Now Nigel Farage and the 'Bad Boys of Brexit'
set their sights on splitting California in two
The ‘Bad Boys of Brexit‘ who led the campaign to break Britain
away from the European Union have taken on a new exit challenge:
splitting California into two
states.
Former UKip leader Nigel Farage and Leave backer Arron Banks have
just returned from the United States, where they helped raise $1million
(£800,000) for a ‘Calexit’ campaign, which would split California into two
eastern and western regions.
There are several ‘Calexit’ campaigns
competing for a referendum in the United States, with one aiming to remove the
state from America entirely as a response to President Donald Trump being elected last year.
Farage and Banks, who led the ‘Leave.EU’
campaign, appear to be pitting the eastern, more rural side of California
against the western ‘coastal elite’ liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Farage
and Banks, who led the ‘Leave.EU’ campaign, appear to be pitting the eastern,
more rural side of California against the western ‘coastal elite’ liberals in
Los Angeles and San Francisco in their campaign to split California into two
parts
If broken apart, the eastern part of
California would more likely vote Republican, giving the party two more
senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 presidential election.
The Western side of the state would likely
continue to vote Democrat in elections.
Farage and Banks’ goal is to hold a
referendum during the US midterm elections in 2018, according to The Sunday Times.
Banks said of the campaign: ‘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.’
