John Bean reports
I shall vote Leave on June 23rd because I am a European. I love Britain, I love Europe, but I hate the concept of the EU. That is why I have campaigned for a European Confederation of sovereign states. It is a view that is gaining increasing support on the Continent, and is abused by the old party system and its media mouthpieces as ‘populist’ and/or ‘right-wing extremist’.
No doubt much to the shock of conventional Tory voters, on June 13th the Daily Telegraph published a letter supporting the British Leave campaign signed by three French admirals in Paris. Not to be outdone the following day a letter appeared from three French Army colonels expressing even stronger views. Here are its main points.
Vote Leave – We don’t want to be part of the European Defence Force
“In reality Brexit is about recognising that Europe has gone astray, has missed its vocation and has been pulled down to the lowest common denominator by uninspired politicians. . . .
“Brexit is a reaction to our political leaders giving up the defence of their nation’s sovereignty and handing over their supreme responsibility to third parties. It’s a reaction to the legal drive to overturn individual national histories and cultures in favour of a new subculture that combines consumerism and single-minded administrative systems. . . .
“Brexit may well spell the end for the European Union, but it won’t be the end of Europe. Quite the reverse. It would be a powerful wake-up call to Europe’s leaders. . . . ”
For those who suggest we should stay with the EU and work from the inside to change it to a more democratic Confederation, it has been shown that the EU bureaucrats have rejected every single call for even the slightest modification. To be fully accepted for a start it needs to recognise that the Euro monetary system should be scrapped. The one-size-fits-all straightjacket of the single currency has destroyed Greece as a functional nation. Its unemployment rate is nearly 60 per cent. For those under twenty-five it is 56 per cent in Spain and over 40 per cent in Italy. No wonder the young people from Southern Europe are flocking to Britain for work.
With the abolition of the Euro zone it would allow each nation’s currency to find its own exchange rate against each other, as opposed to being in reality what is best for Germany’s exchange rate. With reduced exchange rates Greece, Spain and Italy, for example, would find a rising demand for their goods and services – which includes holidays for the North Europeans.
Incidentally, the Leave campaigners, including Farage, carefully avoid mentioning that the majority of immigrants in Britain are still coming from Afro-Asia. They might be called ‘racist’ for stating the obvious. Thanks to Frau Merkel’s campaign to let a million come into Europe in less than a year many will continue to feed into the promised land of Britain.
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What a glorious day it would be if Brexit not only spelled the end of this failed EU project but paved the way for other Nations to also wrestle back there independence.Proud Nations once again having control over there borders instead of being a part of some One World nightmare.Then and only then Europeans could perhaps feel free to celebrate all that is great about our White European Culture built by Men and Women bound by Racial and Cultural ties.
It is going to be a close one. Brexit had a 6 to 7% lead until the brutal murder of a Labour MP by a low-life coward. Hopefully if we do free ourselves of the EU shackles we can one day bring back the death penalty for the likes of this evil scum…
If we succeed in leaving the EU…it will surely be only a matter of time when we can start deporting illegal immigrants and repatriating criminals without the EU bleating about their right to a ”family life”…which can include owning a cat.
I think I have convinced most of the people I know to vote Leave. All our Party Brexit leaflets went out. Get everyone you know out there on the day and vote for an independent and free Britain.
Its kind of ironic that we have the support of the French military. General De Galle didn’t want us in from day one.
With the prospect of an all European Army and the CV of French officers, I’d suggest were we to remain they wouldn’t get a look in .
In fact all those I’ve seen backing remaining in this unholy behemoth. Are those for whom the EU has well rewarded, so in purely for selfish reasons. French army generals are just following the lust for money are the others.
Even dragging in the ultimate grey man John Major. The erstwhile financial genius that in an earlier lust for power, failed the London transport conductors exam. He really did folks.
Whatever the result of this referendum actully is (and I have few doubts as to how this fanatically undemocratic Tory government will try and fix it ie fixing the postal ballot a la Austria which has become so bad that even an Establishment High Court judge branded it worthy of the “worst banana republics”) getting John Major to do your dirty work was really desperate> Mr John Major was a PM who who was obviously unsuited for the job and WAY out of his depth> I hope many voted to leave purely because this man refused to countenance a referendum on the Maastrict Treaty when if he had done so perhaps the head of steam that has built up for our exit would not have built up as much as it has>
We will leave the EU regardless of the polls once We leave We as a Country must get rid of LibLabCon & the Medieval Monarchy and be a Federal Republic with a written Constitution.
Just for the record ThisJB we do have a clearly written constitution. headed up by firstly the Magna Carta and then the 1689 bill of rights then the act of settlement shortly after. Those that claim otherwise are wrong . What nefarious reason should that be the case.
As for the Monarchy I detest it and all it stands for , but as others have pointed out ,replace it with what.?. I could stomach it were all, apart from the King / Queen only paid job seekers allowance. Saving us poor browbeaten tax slaves a few shekels.
Any new bill of rights written by the bed wetting liberal elites wouldn’t bear thinking about. Until we rid parliament of them best hang on to the old set.
Has anyone noticed that :
The disparity between the failed ‘Stay’ vote and the successful ‘Leave’ vote, is similar in size to that which previously elected two Nationalist MEP’s?
Woooo-Spooky!.
In the words of Del Boy Trotter ‘ we’ve only gone and bloody done it’ But it now creates other questions .One year down the line nothing will have changed will it ?
That’s the feeling I get. What should happens is the Queen should shut down parliament if that was the case, and demanded a General election. In which each prospective candidate must declare whether pro or anti exit.
Will it happen ,I doubt it.
The pro-EU ‘elite’ in this country no doubt plan to not implement the result of the referendum by calling an early general election. Of course, due to the archaic and undemocratic electoral system of First Past The Post the pro-EU parties like the CONServatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats will win enough seats to form a government (even if they have to form a pro-EU ‘grand coalition’) and the anti-EU UKIP would struggle to get anywhere near 326 seats. Does anyone here seriously think the Establishment won’t try and pull a fast one on the people in this way?
Remember until the BRITISH GOVERNMENT hands-in to the EU our notice of quitting via Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty we are still FULL members of this club.
Also I hear mutterings that the tightness of the result means we really need a repeat . Thus proving the mathematical illiteracy of the remain elites. 51% is a landslide I wonder would they claim otherwise had they the 51 % landslide.
I think the result would have been more emphatic had it not been for the very unfortunate events that have dominated the headlines this last week. Nobody knew which way it might go and some of the polls were some-way off the mark. This is a great day for Britain and a big step in the Right direction. RULE BRITTANIA !
I’m naturally pleased with the result though as an English nationalist I haven’t the slightest interest in ‘Britain’ or the insane species of cognitive dissonance that encourages unionist fervour among an almost exclusively English crowd beset by self-loathing and with no constituency for their opinions outside their own borders. For ‘British’ [English] patriots to achieve any degree of consistency they are obliged to ignore decades of abuse and rampant parasitism. They must do this because they hate what they are and think enemies north and west of our boarder will go easy on them if they just keep smiling and throwing money at people filled with hatred toward them and who make no secret of it. You’d think nearly a thousand years of independence never happened. Do you seriously believe England will be in better shape for exchanging one group of alien rulers for an older, slyer variety, and especially without the abandonment of usurious private banking that [along with letting our affairs be run by outsiders of any kind] lies at the heart of our problems? Only one economy in these islands has legs. The others need a sugar daddy. Sadly England is awash with cowardly appeasers who regard English legitimacy as a function of other people’s welfare. What then is different? If English people weren’t so stricken with self-loathing and a compulsion to appease we might actually get our country back. As it is we haven’t, so don’t delude yourselves. ‘Rule Britannia’? In the oldest nation state in Europe [that’s ENGLAND you clots, not Yoo-Kay’] discourse remains on the level of a high school debating club.
Englishcheathen…Yes I always notice that English folk quite like to see Wales, Scotland and Ireland do well at football and this is never reciprocated. Having both Scottish and Irish blood I can tell you that some of them just don’t like us. However this is often not the case.
If the Scots or Welsh share of the vote had prevented a Brexit would we be entitled to carp at the result and demand another referendum ? Most English were not in favour of Scottish independence but they just about stayed in the union because many up there knew they would be worse off without us.
The EU is a Leftist Superstate who’s most loyal puppet is Angela Merkel…..That word ”tolerance”, the nearest equivalent I can think of in the natural world being submission, is -depending whether you are or not- what makes you either a good guy or a ”bigot”. Hence, all the political Lefties and so called celebrity ”luvvies” who are devastated by our victory. Sturgeon’s response is exactly as expected. They are all ardent believers in ”tolerance”.. ie mass immigration.
We have made a great step forward…but Britain faces troubled times ahead, and we’d be mad to think otherwise.
No, we wouldn’t be entitled to carp at the result. The EU referendum was a UK-WIDE vote and so EVERYONE in this country regardless of what part of the kingdom they come from HAS TO accept the result. Nicole Sturgeon is just doing what she is only good for ie creating trouble. Someone needs to slap her down and tell her the contents of the Scotland Act 1998 as she clearly is incapable of understanding it at all. That act states that the Scottish Parliament is a DEVOLVED PARLIAMENT OF WESTMINSTER and thus we STILL live in a UNITARY STATE. The parliament in Holyrood has NO inherent sovereignty of its own like a state in a FEDERAL country like the USA has. The act clearly states that ALL constitutional affairs and ALL foreign affairs (which includes EU membership) are ‘RESERVED’ to Westminster.
Having said that, Mr Cameron said in EARLY 2013 that if his party won the next election there would be an IN/OUT referendum on the EU membership issue and the Scots voted on becoming independent in September 2014 so those voting in that referendum clearly should have known that if they voted to stay-in the United Kingdom then the Tories could win the next election and have this referendum which could mean the UK AS A WHOLE either staying-in or leaving the EU. In other words, this EU referendum WASN’T sprung as a surprise on Scotland. She has NO grounds for whinging. ALL of us whether we live in Basildon, Belfast, Edinburgh or Cardiff had ONE vote each and ALL OF THEM had an EQUAL value to them (ie NOT like our fake ‘general elections’ under the farcical and archaic fraud of First Past The Post whereby some people if they live in ‘marginals’ get a FAR MORE VALUABLE vote than those of us who live in ‘safe’ seats)
She doesn’t seem to realise that over a MILLION Scots voted to leave the EU and if the gap between the pro-EU vote and the anti-EU vote in Scotland had been wider (I was expecting it to have been) then it would have narrowly tipped the result to staying-in. We would have had to accept such a result but then we don’t go around whinging when we don’t get our own way like her SNP fanatics do.
It was good to see Spain’s PM give her a curt ‘dressing down’ yesterday!
I agree with John Bean. A European Confederation of Sovereign States is a good proposal, but a single Super-State like the EU is an abomination. A confederation of independent states would be a sort-of “mini-United Nations” where each country’s independent sovereignty was unquestioned, whereas the European Union is – as many have justifiably pointed out – a de facto Union of European Soviet Republics where shadowy and largely unaccountable figures impose an ever-tightening mesh of unwanted, unnecessary and undemocratic rules and regulations seemingly designed with the sole intention of forcibly welding all independent states into one vast draconian European Empire. (Personally, I smell a whiff of the Bilderbergs lurking in the shadows behind the EU.) I voted to leave and I’m proud of it!
The EU has over centralized and interferes with too many areas of policies which should always remain the province of the nation states of Europe. This particularly applies to economic policy which in normal democratic societies is the focus of general election campaigns and thus has made the EU the target of so many people from both the ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ of the political spectrum. The EU, if it is to have any kind of future, needs to radically scale back its ambitions and to realise it ISN’T there to be a total replacement for the national parliaments but to act only as a small-scale ‘overview’ for Europe to prevent us going to war with each other again etc.
With regard to your use of the word ‘soviet’, I do laugh at these Daily Mail and Daily Express-reading idiots who seriously think of the EU as a kind of ‘Fourth Reich’ and who lap-up the Daily Express and Daily Mail’s Germanphobia (no surprise Richard Desmond the owner of the Express is anti-German!) The EU under Frau Merkel’s leadership has far more in common with the old Soviet Union than it does to Adolf’s Third Reich. Would Adolf if he were alive today and in control of Germany and the EU really be flooding Germany and the EU with a million plus ‘refugees’ ( a tiny minority of whom are genuine but the vast majority are simply economic migrants) from the Third World? I doubt it!
Agreed, Steven. My dictionary defines “soviet” as “…an elected council in a Communist country.” As we know, in the former Soviet Union, each elected local council was responsible to – and subservient to – the Central Committee, which ruled Russia. Each of the elected national governments comprising the European Union is responsible to – and subservient to – the European Parliament. So where is the real difference between the USSR and the European Union? There is no meaningful difference! On the other hand, to compare the EU with Nazi Germany is ridiculous; there is no similarity in method, organisation, administrative structure or moral values.
There is no way the Traitorous Tories are going to allow BREXIT to happen. How are they going to stop it you ask?
(1) Get the pro-EU Establishment creature Teresa May elected as PM.
(2) She’ll then drag her feet over enacting Article 50 to the extent that there will be serious discord in the Tory party.
(3) She then calls a general election with the Tories (and Labour, LibDims, SNP etc) advocating that the UK should remaining in the EU.
(4) The Tories then win the general election and claiming they have a mandate from the people they bury Brexit.
That is also why Cameron hasn’t enacted Article 50 yet – something he promised he would do immediately after the Referendum.
Prepare to be betrayed.
they will not get away with it
with Hollande hopefully on course to lose the French Presidency next to be repleaced by Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump in the USA