Remainers ‘Trumpian’ in refusal to accept Brexit
FORMER US national security advisor John Bolton has blasted Remainers as “Trumpian” for still refusing to accept the result of the 2016 Brexit vote.
He also claimed “the London establishment” was trying to block the benefits of Britain leaving the EU.
The Republican served then-President Donald Trump who refused to accept he had been unseated by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.
On a visit to the UK Mr Bolton told the Daily Express he backed Brexit, and was supportive of former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
He insisted they had been forced out of office on ideological grounds, adding the “Conservative Party is not as conservative as its name suggests”.
Mr Bolton, 75, claimed Remainers still want Brexit to fail. He said: “I was a strong supporter of Brexit.
“The Remainers are actually behaving in a very Trumpian manner. For six years they have not accepted the result of the referendum.
“They tried to slow the withdrawal process down and for many of them the objective is to get Britain back in.”
He blamed forces in Whitehall and the EU itself for a slow delivery of the benefits to the UK of withdrawal: “Things which could have been done six years ago haven’t been done or been done very slowly.
“The Europeans have done exactly what we would expect. They want to make an example of Britain so nobody else gets out either.
“That means a lot of benefits haven’t accrued to Britain because of this resistance.”
Mr Bolton claimed that President Biden’s administration has been less than helpful especially over Northern Ireland: “In the Democratic Party they like the EU, it is an even bigger government. There is a pro-EU bias.
“The idea that somehow all the protections the EU would have with its members would be ruined if there was an open border in Ireland is completely wrong.
Benefits
“I think if it weren’t for the EU [then] the Irish and the UK would have worked this out long ago. “The sooner it’s done the sooner the benefits of Brexit will be clear.” Mr Bolton was made US national security adviser in 2018 but later fell out with Mr Trump.
He said of his former boss: “[Trump] doesn’t have a philosophy, he doesn’t think in policy terms... his decisions are transactional one-time decisions seen through the prism of how does this benefit Donald Trump.”