Elections are coming on May 23
in the European Union, of which Britain is still a member, and we’re doing what we can in our backwater of the country to avert national suicide.
On a larger scale, there is a gallant campaign called Remain United. Go to it for easy advice on how to vote tactically in your region.
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This quote by the astonishingly out-of-touch President of the EC, Jean-Claude Juncker, sums up why more and more people across the continent, in virtually every country, are coming to hate everything about the EU idea: “These populist, nationalists, stupid nationalists, they are in love with their own countries,” Juncker told CNN. The disdain with which EU leaders and politicians in each country (such as Angela Merkel) who continue to support the EU project treat their citizens is reminiscent of the disdain with which the French nobility treated their own citizens in the decades leading up to 1789.
I thought those words of Juncker’s, when I read them, were surprisingly ill-chosen, though since I don’t have television I don’t know whether they were clumsily translated from French. If more diplomatically expressed, I would agree with the sentiment. I am glad an d proud to be American and British; glad and proud to be European; glad to be human; glad to be alive; in that order upward.
There are some Remainders who have become radicalized.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9113950/nigel-farage-milkshake-newcastle/
Dousing someone with a milkshake seems less radical than threatening them with death, as has happened to Remain supporters, or actually killing them, as happed to Jo Cox. Or calling them “traitor”, as happened to me yesterday with a note through the door from an anonymous coward.
I wouldn’t do any of these to Mr. Farage. I’d ask him a few hard questions about his Russian sources of funding, and his lies.