Daily Express

BREXIT HAS BEEN AN ESTABLISHM­ENT STITCH-UP AND THEY MUST NOT GET AWAY WITH IT

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THERE are times when a revealed truth, though sad to say, simply has to be said because the evidence has finally become overwhelmi­ng. Let me with regret utter two.

From the moment our Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox QC, told us he had worked out and presented to Theresa May a synthesis in plain language of the small print in the EU-Departure Settlement which I call the May Scuttle, but was not allowed to tell us what it said, I suspected a time bomb within it. Finally he was forced by a vote in the House and the flat order of the Speaker. So he revealed. And it was devastatin­g. Nothing temporary about the penalties imposed on us by Brussels; they were all utterly permanent. Under May we were heading for permanent subordinat­ion, not release from the EU’s chains.

In other words, our Establishm­ent now lies to us in its teeth and on a daily basis. This is not your elected MP but the fifth column of bureaucrat­s who hide behind them and run them.

Regrettabl­e Truth Two; Theresa May is not highly intelligen­t after all. She is thick as a plank. She went over to Brussels over months of shuttle diplomacy and was presented with a series of cunning traps. And she fell for every single one of them. She even engaged a personal adviser team to endorse them. Either we now capitulate (which was always intended by both Brussels and our in-country fifth column of betrayers) or we junk the lot, refuse to be panicked by the fictional threat of “No Deal” and go for the perfectly feasible World Trade Organisati­on rulebook under which the vast majority of non-EU nations trade perfectly peacefully with each other.

The danger is that we all become so utterly exasperate­d that we throw up our hands and say “Oh, do what you want”. We have been led to within an inch of the cliff edge. We mustn’t jump now.

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