The June 2016 referendum resulted in a small but clear majority in favour of leaving the EU.<\/p>\n
If this verdict is not implemented by our political class then the centre ground of British politics will be hollowed out. It will be the gravest political crisis that our nation has faced in peacetime.<\/p>\n
That we are still contemplating the verdict not being implemented by our political class two years after the referendum is a terrible result.<\/p>\n
I think Theresa May’s approach has been appalling. ‘Theresa the Appeaser’ indeed.<\/p>\n
What would I do?<\/p>\n
Assert the following, in order:<\/p>\n
the UK, in accordance with the result of the referendum, will leave the EU;
\nit will therefore become a ‘third nation’ in EU terms;
\nthe UK should seek:
\ni) to have healthy relations with the EU on the basis of being a third nation, covering such things as air transport and so on;
\nii) seek mutual recognition for large parts of our industrial sector;
\niii) be open to a mutually beneficial Free Trade Arrangement, at a point that the remainder EU shows that it is open to such a thing;
\nbe prepared for the EU, for its own reasons, to resist the above;
\nbe prepared to change the overall orientation of our country’s foreign policy in the light of such resistance (if the EU acts as a hostile state towards the UK then certain conclusions follow);
\npursue CANZUK and similar arrangements with those states with whom we share close ties of history and family.<\/p>\n
This craven, pusillanimous, faithless capitulation to the institutional inertia of the establishment elite is driving me mad. It has to stop.<\/p>\n
It will stop, of course – and the UK will exit the EU, and in twenty years time we will look back on the summer of 2018 as the year the heat addled our brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The June 2016 referendum resulted in a small but clear majority in favour of leaving the EU. If this verdict is not implemented by our political class then the centre ground of British politics will be hollowed out. It will … Continue reading