
That’s it then. It’s all over, folks. We are going to leave the EU, but “leave” will effectually mean “stay.”
Theresa May has already amply earned from me the epithets “spectacularly incompetent” and “sublimely inept.” To these we can now add “traitorous .”
In her last Friday’s Florence Speech, the prime minister gave away the household silver – £20million worth – when she promised to pay that sum to the EU and insisted that Britain will honour its budget commitments for two years after we have left. She will also guarantee continued free movement of EU nationals. And we shall remain bound by the rulings of the European Court of Justice.
So you see what I mean when I say “leave” will mean “stay”?
Nigel Farage has described May’s surrender as, “A big win for the political class but two fingers up to the British electorate.”
What smiles must be spreading across the creepy visages of Tony Blair, Ken Clarke, Vince Cable and the noxious Jeremy Corbyn this morning!
On the matter of May’s support for the continuing sovereignty over us of the ECJ, Jacob Rees-Mogg has just said that getting rid of that Court’s authority is for us “an absolute red line.” He has also criticised the Prime minister for “promising to give money to the EU ahead of the negotiations.”
To make matters worse, May says the transition period will be “around” two years.
In other words, it will last forever.
Over the last two years I have written many articles outlining May’s incompetence, arrogance and general unfitness for high office. She was a disaster as the longest-serving home secretary since 1945. One of the most incompetent things she did was doing nothing for years about the wholesale rape of underage white girls by Muslims in a score of our towns and cities. (This is still going on, by the way). She did nothing to prevent the infiltration of Birmingham schools by jihadists. Charged with getting immigration down to “the tens of thousands,” she actually oversaw a vast increase in immigration during her period of office. When challenged about this, she replied, “My hands are tied because of the Schengen arrangements which guarantee free movement of populations..”
Then she voted Remain! How’s that for joined up thinking?
In the light of her record at the home office, what would be the best thing to do with a woman such as this? Relegation to a clerking job in the back office more suitable to her level of intelligence? The sack with the provision that she must never again be put in a position of responsibility? A spell in remedial psychotherapy?
None of the above. Her colleagues in the Conservative party decided instead to make her prime minister where her notorious incompetence meant she couldn’t even see off a twerp like Corbyn – and that after 192 members of Corbyn’s own party had signed a vote of no confidence in him.
Today the papers are accepting Corbyn’s self-assessment that he is “the political mainstream now.” The papers are right.
Thanks to Mrs May it is very likely that we shall shortly be ruled by a left wing government more extreme than anything seen in this country before. Think Venezuela.
Let me remind you that more people voted ‘Leave’ than have ever voted for anything in Britain. Yet we shall, in all but name, still be a member of the wretched EU five years after that referendum.
What more is there to be said?
Private Frazer in Dad’s Army got it right: “We’re all doomed!”
I believe one of the nastiest assaults on the Common Law was the acceptance of the European Arrest Warrant, and I believe this was done on her watch. I stand ready to be corrected. In any case the EAW is a perfect symbol of the character of the EU and its grotesque attitude to the liberty of its citizens. You should have mentioned it
In Field Marshall Montgomery’s terminology, she has been promoted above her ceiling.
The Conservative Party have spent their entire time in office, post New-Labour, simply re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. They have failed their supporters, they have failed the country. Dark days lie ahead.