Relax, we weren’t tricked into leaving
SO NO smoking gun after all… having endlessly peddled the line that Britain was somehow duped into voting to quit the EU in that historic referendum of four years ago, it appears the whole notion of Russian interference was more a case of Sweet FA than KGB. But still so many Remainers just can’t – and won’t – accept it. The idea of the great Kremlin Conspiracy rigging the vote was (hopefully) the last, desperate throw of the dice.
Having derided anyone who voted Leave as racists living in caves, declared we would all die within weeks of voting to Leave (let alone actually exiting) due to a lack of medicines, and that there would be widespread crime, no trade, a plague of locusts and the sun ceasing to shine, they needed Vladimir Putin and his evil comrades to be the arch-puppeteer pulling the strings of Brexit.
The only trouble was, after nearly two years of investigations by MPS, absolutely 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 out of office at last year’s election.
One of last week’s pleasures has to be seeing Mr Grieve looking so angry with the findings. Do you think it’s the taste of sour grapes?
The main thrust of their losing argument was that the Government should have launched a full inquiry into possible Russian meddling concerning the Brexit outcome, despite there being no evidence whatsoever to justify it.
Follow that logic and we might as well get MI6 to launch an exhaustive investigation into whether the man in the moon could have been behind it.
What they refuse to accept is that nearly 17.5 million people voted for Brexit, with most of them fully aware of what they were doing and not being dragged along like a donkey to a well.
What they fail to understand is that there was considerable foreign involvement in ensuring the UK voted out but that it came from 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 off-shoot of HMRC were just some of the driving forces behind the mandate. Proof of that was dramatically evident last week, as the remaining EU leaders gathered to put together a post-covid financial bailout package.
On day five of the two-day summit – yes, you
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MY OLD Mum was right all along although, in truth, I never doubted it. Doctors were told to prescribe walks in the country or time spent outdoors or in the garden (if you’re fortunate to have one), to boost patients’ physical and mental health. These so-called “green prescriptions” make perfect sense but did it really need a £4MILLION package to announce them! did read that correctly as those EU leaders love to drag it out so journalists are made to sleep on the floor, communiques are delayed until the last moment when the clocks are stopped then rolled back to allow a breathless statement to be released extolling their brilliance and unity – they got there, agreeing to drag €750billion (£680billion) from the pockets of members.
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E IN No doubt, this was the moment they took a massive stride towards a fully federal EU as they behaved as if they were a single entity. Just as taxpayers in London and the South East see their cash going to help fellow countrymen and women in areas such as the North East and Scotland, or in the US New Yorkers and Californians support citizens of Arkansas and West Virginia, so the citizens of countries such as Germany and Spain will see their money flowing to countries such as Greece and Bulgaria.and they’ve had no say in it.
We are well out of it, and the disdain they have for the UK was brilliantly highlighted when Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte tried to object to the Commission borrowing against the EU budget for the first time ever. He was slapped down by French president Emmanuel Macron with the insult that he was “acting like Britain”.
Having saddled the Eurozone banks with a possible £730billion in loan losses, Macron’s attitude displays the determination that 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.