Conservatives Global, June 22 2022, Nick Wood
Brexit was meant to usher in the Apocalypse. According to our more hyperbolic leaders, war, famine, plague and death would stalk the land if the British people had the temerity to vote to leave the European Union.
Six years ago this week, our then Prime Minister David Cameron warned of the threat of war in Europe, the British Sandwich Association said delays at the ports put the sandwich at risk, health chiefs fretted about the spread of infectious diseases because of a collapse in cooperation with Brussels, and then Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker judged that Brexit would be a “catastrophe”.
Of course, it is true that since Britain finally closed the door on the EU in early 2020, we and Europe have witnessed much death, war and plague and rocketing food prices are now causing much distress to families across the land. But no one is seriously suggesting that Covid-19 originated in a lab at Porton Down or that President Putin set out to destroy Ukraine because he was horrified by Britain’s repudiation of the Common Agricultural Policy.
In fact, the opposite is the case. Far from being isolated and incapable of exerting influence, Britain has played a pivotal role in the world in the brief time it has resumed its historic and natural place as a mature sovereign state able to make its own choices and deal with the vicissitudes of the planet as it thinks fit.
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