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Daniel Miller and others draw parallels with what they call Britain\u2019s ill-suited relationship with Europe and frustration in Lone Star state with US government<\/strong><\/p>\n How closely is Daniel Miller tracking the news ahead of the referendum about whether Britain should leave the European Union? \u201cHourly!\u201d he grins. The Sun\u2019s recent editorial calling for the UK\u2019s departure got him quite excited.<\/p>\n Miller, though, is not from London or Liverpool. He hails from Longview, Texas<\/a>, and we are talking in a cafe in the bleakly industrial Gulf coast town of Port Arthur, some 5,000 miles from Westminster.<\/p>\n Culturally, too, we are a long way from Europe. Heck, we are even a long way from Dallas. But the referendum matters deeply to Miller and like-minded Texans. As the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which wants Texas to secede from the United States, he is hoping for a Leave vote that he believes will ripple all the way from Austria to Austin.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of people asking, if Brexit why not Texit?\u201d he says. \u201cI do talk with some folks over there on a pretty regular basis that are involved in Ukip and the Conservative party.\u201d<\/p>\n The night before we met, Miller addressed a local Tea Party group, drawing parallels between Brexit and Texit, which the TNM is pushing as a hashtag. In Miller\u2019s telling, Britain\u2019s relationship with Europe was a marriage of convenience between ill-suited partners that has become stormy and ripe for divorce on grounds of irreconcilable differences, with too much sovereignty ceded to an ineffective central bureaucracy and too much hard-earned money sent elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u201cSound familiar?\u201d he asked the audience<\/a>. \u201cNigel Farage, you guys ever heard of him? Look him up on YouTube \u2013 trust me, you will enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n