Sir Bill Cash

stand – Divided we fall”. Tragically, the more they converge, the more certainly they will fail. They cannot agree and yet all have to agree or nothing changes. Tusk rightly states that “the challenges facing the European Union are more dangerous than ever before since the Treaty of Rome”. He identifies “three threats” and for each provides a counsel of despair.

First of all, as to Russia, he ignores the EU’s provocative attempts to take the EU up to the Russian border. He attacks the new US policy of reversing the promotion of European integration but this new approach is realistic and necessary. It was the 70-year drive towards political integration in the EU, which until now has been the mainspring of US State Department and US presidential policy, that stimulated the undemocratic EU compression chamber. This in turn led to distrust among citizens of EU member states, which made the EU itself profoundly unstable.

The second “threat” he identifies is what he blatantly describes as anti-EU nationalism and egoism – clearly with the UK in mind. Yet the undemocratic, low-growth EU with immigration policies based on free movement is simply unsustainable.

The third “threat” is equally

HE CALLS on the EU to take “assertive and spectacular steps” while advocating the disastrous path of political integration. This is a recipe for further rejection by EU citizens of the very policies that he offers them, thereby adding fuel to the fire and generating a greater move to the far-Right which is already gathering pace in so many EU countries.

He ends with an attack on the United States – who pay a massive contribution to Nato – blind to the underlying and counterproductive message that he preaches. He peddles by his self-delusion the idea that this essentially undemocratic and failed EU – largely dominated by one country – Germany, is the way forward.

The opposite is the case as the EU hurtles to the edge of the cliff and the ordinary citizens within it increasingly reject the kind of zealotry that he promotes – and which even the Polish prime minister has herself immediately rejected. He ignores the underlying democratic decision of the British people to leave the EU. His is a cry of futility and despair.

The ordinary citizens of the EU are in revolt. Whether in France, Greece, Holland, Italy or even Germany itself – or, behind the scenes, almost anywhere else in the EU – the people are voting with their feet.

The EU elite do not seem to know or care, consumed as they are with their own selfimportance and ideology.

‘Voters have turned against their leaders’