I’ve long said that the UK’s remain campaign and “remainers” aren’t very pro-EU at all. Much of what they said in 2016 and still say today, is implicity or directly anti-EU. Or at best, they fail to challenge the misleading way anti-Europe opponents in Britain talk about the Union. British remainers suffer from a timidity. …
This letter to the Private Eye was published recently. It is a very good example of the kind of pompous, nationalistic and completely unsupported by reality, superiority that seems to underpin Brexit thinking. —A Brexitballs reader has written a reply, below.— ———————- Dear Martin, I see that unfounded British nationalistic superiority is still manifesting itself …
One of the most unnerving things about Boris Johnson’s self serving and self pitying resignation letter was the fact that a British citizen has just been killed from collateral damage of yet another Russian assassination, on UK soil. Yet he didn’t mention it once. Preferring to pitifully bloviate about “customs” and some neo-imperial nonsense about …
The, often implied, argument from Brexiteers is that the EU is worthless. Europe is stagnant, dying. The EU is a drag on the UK and with “our” precious £350m a week, and free from the shackles of the EU, we’ll be successful and better off. Why on Earth would we pay a bill? Why are …
One of the most confusing chants of the Brexiteers is the “The EU needs us, more than we need them” slogan. On the face of it, it seems odd. To suggest that 27 other countries, all working together under a common framework, are more in “need” of 1 country, doesn’t sound right. The basic facts are: …