There can now be no doubt about it. The powerful forces opposing Britain's departure from the European Union are organised, determined, and well on their way to frustrating the clearly-expressed will of the majority of British voters to leave the corrupt, undemocratic and clearly collapsing European Union.
The question for the Leave majority is: what are those of us who want to escape the shackles binding us to this rotten corpse going to do about the campaign to keep us in chains?
This is what we do...
The powerful forces of the pro-EU lobby have struck a blow against Brexit. Here's how we fight back
Nigel Jones
3 December 2016
The Telegraph
5 Comments
The Richmond by-election will embolden Remainers
There can now be no doubt about it. The powerful forces opposing Britain's departure from the European Union are organised, determined, and well on their way to frustrating the clearly-expressed will of the majority of British voters to leave the corrupt, undemocratic and clearly collapsing European Union.
The question for the Leave majority is: what are those of us who want to escape the shackles binding us to this rotten corpse going to do about the campaign to keep us in chains?
We should never underestimate the forces opposing Brexit. As they did during the Referendum campaign itself, the Remainers can count on the entire broadcast media – the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky; half of the national newspapers –the Guardian and Observer, the FT, the Times, the Mirror, the i and the online Independent; and the overwhelming majority of the Establishment and the great and the good. Most MPs in the current Parliament; the Judiciary, the Churches; the CBI, TUC, and the faceless corporations who make money move across markets around the world.
About the only thing they do not have on their side is the majority of the British people.
In the shock that followed the Leave vote on June 23, these forces were at first muted. They were stunned into silence by the realisation that ordinary people – those who felt less than thrilled to see jobs exported and the more unwelcome effects of mass migration, loss of sovereignty and cultural change – had dared to defy the universal advice of experts and their social betters to vote Leave.
But that brief period of blissful silence did not last. Those who had grown used to dictating the direction of travel on Britain's journey into the European superstate were never going to take their defeat lying down, and soon the murmuring began. The "not in my name" pro-EU mobs took to the streets; the bleating "Remoaner" articles started their daily appearance in the left-liberal press; and the legal moves aimed at thwarting the people's will began to crank into action.
At first, the Remainers hid their real aim behind clouds of obfuscation. They were, they claimed, not questioning the verdict delivered on June 23. Oh, no! They "respected" the decision taken by the British electorate. They merely – like umpires in a village cricket match – wanted to ensure that play was fair, the rules of the game properly observed, and that there would be no nasty, painful, "hard" Brexit.
In other words, they wanted to remain inside the single market; obey the edicts of the European Court of Justice, and carry on letting vast swathes of people cross open borders under the flag of "free movement". Basically the idea was to leave the EU in name only, and continue as before to submit to the vast array of deadening regulations dictated from Brussels.
But now, emboldened by the deafening silence of the Government, the Remainers are revealing their true intentions and coming out in their real colours: blue, emblazoned with gold stars. Articles are appearing in their house journal The Guardian on how to stop Brexit happening; the Supreme Court is almost certain next week to throw a huge spanner in the Government's works; and now wealthy, leafy Richmond – number 17 in the country's list of remain-voting hotspots – has overturned a 23,000 Tory majority and elected a Lib Dem MP who makes no secret of her intention to "override" Brexit.
The Supreme Court is almost certain next week to throw a huge spanner in the Government's works
If all this does not sound the tocsin of alarm in the sleepy Leave camp, then nothing will. It is more than high time for the Brexit majority to organise the fightback. Here is what needs to be done.
The myriad groups backing Brexit urgently need to do what they signally failed to do in their otherwise successful referendum campaign: unite.
The Leave majority in the Conservative party should set aside their differences with Ukip, the party which actually made the referendum happen and, working with Ukip's new leader Paul Nuttall, should mount a grassroots campaign to press the Government in the direction of the EU's exit door.
Taking a leaf from Labour's Momentum movement, the Tory wing of such a campaign should capture those constituencies they do not already control, and require all Conservative MPs to support the Government in its efforts to achieve a clean break with the EU.
The Conservatives, working with Ukip's new leader Paul Nuttall, should mount a grassroots campaign to press the Government in the direction of the EU's exit door.
Meanwhile Ukip, with Nuttall as the only working class leader of a major party for generations, should concentrate on winning the Labour seats in the North and Midlands which voted Leave in June, but whose MPs are stubbornly sticking to Remain. These boroughs are ripe for the plucking.
The Government, for its part, should stop its nervous Nellie shilly-shallying, abandon its Omerta vows of silence, and openly and proudly shout from the rooftops its intention to leave the EU, with or without the permission of those who lost the referendum.
If that is thwarted by the men in wigs, Mrs May should have the courage of her convictions and call a Brexit General Election in the New Year to produce a new Brexit Parliament committed to negotiating our early departure from the EU.
With the Tories leading Corbyn's floundering Labour party by a whopping 16 points in the polls, there can be little doubt as to the outcome of such a contest. It would be a bold judge, peer or Guardian feature writer who would, in the wake of such a triumph, attempt to delay or frustrate our future freedom any further.
As Churchill said in another context : "Let us go forward together and put these grave matters to the test". What on earth are we waiting for?
The powerful forces of the pro-EU lobby have struck a blow against Brexit. Here's how we fight back
The question for the Leave majority is: what are those of us who want to escape the shackles binding us to this rotten corpse going to do about the campaign to keep us in chains?
This is what we do...
The powerful forces of the pro-EU lobby have struck a blow against Brexit. Here's how we fight back
Nigel Jones
3 December 2016
The Telegraph
5 Comments
The Richmond by-election will embolden Remainers
There can now be no doubt about it. The powerful forces opposing Britain's departure from the European Union are organised, determined, and well on their way to frustrating the clearly-expressed will of the majority of British voters to leave the corrupt, undemocratic and clearly collapsing European Union.
The question for the Leave majority is: what are those of us who want to escape the shackles binding us to this rotten corpse going to do about the campaign to keep us in chains?
We should never underestimate the forces opposing Brexit. As they did during the Referendum campaign itself, the Remainers can count on the entire broadcast media – the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky; half of the national newspapers –the Guardian and Observer, the FT, the Times, the Mirror, the i and the online Independent; and the overwhelming majority of the Establishment and the great and the good. Most MPs in the current Parliament; the Judiciary, the Churches; the CBI, TUC, and the faceless corporations who make money move across markets around the world.
About the only thing they do not have on their side is the majority of the British people.
In the shock that followed the Leave vote on June 23, these forces were at first muted. They were stunned into silence by the realisation that ordinary people – those who felt less than thrilled to see jobs exported and the more unwelcome effects of mass migration, loss of sovereignty and cultural change – had dared to defy the universal advice of experts and their social betters to vote Leave.
But that brief period of blissful silence did not last. Those who had grown used to dictating the direction of travel on Britain's journey into the European superstate were never going to take their defeat lying down, and soon the murmuring began. The "not in my name" pro-EU mobs took to the streets; the bleating "Remoaner" articles started their daily appearance in the left-liberal press; and the legal moves aimed at thwarting the people's will began to crank into action.
At first, the Remainers hid their real aim behind clouds of obfuscation. They were, they claimed, not questioning the verdict delivered on June 23. Oh, no! They "respected" the decision taken by the British electorate. They merely – like umpires in a village cricket match – wanted to ensure that play was fair, the rules of the game properly observed, and that there would be no nasty, painful, "hard" Brexit.
In other words, they wanted to remain inside the single market; obey the edicts of the European Court of Justice, and carry on letting vast swathes of people cross open borders under the flag of "free movement". Basically the idea was to leave the EU in name only, and continue as before to submit to the vast array of deadening regulations dictated from Brussels.
But now, emboldened by the deafening silence of the Government, the Remainers are revealing their true intentions and coming out in their real colours: blue, emblazoned with gold stars. Articles are appearing in their house journal The Guardian on how to stop Brexit happening; the Supreme Court is almost certain next week to throw a huge spanner in the Government's works; and now wealthy, leafy Richmond – number 17 in the country's list of remain-voting hotspots – has overturned a 23,000 Tory majority and elected a Lib Dem MP who makes no secret of her intention to "override" Brexit.
The Supreme Court is almost certain next week to throw a huge spanner in the Government's works
If all this does not sound the tocsin of alarm in the sleepy Leave camp, then nothing will. It is more than high time for the Brexit majority to organise the fightback. Here is what needs to be done.
The myriad groups backing Brexit urgently need to do what they signally failed to do in their otherwise successful referendum campaign: unite.
The Leave majority in the Conservative party should set aside their differences with Ukip, the party which actually made the referendum happen and, working with Ukip's new leader Paul Nuttall, should mount a grassroots campaign to press the Government in the direction of the EU's exit door.
Taking a leaf from Labour's Momentum movement, the Tory wing of such a campaign should capture those constituencies they do not already control, and require all Conservative MPs to support the Government in its efforts to achieve a clean break with the EU.
The Conservatives, working with Ukip's new leader Paul Nuttall, should mount a grassroots campaign to press the Government in the direction of the EU's exit door.
Meanwhile Ukip, with Nuttall as the only working class leader of a major party for generations, should concentrate on winning the Labour seats in the North and Midlands which voted Leave in June, but whose MPs are stubbornly sticking to Remain. These boroughs are ripe for the plucking.
The Government, for its part, should stop its nervous Nellie shilly-shallying, abandon its Omerta vows of silence, and openly and proudly shout from the rooftops its intention to leave the EU, with or without the permission of those who lost the referendum.
If that is thwarted by the men in wigs, Mrs May should have the courage of her convictions and call a Brexit General Election in the New Year to produce a new Brexit Parliament committed to negotiating our early departure from the EU.
With the Tories leading Corbyn's floundering Labour party by a whopping 16 points in the polls, there can be little doubt as to the outcome of such a contest. It would be a bold judge, peer or Guardian feature writer who would, in the wake of such a triumph, attempt to delay or frustrate our future freedom any further.
As Churchill said in another context : "Let us go forward together and put these grave matters to the test". What on earth are we waiting for?
The powerful forces of the pro-EU lobby have struck a blow against Brexit. Here's how we fight back
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