fahrenheit451:018

I consider Peter Hitchens to be The journalist / columnist non-pareil.I very rarely if ever find myself feeling at odds with what he has to say in his weekly Mail On Sunday column. from his column of  Sunday, 22 February :-

It was fear of shrivelling into nothingness on the edge of Europe that got us into the European Union and I suspect fear of leaving will keep us there.

Quite how we will be able to keep up a fake debate about the subject till late June, I have no idea.

 I long ago concluded that I would rather leave, whatever the economic and political cost. I think most of this country’s unique laws and liberty grew up after our break with the Continent under Henry VIII nearly 600 years ago. I think they are worth preserving at practically any cost and, given the chance, I can probably get quite tearful about it.

By far the best, wisest and most far-sighted warning against the European project came from Labour’s Hugh Gaitskell in October 1962, not long before his untimely death.

In a speech that still stands up well more than five decades later, he rightly said two things that should be carved in stone in the heart of our capital.

The first was: ‘Of course, the Tories have been indulging in their usual double-talk. When they go to Brussels they show the greatest enthusiasm for political union.

‘When they speak in the House of Commons they are most anxious to aver that there is no commitment whatever to any political union.’

And the second was: ‘We must be clear about this: it does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state. I make no apology for repeating it.

‘It means the end of a thousand years of history. You may say, “Let it end” but, my goodness, it is a decision that needs a little care and thought.’

As for my own personal part , I will Vote to Leave. On pretty much the similar sorts of grounds as PH. Well, perhaps a tad more acerbic. I utterly hate, loathe and despise everything the European Union stands for and does.And it grieves me massively when pseudo-philosiphysing ,semi-intellectual poseurs such as exemplified by Mary Creagh MP for Wakefield ( of all places ) ,prattles on and on and on in a hopelessly erratic and illogical manner attributing a plethora of specious arguments supposedly in favour of the British people remaining subordinate and enslaved to the mad Teutonic EU. June 23rd.2016 will be the Day We take back OUR Country and OUR Inalienable democratic sovereignity. Others are paradoxically at liberty to vote for the continued subjugation of us all  to an alien power - in contravention of OUR own Bill of Rights of 1688.

Me ? I will always choose freedom. Others such can choose their own road to hell.