NOW REMAINERS THREATEN TO BRING DOWN GOVERNMENT.

It seems that the arch-Remainers in the Conservative Party - the likes of Ken Clarke and Dominic Grieve, as well as leadership candidate Rory Stewart - have finally made their positions clear. In the event that any future leader of the Party, and Prime Minister, tries to bring Brexit about without a formal deal with the European Union, they will 'bring down the Government'.

Given that the nation voted for Brexit, is this not the ultimate in anti-democratic action ? These people talk about types of Brexit as if they have special knowledge of which the electorate are ignorant, implicitly saying that the electorate are stupid. What they want is simply to stay in the EU at any cost; they have no interest in democracy or carrying out the Will of the people. Just now, I've heard Rory Stewart imply that the views of 270 Members of Parliament must be listened to; what about the views of 17.4 million voters which he seems perfectly happy to ignore ?

It's suggested that members of the European Research Group, a sub-species within the Conservative Party, will migrate to Nigel Farage's Brexit Party if the UK does not leave the EU on 31st October, as is currently the law. Conversely, it's said that the arch-Remainers in the Party will move to the Liberal Democrats if Brexit is brought about without a deal that they like; these are the 'Wets' on the extreme left of the Party who have far more in common with the Liberals anyway and without whom the Party would probably be better off. Perversely, such a move by either wing of the Conservative Party could galvanise British politics, re-introducing a true right wing Conservative Party, be it by amalgamation with the Brexit Party or by the left wingers leaving in a huff.

For members of any political party to talk openly about bringing down their own government is shocking. For it to be a consequence of those same members ignoring the democratically expressed Will of the People, is appalling. They should be expelled from the party and Parliament, vilified and strung up. 

WE STILL NEED UKIP.

The forces of fear and protectionism are gathering again.

Those same individuals, organisations, businesses and 'think tanks' that told us all that voting to leave the European Union would result in immediate and uncontrollable catastrophe are regrouping. Faced with the unthinkable, that is, a UK withdrawal from the EU, the Europhiles are beginning to mount a new campaign of terror designed to encourage voters to 'think again'; we're being told that prices will rise, industries will collapse, millions will lose their jobs, the NHS will crumble and so on.

Old fashioned Europhiles like the Liberal democrats (remember them ?) and Kenneth Clarke simply insist that they were right and the rest of us have got it wrong; they want various opportunities to be created for them to be able to vote down whatever the Government tries to implement in pursuit of the 'Will of the People'. They're calling for assorted votes in Parliament before, during and after the exit negotiations in order, so they say, to hold the Government to account or to ensure that the terms are right, or whatever else occurs to them as a slogan to use.

In truth, this is nothing other than the political and business elites trying to reverse the result of June's referendum. Anyone who thought that those who are wedded to the EU would give up the fight never was likely to be proven correct; the big guns will continue to fire their salvos of frightening scenarios and stories until the UK has actually left the Union and, even then, some will start arguing for us to re-join.

Theresa May and her Government, despite its obvious internal divisions, must hold its line and steer us out of the EU as rapidly as possible. They must ignore all the scaremongering and get on with it. Things will never be anything like as bad as the doom-mongers want us to fear, in fact, they'll probably end up far better than even the most optimistic of optimists can conceive. 

What we really need is for Ukip to pull itself together and finish the job it's started.