Brexit: yes folks, it really happened
Something to celebrate, and a long time coming:
On Thursday night, the island nation formally separated from the EU after an 11-month Brexit transition period.
“A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union, the BBC commented. “The UK is now free to pursue independent trade policies for the first time in more than four decades,” UK’s Daily Telegraph noted…
The leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has backed the trade deal negotiated by Prime Minister Johnson’s government. “The deal is not perfect but it is a big moment,” Farage said in a video message. “However unhappy I might be about some of the detail, in 100 years time, kids in school will read that the people beat the politicians,” he added.
“The people beat the politicians” – I’ll drink to that.
It didn’t happen here, although those on the left would of course beg to differ with me.
It’s nice to think that Britain is no longer subject to the European Court. Parliament can now make law for Britain. One can only wish that Parliament would move towards restoring British liberties.
Let’s hope for more. Proper European institutions would be a military alliance, a customs union for merchandise trade; and a joint coast guard, border patrol, and point-of-entry inspectorate supplementing national border controls. European states could join 0, 1, 2, or all 3. More elaborate and intimate forms of association could be had with subregional units (e.g. the Balkans, the Low Countries, &c). The European Commission delenda est.
Restoring British liberties and putting an end to the elite’s population replacement policies.
Kate I think that the UK is subject to EU courts. Believe that I read that on Daily Express web site.
The devil is in the details and the details were formulated by bureaucrats with politicians approving of them…
As for Nigel Farage, his silence on Tommy Robinson’s brutal mistreatment and silence on the UK’s descent into a police state* reveals much of the man. Nor does he list the details of which he claims to disapprove. Another political opportunist.
*There are dozens of examples but just this one by itself suffices;
” UK woman arrested for filming inside empty hospital”
https://zpatriot.com/2020/12/31/uk-woman-arrested-for-filming-inside-empty-hospital/
BTW, the UK’s medical authority’s ‘rebuttal’ to the woman’s video of empty rooms and hallways consisted of a pro forma denial with NO video showing of the crowded hospitals they claim to exist…
Art Deco— HEAR HEAR!
Geoffrey—I cannot fault Nigel for fighting one great battle at a time; Rome wasn’t built in one day.
Kate (and Geoffrey?)—I recall that Britain’s Supreme Court of Bureaucratic Supremacy (it may as well be labeled honestly), is a creature of EU bureaucratic centralism. Whether or not it can be cast off is yet another task for the people to battle against ever the expanding bureaucratic state.
Meanwhile, my post Melanie Phillips UK fave voice is video blogger Carl Benjamin (aka “Sargon of Akkad”). Classically liberal, often opining on our affaires across the pond, he’s left YT for dissenting outlets as “lotus eaters.” ( His own site is https://www.lotuseaters.com/ )
He lives in Bristol, lived in Germany for 6 years, has run for political office fairly recently, and descents from British slaves hailing from…St Helena, an Atlantic island West of Southwest Africa.
If curious, do check him out.
Like a busload of lawyers going over a cliff, It’s a Start.
Not remotely anything like the End of the Beginning though.
TJ,
Indeed, Rome was not built in a day nor am I suggesting that Farage fighting for Tommy Robinson or against the UK’s looming police state is “a hill” that Farage should be prepared to die upon.
However, there is a great deal of difference between utter silence and a brief public statement that the freedom to “speak truth to power” (applicable in both cases) is essential to denying tyranny a societal foothold.
Nor do I recall him speaking out about Rotherdam. Do you?
A national leader limits themselves to major issues not just one.
I understand, then, that the separation is even now not actually complete. Just for commerce, or what? Can someone spoon-feed me on this?
And would it not be more appropriate to say that the separation process really began with the first referendum? Of course, I understand that to put it in those terms would, on the part of the MSM, be granting a kind of distasteful legitimacy to the views of the Deplorables, but then again, I would be reluctant to impute any such motive to Dr. Jacobson or his squad, and the post is from LI, after all. And anyway, it’s a minor point in context. I’m just in a weirdly picky mood, I guess.
@TJ:
More than a tad Gatekeeperish, Sargon of Akkad, although there are worse out there. He bravely ventures out into the wilds just inside the Overton Window Frame, slithers around the edges of it with banners aloft and voila! An Edge Lord Walks Amongst Us!
Commentator Morgoth’s Review is an example of someone actually heaving a brick through the Overton Window and trying to describe what he sees in the real world around himself rather than staying ‘respectable’. Personally I could never live in the North of England and I find some of his world-view a bit alien, but he has as much right to his world view and notions of whom his neighbours and countrymen ought to be limited to as does a resident of (say) Herzyliya.
One may not like everything someone like Morgoth says, but at least you get some real food for thought. Sargon is Edgy Joe Rogan…. he’s there to make the listener *feel* intelligent. So much of what passes for ‘thought provoking’ media today exists entirely to stroke egos.
I don’t mind Melanie Phillips — belongs amongst the Righteous along with Anthony Daniels, Dan Greenfield, and others. At least paddling the boat in the right direction and not actively trying to bore holes in ye fragile bark of civilization.
Farage deserves a good deal of respect for his efforts during the Covid Lockdowns Madness of 2020 to get out on the road and make videos exposing the ongoing ‘refugee’ @#$%storm cluster@$%&fuck. For those who don’t know, the French Navy spent most of 2020 escorting third world ‘refugees’ in boats across the English Channel.
Long story and worth googling (to the extent that Google hasn’t censored it).
One thing I like about Farage is that when he does this kind of reportage, he’s dressed impeccably and chauffeured in his Rolls or Bentley (no idea) and doesn’t hide the fact that he’s wealthy and pretend to be the English version of Joe from Scranton.
Also he’s just plain funny.
Not a Managerialist Bug Man.
Geoffrey—
I believe Nigel Farage had a weekly radio show, or something. I’d be surprised if he didn’t hit upon multiple PC targets to skewer.
Just a quick DuckDuckGo search for “Farage Rotherham”:
So, it seems Rotherham grooming rape gang crimes by “Asians” (ie, Muslims) has been among Farage concerns.
Here’s Farage’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNgS-wbHodu_lsh1k8DzBQ
And here’s Morgoth on the BBC New Year 2021 Fireworks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmqkVlQLkVs
I do hope that the EU becomes more understanding of the need to accept strong nation-states, and less Germanish EU bullying, based on EU funds.
With the UK folk leaving the EU, there were more EU parliament positions to go around. The Christian Democrats in Slovakia got a second Rep.
European Parliament is made up of 705 Members, 14 from Slovakia
See an EU map – no UK! strange.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
Many thought my wife would run, and almost certainly would have been among those elected, but she wanted our family to stay based in Bratislava, and wasn’t interested in travelling so much to and from Brussels. (Even for $10k/month or so; a LOT more than a professor or doctor makes.) It was only last Feb when KDH (Christian Democrats) got only 4.67% (needing 5) of the Slovak vote and, again, failed to get into Slovak Parliament.
The big winner had a one page “program” of 11 or so points. Once in power, he and many ministers copied much of KDH’s 260+ page (too big, too wonky) program, especially on health care.
Less than a year ago.
Mask wearing and lockdowns started after the election, but before the gov’t transition. Was weird.
So glad for Brexit, so hopeful for the UK and even hopeful for a better EU.
I rather see a return to the old Common Market.
At a glance at your link, I’m not sure I understand the party alignments. I can more or less figure out what Christian Democrats are based on their German history. But what are “Conservative Reformists”? A smallish party apparently mostly of Polish, Spanish, and Italian members.
And what is “Renew Europe”? If the Free Democratic Party member is a hint, then maybe that is where “liberals” of a more or less American Republican ideology are to be found. At any rate, I don’t get the need for this plethora of parties. But then, in England the Liberals cannot seem to meld into the Tories either, though from my point of view they have enough in common in liberty interests – or theoretically should have – to be sheltered under the same tent.
Possibly, the state churches are a lingering problem dividing European classical liberals from free speech and free market conservatives.
Whether C. liberals in Europe are nationalist enough to preserve their own systems of governance is another question that would occur to me to ask. I don’t know, but I suppose that they might suffer from a milder form of the Libertarian Disease which has wrecked the once promising American Libertarian Party and turned it into the drugs, crackpots, and social nihilism party. I hope for their sake, it is not more than idle speculation on my part.
}}} “The people beat the politicians” – I’ll drink to that.
}}} It didn’t happen here, although those on the left would of course beg to differ with me.
In the immortal words of Wednesday Addams: “Wait”.