The EU Empire is going to fail. Britain should get out now

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Even if Britain votes to Remain in the EU Empire on Thursday, the EU Empire is going to fail. It is not long for this world, and Britain should vote to leave the EU Empire on Thursday to protect it from the EU Empire's death throes.

The EU Empire is going to fail. On Thursday, we can protect Britain from the chaos of its death throes


Simon Heffer
19 June 2016
The Telegraph



Before referendum campaigning paused following the tragic murder of Jo Cox, there was growing disbelief among leading Remainers – the careerists, the big businessmen, the Bilderbergers, the Davos groupies and that tragic subset of my own trade that sees the journalist’s job as being to propitiate the governing elite – that polls should show a consistent lead for the Leave camp. It is disbelief born of their almost complete detachment from the realities of life outside London’s more exclusive postal districts.

In their blissfully ignorant private world, they applaud each other’s existences, praise each other’s insights, and rejoice in their smug membership of an elite in which they feel safe because its ways are beyond democratic will: until now. As their presumptions and assumptions have been assaulted and undermined they have flailed about in panic: witness the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with a straight face and to the embarrassment even of his supporters, promising an austerity budget to punish the nation should it vote Leave – even though he must have known a combination of his own MPs, the SNP and Labour would never allow such a measure through parliament.

In the real world, as some politicians have belatedly recognised, people want change. They dislike being told that the United Kingdom cannot run itself. They deplore doomsayers who have lost faith in their country. They are angry that their country’s borders are open not just to geniuses with PhDs, nurses, teachers, plumbers, electricians and others who can contribute to it, but to welfare tourists, pickpockets, rapists and murderers.

They resent a foreign power overruling their courts and their elected government. They are frustrated at being unable to change key policies when they vote. They detest contributing £8.5 billion a year net for Brussels to spend in countries less efficient, less productive and more corrupt than ours. They have had enough, above all, of being told that unless the UK concedes in perpetuity to foreign rule it will be worthless, and face ruin, danger and unremitting failure.

A new poll for ITV's Good Morning Britain shows Leave two points in the lead


The ruling elite has forgotten one eternal truth: that the British people don’t like being told what to do, and we especially don’t like being told what to do by those who patronise us or use their clout to control us (as with big business). We don’t like threats; we don’t like having our intelligence insulted, and we don’t like people who try to frighten us. To judge from my mailbag and from people I have met during the campaign, this has all created an upsurge in national consciousness not about British values, but about the value of being British, that we have not known since the Second World War.

Harnessed to this rising sense of consciousness about what sort of people we are, and why independence is our due, is our national sense of humour, which as history recalls, was deployed so effectively in the trenches and in the Blitz to defeat despair. It has turned the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and their smart international friends into figures of fun as they talk with increasing hysteria about the inevitable third world war, the recession, years of grass-stewing austerity, the evaporation of pensions or the end of western civilisation. And when an American president who manifestly disdains us tells us that we shall go to the back of the queue for a trade deal if we dare leave, we show our regard for his opinion by increasing Leave’s standing in the polls. Such defiance is not foolhardy, but enlightened, given what the world offers whether we are in the EU or not.

The polling model is so unreliable that one simply cannot predict the outcome. Anecdotally, the hardening of the Leave vote, for all the reasons I have stated, seems widespread. And talking of the trenches and the Blitz, the deep patriotism of our so-called “ordinary people”, which engendered such heroism then, is to the fore now.

A vast swathe of the Conservative party, appalled at the antics of its leaders, decided to Leave a long time ago; now millions of natural Labour voters, whose leaders have failed to give them any genuine reason to vote to stay in an organisation that has become a byword for anti-democracy, have joined them. They in turn join millions more who have felt disfranchised for years, and who are now seizing the opportunity to speak, without interpretation, about how they wish their country to be sovereign again. Whatever the outcome next Thursday, our politics will change seismically, because people will no longer bear the imperious treatment of old.

But dominating everything is a wider, connected truth: which is that all empires fail. They fail because of over-reach, and because they seek to control people determined to control themselves. The EU is an empire, albeit one not achieved by military conquest; and the signs of its decay have been obvious since long before the current, and insoluable, crisis of the euro. What has happened in Greece – and another instalment of debt repayment is about to destabilise it and the eurozone again – is indicative of why the EU cannot go on like this. Our leaving would not be the cause of that decay and failure; it would merely accelerate it. It should be abundantly clear that there is no point in asking what will become of us if we leave: we shall be quite all right, not least because of the huge trade surplus other EU nations have with us and their urgent need to carry on trading with us. The real question is, what will become of the EU?

Denmark, Sweden and Finland would be the next to seek a way out. Holland will become restless. In France, Marine Le Pen’s Front National will become more militant in its demands for France to leave. French popular support for that policy will ensure Mme Le Pen wins the first round of next year’s presidential election, and does (from Brussels’ point of view) embarrassingly well in the second, in which an establishment candidate will beat her, inheriting an angry and divided nation. Mrs Merkel could be out of her Chancellery by the end of next year; Greece will then be out of the euro, as the bailouts dry up; both Spain and Italy face separatist movements, the former in Catalonia, the latter as the north argues to break away from the south. All over Europe, peoples starved of democratic rights, – and living under an overpriced cartel with high unemployment, low growth and falling real wages – will look at the opportunity the United Kingdom had, and ask for something similar themselves.

It is precisely because of the enviable opportunity we have on Thursday – the most important vote in any of our lifetimes – that we should seize it and use it to secure change. We cannot tackle immigration within the EU, as the Prime Minister says. We cannot reform the EU from within, as the failure of Mr Cameron’s negotiations showed. We are not the only constituent nation whose domestic political culture is at odds with that of those who steer and advance “the project” of federalism and the creation of a superstate. If we have the guts to go, others will follow, and we shall return to a Europe of bilateral deals, alliances, and participation in the wider world. The European empire will fail because the world for which it was created – the world of the cold war, and international Marxism, and pre-globalisation – no longer exists, and European states need a different means to cope with the future.

We should think not just of reconnecting with Hugh Gaitskell’s sonorous and beautiful idea of “a thousand years of history”, important though it be to regain the sovereignty whose loss he warned against in 1962. We should think too of Enoch Powell – whose strictures against potential control by a superstate began in 1969, four years before we joined – and these words of his: “Too often today people are ready to tell us, 'this is not possible, that is not possible’. I say, whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible. We have nothing to fear but our own doubts.”

On Thursday I shall vote for the true interest of my country. I shall vote to repudiate “Project Fear”. I shall vote for the liberation of the United Kingdom and for the reinstatement of its democracy. I shall vote not just for a thousand years of history, but for our future to be in our hands again. I hope and pray the majority of my fellow Britons will join me. This is the chance for our moment of greatness.


The EU Empire is going to fail. On Thursday, we can protect Britain from the chaos of its death throes

PETER HITCHENS: There's a faint chance we may get our nation back one day...

By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday
19 June 2016

The part of the referendum campaign that has angered me most is this: the suggestion, repeatedly made by pro-EU persons, that there is something narrow, mean and small-minded about wanting to live in an independent country that makes its own laws and controls its own borders.

I can think of no other country where the elite are so hostile to their own nation, and so contemptuous of it.

I have spent many years trying to work out why this is. I think it is because Britain – the great, free, gentle country it once was and might be again – disproves all their theories.


Sign of the times: Baseball cap-wearing armed police on duty at Royal Ascot last week

Most of our governing class, especially in the media, politics and the law, is still enslaved by 1960s ideals that have been discredited everywhere they have been tried.

These are themselves modified versions of the communist notions that first took hold here in the 1930s.

But the things they claim to want – personal liberty, freedom of conscience, clean government, equality of opportunity, equality before the law, a compassionate state, a safety net through which none can fall, and a ladder that all can climb – existed here without any of these airy dogmas.

How annoying that an ancient monarchy, encrusted with tradition, Christian in nature, enforced by hanging judges in red robes, had come so much closer to an ideal society than Trotsky or Castro ever did or ever could.

The contradiction made the radicals’ brains fizz and sputter. How could this be? If it was so, they were wrong.

Utopians, as George Orwell demonstrated, prefer their visions to reality or truth.

Two and two must be made to make five, if it suits them.

So, rather than allow their hearts to lift at the sight of such a success as Britain was, and ashamed to be patriots, they set out to destroy the living proof that they were wrong.

They took a hammer to our intricate constitution.

They dissolved the best state secondary schools in the world and then attacked the best universities in the world for refusing to lower their standards too.

They dismantled the most relaxed and generous union of neighbouring nations ever seen in the history of the world.

And while they did this, they moved our landmarks, such as our unique coinage and a human, poetic system of weights and measures, polished in use.

They replaced the advanced world’s only unarmed police force with a baseball-capped, scowling gendarmerie festooned with guns, clubs and gas canisters.

They presided over a systematic forgetting of our national literature, so that a land where every ploughboy once knew the King James Bible is now full of people to whom the works of Shakespeare, Bunyan, Dickens, Wordsworth and Tennyson may as well be written in Martian.

They declared themselves ‘Europeans’. They regarded this as superior to their own country. ‘How modern! How efficient!’ they trilled. I have heard them do it.

They did not notice that the EU was also a secretive, distant and unresponsive monolith, hostile or indifferent to the freedoms we had so carefully created and so doggedly preserved.

They failed to see that its ‘parliament’ does not even have an opposition, that its executive is accountable to nobody. They inherited jury trial, habeas corpus and the Bill of Rights – the greatest guarantees of human freedom on the planet – and they traded in this solid gold for the worthless paper currency of human rights.

If they win on Thursday, the process of abolishing Britain will be complete. If they lose, as I hope they do and still think they will, there is a faint, slender chance that we may get our country back one day.


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He's another Remain traitor who will be hanged if (or when) Leave win.

People like him will have a hard time in a post-Brexit Britain. I suggest he stays in America.
 

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The guy's an out-of-touch, left-wing buffoon, of the type that make prats of themselves on BBC comedy panel shows like QI, Mock the Week or 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

As the wise Lisa Liel comments under the video on YouTube: Did anyone even imagine that Oliver would be anything but anti-Brexit? If they could turn the UN into a real world government, he'd be 100% for it. And did anyone imagine he wouldn't resort to screaming about racism to support his statist position?
 

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The guy's an out-of-touch, left-wing buffoon, of the type that make prats of themselves on BBC comedy panel shows like QI, Mock the Week or 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

As the wise Lisa Liel comments under the video on YouTube: Did anyone even imagine that Oliver would be anything but anti-Brexit? If they could turn the UN into a real world government, he'd be 100% for it. And did anyone imagine he wouldn't resort to screaming about racism to support his statist position?

Considering he's using the actual words and videos of UKIP bigots, I don't think he's the one who is racist.

UKIP is a disgrace to the UK.
 

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UKIP is a disgrace to the UK.

No, they aren't. Anti-British traitors such as Cameron and Osborne are a disgrace to the UK.

Ukip is a mainstream political party which is just what the old Conservative Party used to be before it became lefty-liberal and not much different from the Labour Party.
 

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So, you support it, just don't have the balls to do it yourself?

I don't think many people would mourn Call Me Dave and Boy George if somebody did a JFK on them, especially after what they've been saying, doing and threatening over the last couple of months.
 

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Fomer Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May have made a bizarre video begging the British people to vote to stay in the EU.

Standing in front of a map of Europe, they warn that European countries outside the EU, such as Switzerland, are a 'waste of time,' explaining to viewers that they don't film in the country because of custom duties (they neglect to mention that two of the European countries outside the EU - Switzerland and Norway - are the two richest countries in Europe and possibly the world).

Clarkson and May say in the video that leaving would make it much harder to film their motoring shows.

Jeremy Clarkson and James May finally agree on something: Staying in the EU (but only because it would make it harder to film their Grand Tour motoring show)

Clarkson and May attempt to put on rare united front to call for In vote
They brand European nations outside EU like Switzerland a 'waste of time'
Pair say they are 'fond' of Europe and staying in the EU is one of few issues they agree on


By Matt Dathan, Political Correspondent For Mailonline

Jeremy Clarkson and James May have made a bizarre film urging voters to stay in the EU because leaving would make it much harder to film their motoring shows.

Standing in front of a map of Europe, they warn that European countries outside the EU, such as Switzerland, are a 'waste of time,' explaining to viewers that they don't film in the country because of custom duties.

The short YouTube video showed the pair, who are filming for their new Amazon show The Grand Tour, attempting to put on a united front despite being known for their argumentative relationship.


Jeremy Clarkson and James May (pictured at the studio for their new Amazon motoring show The Grand Tour on Thursday) have made a bizarre film urging voters to stay in the EU because leaving would make it much harder to film their motoring shows


They warned that European countries outside the EU, such as Switzerland, were a 'waste of time,' revealing to viewers that they don't film in the country because of custom duties

Clarkson and May said they were 'fond' of Europe and staying in the EU was one of few issues they agree on - along with the views that the Ford Mondeo is a good car and 'sandwich spread is delicious'.

'It's annoys me actually, I'll be honest, because I want to remain in Europe but that means agreeing with him,' Clarkson explains, motioning to his colleague.

May says: 'This is very uncharacteristic - we have to put aside the normal policy of our TV show and our relationship and agree on something apart from that the Ford Mondeo is a good car.'

Clarkson interrupts to add: 'And that sandwich spread is delicious.'

'We agree on sandwich spread, Ford Mondeo - the old Ford Mondeo, that is - and Europe, that's it. Those are the only things we agree on, nothing else,' Clarkson says.

Explaining why they want Britain to stay in the EU, Clarkson says: 'But we do want to stay part of this - quite apart from anything else making our TV show, which is called the Grand Tour and involves touring the world and a lot of Europe, if we weren't in Europe, we'd have to get a carnet made every single time we wanted to go to any one of these countries and that would take a hundred years.

'And cost a lot of money,' May added.

But viewers soon witnessed the old Clarkson and May as they descended into typical bickering over Swiss knives - which was sparked after Clarkson claimed Switzerland was a 'waste of time'.

The 1.50 minute YouTube clip, published by the Remain campaign, was filmed on Thursday when David Cameron visited the TV stars in their studio in West London.

Clarkson, a controversial figure after his sacking from the BBC last year, surprised many by endorsing the campaign to stay in the European Union.

During the visit on Thursday, Clarkson said to the PM: 'It's an extraordinary thing that James and I only agree on three things, which is sandwich spread is delicious, the old Subaru Legacy Outback is a good car and Britain staying in.'

During an informal talk with Mr Cameron over cappuccinos in Stronger In-branded mugs and croissants (how very European), Clarkson added: 'I have not, with the greatest of respect, heard one politician say anything that's caused me to change my mind.

'There's huge numbers that don't understand and get confused. Really, it's my gut.'


David Cameron (middle) visited James May (left) and Jeremy Clarkson (right) at their TV studios in West London, where they are filming their new motoring show Grand Tour


During the visit on Thursday, Jeremy Clarkson (left) said to the PM: 'It's an extraordinary thing that James and I only agree on three things, which is sandwich spread is delicious, the old Subaru Legacy Outback is a good car and Britain staying in'


During an informal talk with David Cameron (left) about the referendum, Jeremy Clarkson (pictured middle, next to James May) told the PM: 'I have not, with the greatest of respect, heard one politician say anything that's caused me to change my mind'

Clarkson said he felt there were 'compelling' reasons for leaving.

But, he added: 'They're not compelling enough for me to say I want to drive a Morris Oxford, which is what would happen.'

Clarkson has famously insulted many countries - on one occasion getting into hot water for suggesting the first German-built Mini had turn signals that looked like a Nazi salute.


Mr Cameron turned up with branded Britain Stronger in Europe (which has the unfortunate initials BSE) mugs to try and reinforce his campaign

The biggest diplomatic incident triggered by the presenter focused on Argentina when he was accused of driving a car with an offensive number plate.

Despite his frequent gaffes, Clarkson is an enthusiastic European - once hosting an entire TV series dedicated to a driving tour of the continent.

May said: 'If I'm honest, it's a gut feeling for me as well.

'There are too many people who think we will be alright... but that's just not true.'

The pair discussed the effects of Brexit on the UK car industry and Mr Cameron said manufacturers would face tariffs on exports to the continent in the event of vote to leave.

He said: 'I've spent a lot of time in different car plates in the last few years and if you look at Toyota, Nissan, Jaguar, Ford they are all doing well in Britain.

'They are all expanding, they are all making more, they are all selling more and if we were out - like America was out and with a trade deal like them - they would actually face a tariff on every single car they send to Europe.'

Clarkson added that his fellow presenter Richard Hammond was filming in France for the trio's new Amazon Prime show and was still undecided on how to vote.

'He is a don't know - he does not actually know there's a referendum on,' he joked.

In his previous declaration for Remain, Clarkson said it would be 'better to stay in and try to make the damn thing work properly'.

He wrote in the Sunday Times: 'Britain, on its own, has little influence on the world stage. I think we are all agreed on that.

'But Europe, if it were well run and had cohesive, well thought-out policies, would be a tremendous force for good.'

Mr Cameron and Clarkson live close to each in Oxfordshire and the PM offered support to his friend when he lost his job at the BBC's Top Gear for punching a producer.

Clarkson and May, together with Richard Hammond, are currently working on a new motoring show for the Amazon TV streaming service.

The trio set plans in motion for the new show following Clarkson's sacking and The Grand Tour is due to air later this year.

Watch the video:


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No, they aren't. Anti-British traitors such as Cameron and Osborne are a disgrace to the UK.

Ukip is a mainstream political party which is just what the old Conservative Party used to be before it became lefty-liberal and not much different from the Labour Party.

UKIP are a bunch of racist, egotistical morons who remind me of the whole source of "We're Better Than You" feelings.

I'm not surprised you're in love with them either (but watch that, they don't like gay people either I bet).

Oh I do get there's a huge Muslim and even radical Muslim issue going on in the UK, and it needs to be dealt with. But it's laughable to think UKIP are the people to do it. People who support UKIP are actually the ones that perpetuate the hate on the other side of the fence.

UKIP and the radical Muslims are the same people in the end.