UKIP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.

Those who have been claiming that UKIP has served its purpose and is now a 'dead duck' need to think again.

The result of last week's General Election has brought die hard 'remainers' flooding out of the woodwork in droves. The spurious differences between 'hard Brexit', 'soft Brexit' extreme Brexit' and even 'Mrs May's Brexit' are being trumpeted and an assortment of voices are demanding all manor of supposed softening of the approach to negotiations such that the UK would never actually leave the European Union at all.

John Major and David Cameron have both made their latest contributions, calling for some sort of cross-party consensus on the 'type of Brexit' that is negotiated, really meaning that they don't want us to leave; Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Conservatives in Scotland also seems to favour not really leaving and is making veiled threats about the extent to which Scottish Conservative MPs will support Theresa May's administration. Additionally, some voices from Europe are again threatening our financial market, while French and German politicians are starting to suggest the possibility that the UK may change its mind about leaving.

Most of the British voices now coming to the fore talk of the UK staying in the 'single market' and / or 'customs union. None of these voices let on that such arrangements are impossible for a country outside of the EU unless they :

 (1) pay a membership fee and

 (2) accept unlimited movement of people and

 (3) accept the EU's rules and regulations and

 (4) accept the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice

Given that these are points which the population voted against in the referendum, it's clear that Cameron, Major and the rest continue to do everything that they can to ignore the democratic vote and thwart the will of the people by effectively keeping us in the EU.

When Theresa May said that 'Brexit means Brexit' she was making a simple statement of fact. Leaving the European Union is a case of leaving the European Union, no more and no less. What access can then be negotiated for subsequent access to whichever of its various organs is a separate issue. Of course it would be beneficial to all if a sensible deal can be struck but we must not be diverted by this bombardment from the political elite who, themselves, have benefited hugely from our membership and who are hell-bent on keeping things as they are.

Sadly, the failure of the Conservatives in the General Election has gifted these vehement 'remainers' the whip hand. It is highly unlikely that Mrs May would be able to get anything through Parliament other than the smallest nod towards 'Brexit' that is, in reality, not 'Brexit' at all. With this in mind, it's clear that UKIP has never been more important and the sooner it sorts itself out, gets a new leader (Nigel Farage, again ?) and sets out to harry the government and combat the 'remainers', the better. If they don't, be in no doubt that we will never leave this interfering, bureaucratic, anti-democratic and orrupt institution.