Brexit

When we finally leave the the EU and all the fuss is over, a big question will have to be asked. How could so many people have been so utterly deluded for so long?

I’m referring to Remainers in general and the Liberal Democrats in particular, who have decided to openly commit themselves to a bollocks to Brexit policy, showing a flagrant disdain for the declared will of the people. (Whatever happened to vox populi, vox dei?) They then compound this monumental error by recommending a second referendum which they refer to as a ‘people’s vote’, one of the most perverse and insulting political slogans ever invented. We’ve had a people’s vote for heaven’s sake; the Remainers just didn’t like the answer. In the past the EU itself has forced counties into conducting think-again referenda, but now a certain group of our own citizens – I regard them as traitors – are upholding the same anti-democratic tradition. How can such folk call themselves Liberal Democrats?

It isn’t as if the European Union is a benign and successful institution. Instead, it is a corrupt, incompetent and grotesquely ant-democratic tyrannical bureaucracy, more likely to precipitate a third world war than to prevent one. It is widely regarded as protectionist and economically stagnant. It has brought ruin to Greece.

Remainers might argue that a large group of nations must be a powerful instrument for peace. But giant international organisations don’t have a very good track record: the United Nations has been just as useless at preventing wars as was the League of Nations before it.

The reason why we should get out of the EU is because our laws and form of democracy are vastly superior to those of the EU. We have an ancient parliament with an honourable tradition, we have habeas corpus, innocent until proven guilty, lay magistrates and trial by jury. Continental Countries do not. The idea that such practices should be subservient to Napoleonic Codes would be a sick joke were it not also a gross impertinence. Despite the current incompetence of our police forces; despite a Crown Prosecution Service which doesn’t know its backside from its elbow, our systems of justice and law are vastly superior to anything seen on the other side of the Channel.

The importance of these uniquely British customs far transcend any temporary disruption of commerce that might follow from our exit.