Big slap in face for EU fanatics
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LET’S get one thing straight – we have not left Europe.
Rather, on Friday night we turned our backs on the failed, Federalist project which was a masterclass in how to bully, ignore and oppress hundreds of millions of unsuspecting citizens and treat them as little more than serfs.
If I ask you to shut your eyes and think of Europe, what comes to mind?
The glorious, snow-blanketed Swiss Alps? The chic South of France? The chaos of cities such as Rome?
Europe has been the cradle of culture for centuries and any continent that can go from listening to Strauss to the creation of Abba in a fraction over 70 years must have a lot going for it.
And I’ve not even touched on the food, wine and cheese on offer!
The idea Brexiteers rejected any of this is nuts. But the absurd actions and views of that hardened band of Remainers who just won’t let go also defies belief.
Former TV journalist Paul Mason wrote on the Social Europe website of what he believes the nation has lost. His list included “the European
Champions’ League, cheap flights, electronic dance music, porn, fashion and the Eurovision Song Contest”.
Do you see the bizarre depths to which this bunch of fanatics will sink?
The skies will be as full this year as they were last of budget airlines flying to Europe. There is no way the multi-million pound business of European football will be allowed to simply fade away.
And as for the Eurovision Song Contest, donnezmoi un break!
Do they think we’re that gullible?
Our love affair with Europe is not over – if anything, as more and more economic indicators seem to point to the UK’s growth outstripping that of the Eurozone, it could well be that once again we ride to the rescue of this great continent.
When even the International Monetary Fund agrees our economy looks healthier than those of the EU nations, you know the tide has turned.
What the UK has left is the ultimately doomed forced shackling together of a number of disparate countries. Europe was once a continent of exploration, from where the likes of Columbus and Marco Polo opened up the world.
It is now a destination continent, with half of the world wanting to get here.
Yet the European Union has spectacularly failed to handle the change. Despite its grand proclamations about European co-operation to combat terrorism, ask the people of London, Paris and Barcelona how successful it has been on the ground. As for financial union, the EU turned its back on Greece, which was left bankrupt after being forced to join the Euro and where more than a quarter of the population are jobless. That is what we bade farewell to last week...and EU can’t blame anyone, can you?