In the face of lies, ignorance, and abuse, those of us who recognised the essentially undemocratic nature of the EU, and the path down which it was leading us towards bureaucratic dictatorship persevered, and eventually, in the 2016 referendum, we triumphed. Of course since then those who desire control by Brussels bureaucrats to governance by our own elected representatives, have placed many obstacles in the way of a proper implementation of the will of the people, and have succeeded in preventing the many real benefits that would have resulted had the political and bureaucratic establishment not delayed, deceived, and lied in order to stop us attaining true freedom from Brussels.
Over the years I have conducted a continual battle in the local press, and internet forums, with those too self interested, or unintelligent, or ignorant, to ever understand the real reasons for the vote to leave. These people always talk about economic matters, and ignore the undemocratic nature of the entire European project, unable to see that Brexit represents a desire by the British people to escape from the grip of unelected bureaucrats, who have created and enforced a system which is protectionist, and damages both national economies, and the whole concept of democracy. We stand for the right of our people to govern themselves, which we spent hundreds of years evolving, and which the EU seeks to replace with diktats from arrogant functionaries. As always they refer to Leavers as idiotic know nothings, whose motives are bad, and who are at best gullible idiots, but in reality the latter are people who have been concerned with the manner in which elected representatives have been overridden by arrogant officials, most of whom are just failed politicians from corrupt nations, such as the female French Commissioner who famously declared, when tasked about her accepting corruption in the EU, that everyone does it, as if that was justification.
One of their favourite claims is that opinion polls show that the majority of the electorate wishes to rejoin the EU, which may be true in the prosperous liberal enclaves of North London, or in selfish areas such as Tunbridge Wells, but actually are based on transitory opinion polls, which, for example, said, on the morning of the referendum, that Remainers would win by at least ten per cent! That a number of EU members states have had enough can be seen by the rise of parties which oppose Brussels, not least the recent success of the anti Eu candidate for the presidency in Poland, something which the opinion polls got wrong again. That nine years after the referendum the Remainers still seek to overturn the greatest democratic decision ever taken in this county shows just what sort of people they are, like little children unable to accept that they were out voted, and determined to carry on sabotaging the country, just to make themselves feel better about being in the minority. They are, as I have said before, similar to Violet Elizabeth Bott, of the Just William stories who, when thwarted, said I'll thkweem and thkweem until I'm thick,!
Naturally the bureaucrats love the EU, as it allows them to escape from democratic accountability for their actions, and, so far as the political class is concerned, the Liberal Democrats took the knee to the EU decades ago, while, from the time of Neil Kinnock onwards the Labour party abandoned its working class roots to support the European project. Unfortunately the Conservatives, too often dominated by the so called 'One Nation' wing, also sold out to Brussels, while the Greens are so deranged on almost everything they are irrelevant. At the time of the referendum the political, and bureaucratic, elites did everything they could to frighten people into voting to stay in the EU. 'ProjectFear' said that the economy would collapse, that ordinary people would ensure unimaginable privations, and even that a war might result from the UK daring to break with Brussels.
Of course none of these warnings were true, and came into the same category as the threat by the fat boy in Dickens's Pickwick Papers, when he says I wants to make your flesh creep. The intention was to scare the British people into supporting membership of an organisation which benefited only the selfish elites. In fact the electorate, not being imbeciles, recognised this alarmist nonsense for what it was, and defied the so called great and the good to vote for freedom. Now, as the main parties run scared of Reform, we see the beginnings of a rerun of this failed strategy, with those such as the Prime Minister claiming that Reform's policies are unworkable, and dangerous, while all left liberals are preparing to use lies, and nonsensical statements, to sabotage the party. Accusations of everything from intending to privatise the NHS, hyperinflation, and overt racism will be made. The BBC, currently obsessed with demonising Israel over the war in Gaza, will assuredly take part in the campaign to do the same to Reform. The British people must ignore these self interested wailings of a failed establishment facing defeat, and turn to those who recognise that this country is in dire straits, and only a truly radical change of direction can save us from disaster.