FRANK FUREDI: Starmer’s ‘summit’ is nothing but a coup by an anti-Brexit Establishment that’s worked relentlessly to drag us back in to a failing EU bloc
FRANK FUREDI
There are few more obvious winners amid the destruction of America’s war in the Gulf than the influential gang of Remainers who dominate public life – in parliament and beyond.
Chief among them is the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, who this week used the cover of global chaos to make his feelings clear: in a ‘volatile’ world, he said, ‘our long-term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union (EU).’
Labour has been unpicking Brexit for some time, not least with a limited ‘reset’ of relations aimed, for example, at smoothing cross-Channel trade in food, electricity and carbon emissions, and visits for young people.
Now, Starmer has gone a decisive step further, telling a news conference on Tuesday that, ‘We want to be more ambitious, closer economic cooperation, closer security cooperation, a partnership that recognises our shared values, our shared interest and our shared future, a partnership for the dangerous world that we must navigate together.’
It’s true that the world is ‘volatile’, but I’m in no doubt about what is really playing out – which is a coup by an anti-Brexit Establishment which has never accepted the verdict of the 2016 referendum and has been working to undermine it ever since.
I’m talking here about Britain’s professional classes, the well-paid, well-connected metropolitan types – lawyers, bankers, consultants, civil servants – who run much of Britain yet have more in common with Paris and Berlin than Barnsley. They hold millions of their fellow citizens in contempt.
To the Euro-obsessives, the Brexit vote was a personal affront, a shocking challenge not just to their inflated self-regard but to a globalist, anti-patriotic outlook in which any form of national affiliation is an affront.
Starmer hasn’t yet gone so far as some Labour figures, such as London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who have demanded that we rejoin the EU wholesale. Yet we should be under no doubt as to what ‘closer cooperation’ would mean in practice for Britain, or how disastrous it would prove.
It would mean, for example, accepting ever-greater oversight from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), a intrusive body already determined to interfere in any trade deal we try to reach, and which imposes itself across the board – from industry to agriculture – whenever possible. Britain’s interests rarely come first.
It would be expensive, too. If we want smoother trading arrangements, the EU will naturally demand we pay billions of Euros in return – to help shore up its own budget, now in serious deficit.
We’ve already seen Brussels demand a punitive E4- E6billion-euro contribution (£3.5-£5.2billion) merely to take part in a scheme for EU-wide defence procurement, despite the fact that our participation would benefit everyone concerned.
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Beset by energy shortages, cripplingly low productivity, chronic bureaucracy and endemic welfarism, the EU has been failing for decades. It was crucial that we left and is essential that we do not rejoin – even partially.
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