Theresa May is showing EU elites who’s boss with her confidence about a successful Brexit
EU chiefs won't deter us from leaving and when the time comes they will agree to the right deal for Britain
WE are delighted by Theresa May’s assured defiance against the blowhards in Brussels.
She is right. It is in everyone’s interests to make Brexit work. For us and them.
EU chiefs are hardballing to deter anyone else tempted to abandon the sinking ship. They even hope to make our negotiations so complex and “painful” that we simply give up on leaving.
Are they really that dumb? How do they imagine that could happen? That our PM would suddenly announce to 17.4million Leave voters: “As you were. It’s all too hard. Can’t do it. Soz.”
We can think of few greater threats to our peace and stability.
The biggest mandate in British polling history was a decision, not a suggestion.
The Government vowed beforehand to “implement what you decide” and so it will. It is good to see more and more politicians finally grasp this.
Not the Lib Dems, of course. They still crave a second referendum on the Brexit deal — as a ruse to campaign to stay in regardless.
They should take the advice of party grandee Vince Cable who calls that “disrespectful” of voters.
Or Labour MP Rachel Reeves, a Remainer who accepts her party should “heed the result” and make ending free movement “a red line” in negotiations.
Funny, that. The Sun’s said it for years.
Criminal idiocy
NO ONE would defend Paul Gascoigne’s racist remark about a black bouncer.
It was a nasty “joke” from the bad old days of the 1970s.
Gazza doesn’t seem to have realised the world has moved on. But then he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He is also an alcoholic, mouthing off to an audience paying to be entertained. We doubt he even realised it was offensive.
Security guard Errol Rowe was humiliated and we feel for him. But did such stupidity need prosecuting in the courts at public expense?
The judge said “insidious racism needs to be challenged”. So it was, by the gasps from Gazza’s shocked audience and those who walked out.
The great strides made against casual racism in Britain have been down to education and an evolution in attitudes.
Not by criminalising and punishing moronic remarks made out of ignorance.
Refugee angst
FROM his New York base, David Miliband grandly declares that Britain should quadruple the Syrian refugees we are taking.
Even though we are struggling to accommodate the 20,000 we agreed to.
Yvette Cooper joins in the hand-wringing about us not doing enough. Even though we donate more than any nation bar the US to Syrian refugee camps.
These New Labour types were equally relaxed about mass immigration.
Is there no limit to the numbers they imagine we can absorb?