Phil Bryant in Washington, D. Photo by Ashton Pittman. Prince Charles spotted a stranger in Buckingham Palace. He walked over to the man, whose well-groomed silvery-white coif, blue eyes, pink nose and dark navy pin-striped suit matched the tiny American flag on his lapel. What on earth are you doing here? Bryant shared the story of that November meeting in London this past July at the launch of his latest United Kingdom-related initiative named World4Brexit , a U.
An attendee provided the Jackson Free Press with a video of the governor's until-now-unreported remarks. The launch happened just a day after the U. Conservative Party's Boris Johnson became the new U. After Johnson missed a Halloween deadline to get Parliament to agree to a Brexit plan, Johnson dissolved the body on Nov. That kicked off a new election, and Johnson hopes Britons will not only return the Tories to the majority, but give him enough supportive members to make Brexit happen by the end of the year.
World4Brexit's backers incorporated it in Ann Arbor, Mich. Mississippi Gov. Photo courtesy Phil Bryant. World4Brexit's literature also notes that the group plans to hire lobbyists in Brussels.
Any plan for the U. President Donald Trump's former top adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, has separately been leading an effort in Brussels, called The Movement , to urge other countries to exit the European Union. Both xenophobia and a belief in "white" majorities seem to drive Brexit. Bannon and Bryant see the successes of Brexit and Trump as parts of a global nationalist uprising.
You're going to have individual nation states with their own identities, their own borders. Britons who are weary of leaving the E. World4Brexit is officially registered as a c 4 nonprofit social-welfare organization , the same U. Donors can be national or international. Chris Matheson, a Labour politician who was a member of Parliament until Johnson dissolved the body in early November, raised concerns in a July letter to the U.
