Empire delusion of fantasist the Mr Fox
LITTLE Briton Liam Fox embodies the terrible pain in Brexit.
Not Boris Johnson, Michael Gove nor even Nigel Farage, but the unfantastic Mr Fox – though the others are also guilty of monstrous deceptions.
Extremist Fox is a right-wing Tory ideologue with Betamax dreams of recreating a new British Empire.
The whiff of demented colonial nostalgia surrounds a pith-helmeted crony of Theresa May yearning to splash £100million on a royal yacht.
In his new world order, Blighty would be transformed into a Treasure Ireland for the world’s greediest tax-dodgers, becoming a playground off the coast of mainland Europe for looters and their loot.
Freed from employment protections guaranteed by our EU membership, it wouldn’t take him long to target job rights.
What is Brussels bureaucracy to Fox, is to us paid holidays, safety laws, clean air and consumer rights.
I’ve a photo of Fox, with Johnson, before the referendum in front of Leave lie propaganda screaming unequivocally: “Let’s give our NHS the £350million the EU takes every week.” Brexiteers demanding Chancer of the Exchequer Philip Hammond splash the cash on quitting the EU should hide with embarrassment.
They are inadvertently acknowledging it’ll cost us when they talked only of untold mythical advantages.
May – who knows Brexit is such a disaster she couldn’t bring herself to say she’d vote for it – just authorised £250million, not for health but for customs forms and jobsworths.
It was Fox who falsely insisted negotiations would be “one of the easiest in human history”, the glibness of a zealot ready to sacrifice other people’s jobs in pursuit of his obsession.
One of his senior officials sneered that the hapless cabinet minister talks privately as if Blighty could be the hub of a global British Free Trade Association market.
Similar to the European Free Trade Association, in which countries such as Norway and Switzerland snuggle up to the EU, Fox’s BFTA is a delusion when he is turning his back on free trade with 450 million people in 27 neighbouring countries.
Fox couldn’t negotiate his way out of a corner shop, let alone convince world leaders they should hop into bed with him.
The inexperience of a team he took on a US junket was contemptible when Donald Trump’s slogan is America, not Britain, First.
Fox sucking up to the Philippines by inventing “shared values” with a president sanctioning murders in a drugs war was nauseous desperation.
Slowly but surely opinion’s turning against Brexit as Fox and his ilk reveal themselves to be charlatans.