It’s time for all Remoaners still hysterically trying to inflict Project Fear 2.0 to accept that Brexit must happen
Leaving the EU may not be simple, but it's not going to be the chaotic disaster talked of by bleating Remainers either
IT’S deafening: the din of leading Remainers hysterically whipping up fear again to terrify us into bottling out of Brexit.
All Tory Cabinet Ministers, they scream, are thick chancers clueless about the complexities of leaving and hopelessly ill-equipped to negotiate.
All their EU counterparts have brilliant minds, wily cunning and vast experience. It’s like they are superior at a genetic level. And the EU is a magnificent, noble, wholly benevolent institution without which we face Third World poverty.
Only a full retreat will save us, they bleat. Or an indefinite transition period during which we must beg for mercy.
They don’t mention the financial disasters of the eurozone, its mass unemployment or the bitter and rising resentment of the EU across the continent. Or that Leavers do not regret their vote.
Lord Adonis thinks the “Great British Public” will come to its senses when “in 18 months people may require visas to go to France”. It may shock him to learn most of us are not jet-setting peers whose lives will end if we cannot flit effortlessly from country to country. Brits are used to form-filling inconvenience.
No, Brexit won’t be simple. And we always said there would be short-term pain. Most Leavers are reconciled to it.
Needing a visa to hang out in Parisian cafes won’t be the game-changer Lord Adonis thinks.
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It takes a special evil to deliberately disfigure a victim while robbing them.
Sulphuric acid has domestic uses. It may be time, as Labour MP Stephen Timms says, to make it harder to get hold of.
But we’re not sure how practical or effective licences would be.
Many corrosive liquids can cause terrible injuries.
Gang thugs hide them in drink bottles because knife possession carries a tough penalty. They will always find a way to get hold of them.
But the Government can ensure equally harsh punishments for those caught concealing them with malicious intent.
And courts must show no mercy for anyone using them in an attack.
Out with it, Jez
LABOUR has literally no policy on the biggest Brexit issue.
Asked if he wanted in or out of the Single Market and Customs Union, Jeremy Corbyn had no answer.
“Out” betrays his young europhile fans who thought he would “soften” Brexit.
“In” betrays Leavers who believed his manifesto vow to end free movement.
So Corbyn, as he does under pressure, blustered angrily about “a tariff-free trade relationship with
Europe” — as if anyone wants anything else.
It is meaningless waffle and cannot go on. Corbyn is being dishonest with Britain.