Dear Prime Minister,
I live in Longbridge, Birmingham, in the Northfield constituency, an extremely Labour supporting area, and come from a very long maternal and paternal line of Labour supporters. My paternal grandmother was a proud active supporter of the Labour party. My maternal grandfather was a Labour voter because his father was and his father’s father was before him.
My mother isn’t particularly interested in politics. She still says that they were all as bad as each other and would make her mind up at the ballot box. My sister and most of my friends is Labour supporters and, until recently, so was I until they elected a scruffy, bearded, terrorist supporting Marxist who has openly declared that as a red-meat-eating, heterosexual, Caucasian male, I am not longer demographically interesting enough for them to pursue their vote. I, like my own father, am now Conservative-voting for the first time in my life. You could say talk around the dinner table and down the pub has been interesting recently.
Ever since I have been old enough to have the capacity to formulate political opinions (thanks in no small part the genius-level comedy and biting satire of Spitting Image) I have had no love whatsoever for the EU. I have loathed and despised them ever since my adolescence.
The main reason for me voting leave in the 2016 referendum was to take back control of my own country. I have seen the damage it has done to our region’s automotive, farming and traditional industries. The UK would be a much richer and finer country without the constraints forced upon us by the EU. What may be good for, say, Spain or Greece (not that it has turned out to be any good for either of those countires) isn’t necessarily good for the UK (and so it has proved as we now can't even unpeel a banana without being lectured about it's ecological impact - and havng to find one that's not bent enough in the first place). I am NOT a racist and find it extremely insulting to be called one simply because I voted leave.
The EU has never been a trade club; nor was it ever intended to be. Flag, anthem, embryo army, militarised state police, unaccountable politburo, Napoleonic Legal system, European Arrest Warrant, Supreme Court etc etc, do not signify a trade club. They signify the latest incarnation of European totalitarianism, strutting along in a haze of smoke and mirrors that no-one of sound mind could possibly mistake for a trade club, or anything remotely resembling one. Trade is not its raison d'etre; it is the EU's weapon for enforcing political control.
The EU has no interest in small or beautiful, or efficiency or democracy or even people, other than as economic slaves and cannon-fodder. Its sole interest is the promulgation of itself as the next great, global, dictatorial superpower.
I am sorry, Prime Minister, but you have been shown to be exceedingly weak to allow yourself to be bullied by the EU, the remain members of your own party and by parliament. You are now acting against your Cabinet, party, manifesto, prior policies, repeated promises, electors and the law.
The result of the referendum was for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to completely and totally leave the European Union. I will admit when I found out the result (I was in the pub, naturally) I was overjoyed. Had the result been to remain, naturally I would have been disappointed, but would have accepted it and moved on.
Probably to to country with some common sense and doesn't have any nosey old Belgians making up their own rules and forcing them on us having drunk their way to their jobs in such a way it would make George Best, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris look like they were attending a Sunday school.
But anyway, I most certainly would not have demanded a second referendum simply because the result did not go the way I wanted.
It is astonishing that members of parliament on all sides are acting like petulant children. The UK voted to leave the EU, so do as the country has asked, and leave without any strings, conditions or clauses attached. I find it incomprehensible that all members of parliament have treated us, the British public, like a bunch of Milwall supporters.
They have brains of a cheese sandwich, and the attitude of ‘these moronic peasants have voted to leave but are too stupid to understand what leave actually means. So we will do everything in our power to remain or to broker a soft Brexit deal which is really remain by another name‘. Imagine what would have happened if the result of the vote was to remain. Do you think as much air time would have been given to leavers demanding a second referendum, and that MPs would try to force the country to leave when the country voted to remain ??
The vote for a further Article 50 extension was carried by one vote, and that vote was by a Labour MP who is a convicted criminal no less. It says a lot about the wretched state of our parliament. The British people deserve better than this treacherous rabble. I don't know where this is going to end in terms of British society but I am starting to get a bad feeling that things will get a lot worse unless we have a purge of this house of clowns.
I have never been so disgusted, both as a (recent) Conservative voter and as a British citizen (NOT, as I have NEVER considered or identified myself to be, an EU one !!), that my country should be reduced to this laughing stock of a nation. Members of Parliament should never be complacent as to who put them there in the first place. They are there because their constituents or party members voted for them. We are already beginning to see the consequences of this ridiculous fiasco. Local parties are de-selecting or proposing votes of no confidence in their MPs. It is us, the British public, who hold your P45 and we won’t think twice about handing it to you. It is time you and they are reminded of that.
This land is my beloved ancestral home, and it can never be morally illegitimate in any way to reject handing it over to foreign rule. That presence is not legitimised by our consent, therefore it is NOT legitimate, and you have absolutely nothing to lose from stating the fact; for we are already losing our life and land courtesy of the same political class which is contemptuous of our rejection of their other great project of assimilation.
If a General Election were to be called now I can confidently say that I will NOT be voting Conservative. The Official Monster Raving Loony Party will be getting my vote. How can I vote Conservative when all my faith and trust have been eradicated ?? It will take a new strong leader/PM to unite the party, and more importantly, the country.
Yours truly,
The Ranting Brummie.