The Mail, February 4, Professor Robert Tombs
Disgruntled ‘Remainers’ – those politicians, civil servants and lobbyists who have wanted to pull us backwards since we voted decisively to leave the European Union – have a spring in their step.
Last week, on the third anniversary of our departure from the EU, a survey found that some 57 per cent of Britons were now in favour of rejoining.
And little wonder! Those who we could once dismiss as ‘Remoaners’ have, in recent years, quietly morphed into something even more insidious: ‘Rejoiners.’ Every day, they tell us that Brexit has failed, defying the facts. And they think if they repeat this mantra often enough, people will believe it.
Rejoiners want us to go cap in hand to our ‘friends’ in Brussels, who, if we ask nicely, might forgive the British people for our democratic vote in 2016 and allow us back in. On their own terms, of course.
Rejoiners have complained for years that Leave voters didn’t understand what they were voting for. Well, now let them tell the country what exactly they are proposing when they insist we become part of the EU again – and what it might mean for each of us, after three years of freedom.
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