In his op-ed in The Washington Post, Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons, made the case for British withdrawal from the European Union—in terms Americans can understand.
Would you accept, Grayling asks, an American Union of North and South America, its parliament sitting in Panama, with power to impose laws on the United States, and a high court whose decisions overruled those of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Would you accept an American Union that granted all the peoples of Central and South America and Mexico the right to move to, work in, and live in any U.S. state or city, and receive all the taxpayer-provided benefits that U.S. citizens receive?
This is what we are subjected to under the EU, said Grayling.
And as you Americans would never cede your sovereignty or independence to such an overlord regime, why should we?
Downing Street’s reply: Prime Minister David Cameron says leaving the EU could cost Britain a lot of money and a loss of influence in Brussels.
The heart versus the wallet. Freedom versus security.
While Barack Obama, Cameron and Angela Merkel are pulling for Britain to vote to remain in the EU, across Europe, transnationalism is in retreat, and tribalism is rising.
As Britain’s Independence Party and half the Tory Party seek to secede from the EU, the Scottish National Party is preparing a new referendum to bring about Scotland’s secession.
The strongest party in France is the National Front of Marine Le Pen. In Austria’s presidential election, Norbert Hofer of Jorg Haider’s Freedom Party came within an eyelash of becoming the first European nationalist head of state since World War II.
The Euroskeptic Law and Justice Party is in power in Warsaw, as is the Fidesz Party of Viktor Orban in Budapest, and the Swiss People’s Party in Bern. The right-wing Sweden Democrats and Danish People’s Party are growing stronger.
In 2015, Merkel, Time’s Person of the Year, admitted a million Middle East refugees. This year, Merkel flipped and paid a huge bribe to Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to keep Syrian refugees from crossing the Aegean to the Greek islands and thence into Europe.
In Germany, too, nationalism is resurgent as opposition grows to any new bailouts of the La Dolce Vita nations of Club Med. The populist AfD party has made major strides in German state elections.
While the rightist parties in power and reaching for power are anti-EU, anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant, the secessionist movements roiling Scotland, Spain, Belgium and Italy seek rather the breakup of the old nations of Europe along ethnonational lines.
By enlisting in these parties of the right, what are the peoples of Europe recoiling from and rebelling against? Answer: The beau ideal of progressives —societies and nations that are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual.
Across Europe, the tribalists are rejecting, in a word, diversity.
And what are they seeking?
God-and-country, blood-and-soil people, they want to live with their own kinfolk, their own kind. They do not believe in economics uber alles. And if democracy will not deliver the kind of country and society they wish to live in, then democracy must be trumped by direct action, by secession.
This is the spirit behind Brexit.
The is the spirit that drove the Irish patriots of 1919, who rose against British rule, though they were departing the greatest empire on earth in its moment of supreme glory after the Great War, to begin life among the smallest and poorest countries in all of Europe.
What is happening in Europe today was predictable and predicted.
At the turn of the century, in The Death of the West, I wrote,
“Europe has begun to die. The prognosis is grim. Between 2000 and 2050, world population will grow by more than three billion to over nine billion people, but this 50 percent increase in population will come entirely in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as one hundred million people of European stock vanish from the earth.”
Europeans are vanishing, as the peoples of the Maghreb and Middle East, South Asia and the sub-Sahara come to fill the empty spaces left by aging and dying Europeans whose nations once ruled them.
Absent the restoration of border controls across Europe, and warships on permanent station in the Med, can the inexorable invasion be stopped? Or is The Camp of the Saints the future of Europe?
An open question. But if the West is to survive as the unique civilization it has been, its nations must reassume control of their destinies and control of their borders.
Britain ought not to go gentle into that good night the EU has prepared for her. And a great leap to freedom can be taken June 23.
Trooping to the polls, the cousins might recall the words of Vera Lynn, 76 years ago, as the Battle of Britain was engaged:
“There’ll always be an England,
“And England shall be free,
“If England means as much to you
“As England means to me.”
#1: Stoner To: nativist nationalist (#0)
Of course not! But unfortunately, there are some Americans that would. Either because they are stupid, or are NWO / globalist traitors.
Stoner posted on 2016-05-31 12:56:05 Reply Private Reply
#2: Vicomte13 To: nativist nationalist (#0)
Charles de Gaulle was as nationalist as Hitler.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-31 13:49:14 Reply Private Reply
#3: nolu chan To: Vicomte13, nativist nationalist (#2)
Franco in Spain (until 1975) and Salazar in Portugal (until 1968) were also nationalists. Marcelo Caetano ascended to prime minister of the Estado Novo regime after Salazar suffered a stroke in 1968; he was deposed by the revolution of 1974. They were European heads of state long after WW2.
Perhaps the author meant to say the first nationalist head of state elected after WW2.
nolu chan posted on 2016-05-31 15:05:46 Reply Private Reply
#4: Vicomte13 To: nolu chan (#3)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-31 15:21:53 Reply Private Reply
#5: nolu chan To: Vicomte13 (#4)
Correct. The author used the ambiguous phrasing, "came within an eyelash of becoming the first European nationalist head of state since World War II."
Haider would not have been the first European nationalist to become head of state since WW2, nor the first European nationalist to be elected head of state since WW2, and certainly not the first to be a European nationalist head of state since WW2.
Caetano became the head of state of a nationalist regime after WW2, and Franco and Salazar were heads of nationalist states after WW2. In 2007, Salazar polled as the greatest Portuguese in history.
nolu chan posted on 2016-05-31 16:07:29 Reply Private Reply
#6: Justified To: Vicomte13 (#2)
Now Hitler was a nationalist socialist. Not just a nationalist. Nothing wrong being a nationalist. Its the socialist part that destroyed him and Germany.
Justified posted on 2016-05-31 19:02:47 Reply Private Reply
#7: Vicomte13 To: Justified (#6)
It was racial-theory nationalism that fed the German fury. A fundamental concept of socialism is the equality of man. There was nothing socialist about the extermination camps. That was pure up nationalistic racism.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-31 20:01:57 Reply Private Reply
#8: Justified To: Vicomte13 (#7)
That is a slogan used to get people to do what a small group wants. It's naive and dangerous.
Socialism can only work if someone else is paying the bill. Once everyone is equally enslaved to the state which is run by a few the people the realized they have been duped and it's too late to change. Just ask the people from Venezuela or Cuba.
Socialism is used to take power and abuse it just like hitler did, Hugo did and Stalin did.
It's happening all over Europe and people are starting to wake up. socialism will destroy all that bow to it.
Justified posted on 2016-05-31 20:46:23 Reply Private Reply
#9: Vicomte13 To: Justified (#8)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-05-31 21:46:40 Reply Private Reply
#10: Justified To: Vicomte13 (#9)
The only reason socialism looked good in those countries is because it was a homogeneous society with big oil to pay for big government.
Socialism works until you run out of other people's money.
As a Christian it should horrify you that in socialism you have such a small group With so much power?
Justified posted on 2016-05-31 23:16:58 Reply Private Reply
#11: Vicomte13 To: Justified (#10)
Sweden has no oil.
The US is rolling towards economic disaster, and you want to
I find the "as a Christian" accusation to be singularly inappropriate in heated political discourse.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-06-01 08:54:08 Reply Private Reply
#12: Justified To: Vicomte13 (#11)
In a near perfect society progressives socialism is falling apart. Sweden is the best of a bad lot of countries! All its failings can be run back to socialism.
Like I said you can not make Utopia out of this world. You can't serve God and Government at the same time. Socialism is a failed experiment that will lead Christians away from God. I call that unexceptionable. Hard work and keeping your nose clean is the only way. Government can only work against God not for God. Wishful thinking and dreaming can not change the fact that government is evil because its run by man for man.
Justified posted on 2016-06-01 09:53:34 Reply Private Reply
#13: Vicomte13 To: Justified (#12)
A bad lot of countries? Have you ever BEEN to Norway, or Sweden, or Denmark, or Finland, or Switzerland, or France? Sure, there is crime. And there is awful crime in this country as well.
The same demographic decline that affects European whites afflicts American (and Canadian) whites also.
That isn't because of socialism.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-06-01 10:10:50 Reply Private Reply
#14: Justified To: Vicomte13 (#13)
You say something socialist government don't like they put you in jail or fine you into complying with their devilish desires.
The decline Europeans people is from socialist government overburden them in the name of some payback and utopian dream!
Socialism is the devils tool and to some their religion.
Capitalism with all its warts took a nation from nothing to leader of the word in less 200 years. Socialism will undo everything in less than 50 years.
Justified posted on 2016-06-01 13:58:36 Reply Private Reply
#15: Vicomte13 To: Justified (#14)
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-06-01 17:21:15 Reply Private Reply
#16: Justified To: Vicomte13 (#15)
LOL
Yes I am a Christian. Not perfect as you can see. I am a little to combative at times.
I have a derision for socialism as you can tell. Socialism takes nearly perfect conditions to work and where it counts most it fails horribly with religious freedoms. Then its too easy to fall into fascism or communism. Founding fathers were correct Capitalist Constitutional Republic is the best man can hope for. It does need a little tweaking.
Please do not take anything I say personally because its not meant to be personal. BTW which is another freedom we have for now which socialism doesn't. ;)
Justified posted on 2016-06-01 18:16:39 Reply Private Reply