EVERY WEDNESDAY

Well, I have news for the great Scott in his vault in heaven: there are a lot of dead souls about these days. I refer to the Remainers and Remoaners who seek to frustrate the will of the people to leave the European Union.

I do not expect anything of the Corbynistas who hate what their country once was and what it has become and wish to impose on us their Jersualem sans monarchy, sans an economy, sans freedom, sans everything all true Bits have come to love and value.

Still less do I expect anything from the Liberal Democrats or the Greens who vied with each other to lose most deposits – nearly 450 each – at the election.

And I expect nothing from the Scottish Nationalists with their anti-English brand of racialism. This little lot, in the name of European integration, would cheerfully install the sainted Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.

Against this background, Tory Remainers must be exceptionally stupid not to see the need to unite behind the beleaguered Theresa May to protect democracy and keep Corbyn in Opposition.

Consequently, we have to ask ourselves what makes Tory (and other) Remainers tick. Can they not see that the EU is seeking to end 1,000 years of our history by absorbing the UK along with the other 27 member states into a United States of Europe? Are they blissfully unaware that the Euromaniacs are prepared, through the absorption mechanism – the euro – to bankrupt the southern part of the EU to the greater glory of Germany? Indeed, to impose politically dangerous levels of unemployment on the Mediterranean nations?

Are they blind to the consequences of the creeping Brussels takeover of national governments? What is the point of sending MPs to Westminster if they are not masters in their own House? What manner of MP seeks the perks of impotence?

Have they not heard, in another affront to democracy, that the Brussels bureaucracy never takes “no” for an answer to its ambitions? It just tells the miscreants to carry on voting until they get the “right” answer.

That is not the international co-operation I voted for in 1975. It is coercion.

Do they care nought for the vast outlay in cash and perks on Brussels bureaucrats and that apology for a Parliament, the European Assembly? Or for the corruption and waste that has prevented the auditors from signing off EU accounts for decades?

And what about their internationalist hypocrisy when the EU is in truth a protectionist club – as Francois Mitterrand once admitted to Margaret Thatcher – in which we British freetraders will always be uncomfortable? Or their incompetence in initially welcoming what has become an unmanageable horde of migrants from the Middle East and Africa?

Why can’t they see through the EU’s pretensions in foreign affairs and now defence when President Donald Trump feels obliged to ask whether they (and not just the USA and the UK) are prepared to pay their full whack to defend themselves?

What gives them the curious idea that the EU has kept the peace in Europe for 70 years? It may have helped, but NATO has been and remains the real bulwark.

Yet shout they do, persistently alarmist and raucous, to demand that the UK should remain in this decadent institution, even though it did nothing to rescue the UK economy in the 1970s-80s. Thatcher did that.

They still shout when the EU threatens us with an absurd £100bn divorce bill and economic ruin, while the French actively seek to demolish the City of London.

And so I could go on asking the Eurofanatics awkward questions. But there is not much point. They care for nothing but the great European integrationist project, regardless of its manifold deficiencies and threat to democracy.

In my book the lot of them are guilty of un-British activities – such as Lord Heseltine, Lord Adonis (who ludicrously ranks our leaving the EU with de-colonisation and pre-World War appeasement), Lord Mandelson, Tony Blair, Nick Clegg, Sir Vince Cable and the Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists and especially Tory Remainers.

With Brexit talks only just starting, they are undermining the declared national interest in securing a lasting and acceptable release from subservience to the Franco-German axis and the EU’s tame courts.

People have been tried for treason for less. There are indeed a lot of dead souls about.