If you live outside the UK, or inside the
UK, you've probably noticed that after three
and a half years of negotiation (for want
of a better word) we are still struggling
to escape from the political open prison we
know as the European Union, and our country
has become an international laughing stock.
We voted for independence, but what we've
been given, begrudgingly by a corrupt political
class, is a treaty that keeps us under European
Union control - operating to its rules, not
ours - that compels us not to be competitive
by setting lower trade tariffs, and that keeps
us under the jurisdiction of a political court,
the ludicrously named European Court of Justice.
And now we're voting in a general election
(yes, another one) where the party that has
cynically presided over this insulting disaster,
expects to be re-elected. They're using fear
of the opposition's extremism to make us swallow
a fake Brexit, where we don't have control
of our trade and defence arrangements, where
we don't take back our fishing waters, and
where we are not, in fact, independent. The
Tories never had any intention of honouring
that referendum result. They have always regarded
Brexit as a problem to be neutralised. For
three and a half years they have purposely
negotiated in bad faith to keep us tied as
closely as possible to the European Union,
to make it easier for future governments to
take us back in by stealth and political chicanery,
the same way they took us in the first time.
They had a majority right after the referendum,
and they could have delivered Brexit there
and then, but they chose to engage in these
drawn out negotiations for the express purpose
of wearing us down, so that we'll settle for
anything to make it stop. Which is pretty
much where we are now. They installed a leader
who they knew had absolutely no intention
of delivering independence, and who negotiated
a withdrawal agreement that would have been
worse than staying in. And even after she
squandered a parliamentary majority and lost
the confidence of the country, they had two
opportunities to get rid of her, yet both
times they chose to keep her in place, knowing
she had no intention of delivering independence.
Until, that is, she became such an embarrassment
to the Tory party that they had to get rid
of her. And now Boris Johnson has taken up
where she left off, and he's peddling her
fake Brexit with a lick of paint, like a crooked
used car salesman. If we are gullible enough
to give the Tories a majority in this election,
they intend to wear us down with years of
further negotiation until we just don't care
any more and Brexit is dead. The only way
we'll get the independence we voted for more
than three years ago is if the Brexit Party
holds the balance of power after this election,
and that will only happen if we vote for Brexit
Party candidates, those of us who can. And
this is where it gets interesting, because
although the Tories have at least gone through
the motions of pretending to try and deliver
Brexit, the wretched Labour Party hasn't even
done that. Instead, they have brazenly reneged
on their core promise to respect the result
of the biggest democratic vote in our history,
and they have given a middle finger to the
millions of people who elected Labour MPs
on the back of that promise. It's as if they
want to leave their traditional working class
base in no doubt as to how much contempt the
modern Labour Party has for them and for the
things they believe in. But then working class
people don't vote Labour any more, not if
they're paying attention. They know this is
not the same Labour Party their parents and
grandparents voted for. That Labour Party
is gone. I speak as a former card-carrying
member of it. Labour is now the party of the
progressive multicultural crowd. The PC metropolitan
bourgeoisie. The patronising guardianista
class who think they know best for everyone.
The comfortable pension and mortgage-owning
anti-capitalist community who love immigration
because immigrants will clean their house
or look after their kids for a pittance, but
won't actually live anywhere near them. The
kind of people who publicly mock a house with
a St George's flag on the window and a white
van in the yard, as if it's something to be
ashamed of. If you're a working class person
who still votes Labour, you are voting for
people who despise you. They laugh at you.
They think your views and your values are
crude, ignorant, and shallow. And they don't
want your opinion about anything, you racist.
They just want your vote. Well, now is your
chance to give it to them, right where they
don't want it, because this election more
than any other will be won or lost by the
working class voter. I'm talking about people
who usually vote Labour in constituencies
where they usually elect a Labour MP. Because
these are the only places where the Brexit
Party is standing, so the voters in these
constituencies are the people who will decide
whether or not we leave the European Union.
You people have all the power in this election.
It doesn't matter how they vote in the shires.
You are the only people who have been given
the opportunity to insist that democracy is
respected, and that the result of the most
important democratic vote in this country's
history is delivered, whether politicians
like it or not. It's entirely in your hands.
If you elect enough Brexit Party MPs, and
ditch Labour with their plan for a rigged
second referendum that would destroy democracy
in this country, then the Tories will have
to deliver what they have never intended to
deliver, full national sovereign independence
from all European Union institutions, jurisdiction
and control. That is Brexit. If you voted
for Brexit, if you want Brexit, it's right
there for you, on a plate. All you have to
do is take it.
