The Liberals and Brexit

According to those high up in the Liberal Democrat Party, people like me are classed as stupid, misguided and only fit for the grave. The reason for this excess of hatred being directed towards us is because we had the gall to vote in the Brexit referendum when we should have realized we had no right to do so. The referendum was really only intended for those under 40 who have only ever known life in the E.U. There was a time when older people were often considered to have acquired some experience of life and whose opinions counted. No longer, it seems, at least as far as Nick Clegg is concerned. Vince Cable has another slant on the matter. According to him, people like me voted for Brexit because we are full of nostalgia for the past and because we want streets with only white faces. What utter insulting rubbish. I, and I am sure most others of my generation voted for Brexit because we can see how the E.U. has transmogrified from a simple communal trading group into an unelected, un-audited monster that is intent on turning itself into a super state with, amongst many other things, its own army. No one in Europe has ever been given the opportunity to vote for this course of action and nor will they.

In the last twenty months the unelected leaders of the E.U. have clearly demonstrated what a bunch of hypocritical, unelected bullys they are and I am even more convinced that the sooner we get out from under the E.U. jackboot the better off we will be. What saddens me most, however, is the realization that there are people in Britain who are so consumed by hatred, they would sooner see Britain go to the wall than they would admit that perhaps they got it wrong.

Bernard Gallivan

March 12 2018