The Ultra Remainers are self interested and care not about the rest of the population. They tend to come from the white middle class liberal left metropolitan demographic. They are elitist in outlook and view leavers as ignorant, racist, little Englanders, xenophobic and bigoted etc. They blatantly lie or ignore the reality when pressed with facts, and try desperately to convince others they are correct. They always use negative descriptions when predicting the results of Brexit, such as ‘hard’, ‘no deal’, ‘cliff-edge’, ‘car crash’ so that people associate it with a negative, rather than a positive. They like to denigrate and dehumanise Leave voters, hoping they ‘starve, die or get sick’ – yet still claim they hold liberal tolerant views.
When reminded that there is no such thing as ‘No Deal’ Brexit as WTO is a type of deal (which we currently use with the rest of the world) they refuse to accept this. When questioned why they love the EU so much, they give a blank look, then reply, ‘I don’t know’. The truth (they won’t admit) is, they like the EU because it keeps them in the lifestyle they are accustomed (and feel entitled to) and provides them with a belief of virtue signalling self-importance.
They tend to know nothing about the EU itself, for example its power structure or history. They have never actually read any of the EU treaties or directives, they are spoon-fed most of their ‘facts’ from vested interest groups and do not bother with their own independent research. After all, an ‘expert’ told them, so it must be true. They themselves have done well out of the EU, so it can’t be that bad, can it?
When asked why we should remain, they say “because we should” and they provide no facts why. Young Remainers claim leavers ‘took away their future’, and will stop them travelling, working and getting an education. Despite the fact that most young Remainers never go to work in the EU anyway, our education sector is a disaster, our snowflakes can’t speak or bother to learn a second language anyway and employment opportunities in continental Europe are worse compared to the UK. Additionally, free movement means the young Remainers have increased job competition in the UK from other young unemployed EU citizens who are actually better qualified and more motivated to work. Clearly overseas work and travel visas never existed before the EU! Clearly increased job competition is also a good thing, boosting wages and opportunities for these young remainers.
Despite their uncanny psychic ability of predicting Brexit, when asked ‘What will the EU look like in ten years’, Ultra Remainers stare blankly back at you. Either they don’t know themselves or, for the really devious ones who do, they won’t mention a United States of Europe. That would let the cat out of the bag, and the plebs don’t need to know anyway. The money will keep flowing in and their positions will be secure, so who cares?
Despite their objections to Brexit, the Ultra Remainers refuse to acknowledge the deep flaws in the EU system. For example: its lack of democratic accountability, lack of transparency, mass unemployment, the removal of elected Prime Ministers of Italy and Greece, Euro-imposed poverty, the EU supported coup in Ukraine, the flawed Common Fisheries Policy, CAP tariffs impoverishing African farmers, financial burden on the contributing nations, flawed asylum policy, mass migration within member states, overregulation of small businesses, support of big business and corporations etc (I could carry on, but you get my point).
When cornered (which isn’t difficult) they say the ‘EU needs to change’ and ‘we can change it from within’. They never say how this can be done or what they plan to do about it, nor indeed the time frame. Perhaps, like May’s WA, the EU reform date should be labeled 20XX (or XXXX to be more precise).
When asked, ‘How does an ordinary citizen remove the Head of the EU Commission by the ballot box’, they then claim, ‘But the EU Parliament is elected’. When asked how many ‘European citizens’ directly elected any of the EU Commission?, they claim, ‘But no-one elected the UK PM either’. They don’t seem to realise that the elite have stolen the most precious thing of all; the ordinary citizen’s vote, and therefore the ability to decide who governs you via the ballot box.
They claim that the Referendum was based on ‘Leave lies’, for example the £350 million on a bus, however they fail to grasp you can’t allocate money from our EU contributions until you actually control the budget. To do that we would have to actually Leave in the first place. Speaking of lies, they claim the the EU Army is ‘a dangerous fantasy’, however a European Rapid Reaction Force has been in the Treaties for many years. The EU Navy and EU Army both have their own webpages, clearly those pages are Leaver created fake news, right? Ted Heath told the Nation’ there ‘would be no essential loss of sovereignty’, I suppose that’s another Leave lie? The UK’s whole EU membership has been built on Remain lies!
(To be continued here tomorrow with Part II)
A very focusing piece thank you.
Do you think that threatening arch-Remainers, who talk of voting with the opposition to stop a ‘no-deal’, with effective expulsion from the Conservative Party, is a reminder also to the public that their actions are a betrayal? Is there some public outing here, where they have been collectively named and shamed? ‘Those who wish to thwart negotiations’ seem to me the way some may now view them.
It is surely an act admonishment? That could be seen as a humiliation for those who think themselves so important and above doubt of their knowledgeable and wisdom. Is not to fall from such a perceived dizzying height and be told publicly ‘you have gone too far’, surely a wake-up call in many people’s minds that this whole tantrum behaviour is ludicrous and then begin to reason?
My other linked question is that would it be fair to assume that with the intense prolonged exposure to Brexit people are starting to consider all or some, at least, those points you have made in your article? I know, for the wishful thinking, it is may appear a dumb question, but don’t you think it is true?
As you point out the negativity may well have persuaded many. People naturally jump on bandwagons and then close their minds as their minds are set. Do we believe that huge raft of people are actually interested in this momentous political event even though claim indifference? Are those people also starting to put two and two together and coming up with four, even though they have been told, repeatedly, that the answer is five?
My answers to the above are yes, yes and yes to every one of them.
Very clear and succinct thank you
The fundamental confusion between being a “liberal” and classic Manchester-school liberalism! In fact, the origin of the expression “Little Englanders” was in reference to English reformers who wished to end British rule over India, South Africa, Canada, etc., and to actually withdraw the empire to domestic borders.
The same group of classical liberals, under the umbrella of C19th Manchester Liberalism (also called the Manchester School, Manchester Capitalism and Manchesterism) comprised the political, economic and social movements of the 19th century that originated in Manchester, England. Led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, it won a wide hearing for its argument that free trade would lead to a more equitable society, making essential products available to all. This has nothing to do with modern 3rd-Way socialist progressive “liberal” values, which are protectionist of their privileges and favour economic expansionism and the EU empire rather than free trade with no tariffs.
This C19th group was of course anti-slavery and thus fought to end the slave trade and to free Africans. The United Kingdom and the United States outlawed the international slave trade in 1807, after which Britain led efforts to block slave ships. Britain abolished slavery throughout its empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Furthermore, the people who blame the British for slavery forget that black Africans were not plucked from Africa by nasty English people, but were captured by Arab/Muslim traders, often crossing deserts on foot to reach the coast, where they were sold on often by Jewish profiteers to the ships that carried them to North American farmers. It should be remembered there were also black landowners and therefore black slaveowners, and that the Democrats fought the Republicans who wanted to end it!
The EU appears by its intended European-African trade area plans to want to continue to use cheap African labour to protect the elites’ privileges.!!
These “Little Englanders” in Britain were as opposed to the enslavement of black Africans in principle, of course, as they were to the Barbary Coast slave trade which involved the capture and sale of thousands of white women and girls to the same Caliphate traders. They opposed all slavery and instead believed in free trade and Common Law. “Little Englanders” have a proud history and loony left people have paroxysms when faced with these facts. That the same “liberals” support the totally illiberal EU based on Centrist state-driven economics planning models that rely on expansionism and ultimately a tyrannical or militarist state built on Justinian law, but think they are somehow in favour of “freedom” is truly loony.
A well put list of Remain Stupidity John ! – Many Thanks !
I can accept that at the referendum of 2016, a great many folk had little to no detailed information upon the EU, and many younger voters had no experience of not being members of the EU !
In the last three years, details and understanding have been available to anyone that is interested. In view of that fact, why is anyone of the opinion that it would be good or wise to continue as a member of the EU ?
My vote was nicked by Heath’s lies, and I voted to join The Common Market. Towards the end of the 1980s I realised we had been conned and I simply didn’t like the Euro Club ! Since then, I have grown to hate the very mention of the EU and the apparent strangle hold that the EU believes that they have upon us !
I took membership of UKIP and abandoned the Tory Party, due to the dithering of Mrs May. Now we have Mr Johnson who is making the right noises upon Brexit, and if he makes it happen, he and his Party will again have my support, but we will have to wait and see if his noises become facts !
Membership of WTO and ability to Trade with the world sounds very good to me, and the world includes the EU members, so what is there not to like ? PM Johnson will have to deal with many MPs who have voted one way on one day, yet now are going against what they voted for. – They have to be got rid of !
You forget we were illegal entered by Heath who for his lies got 10 million GBP’s. All the remain elite are tryig to force this through not for us but for themselves
The European Parliament is not fully democratic. You don’t vote for an individual member, you vote for the party list, whoever is on it, in whatever position. This system is designed to ensure that only compliant party toadies get the seats.
A wonderful system! Look how well something very similar works in China!