Who do they think they are? Now EU bosses try to hijack OUR elections
BREXITEERS hit out at Brussels chiefs for ‘meddling’ in British politics yesterday ahead of the European elections.
To the fury of pro-Leave MPs, Eurocrats spoke of stopping Brexit and even visited the UK to call for a second referendum.
European Council president Donald Tusk said the 201 result could be reversed in another Brexit vote – and suggested the UK may never leave the EU.
The European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, visited London to campaign with the Liberal Democrats and call for another referendum, while an adviser to French president Emmanuel Macron said Paris would not tolerate repeated extensions to the Brexit departure date. Mr Tusk said the chance of Brexit being cancelled was as high as 30 per cent, and the British public did not know what they were voting for in 201 . He also said David Cameron’s decision to call the vote was a political miscalculation and suggested the UK would vote differently now.
Mr Tusk added: ‘From month to month, it is becoming increasingly clear that the UK’s exit from the EU will look completely different than the Brexit that was promoted.’
Mr Verhofstadt attended a Lib Dems canvassing event in Camden, north London, with party leader Sir Vince Cable yesterday. He arrived in a coach with blacked-out windows and an entourage of about 20 before knocking on just one door.
Asked if his appearance in a BBC documentary, in which an aide described Theresa May’s Brexit strategy as ‘insane’, was disrespectful, Mr Verhofstadt said the comments had been taken out of context.
The former Belgian prime minister added: ‘It’s not about the Prime Minister, it’s about the situation that was created after reaching an agreement and not having the backing of the DUP.
‘I think it’s important to show that the European liberals and democrats support Vince Cable. Secondly, we want to show by coming here, a mes
sage to the continent to say: never repeat Brexit.
‘I’m a Lib Dem. It’s natural that people are looking to the Lib Dems when it comes to European elections.
‘We want to be the alternative for nationalism and popularism. There will be a huge support for Remain.’
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said: ‘The Lib Dems want us to be the vassal state of Brussels so it is no surprise that they want the support of Mr Verhofstadt. British voters are quite capable of making up their own minds without interference from bumptious Belgians.
‘There is no mandate for mannerless, meddling mendicants in our elections.’