Peter Oborne and Melissa Kite join the programme. Peter Oborne today published an article that reads like a roadmap to Damascus:
"Brexit has paralysed the system. It has turned Britain into a laughing stock. And it is certain to make us poorer and to lead to lower incomes and lost jobs. We Brexiteers would be wise to acknowledge all this."
We asked him why he'd changed his mind about Brexit?
Brexit was a STUPID idea thought up by STUPID people who understood nothing about economics, commerce or international trade. The initial mistake was David Cameron’s in offering a referendum to the electorate on a very complex issue which even many MPs didn’t truly understand. Then, the poor electorate were fed lie after lie after lie about the sunny uplands yonder and the sovereignty we’d get back. Yeh! Sovereignty! Maggie sold off all the “family silver” to foreigners years ago. So what sovereignty was there to get back? By the way, our American friends would thank us for rejoing the EU. Most sensible Americans realize that our membership in the Union was, and will be, only helpful to them.
What this country needs to do—and if Rishi is as smart as they try and say he is, he will do it—is eat humble pie. They tell me it’s very tasty! We need to do all we can to rejoin the EU, the Single Market, and all that comes with the territory. Forget the opt-outs, oh and dump the pound and join the euro.
As I stated in an earlier post this week, the pound is going down and down and down anyway. Since the Great War, it has halved in value every ten years. Its loss of value has been unabated. Are we to wait until a pound is worth 50¢ before joining the euro? Would that be prudent? Come on, fellow compatriots! Let’s get real! We are Europeans anyway. Stop dorking around! Oh, and apologize to our European brethren for being so truculent. Long live the European Union! Es lebe die Europäische Union! Vive l'Union européenne ! – © Mark Alexander
