Sad Remainers left seeing red

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SO, no smoking gun after all…

It appears the notion that Britain was duped into leaving the EU thanks to Russian interference was more a case of Sweet FA than KGB.

But so many Remainers just can’t get it and won’t accept it.

The idea that a great Kremlin Conspiracy rigged the vote was (hopefully) the last desperate throw of the dice.

Remainers needed Vladimir Putin, inset, and his comrades to be the arch puppeteers pulling the strings of Brexit. Their only trouble was, after nearly two years of investigation by MPs, no evidence could be found to back up these fanciful claims.

This despite the committee having been chaired for much of the time by former Conservative MP Dominic Grieve, a politician so enamoured of the European project he almost twisted himself in two trying to derail the referendum result until the good people of Beaconsfield dumped him at last year’s General Election.

What Remainers refuse to accept is that nearly 17.5million people voted for Brexit. Most were fully aware of what they were doing and were not being dragged like a donkey to a well.

There was, in truth, considerable foreign involvement in ensuring the UK voted out – but it came from the member states of the European Union, not Mother Russia.

Decade after decade of petty bureaucratic interference, craven empire building and accounting practices that make the Cayman Islands look like an offshoot of HMRC were just some of the driving forces behind the mandate.

Proof of that was evident last week as the remaining EU leaders gathered to put together a post-Covid bailout package.

On day five of the twoday summit – yes you read that correctly – they got there after agreeing to drag £680billion out of the pockets of member states. This was the moment they took a massive stride towards a fully federal EU as they behaved as though they were a single entity.

Just as taxpayers in London and the South East see their cash going to help people in the North-East and Scotland, so citizens of countries including Germany and Spain will see their money flowing to the likes of Greece and Bulgaria.

And they have had no say in it. Their disdain for the UK was brilliantly highlighted when Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was slapped down by French President Emmanuel Macron with the insult that he was “acting like Britain”. Nothing can get in the way of the European dream. This is the real hostile “foreign influence” behind the referendum result – not the makebelieve reds under the bed.