The people were right

Spiked ^ | Brendan O'Neill

[Rummyfan]

The EU’s unhinged behaviour in the vaccines crisis vindicates the 17.4million.

We told you. We told you the European Union was not some hippyish, internationalist outfit but rather was a self-interested protectionist bloc. We told you it was a sclerotic bureaucracy whose centralisation of power made it more and more difficult for member states to behave as democratic nations and to respond sensitively and speedily to the needs of their own people. We told you the EU didn’t really give a damn about the Good Friday Agreement and was only using it as a weapon with which to beat Brexit Britain. We told you the EU was exploiting Ireland, cynically marshalling its concerns over a ‘hard border’ to try to further demonise Brexit, and that before long it would forget all about its concern for Ireland and relegate it once again to the status of a neo-colony. We told you all of this. And we were right.

The EU’s increasingly unhinged behaviour over vaccines has shocked even many Remainers. But too much of the discussion is positing the idea that the EU has simply made some mistakes, a few rash, desperate judgements. In truth, the behaviour of the EU over the past week – its failings on the vaccination front, its acts of desperate protectionism, its lashing out at Brexit Britain, and its cavalier, sinister mistreatment of the Republic of Ireland – have not been glitches in the system; this is the system. This is how the centralised, self-interested, neo-colonial power that is the European Union operates. And it is why 17.4million of us voted against it in the referendum in 2016.

[Rummyfan]

Interesting news about the EU. With all we have going on domestically I haven't been paying attention.

[jocon307]

This is a great piece! Just read it via instapundit and shared on evil FB (don’t worry, they’ll make sure no one sees it, I’m out of there as soon as I can focus and save my pix).

[livius]

Yes, I think the incident with Ireland has rattled a lot of member countries. Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, were not supposed to having a “hard border” when the UK left the EU. This had been negotiated between all the parties.

And then the EU just announced that the two Irelands had to go back to having a “hard border,” with family members and everybody having to cross it like foreigners. And they didn’t even notify Dublin and London that they were doing this, but just announced that it was going into effect.

Incredible.