It’s July 7th, and only yesterday did Chairman May and her cabinet of commissars finalise their plan for the supposed exit of Britain from the EU. May’s ‘new deal’ features various concessions to the EU, most in stark contrast to what was voted for in the original referendum. Some of these concessions, which can only be fairly described as a betrayal of the British electorate, include:
- The so-called “combined customs territory.” While granting us some minor independence in the setting of tariffs and trade policies, this is simply an open border to the EU, so that “EU citizens” can pass through to the UK easily (without the sort of checks we’d put on, say, Americans) and vice versa, just as can be done now. Of course, given that EU countries must accept refugees from whatever country they first arrive at, usually Italy or Greece, it is only a matter of traveling from there to Britain, and the extra vetting we so desperately needed does not seem possible. In other words, the Islamist threat that is steadily making its way from Syria to Libya to Greece to France to Britain cannot be resisted any better than it could have if the remainers had won the referendum. It would still be un-constitutional (see the next point).
- Absolute submission to the European Court of Justice. No independence for our legal system. Called a “joint jurisdiction of rules” and “joint institutional framework,” UK courts must still abide by EU case law. Legal sovereignty and our common law heritage have been completely abandoned.
- “Harmonisation on goods.” I won’t dress this up, this means that EU regulations still apply. Environmental law has been listed specifically (so don’t expect to be liberated from the Paris Agreement any time soon), as has employment law (so not much luck of challenging the BBC and other institutions on their racially-discriminatory quota systems).
Let’s be clear about this. We have no control over our borders, putting no halt on the extremism entering into our country. Our Parliament is not sovereign, and our courts are subordinate to the EU courts. We have no control over employment law, environmental law, consumer law and other important areas that should not be dictated homogenously from mainland Europe. We seem to have some control over tariffs, and so will the EU, who will no doubt use this as an opportunity to stifle our trade opportunities and make an example of us.
So in other words, this isn’t Brexit. We hear all the time from remainers that “people didn’t know what they were voting for” and “we need a second referendum to define what exit means.” This is plainly ridiculous. While the technical details were not established pre-referendum, we knew what we were voting for. Leavers wanted INDEPENDENCE from the EU. Not nominally, not just on a few issues, but full autonomy. Absolute national independence. Remainers rejected this and wanted to maintain the current state of affairs. Let’s be clear about this: there were no leave voters that simply wanted to be nominally independent, but still wanted open borders and for the EU courts to be sovereign. Nobody. This is the deal that nobody wanted. It is only wanted now because remainers recognise that it is their only means of sabotaging a clean exit. The new deal has Anna Soubry’s finger prints all over it.
Whether backbenchers have the determination to see this voted down awaits to be seen. If they fail, then the new goal is clear. Britain will not be able to leave the Empire so long as it exists. We need to look to allies in Italy, France, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Finland, Hungary and wherever else there is disaffection with the EU. If we cannot exit alone, then a pan-continental exit looks like our only hope.
C Hill
Last Exit to Albion 