In which I brutally mug poor old Uncle Mort

Yeah, just like that, I pulled me bovver boots on, stomped into poor old Uncle Mort's place and nicked his latest post!  Well, not really!  What I did was pay a visit to his site, A K Haart, and there I read a heart-felt plea from a Mr. Gary Pearse of Manitoba and yes, I'm ashamed to say that until I looked it up I was not at all sure where Manitoba was - my bad!  My shame was doubled when I realised that Mr. Pearse's comment was attached to an article at WUWT, the premier site for squidging all this AGW nonsense, of which I am a dedicated follower - or I was but because the whole farrago has now been shown up for the ignorant agit-prop it always was, I no longer visit WUWT so regularly.  Again, my bad!

Anyway, Mr. Pearse, presumably a Canadian, manages to put his feelings into words in a way that eludes most of us tongue-tied Brits and Uncle Mort was dead right to reproduce it, as do I:

UK Brexit. Reject the EU before it is too late! I’ve been appalled at expressions by seemingly intelligent commenters talking about the risks of leaving! Fear from the greatest empire builder the world has ever known!!

Please, be afraid instead of what this sick continent will ultimately do to you. Indeed this could be the last referendum you will ever be allowed to have. These people never had an idea of freedom. It was invented by you guys! They invented the mouldy marxbrothers and it keeps rising from the ashes of every one of its failures.

You invented the industrial revolution. You and your English speaking progeny garnered most of the Nobel Prizes! Dig down and find your pride and the good sense you also invented. I’m just a prairie boy from Manitoba but I have the guts of a lion that you also gave us all. Don’t let us down! You have a whole world to trade and do business with. Remember you have a couple of billion people who have your language, values, energy, talent and ferocious desire for freedom! I wish this letter could be put in front of every one of you.

Well said, Sir, and, dammit, sometimes it takes an outsider to show us the errors of our ways.  Also, it is worth reporting that the original article at WUWT reported the words of

Rebecca Harms, a senior member of the German Green Party, and co-President of a major Green Group in the European Parliament thinks referendums, direct plebiscites, should be limited to issues which don’t endanger power structures which she thinks are important.

Yeeeeeeeeeees, quite!  And as Mr. Pearse so presciently puts it: "this could be the last referendum you will ever be allowed to have."

 

VOTE LEAVE

 

Comments

[Peter Whale]

The last time we fought a "Junker" we sent it down in flames the latest "Drunker the Junker"is so full of brandy one match will send it up in flames.

[Whyaxye]

"Rebecca Harms".

We can't say we weren't warned.

I read the passage last night on AKH's, but it bears a lot of re-reading. Wonderful, isn't it?

[Whyaxye]

It's also worth having a look from time to time at John Redwood's blog. Here he is on the positives of Brexit:

http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2016/04/14/what-does-brexit-look-like/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JohnRedwoodsDiary+%28John+Redwood%27s+Diary%29

A very sound man, I've always liked him.

[Whitewall]

Manitoba, Canada.. proud home of the city of Winnipeg. Its southern border touches Minnesota. I've been to Manitoba and it feels very English but with a snowy prairie touch. Mr. Pearse put it exactly right and got the "why" just right too. As an American I view the Brexit the same way he does. Get on with it. There's tyranny afoot in Brussels.

[David Duff]

Yes, I knew it was in Canada but apart from the French bit in the East and the British bit in the west, what goes on in between is a mystery to me!

[Uncle Mort]

Good stuff isn't it? Reminds us of the essentials.

[jimmy glesga]

Whitewall, indeed something is afoot in Bruxelles and Europe. The EU has lost the plot by knowingly letting terrorists enter. There is something politically inept and pathetic about the EU and dangerous to its citizens. Britain needs to get out. I think this would spur on other members to reach a trade deal and control their borders.

[Whitewall]

Jimmy you're dead on right. Insanity has seized the Continent.