Well it’s happened! The good ship HMS United Kingdom has loosed her moorings and is now departing the EU quay. Those thick heavy ropes that tied her to Europe are unraveling. There are some that say this will be reversed, that the EU will clutch the UK back into her bosom through the chicanery and Machiavellian tactics of both its own fanatical globalists and sympathetic remainers in the British government.

There are some worrying ‘delays’ and roadblocks being put in place. May is saying that article 50 will not be actioned this year. There have been reports from Europe that we could keep access to the Single Market but at the price of continued free movement of labour. A campaign in the Lords wants to make the country think again. But I just don’t think this will happen now. I really don’t believe the so called ‘New World Order’ has that much power. There will be 17.5 million people to answer to at the next election if Brexit is ‘fudged.’ The momentum is with the leavers, who have been disgracefully smeared as racists and xenophobes by some of the media and sadly by ordinary Brits who voted the other way. A workmate of mine was verbally abused by a fellow worker over their leave stance, although I am pleased to hear there was an emphatic apology. I must say it was a delight to hear people like Keith Vaz and David Lammy summing up this as a ‘disaster’ when in my view it’s the best thing to have happened to Blighty since the end of the Second World War.

The significance of this result should not be underestimated because those that voted out faced the full force of propaganda, bullying and manipulation the establishment could muster. Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of them. The whole government machine threw the kitchen sink at the voters, notably spending £9m on government leaflets posted to every house in the country extolling the arguments for remaining in the EU. Then we had Obama come over the pond to offer his advice that we would go to the back of the queue for a trade deal if we left the EU. I daresay a lot of Brits gave him a classic Anglo Saxon rebuttal when they heard this pontificating about how they should vote. Then we had the banking establishment led by venerable institutions such as the Bank of England and Goldman Sachs informing us of the dangers to the economy a Brexit would pose, followed by various world leaders such as Angela Merkel, and assorted businessmen like Richard Branson telling us what to do. Then there was the catwalk of celebrities that informed us of the ‘folly’ of exit, Jamie Oliver, Gary Lineker, and people like the comedian Eddie Izzard whose appearance on Question Time before the referendum might have convinced any waverer that staying in the EU might not be such a good idea. Even David Beckham was dragged into it, coming out as an enthusiastic remainer along the lines of its better being together. A lot of these people showed a woeful lack of knowledge or discernment on exactly what the EU represents, or at least that they serve the God of mammon. I have to salute the British public who after all the massive bullying fell back on good old fashioned common sense and voted for self government. I daresay that the vote to leave would have been bigger if that horrendous and wicked murder of Jo Cox, female Labour MP had not happened. Also, I suspect a significant number voted to stay through fear, and may be glad later that they lost the vote when and if Brexit proves to be the right move.

And there’s the rub. One report in the Sunday Times made it quite clear that the number one reason for voting out was sovereignty and recovery of democratic accountability to the British voter. Those who oppose the leavers must really extract from the narrative this poisonous idea that such people are racists and xenophobes. This is an insult to millions of decent and principled people who are deeply concerned about what is happening to their country, and it is their country, and they have the right to claim it as their own just as any other people anywhere in the world do. It does not belong to the world and his wife, and any country worth its salt should be able to reserve a high bar to entry, otherwise you devalue the very idea of nationhood. And that vision includes unequivocally those who have come here from overseas and made it their home, happy to accept its values and mores.

This was the main issue for me. Do you or do you not want to be ruled by an external authority? There is only one answer if you want a self governing Britain. And my conviction is not based on consuming endless Daily Express and Daily Mail articles for breakfast but by a long standing study and consideration of our relationship with the EU. I have even read ‘This Blessed Plot’ by Hugo Young, the very bible of the history of UK/EU integration, which traces in long and tortuous detail our developing ties with the continent, and exposes the deceit at the heart of this relationship played on the British people, the idea that there would be no essential loss of sovereignty and that it was no more than an economic deal. He says in the book that there was sufficient covering up of the full truth such that anyone who wanted to ‘make hay’ later would be able to and with full justification. And so it has happened with the rise of Nigel Farage and UKIP who have forced the government’s hand. In a nutshell it can be argued that Edward Heath and his acolytes and successors committed treason by subsuming UK law to EU or European law in the first place and he should not have been able to get away with it.

One might be forgiven for thinking that the hand of Providence intervened in this affair. David Cameron was surprised that he got a majority in the last Parliament. It was totally unexpected by the pollsters. He bought off the threat of UKIP who were holding his feet to the fire by offering a referendum on in or out. How many people voted for him with this in mind? I for one had had enough and went with UKIP. One or two commentators have linked all this to Cameron’s modernising campaign, notably same sex marriage, which drove goodness knows how many exasperated Tories into the bosom of UKIP. So we are where we are, and Nigel Farage is to be saluted by the nation, because his drive and energy and the rise of UKIP has had a lot to do with this incredible victory. They have put the pressure on and won the great prize, and what a prize, regained independence and sovereignty for the people of the U.K. This is a time for great rejoicing.

I argue that you have to see the big picture which extends way beyond our short term interests in the UK. At the beginning of this year the world been out of alignment, spinning on its axis but not in true fashion, wobbly and dangerously lopsided. There is a massive struggle between nationhood and patriotism on the one hand, and globalism on the other. This is the first great event that will help to steer the world back into some sort of alignment again, as perhaps people are seeing that the globalist agenda, like the Emperor, has no clothes. It remains to be seen whether Donald Trump can curry the same favour with voters in the US that Brexit has whipped up in the UK. And let me say now that I do not see Trump as that much better than Hilary. But Hilary will continue to push the globalist agenda whilst Trump is much less likely to do so. Meanwhile, already a number of European countries are demanding their own referendum, countries like the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France and even Germany. America has seen all this. Will she go for the same result?

This whole episode demonstrates that you cannot thwart the will of the people indefinitely. Sooner or later something will snap. I predict a love of country and revival of patriotism across the globe as peoples react to the relentless push for impersonal globalisation with its worship of money and big business, emasculation of national parliaments, erosion of democracy and unfettered and uncontrolled mass migration that poses a major threat to national cultures and social cohesion. Brexit is a healthy reality check that is proving an encouragement to the world to rediscover the importance of national identity. Well done Britain for leading the way, a fitting source for global change given her historical role as a bulwark against tyranny. She has not quite lost her soul, and may yet surprise us in the future.

“National sovereignty is the root cause of the most crying evils of our times… The only final remedy for this supreme and catastrophic evil of our time is a federal union of the peoples…”

Words on the wall in the EU Parliament’s Visitors Centre in Brussels, Belgium.

The upcoming Brexit referendum is of historic importance, not only for the UK in its relationship with the EU but of the impact of this referendum result on the whole world. I contend strongly that a free sovereign UK again will be a positive result for the world. Britain’s continuing membership will help to perpetuate and worsen the present sorry state of affairs.

To understand the nature of the beast we are dealing with just look at the quote at the beginning of this article. Unless you understand the DNA of the EU you will keep falling for the deception. For the EU is possibly the biggest deception or delusion this country has ever faced. The only thing that will stop us from being consumed by the EU is a casting aside of apathy and a little willingness to look at the bigger picture, and that includes taking a historical perspective.

The level of lies, deception and delusion surrounding the EU is enormous. There is always a spirit in Europe that rises up to try to take control of the continent. It has had various guises through the ages and can use any form of government or strategy to effect that control. You only have to look at the history of Europe to realise this. The Roman Empire was an early example when the legions of Rome got to Hadrian’s Wall but interestingly no further. Military power was the driving force. Then during the Middle Ages the controlling spirit worked through a political and religious hierarchy notably represented by the Roman Catholic Church. Later on we had Napoleon trying to conquer Europe through military power but taking a step too far by trying to take on Russia.

The most obvious recent manifestation were the Nazis. Again, a controlling spirit trying to take Europe by terror, Jew hatred and military power. The very same spirit just morphed into something different after the war, but this time it’s a little bit more subtle, using ‘peaceful’ methods to get its way, using words like ‘federalism,’ ‘pooling of sovereignty,’ ‘subsidiarity,’ ‘qualified majority voting,’ ‘progressive,’ ‘anti discrimination’ and ‘equality’ to get its way.

The EU is like a totalitarian monster trying to disguise itself in a velvet cloak, but it’s unceasing activity is to destroy the nation state. You can be absolutely sure that it aims to do this to what is left of the U.K. despite our history. Go to Brussels, to the very centre of the project, and read the words from the beginning of this article that quotes a British civil servant, Philip Kerr, later known as Lord Lothian, who loved federalism and internationalism and thought the nation state was the cause of all the world’s problems. This demonstrates the core DNA of the EU and needs to be exposed for all the world to see.

Also unless you can see you are dealing with a bully who will make ridiculous threats you will not get far. European Commission chief Jean Claude Juncke has actually just said there is no plan B, that ‘the UK will stay in the EU as a constructive and active member of the Union.’ Right now the UK needs a statesman of the highest calibre with great farsightedness, someone with the prophetic insight of Churchill, but we haven’t got that type of person in a Prime ministerial role. Every politician that enters Westminster is in danger of coming under the same spirit of control that emanates from Brussels, because this nation has opened a gateway to that spirit when we entered the Common Market. Thank God for UKIP who have provided a safety valve for dissent and indeed the chance of a referendum.

The EU has been trying to operate as one superstate for years. The single market is an example of that. We hear about being excluded from the single market if we leave the EU, but that shouldn’t surprise us. Any sovereign country has a single market with no trade barriers. In the UK there is a single market if you like, although we are compromised by Europe. So goods and services are freely traded across county and regional boundaries, between England, Wales and Scotland every day, without any tariff barriers. That’s what happens when you have one country. If we left the EU we would leave the single market and have to arrange a trade deal with the EU. That’s ok, it’s what any other country outside the EU does if they want to trade with Europe. Sure there may be tariffs or taxes involved at some point working both ways, but that’s what happens between sovereign nations. It certainly wouldn’t be in the interests of either side to set unnecessarily high trade barriers.

Another example is not being allowed to discriminate against workers from across the EU in terms of employment and benefits in favour of your own nationals. Of course that will happen because the EU is trying to build one country where you cannot discriminate in favour of your own people, for we are all EU citizens with EU passports.

Then we have child benefits for migrant families. We send child benefit payments ‘abroad’ for migrant families. The latest deal proposes that payments are indexed to individual countries’ costs off living so that a Polish family is not getting the same number of pounds as a Bulgarian family who are probably getting a ‘kings ransom’ at present rates given the low cost of living in Bulgaria. Again the EU is trying to act like a single state where payments are just sent home to wherever home is in ‘Europa.’

What have they offered us? Not very much at all. When dealing with a bully you have to go in hard and face them down head on, confronting them with a list of demands as long as your arm including taking back control of our fishing industry, industrial policy, energy policy and full control of our borders, and clipping the wings of the European Court of Justice to overrule Britain in any way. David has managed to secure a deal on migrants, to disallow in work benefits for in work migrants for up to four years, an emergency brake, but then this is subject to the agreement of the European Parliament and agreement of other governments to activate the brake. Exactly how many migrants is this going to stop from entering the UK, especially if they come from much poorer countries and are coming essentially to earn a living? A mere cosmetic exercise, especially as the Living Wage is coming on stream soon.

In view of all this David Cameron is a bit like a puppy sitting at the foot of the table of his master eagerly awaiting a few crumbs from the table. Quite insulting to him and the British people. Unfortunately Cameron is another gatekeeper for the European project, utterly under the thumb of the big bully of Brussels. You could also argue he is like a magician trying to perform a trick with smoke and mirrors. It has always been a dream of mine for a UK Prime Minister to stand up in Parliament and tell the EU to get lost. I will have to wait a little longer. But perhaps in the meantime the British people will make that unnecessary by rising up in courage and voting ‘out.’ Let us hope so!