EU fans are out of touch with Britain.
WORD comes out of the Davos summit that were David Cameron to renege on the Tories’ pledge to give us a referendum on EU membership they will swan to victory in the 2015 election.
It
is the majority of British people who want out of the European Union
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There is one thing that intrigues me about these EU worshippers. They all
come from a numerically very small class of people. You never hear a soldier,
sailor, tinker or tailor drivelling about how they love being ruled out of
Brussels. Nor a butcher, baker or candlestick maker, nor a ship’s skipper,
airline pilot, farmer, truck driver, welder, shopkeeper or any of the thousand
jobs that actually make up the national wealth creation machine and
workplace.
They all come from a very narrow spectrum of activity: politicians,
bureaucrats, diplomats, quangocrats, lawyers, tycoons, academics and Left-wing
journalists. (Of the last four only about half.)
Add to them socialist pseudo-intellectuals and bankers. Now what do they
all have in common? Well, about three things. They all lust for power over the
rest of us, via influence, the boardroom or the media.
None of them ever seems to create wealth where none was before, they live
off the taxpayer, the client or the shareholder, rewarding themselves
staggeringly well. This gives them enormous empathy with the Eurocrats of
Brussels who do exactly the same. And they all share a barely hidden contempt
for the broad masses of the British people, believing themselves to be far our
superiors because we are apparently stupid.
The idea of any of them actually talking to, let alone listening to, a
member of the British working class, other than to tell their chauffeurs where
to take them or order another brandy from a waiter, is out of the question. So
here’s a notion that I guarantee will never be taken
up.
“Right wing” is basically “traditional” and more than 50 per cent of the British still are traditional
We are constantly told that traditional British opinion is Right-wing and
therefore vaguely nasty. Thus true Labour voters would never evince an opinion
that was not right-on, politically correct. Supposing one of these wealthy
exquisites from London actually went up a major A-road and stopped off at a real
transport caff. He would find it wall to wall with truck drivers, big hefty men
with tattooed forearms, working 50 hours a week, raised to vote
Labour.
Now let us put five propositions. A man has for his own pleasure tortured
a child to death. What should we do with him? More than 200 foreign criminals,
not from the 27 EU countries, every year successfully challenge deportation
orders on human rights grounds. Another 30,000 EU-born live in Britain and may
stay for ever. Again what should we do? The armed forces have been cut to
ribbons and still are. What is your view? Should the deliberately bone idle live
off the taxpayers’ handouts? Should the Brits have a referendum on transferring
out of the EU into the Free Trade Area?
It has never been done but I’d put several tenners on the green baize
that these would be the answers of British working men that London’s Lefties
claim they represent. String ’im up. Chuck ’em out. Cut the aid budget and give
us our armed forces back. Not bleeding likely. And yes, as soon as possible.
That sounds like five pretty Rightwing answers from solid Labour men and I’m
pretty sure that is what you’d get. “Right wing” is basically “traditional” and
more than 50 per cent of the British still are traditional. It is the
vocabulary, not the Brits, which is stupid. Express.
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