Some of you are as old as I am, or older, and will remember times before we joined the EU. The only reason we joined was for equal trading rights across Europe, the common market.
We were never told that as a member we would lose our sovereignty and that the EU would over rule our legal justice system.
Stealth laws and future proposals would mean that any sensible person would invoke Article 50, unless they were to accept and bow to European law.
The EU can not be reformed, they do not see any failure and are now even talking of a EU army. Do we not have enough armies? If it was to raise this army who are they defending? and who are their enemy?
Let me tell you about trade and how the EU was set up.
If you have a product that is in high demand, you will trade, it will be at a high premium price. After the second world war two elements were vital to the regeneration program. Coal and Steel.
The founding members of the EU joined together as a self preservation society, so that no one country benefited better than the other, and all would pay the same price. This made economic sense, and was the basis of the European Market. The ability to produce and sell across Europe for the same price in each country, in order that no country could usurp another by paying a higher price of this market
Britain saw the advantage of this common market in 1961 and applied to join. We were denied and had to reapply and eventually joined in 1973, with the promise of a referendum within two years of joining.
That referendum was carried out in 1975, I would urge people to research radio an TV interviews of that time, if only to show how dignified the debates were in those days as opposed to today.
People are now talking about the turmoil within our political parties. Have you actually sat down and wondered why? Have you looked at what they have done for you lately and wondered what they could have done. Or are you like me?
Our politicians have done nothing for the whole of the 40 years that we have been members of the EU. They have contributed nothing, knowing that the EU will look after us. Effectively all our politicians have been managers of a managed country.
This year we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the battle of the Somme. I was ashamed to be honest, because they saw war as an adventure, a new challenge and willingly went to their deaths for us. We are not in fear of our lives and yet we run and hide like cowards, that in my opinion, is why we have no right to call ourselves British.
Both my grandfathers fought during the second world war, my paternal grandfather being nominated for a VC, though his commanding officer received it, as was a norm in those days. I had many conversations with him over the years, and one thing I learned from him was how united all his fellows were. How so joined at the hip they became, and how just like the archers during the 100 year war, they united together in fear and determination, against an enemy that they truly believed were evil.
We are now not at the end of a world war, but in many similarities we are at a crossroads. This does not only define us, but makes us the people we have become accustomed to being. Now is the time for us to prove to our forefathers that we are worthy of their sacrifice, and will become a voice, not only in Europe but the world.
We will now expect our political members to act on our behalf, and not their own political and profitable reasoning,above all listen to who they represent, and what we the people that make them want
