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UK needs migration 'because native Britons are bloody stupid', says pro-EU lord
UK needs migration 'because native Britons are bloody stupid', says pro-EU lord | The Independent
All you need to know about the majority of the 812 members of the House of Lords today. A bunch of lefty liberal establishment Europhiles who think that anyone who disagrees with them on matters such as immigration and the EU are "bloody stupid" and "racists." He's a bitter, sore-loser Remoaner who still can't get over the fact that the British people have voted the "wrong" way and got one over the establishment.
Theresa May needs to perform a wholesale clearout of the Lords and then - as is proposed - make Farage a lord and stick him in it. And then a whole load of other people whose views are more in line with Farage's need to be made lords and put into the House.
The Remoaners' disdain for Britain has been exposed, says Stephen Pollard
MEET Lord Kerr of Kinlochard. Unless you have an unusual interest in the intricacies of the diplomatic service and Whitehall it is unlikely you have ever heard of him.
By
Stephen Pollard
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
The Daily Express
Lord Kerr is the typical EU fanatic who helped draft Article 50
Even though, as a peer since 2004, Lord Kerr has been one of our ruling elite with a vote in the upper house of Parliament.
But although this is probably the first piece you have ever read about him, Lord Kerr is one of our most distinguished compatriots.
A former British ambassador to the US, he has also served as the permanent UK representative to the EU and as head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
However, for all the glitter of his stratospheric career, Lord Kerr also represents everything wrong with a certain type of Brit: members of a coterie who for most of the past 50 years have believed that the masses are too stupid to be allowed a say.
Lord Kerr is the typical British EU fanatic. He has spent his career, first in the diplomatic service and now as a peer of the realm, pushing at every stage to increase and deepen our entanglement with Brussels, dismissing with bemused contempt the anxieties of his fellow countrymen and women.
The referendum on EU membership served many important functions, most obviously allowing us all, for the first time since 1975, a real say in our country’s future. But one especially fascinating development during the campaign was the way it dragged out into the open the contempt for Britain that is the foundation of much of the Remainers’ fanaticism.
Lord Kerr said Britons are 'so bloody stupid' we need EU citizens
Two weeks after the vote Lord Kerr – the man who helped draft Article 50 itself – offered his thoughts on the Brexit vote and the EU in a debate in the House of Lords. The win for Leave was based on “ignorance”, he told his fellow peers, because voters are flippant, silly people who are not qualified to take decisions that matter. Important matters should be left to the likes of his fellow peers.
Even MPs are too uncouth, having to prostrate themselves before those hideous voters.
To quote his words in their full condescending, patronising, contemptuous glory: “Student politics may have trashed the country but now it is time for the grown-ups to reassert themselves, reassert our values and restore our reputation.”
However, clear as he was in June that voters are too stupid to decide important issues, this week he excelled himself. According to Lord Kerr, the key reason we need to be members of the EU and to keep our borders open to free movement of EU citizens is because “native” Britons are “so bloody stupid”.
Some Britons voted Leave because they want 'Parliamentary sovereignty'
As he put it: “We native Brits are so bloody stupid that we need an injection of intelligent people, young people from outside.”
Our stupidity, he informed an event on Thursday, was on full display in the referendum campaign. Leave won, you see, only by “cleverly outsourcing xenophobia and racism” to the Ukip leader Nigel Farage. You – that is you, me and all of us who voted to leave – are thick, you see.
None of us looked at the issues and decided that we believe the EU is an anachronism, that we want to be a globally trading nation or that we want to return to Parliamentary sovereignty. No. According to Lord Kerr, we voted to leave because we are bigots and “so bloody thick”. We should be grateful to Lord Kerr.
We rarely get to hear with such clarity what he and his ilk really think of us. Indeed, you might perhaps think that Lord Kerr is – how can we best put it? – pretty thick to have blurted out his true feelings about his fellow countrymen and women. You might well think that.
The danger will come if the political establishment tries to subvert the change that voters demanded
But I would put it another way: Lord Kerr is suffused with the all-consuming arrogance of the EU elite. And for the likes of Lord Kerr, the views of hoi polloi are so irrelevant that it most likely never crossed his mind to think or even care about how his words might go down.
It is easy to laugh at Lord Kerr. No satirist ever needs to create a character to represent everything wrong with our EUfanatic elite. Lord Kerr fits the bill all too perfectly but he is more than a comic character. He is profoundly dangerous. Lord Kerr is the true voice of the Remainers – utterly contemptuous of the British people.
They regard the Leave vote as invalid since it wrecks the cause that they believe is greater even than democracy itself. Most of them – Lord Kerr excepted – speak the language of acceptance but don’t be fooled. They don’t accept the vote for a second. They will do anything to find a way to usurp it.
That is why what Lord Kerr represents is so dangerous. We have seen in two key votes – the referendum and the US presidential election – that voters have had enough of the old politics handed down by the political establishment and want a change.
The danger will come if – or, perhaps more accurately, when – that political establishment tries to subvert the change that voters have demanded. If the political system refuses to bend when voters vote for change the system will be unsustainable. And none of us can know what will come next.
Our society and the freedoms we take for granted depend not just on respect for democracy but on certainty. Certainty that when voters speak politics does not just listen but follows. When the likes of Lord Kerr behave as if they have some kind of superior role to play they endanger everything.
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