A huge thank you to Tina Brooker for submitting this article to UNN
Media commentators and political pundits consistently bombard Brexiteers with the question “What is going to happen when we leave the European Union“, but rarely, if ever are the Remainers asked “What will happen if we Remain” – why?
Is it because their belief is that revoking Article 50 will mean the status quo, returning on the same membership terms as before – have they “fact-checked” this or is it merely perception?
Do Remainers know what they are voting for?
I have been following politics very carefully and have spotted some very interesting statements made this week which appear to have gone under the radar in mainstream political circles.
Is Remain the Status Quo?
Former British diplomat Sir Peter Marshall, an expert on multilateral diplomacy has warned Remainers – the UK may not be allowed to simply retake its current position within the bloc. Sir Peter claimed, “it was a dangerous misunderstanding”.
“We are not so much led as left to believe that, if we don’t like whatever deal may be available, or if we don’t like Brexit at all, we have the right to remain in the EU on the same basis as at present the Remainers prospectus, is palpably false.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg stated recently on Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show: –
“I have discussed this (remaining) with MPs who backed remain who now think that we would be remaining in something very different because ever since we have become “semi-detached” the EU has pushed ahead with its integrationist drive and the EU is setting a path to being, if it isn’t already, a federal state where the member states are like the states of the United States and I think we are getting out just in time otherwise you would find the EU army coming along and all these things that are being talked about would be at risk if we were to remain at this very late stage and so I think we need to be out, we need to be out clearly and we need to avoid having a future that is being a satellite, a colony as Mr Verhofstadt said of the European Union.
If we went back in at this stage we would go back as a humiliated nation and in that status we would have to take everything they threw at us and not be in a position to defend our corner – so remaining now would be much worse than remaining would have been if in 2016 the Referendum had gone the other way.”
Do remainers know what the future holds if Britain remains under the control of the Extreme Federalists who run the European Empire? If they did would they still vote the same way?
If Boris is serious about leaving the EU and intends to hold true to his word, then surely this issue is vital to his Brexit Campaign, given that it would trounce the Lib Dem’s and severely damage Labour who, we all know, ultimately wish to reverse the Referendum Result.
If he does not, then for me doubts are cast on his integrity to “Get Brexit Done” and take Britain out of the EU.
Will “WHAT REMAIN MEANS” be discussed during the most important General Election in British Political History – I won’t be holding my breath.
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