Many people around the world could be excused for thinking what has happened to the UK. Historically a great nation on the world stage, but now struggling to extricate herself from the EU nearly three years after a significant vote to leave. We have now been given a date of the 31st October by the EU by which to agree on a deal on which we can leave. It is difficult to fathom quite what is going on as the government and Houses of Parliament seem to be embroiled in an act of self flagellation to the horror of the UK’s weary inhabitants. First we were told we were going to leave on the 29th March, the next date was indeed the 12th April, which has now been abrogated by the 31st October. We now have the prospect of participation in EU elections if we have not left by the 22nd of May. If you have read the book by Yanos Varoufakis on his fight with the EU deep state you would recognise the tactics being used by the EU at this time i.e. to keep the UK in a permanent state of temporariness so that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.
Bizarrely, the most infuriating action of the UK Parliament has been to take no deal off the table. For many Brits this is a ridiculous policy which gives away a massive bargaining chip, the ability to walk away if you are not happy with a deal. The EU will never give you a deal which is not in their favour, especially as they cannot afford to let the UK gain any advantage from Brexit. It seems our ruling class just cannot or won’t see the enormous benefits long term of a clean break. This is particularly galling when we are told by an insider that the civil service has prepared very well for a no deal.
A huge battle now rages over the future destiny of the UK which has centred on Mrs May’s deal in Parliament. This is only one example of the tussle between the globalist agenda, a world of open borders, doctrinaire, state sanctioned multiculturalism and remote government by an external authority, and a vision of the nation state as the best or least worst method of government for human wellbeing. The EU project is the Tower of Babel designed to destroy the nation state and centralise control of our nation from outside our nation. It gave away its intent in the wording of the plaque at the entrance to the visitors centre of the European Parliament: ‘National sovereignty is the root cause of the most crying evils of our times…The only final remedy for this evil is the federal union of the peoples.’ What an offence to any patriots who love their country.
The UK breaking out of the straightjacket that has been imposed on it over the last 45 years or so is a major threat to the globalist agenda, as a free and independent UK can step into a major leadership role unencumbered by the spirit of control that emanates from Brussels. The UK has loosened the lynchpin which holds the EU together and other nations will probably follow in our footsteps. There is great potential in the creativity, innovation and history of independent spirit that encouraged the fight for liberty, the common law trial by jury system and parliamentary democracy in these islands that can still yet be revived.
The tragedy of the last two years has been the absence of leadership in terms of giving a vision to the British people of the huge opportunities available in a clean Brexit. People could be forgiven for thinking that the establishment saw the vote as a historic mistake whose negative effects should be minimised rather than a glorious opportunity to make a clear although severe course correction. Prophetic leadership is needed at this moment in the nation’s history when its steps are faltering. Even now Mrs May’s deal is a completely unsatisfactory half in half out compromise which fails to deliver on the 2016 vote. Brexiteers should be honest about a no deal, that there will be some rough tossing in the short term as we extricate ourselves from the EU, but in the longer term a clean break means the restoration of self government, the ability to be far more nimble in our decision making both in domestic and foreign policy, the opportunity to develop trade ties more in our own interests, and an end to the huge sums of money sent to support the EU political project.
This is why the US is in a potentially stronger position than the UK with President Trump, who I have little doubt would have had far more success with Brexit than any of our political leaders. He would just not have accepted the continual attempts to sabotage Brexit through the House of Commons and an EU that is desperate for our money. A rogue president has been a breath of fresh air for the US, led by someone who has not been anointed by the liberal establishment. The same is needed in the UK, a rogue leader who will face down the liberal cult of modernity that bedevils the body politic of most western societies. However, such people don’t grow on trees, and it is debatable whether such a leader would be allowed to rise in our two party system given the strong pro EU bent of the majority of MPs. Nevertheless, if Theresa May is forced to step down, there may yet be an opportunity for a much stronger Brexiteer to become PM and to push the UK in the right direction.
I believe the significance of Brexit is lost on many people, especially remainers. Great Britain is the mother nation for many other nations in terms of the influence of Magna Carta, parliamentary democracy, the common law, religious liberty and freedom of speech. Yes much of this has been diminished in recent decades, and the nation is now in a battle between opposing forces such as secular humanism often expressed through political correctness, an Islamist worldview and a fast disappearing Judeo Christian heritage. Her history has often taken a tortuous route but there are plenty of positives. She has been a leader in many fields and breaking free from Brussels will enable her to restore a leadership role amongst the nations. Yes other nations will help her, but she will be a help to many nations too. But she must break free from the EU first to be truly herself.
Biblical comparisons have actually been made in relation to our leaving the EU, notably with the Children of Israel leaving Egypt to enter the Promised Land in the Old Testament, although there was quite a gap between the two, namely wandering in the wilderness for 40 years because of the disobedience of the Children of Israel. The Pharoah of Brussels is seen as trying to keep us locked in an ungodly Union whilst we are trying to break free, and so they are ‘chasing us down to the Red Sea’ to try and prevent us leaving. The comparison does of course have its limitations in that I am not aware of any plague of frogs, locusts or rivers of blood, let alone death of the firstborn. Nevertheless it is an interesting comparison even evoked by Boris Johnson in an article in the Daily Telegraph who talked of summoning up the spirit of Moses in dealing with the EU. Could it be that there is indeed some divine hand at work in the current Brexit chaos, where nations will be realigned to a new paradigm?