Deluded pro-EU zealots are the Remainer Undead – Boris must harness his Brexit-winning magic to extinguish them
EU obsessives last week fired the starting gun for the next General Election – and promptly marched backwards into their own minefield.
Whenever polling day comes — in 2024 or maybe sooner — this will be a second Brexit referendum.
It will be a once-and-for-all chance for 47million UK voters to decide whether the historic 2016 Referendum verdict stands or falls.
If Boris can harness the same Brexit magic he used to score his stunning 80-seat majority in 2019, victory is his for the taking.
Indeed, with the cost of living soaring out of control, it is his ONLY chance of winning a second term.
Fate has stepped in to save the embattled PM from the Partygate hoo-hah which has dragged him to the brink of political assassination.
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It comes in the shape of the Remainer undead, some widely loathed figures who — much like the EU itself — turned Labour’s Red Wall strongholds into Tory conquests.
A ghostly epic of failures past, it stars grizzled “Tarzan” Michael Heseltine and cigar-chomping bandito Ken Clarke — both rejected by the Tories as wannabe leaders.
Plus a cast of deluded nonentities, all of them “ex”, who have learned nothing from their pro-EU past.
Ex-health supremo Jeremy Hunt is vying for Boris’s role as leading man.
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Handsome ex-Chancellor George Osborne, who famously subverted the Treasury and Bank of England against Brexit, returns like a dog to its own vomit.
They are joined by a glorious cast of Labour flops and Lib Dem losers, led by Bore Starmer and Ed Thingy, whose blinkered hatred of Brexit drove them close to oblivion last time round.
The soundtrack contains the menacing hiss of Peter Mandelson, serially disgraced ex-Cabinet plotter and hands-in-the-blood EU consigliere.
Banana-wielding charity millionaire and ex-Labour leadership loser David Miliband is over from New York looking for another audition on the UK stage.
This grotesque Back To The Future remake comes complete with clanking rail union dinosaurs ready to paralyse Covid-battered Britain with a 1926-style general strike.
Boris could not have hand-picked an uglier bunch of vote-losing adversaries.
The cherry on the cake is the exhumation of Tony Blair, the most loathed figure in British politics, as leader of a new Back-To-Brussels political party.
BoJo has been blown some Partygate raspberries, but nothing compares with last week’s jeering at the man they call Tony “Bliar”, as he grabbed his Knight of the Garter honour.
Such are the discredited forces ranged against Boris Johnson and the 17,410,742 Brits — including millions of Sun readers — who chose to quit the EU in our biggest single- issue vote ever.
The motley alliance would have us back in the coils of this increasingly totalitarian regime in an eye-blink. But it’s much worse now.
It was the vindictive EU that tried to sabotage Britain’s brilliant AstraZeneca Covid vaccine.
It was the EU that crassly triggered the hated Article 16 on Northern Ireland.
It was EU powerbrokers France and Germany who dragged their feet in defending Ukraine from Mad Vlad Putin’s jackboot.
And it was tin-pot Napoleon Emmanuel Macron who vowed to punish Britain for Brexit, yet insisted Putin must not be “humiliated” for turning Ukraine into dust.
TOTALITARIAN REGIME
Nor is it by accident that the European Court of Human Rights — no relation to the EU but a bulwark of its aims and objectives — is stymying the UK’s right to control its national borders.
In a long history of decline, the EU has failed on almost every measure — economic, social and political.
The vaunted euro currency has been a catastrophe.
Protectionism has stifled the sort of free-thinking innovation — America’s Apple, Google, Tesla, the UK’s financial wizardry — that has transformed the despised “Anglo-Saxon” economies.
Yet despite the clearly expressed will of the people, Blair and Mandy, Hezza and Ken want us once more in its bureaucratic clutches.
They are backed by a chorus of unelected voices — the infamous Whitehall Blob, the House of Lords, the judiciary, left-wing charities, the shadowy but powerful campaign group Common Purpose.
And, never forget, the BBC.
The BBC is now outrageously, brazenly and blatantly anti-Tory, anti-Brexit and pro anyone who stands in opposition, not least Nicola Sturgeon’s Tartan Terrors.
In a stunning display of bias, the Today Programme’s Mishal Husain even had the nerve to compare Priti Patel’s Rwanda resettlement plan with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Critics could have waited for BoJo to be skewered by his own party after likely Tory defeats in .
Instead, they have turned his crisis into an opportunity.
Brexit still unites the voters who picked Boris as PM. It is possible they will do so again.
There is, however, a catch — and it begins with the Slippery Pig himself.
Boris has squandered his first years in power.
SUPPORTERS IN DESPAIR
People feel none of the Brexit benefits they were promised when they voted Tory.
Instead, in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, they have been hammered with un-Tory tax hikes.
Covid is no excuse.
A functioning PM should be able to do two things at once — or get his ministers to do them for him.
Instead, Boris has wilfully turned his back on his Brexit promises.
His dwindling band of die-in-a-ditch supporters are in despair.
Brexit supremo and long-term ally David Frost finally left the Government in frustration.
Frost has become the darling of the Tory party by listing the missed post- EU opportunities and possible solutions.
There are calls for him to abandon his peerage and run as a future leader.
But he remains a Boris supporter. His real objective is to provoke Boris into saving his own skin — and the Government with it.
He wants to scrap the “green cr*p” which is hammering consumers and producers, give free markets a boost and reverse the catastrophic National Insurance hike.
He calls for a war on woke, decisive action against illegal immigration and a strong stand for free speech.
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Frost is a friend. He speaks for Brexit-starved voters who want Boris to stop dithering and DO something.
In the months remaining before an election, Boris needs to listen to his few remaining friends — and stop Labour dud Keir Starmer stumbling by accident into Downing Street.