Now this is surely going to persuade a lot of undecideds to vote Leave.
President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, that awful man who was once Prime Mininster of pointless, useless Luxembourg, a country slightly smaller than Oxfordshire in land area and slightly smaller than Worcestershire in population, has said that the British people will be treated as "deserters" if they leave the EU, warning the UK would face “consequences” and be treated as a “third country” following a break with the EU.
He said that even if Britain votes Remain, it will not be easy to implement Call Me Dave's package of EU reforms - so again, hardly something which will make British people flock to vote Remain in their droves.
So here is one good reason why many Brits want to leave the EU - the arrogant attitude of its unelected foreign bureaucrats who care nothing at all for Britain except her money.
The guests on the Sky News newspaper preview last night were talking about this and one of them said that he knows of a British MEP who asked Juncker that Britain is having to go through painful cuts and austerity in order to reduce its deficit, but when is the EU going to take similar austerity measures? Juncker just said: "I'm not answering this question. I am not accountable to you." So Juncker, in his own words, is not accountable to MEPs and the people who voted for the MEPs.
There, in a nutshell, is the EU, its arrrogant, out-of-touch leaders and its contempt of democracy and why so many in Britain want out of this corrupt organisation.
Britain deserves much better than this. I'm voting Leave. I'd love to see the look on Juncker's face post-Brexit vote.
British 'deserters' will face the consequences, warns EU's Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission Credit: Reuters
Matthew Holehouse, Brussels
20 May 2016
The Telegraph
The British people will be treated as “deserters” following a vote to leave the European Union, Jean-Claude Juncker has warned.
In his greatest intervention in the referendum contest, the President of the European Commission said that the UK would face “consquences” and be treated as a “third country” following a break with the EU.
The remarks were denounced as “intimidation” by Leave campaigners.
"I'm sure the deserters will not be welcomed with open arms," Mr Juncker, a lifelong European federalist, told Le Monde.
Jean-Claude Juncker noted that David Cameron's reforms package has been absent from the referendum campaign
"If the British should say No, which I hope they don't, then life in the EU will not go on as before," he said. "The United Kingdom will have to accept being regarded as a third country, which won't be handled with kid gloves.
"If the British leave Europe, people will have to face the consequences -- we will have to, just as they will. It's not a threat but our relations will no longer be what they are today."
He also warned that it will “not be easy” to deliver the package of reforms secured by David Cameron in his referendum.
Key measures, including the suspension of in-work benefits for EU citizens, need legislation to be passed through the European Parliament.
He appeared to complain that the deal, which consumed months of work in Brussels as leaders sought to give Mr Cameron the best chance of winning the referendum, had been all but forgotten in the contest. Downing Street have made little play of the concessions.
"We will have to implement the arrangement that we have with David Cameron, which nobody speaks in the referendum campaign. It will not be easy,” he said.
Gisela Stuart, a Labour MP campaigning for Brexit, said: “Another day, another threat from those trying to intimidate the British people into voting to remain in the failing EU. These extraordinary comments are a new low.”
British 'deserters' will face the consequences, warns EU's Juncker
President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, that awful man who was once Prime Mininster of pointless, useless Luxembourg, a country slightly smaller than Oxfordshire in land area and slightly smaller than Worcestershire in population, has said that the British people will be treated as "deserters" if they leave the EU, warning the UK would face “consequences” and be treated as a “third country” following a break with the EU.
He said that even if Britain votes Remain, it will not be easy to implement Call Me Dave's package of EU reforms - so again, hardly something which will make British people flock to vote Remain in their droves.
So here is one good reason why many Brits want to leave the EU - the arrogant attitude of its unelected foreign bureaucrats who care nothing at all for Britain except her money.
The guests on the Sky News newspaper preview last night were talking about this and one of them said that he knows of a British MEP who asked Juncker that Britain is having to go through painful cuts and austerity in order to reduce its deficit, but when is the EU going to take similar austerity measures? Juncker just said: "I'm not answering this question. I am not accountable to you." So Juncker, in his own words, is not accountable to MEPs and the people who voted for the MEPs.
There, in a nutshell, is the EU, its arrrogant, out-of-touch leaders and its contempt of democracy and why so many in Britain want out of this corrupt organisation.
Britain deserves much better than this. I'm voting Leave. I'd love to see the look on Juncker's face post-Brexit vote.
British 'deserters' will face the consequences, warns EU's Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission Credit: Reuters
Matthew Holehouse, Brussels
20 May 2016
The Telegraph
The British people will be treated as “deserters” following a vote to leave the European Union, Jean-Claude Juncker has warned.
In his greatest intervention in the referendum contest, the President of the European Commission said that the UK would face “consquences” and be treated as a “third country” following a break with the EU.
The remarks were denounced as “intimidation” by Leave campaigners.
"I'm sure the deserters will not be welcomed with open arms," Mr Juncker, a lifelong European federalist, told Le Monde.
Jean-Claude Juncker noted that David Cameron's reforms package has been absent from the referendum campaign
"If the British should say No, which I hope they don't, then life in the EU will not go on as before," he said. "The United Kingdom will have to accept being regarded as a third country, which won't be handled with kid gloves.
"If the British leave Europe, people will have to face the consequences -- we will have to, just as they will. It's not a threat but our relations will no longer be what they are today."
He also warned that it will “not be easy” to deliver the package of reforms secured by David Cameron in his referendum.
Key measures, including the suspension of in-work benefits for EU citizens, need legislation to be passed through the European Parliament.
He appeared to complain that the deal, which consumed months of work in Brussels as leaders sought to give Mr Cameron the best chance of winning the referendum, had been all but forgotten in the contest. Downing Street have made little play of the concessions.
"We will have to implement the arrangement that we have with David Cameron, which nobody speaks in the referendum campaign. It will not be easy,” he said.
Gisela Stuart, a Labour MP campaigning for Brexit, said: “Another day, another threat from those trying to intimidate the British people into voting to remain in the failing EU. These extraordinary comments are a new low.”
British 'deserters' will face the consequences, warns EU's Juncker
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