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This post is mainly aimed at the people of the UK and the leaders of EU countries.
Firstly though, I have to say wow, just wow! A referendum result that has made me very, very happy. Even more happier than the result of the Scottish Independence Referendum. Of course there will be some challenges ahead but we are British, we have overcome challenges before and will do so again.
David Cameron, before he resigned (quit?) said that we are not a nation of quitters and we aren’t. We stick with the right path rather than just taking the easy one.
Anyway…
The people of the UK chose to leave the European Union. More than 33.5 million of us registered a vote and chose, by a margin of 52:48 to leave. The majority chose to ignore the merchants of fear and chose to decouple us from the failed European Union project. We never chose to sign-up to ever political union, we originally chose to join a Common Market but the corporatists and socialists of certain European countries want to become submerged in a political union. That’s their choice – though in typical EU fashion, their people aren’t being asked – but we have chosen a different course. We wish them well.
Go back to the start of the last paragraph. The people of the UK chose to leave the European Union. This was a question put to the whole of the UK and a decision reached by the whole of the UK. The talk of a second Scottish Independence Referendum, coming from Nicola Sturgeon is anti-democratic and is pure mischief making from her. I really believe that if she was in a party of three or more enjoying a dinner out and one of the party said ‘red or white wine’ and she was in the minority, she would immediately call for her democratic rights be respected and for a new Scottish Independence Referendum to be called. Opportunist doesn’t even come close.
Sturgeon is mischief making. She knows full well that Foreign Affairs is not a devolved responsibility. This is a power reserved to the Westminster parliament. All this talk about asking Brussels to consider an application, from a constituent part of the UK, to join the EU is absolute rubbish. Typical froth from Bute House. Sturgeon and her minority devolved government should do what they were elected to do – manage the devolved affairs of Scotland. They have done a very poor job of that so far – hence why they are now a minority government – but that is what they are there for. Now is the time for Nicola to shut-up and do her job.
She also knows that the EU will have its hands full in the coming time, trying to make sure that the departure of the UK is achieved in a manner that is mutually acceptable and, perhaps much or most of their focus will be on making sure that no other member country dares to let their population make a choice. Can’t let the democratic will of the people get in the way of the EU project!
Does anyone seriously think that Spain would let the EU consider, for even a single nano-second, allowing a constituent part of a member country to negotiate its own terms of membership of the EU, while it is still part of its home country?
So we in the UK chose to leave the European Union. The leaders of the other members states now need to realise that we will also choose, when we leave. We will invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty (never voted for by the British people, by the way), when we choose to do so. We will act in the interests of the British people (all of them, Nicola). That may not sound very communitaire but there you are. We chose to regain our long-held freedoms and we will choose the timing for when we get these back.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission can huff and puff all he wants. One of the first things he needs to learn, post June 23, 2016, is that we chose to no longer pay any heed to his demands. We will choose, we will not be ordered to do anything by an unelected foreigner. We had the choice and we chose, freedom from such tyranny. Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande and Co. please take note.
David Cameron was elected as a member of the mother of parliaments and the Conservative Party chose him to lead it and therefore to be our Prime Minister. His first act, after the June 23 result, was to decide that on behalf of the people of the UK, he chose to delay invoking Article 50, until after his successor has been elected, because he believes that this is the best course of action he can choose for our country.
Some of my fellow-countrymen and women are now complaining about the result of the referendum. They say that younger people voted predominately for Remain while older people voted in similar numbers for Leave. The argument seems to be that somehow the votes of these younger people should count for me because they will have to live with the consequences longer. The latter point is true. Though since they will enjoy the benefits of our regained freedom, I don’t really see their point. Anyway a decision was requested and an answer was given. As a nation (listening Nicola??) we chose to Leave. That’s it. No need for further referendums – I know that this is how the EU has solved its inconvenient referendum results, in the past but we are British and we understand democracy. We have been at it longer than any other nation and so perhaps that’s why we know how it works.
To all those that chose to Leave and to put their well-founded faith in the British people, I say a heart-felt thanks. We have chosen freedom and our path will now diverge from our European friends. We wish them bonne chance and gutes reise but we are off somewhere else.
