by N. Peter Kramer
The Brussels EU tsars have never wanted anything else. They felt the British vote to leave the EU was a stab in their back.
They couldn’t believe it. How dare a country speak up for leaving the divine Walhalla called the European Union?
But, as we all know, the Britons did.
The story of the Europhiles and their media partners is still, that the ‘Leave Campaign’ was based on lies.
But did we ever see any specifics of that? Of course, all campaigns exaggerate, the Leavers did of course but the Remainers as well.
Let’s be clear: the arrogant EU top echelons have never wanted a proper deal with the UK. They are vengeful, humiliate their counterparts where possible and set impossible demands.
During the EU Summit in Salzburg last month, for instance an emotional French President Macron gave free rein to his EU frustrations. It is completely clear: the UK must be punished!
The latest move is the requirement to split the UK, via a border in the Irish Sea, so that Northern Ireland would remain within an EU regulatory zone and become part of EU member state Ireland, and no longer belong to the UK customs territory.
It makes me thinking of the Russian takeover of the Crimea; although, that’s true, that was done less subtly.
EU zealots don’t stop to mention that the UK has more to lose than the EU in case of a hard Brexit. The total of British exports goes for 40% to the 27 EU memberstates.
And only 8% of EU exports go to the UK.
Without saying that a hard Brexit will be a positive development for the UK (anyhow the UK will be completely free to start trade with US, Canada, China, Japan, liberated of EU bureaucracy), the 8% loss for the EU could be put down as ‘statistics.
Some regions and important sectors in the EU will be affected by a hard Brexit in a really disastrous way. These regions will be hit economically and some sectors confronted with exploding unemployment.
But it seems Brussels EU Tsars don’t care about that; their wounded souls are more important!
