Tony Parsons says the EU doesn’t work so pampered snobby twits should leave it out with ‘Project SNEER’

THE campaign to keep this country shackled to the European Union is no longer Project Fear – this was the week it suddenly became Project SNEER.

David Cameron and George Osborne are both treating the British public like a timid new boy who can be bullied into submission behind the tuck shop.

They snicker. They sneer. They bully.

They openly ridicule anyone who disagrees with their fanatical pro-EU stance.

Every pore of their pink, pampered faces oozes scorn for the millions of their fellow countrymen who want only to restore our nation’s independence.

The PM insults his office and our intelligence by claiming Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of IS, might be “happy” to see us leave.

Osborne tittered: “Next thing we know, they (the Leave campaign) will be accusing us of faking the moon landings, kidnapping Shergar and covering up the existence of the Loch Ness monster.”

Osborne’s ham-fisted attempts at humour display total disrespect for the Leave campaign. Yet there is a credible and serious argument to be made for leaving the European Union.

It goes like this — the EU doesn’t work. There are record numbers of EU workers in the UK, not least because the euro is a failed currency. A shocking 80 per cent of new jobs went to foreign-born workers last year.

Open borders enable terrorists. And the British people want the right to kick out those who rule us.

There is nothing remotely crazy about this argument. The men and women who believe it are anything but stupid.

But the faces of Osborne and Cameron curl and pucker with undisguised contempt when they talk of the patriotic men and women who believe that our country would be better off leaving the EU.

Cameron and Osborne have never seemed more like what their detractors have always accused them of being — arrogant, upper-class twits with no understanding of the real world.

It is especially rich of the Prime Minister to be so disdainful of the Leave campaign as it was not so very long ago that he was insinuating he might lead it.

“Britain is an amazing country,” he simpered only last November. “The argument isn’t whether Britain could survive outside the EU. Of course it could.”

Was he lying then or is he lying now? Because Cameron can’t believe what he told us last November and also what he tells us now.

Seven months ago he said that we could survive quite happily if we quit the EU.

Now he promises an increased risk of war, giving succour to the terrorists and economic collapse.

These sneering toffs have got a nerve.

It is not the leave campaign that deals in exaggeration, hyperbole and lies. It is these sneering creeps Cameron and Osborne. And it will not work.

If the history of our nation teaches us anything, it is that the British people — for all our tolerance, for all our politeness, for all that palaver of saying “sorry” when someone steps on your foot — can NEVER be bullied.

The vicious mockery of Project Sneer might work on some little oik after lights out at Eton. But it will never work with the British people.

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Migrant crisis far from Jolie

IN her capacity as the UN’s special envoy on refugees, Angelina Jolie says that Angela Merkel’s decision to let in one million Muslim migrants in one year “came from a beautiful, emotional place.”

But an increasing number of Germans think that Merkel’s policy was reckless to the point of wickedness, and that future generations will have to live with the mess she alone created.

Already Germany’s social cohesion is coming apart at the seams. How will Germany’s schools and hospitals cope? Where will they all live, Angela?

Wherever these newcomers end up, you can bet your last Euro that it will be nowhere near Jolie, Benedict Cumberbatch or any of the luvvies who lecture us on a migrant crisis that will never touch their mollycoddled lives.

Quan-Tom of Solace

BOOKIES have suspended betting on who will be the next James Bond after Tom Hiddleston was spotted in conversation with director Sam Mendes in London’s Soho House.
Hiddleston will be the best 007 we have ever seen.

He was shockingly good in The Night Manager, coincidentally the closest that John Le Carré ever got to writing a Bond book.

Exotic locations, subterfuge in swimwear, evil masterminds – The Night Manager even had a sadistic torture scene, always a Fleming favourite.
And unlike miserable old Daniel Craig, who claims Bond is “actually a misogynist” – a man who hates women – Tom Hiddleston might actually be happy to have the role.

• NED ROCKNROLL, 37, best known for being Kate Winslet’s husband, obtained a draconian injunction against The Sun to prevent us publishing pictures of him at a party, claiming they were “embarrassing.”
  Embarrassing?
  But Ned – what could possibly be more embarrassing than being called Mr Rocknroll?

THE Queen sheds a tear for the fallen as she unveils a memorial in Staffordshire to those who died serving with the Duke of Lancaster’s regiment, of which she is Colonel-in-Chief.

Thirty-two members of the regiment have died over the past ten years. The service in their memory lasted 20 minutes. The Queen, 90, remained standing for every second of it.

Can you imagine any politician from any party shedding a tear for those who died fighting for our freedom? Me neither.

THE lovely Saira Khan confesses that she has lost all sexual cravings and instructed her husband that he is free to have sex with other women.
But surely if a woman has lost her mojo and doesn’t know where to find it, then SHE is the one who should be looking elsewhere?

Labour MPs are a class a part

CAN we just keep Labour MPs away from members of the working class?

Whenever a Labour MP meets a working-class voter, it invariably ends in mutual misunderstanding and – later – a grovelling apology.

Why bother?

Gordon Brown called a Labour voter who mildly raised the subject of immigration “that bigoted woman”.

Emily Thornberry sneered at a house that dared to display the flag of St George.

Now Pat Glass Labour MP for North West Durham, calls a voter a “horrible racist” for having the nerve to complain about an East European family on benefits.

Immigration is the subject that Labour MPs can’t even bear to talk about.
We should keep them right away from the British people.

Yes, Boris but stop Hitler use

YOU should never introduce Adolf Hitler into a debate unless you are actually talking about Adolf Hitler.

Ken Livingstone brought Hitler into the debate about the rabid anti-Semitism in today’s Labour Party, and he seemed at once offensive, wrong and barking mad.

So Boris Johnson was asking for howls of outrage – both synthetic and genuine – when he compared the ambitions of the European Union to those of Hitler.

Boris made the perfectly valid point that the EU dreams of dominating the continent, just as Hitler, Napoleon and King Philip II of Spain dreamed of doing in the past.

Boris said – almost as an aside – that only the methods were different.

And he is right. The EU dreams of “ever-closer union” and will not stop yearning for a pan-European superstate – just like Hitler, Napoleon and Philip with his Spanish Armada.

But I still think that using the example of Hitler has to be handled with extreme caution.
Hitler’s crimes were uniquely evil. Six million died in his factories of death. Millions more died in the war he began.

We demean their memory when we start using Hitler as a debating point.

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