Free! As EU Heads to Ignominy & Beyond.
A very good article by the excellent Trevor Kavanagh in the Sun newspaper today.
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’Fog in Channel. Continent Isolated.’’
The latest Times headline sums up the panic in EU capitals as Nigel Farage marched his flag-waving troops out of the European Parliament for the last time on Wednesday.
At that moment, a giant black hole replaced British MEPs who for almost half a century have lent Brussels at least the impression of democratic accountability.
Without us, without our constant nagging and especially without our £10Billion a year going into their busted kitty - the rachet of ever-closer union is about to strip its cogs.
What you see in the eyes of the new Commission and the EU’s ludicrous five presidents is sheer, unadulterated fear.
Until January 31 it was hard to say when the Grand Project and its misbegotten euro would finally disintegrate.
Now we can. The European Union will fall apart the moment Great Britain emerges clearly and distinctly on the world stage as a thriving, prosperous, sovereign trading nation.
It will be at that point - quite soon, I would guess - that other EU member states will say: ”We want what they’re having.”
French President Emmanuel Macron says Britain’s departure is "a historic warning sign which must be heard by all of Europe." But with suicidal certainty, his only solution is
"More Europe’’.
"I would be lying to you’’ says this tin-pot Napoleon ‘’If I said the future of our country lies in less Europe. Europe cannot move forward unless we reform to make it more sovereign, more democratic, closer to our fellow citizens, and simpler.’’
But the European Union can do none of those things. It is designed top-down to be anti-democratic, remote from the people and infuriatingly complicated.
The moment it gives its 400million increasingly resentful citizens a say, it is finished.
The EU is - along with the BBC, the Labour Party and Lib Dems - totally out of touch with the reality of life beyond its cushy, bubble-wrapped ivory towers.
The people of Europe, just like voters in the Midlands and North of England who deserted Britain’s metropolitan elite on December 12, know what’s going on.
They can see our thriving economy while theirs teeter on the brink.
They see we have near-full employment while their children risk being jobless for life. Italy, France and even Germany’s former powerhouse economy are in trouble.
Unless EU negotiators wake up, our departure with or without a deal will tip them over the edge.
It would have happened already if Greece had not been bullied out of Grexit.
By now that suffering nation would have been a prosperous tourist destination offering cheap but cheerful holidays in the sun.
Instead, the Athens leadership rolled over, a brutal example set by Germany and France to any other renegade state thinking about leaving.
It is too late for reform. The centre, as they say, cannot hold. When it goes, it will bring hardship for those unfortunate citizens who have been lied to in the pursuit of an ever-closer union - an inflexible totalitarian superstate.
For Brexiteers it has been a race to cut loose before the euro sinks - and sucks us down with it. Some might argue we wasted miserable years of non-military civil war under hapless Mrs May. But those years were not wasted. They gave us an invaluable opportunity to see for ourselves just how nasty and unscrupulous Remainers could be, with guttersnipe charges of racism and stupidity. December 12’s landslide election victory would have been impossible in 2016 without the ugly images of Grieve, Blair, Letwin, the BBC, the Supreme Court and meddling Gina Miller conniving with gargoyle Speaker Bercow to thwart the will of the British people.
The patience of a long-suffering nation snapped on election day.
They turned with high hopes to Boris Johnson’s Tories.
Boris will now deliver a clear and unequivocal Brexit - whatever obstacles are placed in his path.
The Sun is starting to shine, we have a breeze in our sails - and the fog in the Channel is beginning to clear.
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So true, so true. Boris gave a great speech this morning. I do hope the EU was listening and took it in that he means business. We are out, and out means out. No good they back-peddling now on the Canadian style trade deal they were happy to go along with on signing the Withdrawal Agreement and which they now think they can put in additional demands.
Hello! This is Great Britain you are still pathetically trying unsuccessfully yet again to bully. The country that you were so confident of publicly humiliating, you were happy to have it shown to the world on a televised programme during the withdrawal negotiations, laughing among yourselves in your Commission office, as you referred to the UK as an ‘’EU Colony’’. Pity you didn’t think to take the time to get your heads out of your a....s and have that bit edited out, as it only made Brexiteers even more determined than ever to get the hell away from you.
Thank you for that wonderful free piece of propaganda.
Any more blinders like that and we will be forever grateful.