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.