I take it back...

I once favorably compared British Prime Minister David Cameron to Richard Nixon, clearly this was a slur on the acumen of the Late Trickster as Cameron has proved the Dumbest PM of the UK since Neville Chamberlain (and yeah that is saying a lot!).
Cuz as of last night England is exiting the EU, mostly because Dumbass David Cameron got backed into promising a referendum on the same in the last election cycle....trust me if this was Richard Nixon he'd a found a way to weasel out of the commitment, Cameron should have done the same.
It's simple elemental politics...
YOU NEVER expose your coalition to a referendum if you can avoid it, Cameron must've thought on the basis of Scottish Independence that he knew the magic secret to outwitting these situations, clearly HE WAS WRONG.
YOU NEVER test the xenophobia of the British Electorate outside a parliamentary election where there are always mitigating cross currents....
Of course there was a conceptual issue at the core, Cameron was forced to defend a flawed monolithic institution while the "leave" faction was free to deal equally in fear and utopian promises....
And there was David Cameron blithely leading a fundamentally unnatural coalition right off a cliff he's lost his job, bungled a referendum, world financial markets are imploding, politically Europe is dialing back to 1946 oh and Donald Fricking Trump is in Scotland, braying like this is his own personal Reichstag Fire.
SHEER GENIUS DAVID!
That having been said I pity whoever follows Cameron into #10 Downing Street, the diplomatic caseload alone occasioned by the "Brexit" would tax the talents of a Prince Metternich...and the economic consequences simply can't yet be summarized or understood.
In sum, let this whole catastrophic episode stand as mute testimony to the Power of the Franchise Freely Expressed, Britain Voted for Chaos, America had best pay heed...