Time to seize this golden opportunity
My wishes for 2020…
● That Jo Swinson, who has been forced to quit politics, will now feel able to follow her true calling – as a Girl Guide leader.
● That the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt Hon Justin Welby, stops sticking his nose into politics and starts doing what he’s paid for – running the Anglican Church which is currently haemorrhaging worshippers.
● That Prince Andrew gets his memory back and remembers not only what he did with 17-year-old Virginia Roberts, but how he managed to amass a multimillion pound fortune without ever having had a proper job.
● That the deluded narcissist Jeremy Corbyn – still clinging to power like a limpet in a tidal wave while insisting Labour is “the resistance to Boris Johnson” – finds the honour to shove off into oblivion, having first admitted that his loony socialist policies and his dithering over Brexit have wrecked the Labour Party and betrayed the people it exists to protect.
IT’S BEEN a bit of a tumultuous year. I say “a bit” with a large dollop of irony because it doesn’t begin to describe the angst, the anger, the gut-wrenching despair of standing helplessly by watching our pig-headed, Remainer Parliament bust a collective gut to thwart Brexit. But on December 12 all that changed.The black cloud that has been hanging over us for three-anda-half wasted years miraculously began to lift.And three weeks later I cannot be the only person looking down the barrel of Britain’s future with hope, optimism and HUGE excitement. Because in just 28 days we will finally leave the EU and that’s happening because the people of this country MADE it happen. And because of it this great nation now stands on the brink of a glittering future that will see us restore our reputation on the world stage and regain our sovereignty, our national identity, control of our finances and our borders, but most important of all our pride.
In the past three years the people of this country have been made to feel dirty for daring to praise Britishness. We’ve been called racists and Little Englanders for suggesting that we can and
function as an independent country, outside the greedy, unaccountable clutches of the EU.
Well, forget that. It’s time to smash off the shackles and remember what Britain is famous for – our strength, our determination, our innovation, our kindness, fairness, decency and morality – all the reasons half the world wants to live here.
In the three weeks since the election, the world has woken up to the possibilities of Post-Brexit Britain. The EU is making more conciliatory noises than it has in years because it sees there is no longer any point in trying to thwart a trade deal with us. We now have the upper hand because they know we could walk away if we wanted to. But both Boris and the EU must see it’s in our mutual interests to negotiate a deal that will benefit us all.
DESPITE all the doom-mongering we’ve created a million more jobs since the Brexit vote. The financial markets are also responding. Sterling has risen to pre-2016 levels and institutions all over the world are clamouring to buy into us.
And all that’s because the world has seen that we took on the might of the EU – and won, which many have tried and failed to do. It’s that grit, that determination, that they want to invest in.
Boris said this week that Remainers were as patriotic as Leavers. Well, let them prove it. Let’s all work together to heal the scars and end the divisions of the past three years.
This hellish Brexit journey has battered us all but we’ve survived to tell the tale. And if we not only survive but prosper – which I have absolute confidence we will – it will all have been worthwhile. Someone much cleverer than me once said: “Nothing worth having comes easy.”
Well, our freedom certainly didn’t come easy. Which is why it’s our absolute duty to take full advantage of it…