Tony Blair, a disingenuous and devious politician as well as being an arch-Europhile, is at it again.
Today, he's reported as making some vague remarks about the European Union being prepared to compromise on the issue of immigration into the UK in order to keep us in the Customs Union, Single Market and, in effect, the EU itself. In making these remarks he's been at pains to suggest that he 'knows something' while not actually indicating what, now where his supposed knowledge comes from.
Blair is hell-bent on keeping the UK inside the EU, seeing himself as some kind of 'elder statesman' who knows much better than the fools who want us to leave one of the most bureaucratic and corrupt organisations in the world. His latest attempt to convince us to change our minds centres on an assumption that we only voted as we did because we are opposed to the flood of immigrants coming to our country in recent years, ignoring all of the other reasons for voting to leave.
Of course, immigration is an issue but so is the bureaucracy, the vast tomes of pettifogging rules and regulations, the lack of democracy, the plans for a European super-state and army, the interference from the European Court of Justice, the massive financial 'bail-outs' and general waste of huge amounts of money, and much more.
The EU hamstrings its most productive and successful economies while also bankrupting the poorest. It interferes in more areas of our lives than we can easily know and is highly protectionist; vast subsidies paid to some have to be paid by the rest of us for no good reason. Its accounts have been highly suspect for ever since its foundation, with money spent but no clear understanding of where it's actually gone.
Forget Blair's devious entreaties and vague suggestions. The EU is a club to which we neither need nor want to belong.
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