Brexit is the defining issue for our time and which way it goes will affect the whole world as Britain is a forerunner nation and has a leadership mantle upon it, for despite her decline, there is life in the old lion yet. If she successfully breaks with the EU it will be the signal for other nations to depart. It can be done! There are big rumblings in Italy at the moment, Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Holland and even Sweden have patriotic movements, and there are signs that their patriotic movements can have a bigger impact on their governments than in the UK where the first obvious blow was landed to the globalist agenda, and then there is conservative Eastern Europe which has a huge cultural divide with ‘progressive’ Western Europe.
The key issue in Brexit is where does power and authority lie, in Brussels or in Westminster? Everything else is secondary. Enoch Powell got it in one, and he was a very clever man, ‘Do or do you not want to be ruled by an external authority? This is the key question. Immigration, housing, the economy, money, business, social policy, human rights are important but not foundational. When we decide where power and authority lie, everything else will flow from that. 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.
This is where the political parties have it all wrong. Theresa May and her government is putting trade, the economy and business before the overriding question. Labour has been going for a ‘jobs first’ Brexit. This is all very understandable but this is guaranteed not to give us a clear decisive break from Brussels. Money, the economy and business are important, no denying that, but they flow from a people, not the other way round. The people of the USA produced a free market economy which flowed out of their culture and world view. Likewise Great Britain developed a mercantile internationally trading economy in the days of the British empire. Cue the idea of the Protestant work ethic having an effect on the Anglosphere. The Soviet Union produced a sclerotic state run economy where what to produce, how to produce it and to whom it should be distributed is decided from on high rather than through market forces, the effect of Marxist doctrine on a nation. When we leave the EU the British people will foster an economy that suits the needs of its citizens. However you can be sure that those intent on keeping the UK in the EU. continue to play the economics card for all it’s worth.
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 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.
All the time it seems British politicians want to hang on to Nanny’s apron strings in the EU. It is almost as if the muscle of self government for our nation has become atrophied and needs considerable physiotherapy before any sense of confidence is restored. Where the problem needs a cutting of the Gordian knot that ties us to Brussels, our government is getting bogged down in too much detail.
One danger is that Theresa May and her government will make such a mess of Brexit that the British people will be kicking and screaming to come back to return to Brussels rule, seeing the whole procedure as complicated and difficult beyond belief. Sadly Theresa May was a remainer and therefore one is not sure she’s has a conviction in her heart that she is doing the right thing. The UK needed a Brexiteer as PM to steer it out of the EU port. On occasions she has been questioned about her viewpoint and deflects enquiry by saying that the British people have voted to leave the EU, not of course she herself. The suspicion that the dark arts were employed straight after the referendum to oust Andrea Leadsom from potential leadership of the Conservative party and to ensure that a ‘safe pair of hands’ was put in is difficult to avoid.
Countless signs that the ‘witchcraft’ continued have beset the whole process. Davis Cameron was supposed to action article 50 but didn’t. Gina Miller brought a court case to ensure that article 50 had to be ratified by Parliament to ensure the UK could not trigger talks on leaving without the approval of Parliament. Theresa May introduced the idea of a ‘transition’ in her Florence speech. Many voices spoke of the impossibility of a clean Brexit when our border arrangement with a Southern Ireland could be compromised. The we heard that the transition deal will allow EU citizens to continue to come here during this time. In addition our fishing industry has been thrown under the bus and must make the fishing fraternity wonder just what they voted for in 2016.
The most recent manifestation of this incessant desire to lock us into the EU despite the vote is the Chequers agreement which led to the resignation of a number of cabinet ministers including David Davis, Boris Johnson and Steve Baker. This tortuous arrangement which would lead to us collecting customs studies on behalf of the EU, being not quite out of reach of the European Court of Justice, and rather compromising our ability to control our borders seems to have the fingerprints of the establishment civil service all over it, represented by Olly Robbins, bogeyman of ardent Brexiteers. A right royal rumpus this has caused, including a rise in the membership of Ukip, news that will cause nightmares for every remainer MP, especially Anna Soubry. Nigel Farage has also threatened a return to the fray to teach the establishment a lesson they will never forget.
If we stay in the Customs Union we will not be leaving the EU. All our trade arrangements will have to be decided in conjunction with 27 other countries which has everything to do with a political project and nothing to do with making our own trade arrangements. If we stay in the Single Market, which the government assured us we would leave if we left the EU, we have to continue accepting free movement of labour, which given the already porous nature of our borders and half hearted attempts to tighten and implement immigration law, is an invitation to more hundreds of thousands to enter this tiny island.
In essence this is a titanic struggle between the powerful force of globalism whose baby is the EU and a resurgent patriotic spirit that desires nationhood and self government. Those forces are raging against Britain for making the ‘wrong’ choice and will try every trick in the book to keep us tied to this political project disguised as an economic union. The powers that be are still arrayed against Brexit, the majority of the House of Commons and House of Lords, the Bank of England, the EU, and of course big business. They will push the message of financial and economic ruin for all its worth and must be resisted. For this battle will have ramifications for the whole earth, as the downfall of this nation will usher in a new dark age.
I believe the British people made the right choice because in essence a spirit of control emanates form Europe that wants to stifle and crush the spirit of this nation, sucking all its individuality away and pressing it into an EU mould. What Britain suffers from right now is a crisis of leadership, that one man or woman needed with the necessary vision to face down the Brussels bullies and cut the Gordian knot that binds us to Europe. We need someone like Trump, but a British Trump without some of the negatives that have been attributed to Trump. The Donald I would suggest would have got a lot further with Brexit than our present leadership. Cometh the hour cometh the man? You never know!
Maybe we will bumble our way out without the churchillian leadership we need. Whatever happens the good ship HMS United Kingdom has loosed her moorings and is now departing the EU quay, albeit extremely slowly. Those thick heavy ropes that tied her to Europe are unraveling. But what a battle it is! 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. Others say we we will crash out with a no deal. We shall see!