Conservatives Global, May 18, Nick Wood
“Lord, make me chaste – but not yet,” St Augustine famously said, as he sought to postpone his appointment with Christ’s demanding moral code. Much the same can be said for our indefatigable Remainers as they seek to spin out Britain’s membership of the European Union into the wide blue yonder.
“Lord, let us leave the EU – but not yet,” should serve as their epitaph.
To recap, briefly, the people of this country have voted six times to leave the European Union. In 2014, they handed Nigel Farage’s uncompromisingly pro-Brexit UKIP party victory in the elections to the European Parliament, the first time in 100 years that a so-called minor party in the UK had won a national election.
In the 2015 general election, they voted in Prime Minister David Cameron, who had promised an in/out referendum on British membership of the EU.
In 2016, 17.4 million people, the largest ever vote for a political party or proposition, backed Leave in a hard-fought referendum in which virtually every political party and every elite organisation supported Remain.
In 2017, over 80 per cent of the public voted for a party pledged to enact the result of the referendum.
In the European elections of 2019, Mr Farage, this time adorned in the colours of the Brexit Party, swept to victory and ensured Theresa May’s departure.
Then, later in 2019, with Parliament paralysed, the people gave Boris Johnson, standing on a “Get Brexit Done” platform, an overwhelming Commons majority.
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 (twice) – every time the same battle was fought, the same arguments deployed on either side, and the same result was achieved. It is now 2020, nearly four years after the vote to end all votes, and Britain is still subject to the bills, the laws and the courts of Brussels.
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