Europe’s leaders have issued a passionate plea for Britain to remain in the European Union, fearing that Brexit could set off a disastrous chain of events at a time of existential crisis for the EU project.
Simple, then. I’ll vote to leave as my parents did in 1975.
Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, said the whole of European civilisation is under grave threat and the region must stick together in its own self-defence, warning that the departure of the UK would be a fatal blow. “It would be a tragedy,” he said.
Mr Valls warned that the European system is alarmingly fragile. “Europe could lose its historical footing and the project could die quickly. Things could fall apart within months,” he told the World Economic Forum in Davos.
That would be a bonus. The sooner this vile, unelected, unaccountable, corrupt political monstrosity goes, the better.
Political leaders in Berlin are deeply concerned that British withdrawal could change the balance of power and the internal chemistry of the EU, leaving Germany with an unwelcome hegemony that would strain the Franco-German partnership to breaking point.
So Germany will be invading France again? All because we leave? Yeah, right.
And there was me thinking the whole point of the EU was for Germany to take over Europe without firing a shot? Silly me!
I don’t think either of them got over 1870.
I don’t think that Brexit will ever become a reality. I don’t think that enough people will vote for it and even if they do we will then have to keep having referenda until we get the answer right.
The real reason that they do not want us to leave, is that they need our money. Without us, Germany will have to pay. France never pays. Germany can not afford the extra cost of buying the votes of the smaller countries. Yes, without us the whole lot will collapse in a large smelly heap of corruption. (With luck)
“Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, said the whole of European civilisation is under grave threat and the region must stick together in its own self-defence”
Best speak to Frau Merkel about that then.
I am old enough to have voted leave in 1975, and will certainly do so again.
We were told back then that what we had joined was a Common Market, it was a flat out lie (we still haven’t got one). Now it is the European Union, with a flag, an anthem, two Parliaments and 28 countries, no democracy whatever (do you know what the main groupings are in the EU “Parliament” and how much influence they have? Absolutely none! The Commission decides all) and the books haven’t been audited in 20 years. If the EU was a limited company it would be in receivership by now, but this gangster protection racket trundles on from crisis to crisis making up rules as it goes along.
It was always meant to be the United States of Europe, but they couldn’t actually announce that from the start because no nation in Europe could have put that bald fact to their electorates and expected an affirmative answer. So softly softly catchy monkey…