Also, to the original poster, instead of your diminutive attitude to 'the lefties', how about acknowledging that the 'righties' that created this mess in the first place are finally displaced from power. Finally there's a change of course for the better.
How do you figure that? "Righties" are usually recognized as Nationalists, most of whom never wanted an EU in the first place. For them, it was an issue of national sovereignty.
Not actually true. Europe counts many pro-EU right-wing parties and just as much leftist nationalist parties. In fact, in western Europe nearly all independist parties (Scotland, Ireland, Catalonia, Basque Country, Wales, Galicia, Bretagne, ...) are located on the left. The only exceptions are the independist parties in Flanders and Northern-Italy, both of which are pro-EU.