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"Mr President, I contend that the EU is the sick man of the developed world, as much mentally ill as physically. The EU leaders meet for another late-night supper, then adjourn to the drawing room for their usual game of economic bluff, while quislings put together some incoherent mumbo-jumbo communiqué.
The idea of the game is simple: to let all 27 leaders leave with some credibility and be able to say that something has been won for their countries. In the UK we know that the game is EU deception: a game our last eight Prime Ministers have played in Brussels. The real losers are the people of Europe, who pay for this late-night folly.
Some ex-players of the game, such as former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, have now said that it is time the UK left the EU. Of course he was rounded on by Europhile business leaders coming out with the usual tripe about UK trade being affected. I wholeheartedly agree with his response on the BBC this week, when he called them economic illiterates. We know about these scaremongering stories; during the single currency debate of the late 1990s, Nissan warned that they would remove their investment from the UK if we did not join the euro. Well, they did not. In fact they invested more.
I suggest a new game for Thursday night called ‘reality’, where Europe’s leaders realise that their beloved Europe federal project has failed and that the single currency is unsustainable without the express consent of the people of Europe to federalising steps, and understand that the people of the UK no longer wish to subsidise your pie-in-the-sky projects whilst they are suffering crippling cut-backs at home. I understand that the best treatment for mental illness is accepting the illness and accepting reality. I commend it to you."@en1
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