It was repugnant to watch Remainers in Commons — PM has seen off treacherous bid by Labour
The vote to stay in a customs union with the EU would have been a fatal blow to Brexit, the Government and the Tory Party
Sigh of releave
AFTER days of Brexit mayhem the Government has at least seen off the treacherous bid by Labour, with Remainers on the Tory backbenches, to kill it stone dead.
The vote to stay in a customs union with the EU would have been a fatal blow to Brexit, the Government and the Tory Party. It would have kept us shackled to Brussels’ rules for all time, with no say over any of them.
All the ambition for our great country as a newly independent global trader would have been swept away. We would have all the possible short-term pain of leaving, with no long-term gain.
Theresa May’s Chequers plan is a feeble Brexit, but at least it’s freedom of a sort. That cannot be said of a customs union.
It was repugnant to watch Westminster’s Remainer elite line up to argue for tying us to the EU, and pretend the Leave verdict didn’t mean actually leaving.
Many seemed to treat it like a game, oblivious to the terrible danger they would have unleashed had they won.
For once, and however briefly, the Government has something to celebrate.
Remainer rage
OF all the attempts to thwart Brexit, the campaign to pretend the referendum wasn’t fair is the most pathetic and dishonest.
The Electoral Commission’s probe into Vote Leave’s alleged overspending is fatally flawed if it failed even to interview those who ran it.
Worse, it has not applied the same scrutiny to the Remain camp, which clearly co-ordinated smaller groups just as Vote Leave is said to have done.
As for Remainers claiming this alleged overspend skewed a tight referendum, what cobblers. The Commission’s own figures show Remain vastly outspent Leave — on top of the £9million David Cameron wasted leafleting every home begging us to vote to stay in.
The odds were massively stacked against Leave and they still won.
This Remain rearguard action has nothing to do with the vote’s legitimacy.
It is just a continuing tantrum, aimed at the 17.4million who disagreed with them.
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Facebook does, and refuses to remove them. It just marks them “disturbing” and limits them to users claiming to be over 18. Virtually everyone, in other words.
A moderator, sickeningly, tells an undercover reporter: “If you start censoring too much, people lose interest in the platform. It’s all about making money.”
Since Facebook apparently now considers itself a publisher it must be treated as such. New Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright must continue Matt Hancock’s commendably tough moves towards regulating social media.
If Facebook ever had a moral compass it has lost it.