When David Cameron announced the referendum, there was a palpable ripple throughout the country; it was a positive one. People felt after it had sunk in, that the Tories had capitulated to the threat of UKIP that they had a voice. They understood, without being told that a change was in the air, well certainly the potential for change.
Battle lines were drawn, and the referendum campaign swung into action. The main points that emerged were that Britain could regain control of its borders; when you think 6.5 million new people in the last ten years have registered with a GP, it makes no wonder that uncontrolled mass immigration was high on the agenda.
Fishing has over the last forty years been decimated in this country, a country of seafaring history. So, the regaining of control over our natural fishing waters, the chance to rebuild that wonderful industry was exciting.
As a sovereign nation, we have just nodded through for years, laws and orders from a largely unelected executive in the EU. So, the opportunity to make our own laws and the steerage of our nation, its laws, economy, and taxation without the interference from an entity without electoral redress, again proved to be of paramount importance.
The supreme court in this country must be the highest judiciary; it has not been for some time. The European courts have superseded our high court in many cases, and we have taken that and those decisions on the chin. The highest court in our land reigning supreme is an objective that is very desirable.
So where are we now, almost three years later. 498 MP`s sitting in the House of Commons voted to enact the article 50 process to withdraw us from the EU. Of course, we could have just repealed the European communities act of 1972, that would have been us out. A clear signal to our partners in the EU that we were serious. We could have then told them, what our terms for withdrawal were and then negotiated a satisfactory end to this relationship.
But no, we were entered into negotiations that resulted in the EU firmly dictating to us, a sovereign nation how it was going to be. This, of course, has come with a £39 billion leaving bill. Two questions arise from this.
- Why and for what are we paying £39 billion. It has never been really established, or it certainly has never been explained in a plain layman`s term that us thick northerners can understand.
- Given the state of the country at present and the fact that we have been forced to endure almost ten years of austerity, just exactly where is this £39 billion coming from.
Fast forward to the present day, and 502 MP`s voted to extend the article 50 period. No end date was within that vote; it is open-ended. On top of this was a total U-turn against their own manifesto pledge to honour the outcome of the referendum by the Labour Party, they are now campaigning for a second referendum.
This, of course, will come into play if the so call deal agreed by our Prime Minister and the EU is voted down. You can comfortably bet your mortgage on this deal being voted out again. I cannot see in any way, knowing as they do what will happen if the deal is not made, the EU giving in.
When you have a Labour MP in the Commons, Mr Owen Smith MP saying “Brexit is a racist, xenophobic, right-wing reactionary project” you know that all is lost. The political class in Westminster can surely not be so out of touch with the electorate, can they? They can yes. MP after MP stood up in the commons and extolled the virtue of a second vote, delaying the leave date and extending the article 50 period. The fallout from this is yet to come.
Let me make one thing crystal clear: I and 17.4 million people did not vote for a different deeper relationship with the EU. We voted to leave the EU and all its constructs and institutions. They are going to stop that, the MP`s who are ardent remain will stop it at all costs.
These people who by virtue of having MP after their name “know best” they have ignored and turned their backs on the very people who elevated them to their current positions. They have crushed the dreams of 17.4 million people.
So, what next. What will happen in the next few months, where, given their institutional antisemitism and racist bigotry together with their U-turn, will the Labour Party be? The Liberal- Democrats have largely disappeared from the political stage. The Tories, by virtue of the fact that they are in Government and therefore will be held to account, in my opinion, will be wiped out at the next General Election. The result will be dare I say it worse than in 1997.
I do not have the answer to this conundrum, but the future is very much uncertain. The economy will undoubtedly suffer, and therefore the people, who cast their vote in record numbers, who have been betrayed and lied to will suffer, suffer more for sure than they would have done under the promising new horizon that was freedom from the EU.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/04/uk-could-quit-eu-without-paying-a-penny-say-lords:
“The British government would have no legal obligation to either pay a €60bn (£52bn) Brexit bill mooted by the European commission or honour payments into the EU budget promised by the former prime minister David Cameron, according to analysis by the House of Lords EU financial affairs sub-committee.”
and:
“Even though we consider that the UK will not be legally obliged to pay into the EU budget after Brexit, the issue will be a prominent factor in withdrawal negotiations. The government will have to set the financial and political costs of making such payments against potential gains from other elements of the negotiations.”
Has May ever threatened the EU with not paying? If we were to refuse payment what are they going to do about it? Let them impose trade barriers if they will; they have more to lose and we have the rest of the world to trade with. At best May was weak and no negotiator but now the odds are heavily in favour of her being a traitor just as Heath and others before her.
The “Withdrawal Agreement!” is actually worse than remaining in the EU , and this is what our Prime Minister is telling us is “Brexit”.
In Moneyweek, Bernard Connolly, the eminent anti-EU economist and historian, has been interviewed by the editor. It makes grim reading .
Bernard Connolly should be taken very seriously . He is one of the most knowledgable commentators on the EU and all its evil works. He is not only a first rank economist but also has an encyclopaedic and deep knowledge of European power-politics and most importantly , its history . Crucially he has seen Brussels from the very belly of the bureaucratic beast so knows what he is talking about . One crumb of comfort from the interview is that he seems very confident that we will get Brexit, but he does not regard the WA as Brexit.
His horrific explanation of the implications of May’s Withdrawal Agreement should make everyone pause. Essentially , we “leave” but immediately become subject to a treaty which makes us a satrapy of the EU with a status like Vichy France , and this would continue even after the transition period . This is what we fought Hitler to avoid in 1940 . As there is no exit mechanism from this new treaty , to escape in future we would need leaders with the cojones to break the new treaty(LOL) , always assuming the new Euro-army would not crush the rebellion. Can you see that resolve coming from the current pro-EU nomenklatura in Parliament? The WA really is WORSE than staying in . However, it seems that that is what we are heading towards. The WA must NEVER be agreed. It is frankly amazing that the Tory ERG are even considering supporting the WA, unless their main consideration , as always with Tories, is to put party before country.
Westminster truly HAS become a House of Traitors.
Peter
Stephen, you suggest the result of the next general election is unknowable. That the Tories will be decimated. That Labour has had it because they’ve done a 180 on their manifesto from last time.
What is going to happen is that the same parties will be re-elected, with the usual variance on the actual number of seats that LibLabCon actually get.
But the difference will be that the popular vote total will plummet. I can imagine it dropping to around 15-20 million nationally, but so what. Under First Past the Post there is no minimum required to elect any one MP, the total votes cast could be 150 in your constituency and the winner is still the guy who scores one more than the nearest rival. And we all know the tribal voters will be out in sufficient numbers proportionately to see off any challenge from non-LibLabCons.
The scum infesting the House of Commons are safe because there is nothing happening to stop it.
Nailed in one, although I’m not sure the vote % will drop. It what grandad would have voted you know!
You say our fishing industry , well if we go with mays dangerous deal we will have no fishing rights in our own waters and most of our industries will be gone , Why, how easy we have to obey there laws and orders which can never be recinded, while all the time they are taking billions and billions off us, which we don’t have so they give us loans which we can’t repay. Just how they did it with Greece now they own all Greece so by 2025 we will be owned lock stock and barrel by brussels. Thanks to Mays lies we will be a bankrupt 3rd world country. This woman will do to the uk what wars cpould not.
So…anti a collection of languages spoken in a particular region is a thing is it?
Britain is so dumbed down it’s painful to watch!
Anyone using the term antisemitic is blatantly a fool who should be ignored!
From:
Collins English dictionary
Definition of ‘Semitic’
LearnerEnglishAmericanLearner
Semitic
(sɪmɪtɪk
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1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Semitic languages are a group of languages that include Arabic and Hebrew.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Semitic people belong to one of the groups of people who speak a Semitic language.
The Western IQ Is known to be dropping..
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The evidence is everywhere including here!
‘The Western IQ Is known to be dropping..
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The evidence is everywhere including here!’
I take it that when you refer to ‘here’ you mean right where you were sitting when you typed this comment.
Just to help you out, by the definition that you yourself have provided, point 2 refers to ‘people’ not the language they speak, but the people that speak that language or one of them, and one of those languages is Hebrew by point 1 of the definition, the language usually associated with Jewish people.
Judaism is not of course a race it is a religion, so the term anti – Semitism can arguably be contentious and could be extended to the other peoples speaking the other mentioned languages. Common modern usage however restricts it to Jews of course and this makes it valid in modern context.
I myself would prefer anti – Jewish sentiment if you must have a specific term but it hasn’t got the same wow factor. Exactly the same can be said by analogy for Islam and the even more ridiculous Muslim Brotherhood derived term islamophobia.
You are no doubt correct about the falling IQ standards in the West and the reason for this the disease of cultural marxism in all it’s insidious forms that has penetrated the education system in particular, but then spreading to all our institutions including our Parliament, Armed Forces and Police and more. This has destroyed the notion of thinking objectively, based on evidence, facts and reason.
Once this is rooted out and destroyed the Western world will see it’s standards rise again.
A significant fall in the average IQ of the population is also contributed to by the importation of many with a sub 70 IQ from the so-called third world. It is of course a major factor in the lack of development of their own countries and the success of tyrannical rulers whose IQ may be somewhat better than that of the masses.
The rise of such immigrants also needs to be controlled in order that we may rise again. Education is bad enough as you say but improvements can only benefit those with the IQ to take advantage of it.
Hear Hear!
Stephen, very interesting article, if a little gloomy. Certainly, it is more than 17.4 million people who are concerned.
To be honest, though, I’ve been more optimistic, in recent days. I can see the process (of voting) laid down by T May actually bringing about a, so called, ‘no deal’ Brexit (rightly called a WTO Brexit).
On the 12th March is the vote for her WA = probably voted down.
On 13th March will then be the vote against a ‘no deal’ Brexit. That means the choice will be between accepting that or extending article 50 (if not actually cancelling Brexit). I saw a video, the other day, that gave the view a no deal is very likely for one good reason: MPs will be reluctant to vote against no deal as they are scared about their constituents and the danger of not being re-elected. They will go into the vote wanting everyone to vote against so they don’t have to. On that basis, the vote against a no deal could be lost. We would then be out!
This is even more likely for weak and fearful MPs.
On 14th March will be the vote to delay Brexit (if no deal has been voted down). Let’s say it does get that far, what now?
If they vote to delay, does not the EU have to vote for it? Yes. But, looking unlikely. Therefore, we go out by default. If the vote to delay is thrown out, what then? Surely, we still go out?
For one thing: what are they going to do? Revoke the article 50 legislation in a matter of weeks?
Maybe T May’s schedule will give us what we want, despite her and the H of C?
I`d like to believe you but…………………………I cannot see it they are too commited to B*ggering up Brexit in one way or another – they are united in a conspiracy.
Mostly to self important and thick to conspire Roger, just greedily hanging on for their own ends, It’s the ‘selfie’ Facebook and ‘Friends’ generation writ large.