Gauleiter Emmanuel Macron of the EU Province of France must wait for Führerin Ursula von der Leyen to agree his 'deal' with Starmer. Will she? Perhaps she will see an opportunity to restore free movement. Starmer did his best to overthrow democracy following the BREXIT referendum. Since becoming Prime Minister he has pursued an anti-British policy whenever and wherever he could. Giving away territory in the Indian Ocean and paying a Communist Chinese client state to take it, is normal for a man who has paid the French £800 million to police their own borders. If the French did not want illegal squatters on their northern coast they would not be there.
I recall being in a village near Dunkerque on the last polling day in May 2017 of the French Presidential election. Outside the polling station were party placards. One depicted Macron as a monkey floating down to earth on balloons. At the time there was a belligerent resurgence in the demand for Flemish to replace French. Most small towns had notices offering to teach Flemish. We had been in the Champagne region. Dinner in a charming Gite allowed us to talk to locals. They were in awe that we had voted leave and that, seemingly, the vote was being respected. "Would you vote leave the EU?" I asked, "We did" replied a man as the other sadly nodded.
Former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing headed a commission to draft a Constitution to replace the Maastricht treaty. In May 2005 a French referendum rejected the Constitution by 55% to 45%. On June 1st 2005 the Dutch rejected it by 61% to 39%. Planned referenda in other countries including the UK were cancelled. Giscard was tasked with finding a fix. On December 13th 2007 a lone Gordon Brown sneaked into Lisbon and signed the treaty of Lisbon. He had refused a referendum as had others on the grounds that it did not alter anything very much. According to Valéry d'Estaing writing in Le Monde the Lisbon Treaty was the same as the Constitutional treaty. References to the constitution had been removed "above all to head off any threat of referenda by avoiding any form of constitutional vocabulary". "The Brussels institutions have also cleverly reclaimed the process from the, to them, unwelcome intrusion of parliamentarians and politicians in the work of the original drafting Convention. The institutions have reimposed their language and their procedures – taking us even further away from ordinary citizens".
The Irish were constitutionally obliged to hold a referendum, they rejected Lisbon on June 12th 2008. They were ordered to vote again and subjected to a propaganda campaign that bullied them into voting yes on December 1st 2009. Seeing a political opportunity Cameron promised that in future the UK too would have referenda on any sovereignty transfer. Cameron was encouraged by the Irish submission to offer a hostage to fortune. He and other EU integrationists have regretted that ever since.
When Macron insolently attacked BREXIT as a pliant Starmer nodded encouragement he was simply repeating the anti democratic position of the EU. Nothing must be allowed to question the decisions of the EU Politburo and its apparatus. Leaders of its provinces desperately display their loyalty in the hope that they too, when the locals have grown tired of them, will get their Kinnock time in the EU sun. Starmer must dream of the prize awaiting him if he can succeed in overthrowing democracy.
Macron is right, the British people have been lied to. Lied to by politicians of all parties whose loyalty is to Brussels not their constituents. Implementation of BREXIT has been at best half hearted. The illegal migrant invasion is just one way in which the EU seeks to punish us for our 'wrong' choice. Successive governments failure to deal with it is the action of a pro EU lobby that would be delighted to see the surrender of democracy.
There has always been a perfectly simple way to stop the problem. Those arriving illegally should be taken to one of the many Islands we still own, given food and tents and when they want to return whence the came - returned. It would not take long for those living in tents on a French beach to prefer even that to a tent in the middle of the Atlantic. Of course, the excuses come. It's inhuman, it's illegal, etc. No it's not. Allowing people to live in tent towns on French beaches overflowing with sewage in order to score political points is inhuman. Parliament, because of BREXIT, is once more sovereign. It could, if it chose, make laws that stop the Human Rights industry in its tracks, it could restore our law to its pre-Blair-Supreme-court; gold standard.
Because of BREXIT nothing is impossible. We can only hope that in four years time we will actually have a government committed to this country and MPs whose loyalty is to their constituents not the EU.