Common sense did triumph

As usual the Remainers featured in the latest issue make unsubstantiated, and unjustified statements claiming that Brexit is a disaster, when in reality it saved us just in time from permanent submergence in the bureaucratic and undemocratic state being constructed in Brussels.

These people remind one of the story of ostriches burying their heads in the sand to avoid predators, although in the latter case this is merely a myth.

Have these people not noticed that Italy, already in deep financial trouble, is about to be plunged into another general election, which is expected to produce a government led by a party of the very far right, an heir to the fascists? That President Macron of France is reduced to attempting to govern with a parliament run by his opponents? That the legacy of Merkel in Germany is a country facing an energy crisis because of the insane decision to abjure nuclear power in favour of relying on Russia for fuel supplies?

Many of the countries of Eastern Europe, who joined the EU in the belief that it would be a democratic bulwark against the sort of state dictatorship from which they had escaped with the end of the Cold War, now realise that Brussels has a similar mindset, albeit without the more overt features of coercion. Some are openly defying the diktats of the European Commission, and are set on a course which will lead to their leaving the EU.

That supposed symbol of a brave new world for European integration, the Euro, is now in freefall. We should ignore the bleating of the defeated Remainers and be grateful that the good sense of the British people triumphed over the selfish wishes of the elites, and turn all our energies to the task of rebuilding Britain as a proud, sovereign country, free of interference by unelected bureaucrats.

Colin Bullen