Posted on 05/31/2016 5:19:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
In his op-ed in The Washington Post, Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons, made the case for British withdrawal from the European Union -- in terms Americans can understand.
Would you accept, Grayling asks, an American Union of North and South America, its parliament sitting in Panama, with power to impose laws on the United States, and a high court whose decisions overruled those of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Would you accept an American Union that granted all the peoples of Central and South America and Mexico the right to move to, work in, and live in any U.S. state or city, and receive all the taxpayer-provided benefits that U.S. citizens receive?
This is what we are subjected to under the EU, said Grayling.
And as you Americans would never cede your sovereignty or independence to such an overlord regime, why should we?
Downing Street's reply: Prime Minister David Cameron says leaving the EU could cost Britain a lot of money and a loss of influence in Brussels.
The heart versus the wallet. Freedom versus security.
While Barack Obama, Cameron and Angela Merkel are pulling for Britain to vote to remain in the EU, across Europe, transnationalism is in retreat, and tribalism is rising.
As Britain's Independence Party and half the Tory Party seek to secede from the EU, the Scottish National Party is preparing a new referendum to bring about Scotland's secession.
The strongest party in France is the National Front of Marine Le Pen. In Austria's presidential election, Norbert Hofer of Jorg Haider's Freedom Party came within an eyelash of becoming the first European nationalist head of state since World War II.
The Euroskeptic Law and Justice Party is in power in Warsaw, as is the Fidesz Party of Viktor Orban in Budapest, and the Swiss People's Party in Bern. The right-wing Sweden Democrats and Danish People's Party are growing stronger.
In 2015, Merkel, Time's Person of the Year, admitted a million Middle East refugees. This year, Merkel flipped and paid a huge bribe to Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan to keep Syrian refugees from crossing the Aegean to the Greek islands and thence into Europe.
In Germany, too, nationalism is resurgent as opposition grows to any new bailouts of the La Dolce Vita nations of Club Med. The populist AfD party has made major strides in German state elections.
While the rightist parties in power and reaching for power are anti-EU, anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant, the secessionist movements roiling Scotland, Spain, Belgium and Italy seek rather the breakup of the old nations of Europe along ethnonational lines.
By enlisting in these parties of the right, what are the peoples of Europe recoiling from and rebelling against? Answer: The beau ideal of progressives -- societies and nations that are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual.
Across Europe, the tribalists are rejecting, in a word, diversity.
And what are they seeking?
God-and-country, blood-and-soil people, they want to live with their own kinfolk, their own kind. They do not believe in economics uber alles. And if democracy will not deliver the kind of country and society they wish to live in, then democracy must be trumped by direct action, by secession.
This is the spirit behind Brexit.
The is the spirit that drove the Irish patriots of 1919, who rose against British rule, though they were departing the greatest empire on earth in its moment of supreme glory after the Great War, to begin life among the smallest and poorest countries in all of Europe.
What is happening in Europe today was predictable and predicted.
At the turn of the century, in "The Death of the West," I wrote,
"Europe has begun to die. The prognosis is grim. Between 2000 and 2050, world population will grow by more than three billion to over nine billion people, but this 50 percent increase in population will come entirely in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as one hundred million people of European stock vanish from the earth."
Europeans are vanishing, as the peoples of the Maghreb and Middle East, South Asia and the sub-Sahara come to fill the empty spaces left by aging and dying Europeans whose nations once ruled them.
Absent the restoration of border controls across Europe, and warships on permanent station in the Med, can the inexorable invasion be stopped? Or is "The Camp of the Saints" the future of Europe?
An open question. But if the West is to survive as the unique civilization it has been, its nations must reassume control of their destinies and control of their borders.
Britain ought not to go gentle into that good night the EU has prepared for her. And a great leap to freedom can be taken June 23.
Trooping to the polls, the cousins might recall the words of Vera Lynn, 76 years ago, as the Battle of Britain was engaged:
"There'll always be an England,
"And England shall be free,
"If England means as much to you
"As England means to me."
Londonistan
Is there an England now? A Great Britain?
I wish. Unfortunately, it is clear that too many Americans have no problem giving up American sovereignty.
Modern high schools teach today that those who defend American sovereignty are "nativists" -- a pejorative as intimidating to many as being called a racist nowadays.
Notice how often Trump is called a "nativist" along with accusations of being racist, misogynist, islamophobic, homophobic and all the rest of the stupid leftwing labels.
Prayers for those struggling under the socialist occupation of Britain.
Money Quote: “God-and-country, blood-and-soil people, they want to live with their own kinfolk, their own kind.”
Pat Buchanan once again hits the nail square on the head. After WWll, the descriptors, Populist, Nativist and Nationalist became offensive words or names that are used as a way of abusing or insulting patriots.
Most European nations have now committed national suicide and now the people of Great Britain are trying to avoid it, to the chagrin of the elites.
The sad part is, these same elites here want to put that noose around the United States’ neck.
Another in the myriad of reasons for the rise of Trump.
Always fun to google "Diversity" and see the pics used to illustrate the concept. Whites blurry, in the background.
So why did England agree to it in the first place?
Yes but it will be called the Islamic state of England
A better question “Will there always be an America?”
I spent 3 yrs in the UK from 1961-1964 while serving in the USAF.
The difference between the UK then and now is not too be believed unless one actually lived there in the early 1960’s.
“Is there an England now? A Great Britain?”
There is a Britain, to be sure. Great? Not so much.
Demographics is Destiny. There may be an England, but it will not be like it was in the past. Nor will Europe. The have-nots always outpopulate the haves. We will eventually be thrust into the Dark Ages for a few hundred years. I doubt seriously that Prince William will ever come to the throne. The non-English majority will do away with the monarchy.
And our left wants to subject us to the same level of failure and worse...
The only hope to turn the demise of England around is to leave the EU. Just like our only hope is to elect Donald Trump.
Celtic Britons were invaded by the Romans.
They were then invaded by the Saxons, Angles and Jutes.
They were then invaded by the Vikings.
They were then invaded by the Normans.
Now, they are being invaded by the Muslims.
The name will be al-enlgistan in 10 years.
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