Hardly treason

A TORRENT of invective pours on to the head of Lord Adonis (some kind of adviser to the Government) because he compares the seriousness of Brexit, which he regards as a disaster, to appeasement. Although keen on Brexit, I have to take his side. The vituperation is excessive and he made no comparison with Adolf Hitler whatsoever.

It is his right to be a True Believer in the total unification of Europe under a Brussels-based, non-elective government. Whether a Conservative government needs to be advised on anything by him is another matter.

It is a dismal truth that British governments have made many mistakes. The more recent ones (like pumping our veins full of infected blood) are exposed almost daily. Among the big ones were appeasement, the Suez invasion, the Iraq invasion and the attempt to tell Afghanistan how it should be governed. They all cost a lot of lives and appeasement almost cost us our country. Comparisons with Brexit may be inane or irrelevant but not treasonous.

The trouble with the noble lords who yearn to be ruled from abroad is that despite their titles and sometimes erudition they have a problem with the meaning of words.

There is a yawning gulf between collaboration, which most of us would support and which is still open to us on a thousand issues, and subordination. This has been imposed upon us without our voted consent, always secretly behind closed doors. That was what we voted to end in June last year. You cannot be subordinate (which we provably are in legislation and law) and sovereign. We just want our sovereignty back. Unlike Lord Adonis, many still alive fought and risked dying for it. Like so many luvvies he would be wise to stow it.