If I was a dyed in the
wool, isolationist, anti European Brexit Lemming I'd be pretty happy
with our unelected as leader, leader. However, I'm a pro cooperation,
pro harmony, pro trade, pro peace, joined up world kind of a guy.
Mrs May, representing
fifty two percent of the population, minus those who are having
second thoughts, minus those who did not get a vote, either because
they're British but not here, or are here paying taxes, working in
the NHS, education etc but, oh dear, not British and minus those
older Brexit voters who may have died since June, has triggered
Article 50 and called for unity.
If I were not too
polite I'd say she's pissing in the wind. She says she has started us
an a road from which there is no return; been listening to the wrong
kind of song lyrics I think, although she might well have said from
which there is no recovery.
Mrs May has failed to
take Scotland with her, she's failed to take Northern Ireland with
her and she talks about a frictionless border in Ireland with no
explanation whatsoever as to how that could possibly be achieved
without letting, heaven preserve us, Europeans in by the back door of
Dublin airport. She has even failed to take Wales with her and they
voted to make things worse!
Brexit Lemmings still
talk about 'Project Fear' as if they never employed fear of
immigrants, fear of Turkey joining the EU or any other fear
themselves, hypocrites and liars.
If you saw Mrs May
interviewed by Andrew Neil you will doubtless have heard her many
references to 'control' with no, commitment whatsoever, not even a
commitment to the Tory party's own professed target with regard to
immigration. Oh yes, she's all about control though.
Mrs May has used the
referendum to further her own political career, without reference to
the people whose referendum decision she keeps talking about honouring, but with
no right to change their mind of course. Even Brexit Lemming David
Davis has said that a democracy which cannot change its mind is not a
democracy at all, or words to that effect.
She might have reached
the top step but Mrs May now has to manage the ridiculous
expectations raised by Boris and Gove et al. Those are as difficult
to meet as a frictionless border in Northern Ireland, harmony in
England, Wales and Scotland and the certainty business is crying out
for.
Calling for unity does
not unity bring, compromise and listening would be a first step
towards unity. Not mocking people who want to keep their European
citizenship as being citizens of nowhere. I was born here in the UK,
my grandfathers went to the Western trenches, my father joined the
RAF in the second world war and we've all paid taxes and contributed
to British society.
However, I've also been
a European citizen for over forty years and I value that, which is
why I've signed the petition asking Europe to give those of us who
don't want to be stripped of our citizenship and our rights, by
populist isolationists and Cameron's misfired attempt to unify the
Tories, to give us a European passport, as indeed they do for people
living in the Turkish section of Cyprus who want one. I want it and
many thousands more do too, over three hundred thousand currently. Please Mr Tusk, give us a European
passport, well, in effect don't let them take it away from us.
Disgracefully and in
the lowest act yet Mrs May has brought European security into the, so called, negotiations even before they begin. In the wake of terrorist attacks
in Europe and in the UK, how dare she link security co-operation to
article 50?
If I were Mrs Merkel
I'd be increasing German defence spending. With a debt approaching
one point seven trillion pounds Britain won't be doing that. I'd also
be arguing for that European Defence Force since the Donald's
commitment to NATO is unlikely to be sincere, and leave Britain out
of it. Mrs Merkel is likely to be more pragmatic and reasonable than
Mrs May however, just as most of Europe's Foreign Ministers display
more dignitas and sincerity than ours. Don't expect Europe to lie
down and get stamped on by Mrs May though, she will have her work cut
out. Dignitas is not weakness.
So, Mrs May, not my
Prime Minister, says there is no going back, but she's wrong.
Lemmings casting themselves into the abyss suddenly stop and go back
to their normal lives when sufficient numbers have died. Much like humanity
after a world war. We can stop this madness.
Hypocritical as any
politician has ever been and whilst stating there is no going back
Mrs May also said to the House Of Commons 'Perhaps now, more than
ever, the world needs the liberal democratic values of Europe.' Well,
she got that right and there's one way to get liberal democratic
values and that is to support the Lib Dems in droves.
If the 48% alone voted
Lib Dem in a general election there would actually be a Lib Dem
government, because the others would be divided. Furthermore
Europeans resident here and paying taxes can also vote in general and
by-elections, which they couldn't in the referendum on racist
principles, if principles is appropriate language. Then there's the
young, as time goes by older Brexit Lemmings will die of natural
causes, fewer of the young pro Europeans will die off. Even as the two years plus divorce proceeds the demographic will be changing.
There is still hope, we
must demand a referendum, not a second referendum, but a first
referendum on where we want to be once the picture becomes clear. The
Labour Party is divided, Conservatives are divided, that's what
kicked this lunacy off, even UKIP Lemmings fight amongst themselves.
Only the Lib Dems are united on Europe and much else besides. Perhaps the 'negotiations' will need to be extended and we'll actually get an election before the decree absolute.
In so many ways we
started this idiocy, from Blair's blind support for Bush leading to
the migration crisis which the USA disowns, from Brown's profligate
spending leaving us in terrible debt and insecurity, to the June
referendum which bolstered Trump and divided us from our true values,
from one another and from our friends and allies.
The Dutch hung on to
their sanity, lets hope the French do likewise, otherwise Europe may
implode, which would not just be bad, but which would be terrible,
potentially disastrous actually for the entire world and we, the
British would have proudly started it.
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