oliver: Brexit Results
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/27/john-oliver-brexit-vote-last-week-tonightJohn Oliver began Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight with a takedown of the Brexit vote and a warning to U.S. citizens that something similar could happen here if voters aren’t careful this fall.
Among those consequences cited by Oliver was the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron, who in 2013 pledged to hold an in-or-out vote about Britain’s place in the EU. “Which should make me happy, but in this situation it doesn’t. It’s like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car. I’ll eat it, but it’s tainted somehow.”
The host also blasted both Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, and Boris Johnson, the former London mayor and possible successor to Cameron as Prime Minister. (Of Johnson, Oliver said he looked like a “shaved orangutan with Owen Wilson’s hair.”) In the wake of the Brexit vote, both men called June 23 the country’s “independence day” with a passion that recalled Bill Pullman’s famous speech in Independence Day.
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“(Trump) found a way to make this whole thing about himself,” Oliver said, before addressing the audience. “You might think, ‘Well that is not going to happen to us in America. We’re not going to listen to some ridiculously haired buffoon, peddling lies and nativism in the hopes of riding a protest vote into power.’ Well let Britain tell you, it can happen, and when it does, there are no fucking do-overs.”
Among those consequences cited by Oliver was the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron, who in 2013 pledged to hold an in-or-out vote about Britain’s place in the EU. “Which should make me happy, but in this situation it doesn’t. It’s like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car. I’ll eat it, but it’s tainted somehow.”
The host also blasted both Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, and Boris Johnson, the former London mayor and possible successor to Cameron as Prime Minister. (Of Johnson, Oliver said he looked like a “shaved orangutan with Owen Wilson’s hair.”) In the wake of the Brexit vote, both men called June 23 the country’s “independence day” with a passion that recalled Bill Pullman’s famous speech in Independence Day.
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“(Trump) found a way to make this whole thing about himself,” Oliver said, before addressing the audience. “You might think, ‘Well that is not going to happen to us in America. We’re not going to listen to some ridiculously haired buffoon, peddling lies and nativism in the hopes of riding a protest vote into power.’ Well let Britain tell you, it can happen, and when it does, there are no fucking do-overs.”
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