Careful what you wish for

All too often, we hear from the patronising Remain camp, that the Leavers didn’t understand what they were voting for.

I suggest it’s the other way around.

There was plenty of debate before the Referendum and all the facts were out there.

Even before the result was known, dramatic terms like ‘catastrophe’, ‘cliff edge’ and ‘crashing out’ were used to predict Armageddon if Leave won. Institutionalised Project Fear in full swing. Nothing new.

The £56million of UK taxpayers’ money sent daily to Brussels is fact.

We receive around a third back, dressed up as ‘European money’ and are instructed how we must spend it.

The fiction peddled by Edward Heath was that in 1973 we were joining (without a referendum) a trading block or ‘Common Market’.

Government propaganda under Harold Wilson, then helped ensure we voted to remain in 1975.

Had the public voted to remain in 2016, there would be no bleating calls for a second referendum, of course.

I believe the EU is a sinister, corrupt, power mad, unaccountable autocracy, run by unelected, overpaid, selfimportant Presidents and Commissioners, supported by an equally overpaid army of Eurocrats.

The vision of their predecessors dates back to the 1920s, when a ‘United States of Europe’ through a ‘Customs Union’ was first discussed.

German and French cross border coal and steel industries would be merged. Supra-national political, monetary and military unity was planned, with nation states subsumed, sovereignty usurped and ‘trade’ used as the great deception.

Churchill famously stated that the UK is “With Europe, but not of it”. He was right.

Why would a prosperous and respected nation with a Commonwealth, many trading partners worldwide and a founding member of NATO need to be part of a political union, with subordination to European Courts and institutions?

Treaty after treaty were signed up to by our leaders without explanation to the electorate.

Worst was Lisbon – the EU Constitution - signed by an unelected Gordon Brown.

This mass of diktats included a ‘Common Defence and Security Policy’ creating the European Defence Agency (EDA).

Its Permanently Structured Co-operation (PESCO) is the basis of EU Armed Forces and a common strategy, which we were assured was fantasy. More lies.

Already we’ve seen the EU flag worn on British uniforms on deployments.

Following the Referendum, Prime Minister Theresa May signed us up to a further five EU military directives, effectively relinquishing control over the UK’s Army, Navy and Air Force, including our nuclear deterrent.

All kept secret until revealed by Lord James of Blackheath in Parliament recently, to the astonishment and disbelief of many.

Even with a successful Brexit, we’ll still be committed to these agreements, at a cost of some £30billion from 2021-28.

This, on top of the £39billion promised under the defeated Withdrawal Agreement.

Unless we leave by October 31 with a clean break, British Armed Forces personnel will be required to swear allegiance not to HM The Queen, but to Brus

sels and be subject to their decisions in future. These clandestine and treasonous actions must be further exposed and reversed.

Compulsory OJEU tendering and allowing European companies to openly acquire our strategic assets have cost us dearly.

EU competition rules forbid Government investment in its own infrastructure, and, together with harsh environmental penalties, have closed down much of our industry, costing thousands of jobs. France and Germany meanwhile, operate protectionism. Divide and rule.

Remoaners beware. When you stand for nothing, you fall for everything. D M Caslaw