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thomas davison

29th May 2019
We Frexiteers across the Channel share in your struggle for freedom from the EU

�Today we came here to partake in a political fight with our British Brexiteer friends�.

With these words, Fran�ois Asselineau, the leader and founder of the UPR (Republican Popular Union), the French pro-Frexit party, kicked off the rally held in Central London on 29th March 2019, which gathered together nearly seven hundred French people supporting the 52% of British people who voted Leave, on the day Brexit was supposed to happen. You can watch it in its entirety here.

This rally, which was probably the biggest political event organised by a foreign political party in the UK since the end of WWII, had been organsied for months in the hope that Frexiteers could celebrate the official exit date of the UK from the EU in London. Several British political personalities from across the political spectrum, academics and business people accepted our invitation to speak and join us in our common fight to restore freedom and sovereignty to both our countries. Among them were Brendan Chilton (Head of Labour Leave), David Heathcoat-Amory (ex-Minister of State for Europe), Lord Hamilton of Epsom (ex-Minister of State for the Armed Forces), Kate Hoey MP (Labour), Jim Reynolds (Campaign for an Independent Britain), Sir Gerald Howarth (Leave Means Leave and ex-Minister for International Security Strategy), Dr Lee Rotherham (ex-Vote Leave), Professor Gwythian Prins (Emeritus Professor, LSE) and Lucy Harris (Founder of Leavers of Britain, and now a candidate for the Brexit Party).

Despite the obvious disappointment of not celebrating what should have been an historic milestone, the atmosphere was surprisingly warm and the British guests were impressed by the enthusiastic crowd who assembled in London to support the Leave camp. While most were from France, others came from across Europe and some even from Canada, China and the United States.

As emphasised by David Heathcoat-Amory, the decision of 17.4 million Britons was not an �isolated eccentricity� but instead part of a Europe-wide movement to re-establish democracy and self-government. Unfortunately, the EU does not like referendums that go the wrong way. And this is the reason why such an outcome was to be expected, according to Brendan Chilton. In reality, this attempt to reject the result of a popular vote against the EU was not the first: in 1994, the Norwegian people were called to vote for the European Union, having rejected it once in 1972. It was the same for the Danish people who were asked to vote for a second time after they initially rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. In 2001 the Irish people said �No� by referendum to the Treaty of Nice and then �No� in 2008 to the Treaty of Lisbon. On both occasions they were forced to correct their �errors�. We should also mention the votes by referendum against the EU Constitution in 2005 in France and the Netherlands where both results were finally ignored. The history of the EU is characterised by a disdain for democracy.

�The EU is not un-democratic: it is anti-democratic. So the only solution is not to reform: it is to leave the EU�, said David Heathcoat-Amory, reminding us of the impossibility of changing the EU (that would mean abrogating Article 48 of the Treaty of the EU which requires that decisions must be taken unanimously between the 28 member states of the EU). If you want democracy, one must have the �independent self-governing nation state� and this is exactly what the EU is trying to dismantle � �not by violence, not by force but by bureaucracy, by rules, by regulation, by transferring the law making powers from the people to Brussels,� he continued. It is also worth noting that no other group of countries in the world has ever tried to replicate the EU�s model � adopting a single currency, a supreme court, a single defence policy and a law-making body for an entire continent. Instead, many alternative types of collaboration are used throughout the world: treaties, trade agreements and pacts entered into by free and sovereign countries.

But � beyond the anti-democratic aspects � what appears to be the most shocking thing is the obvious disregard, even contempt, from the EU elites for the people they govern. �When President Macron came to the UK in January 2018 he said that if a referendum was held in France, France would vote to leave the EU and of course that means he will not call in a referendum,� noted Lord Hamilton. As stated in Article 2 of the French Constitution, the nation state is �the government of the people, by the people, for the people� � our leaders seem to have forgotten this. Similarly, Brendan Chilton related the following anecdote when a few years back Tony Blair had stood in the same room as Prime Minister and said: �Only extremists would want to leave the EU�. But the choicest example certainly came from Donald Tusk when in February 2019 he promised a �special place in hell� for �those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan�.

Such statements from EU leaders are not unusual and reflect their impunity. As Dr Lee Rotherham reminded us, no-one is accountable in the EU institutions: �Who is responsible when a bad law is made? And how do we get to change it?� For these reasons, the UK decided to take back control.

The UK leaving the bloc in a good condition is probably what the EU elite fears the most. �If we give the Brits a good deal, other countries will follow suit,� confessed M. Barnier to Tom Enders (CEO of Airbus Group) as reported by Sir Gerald Howarth, who then added:

�They are seeking to punish the UK simply to prevent other countries like France, like Italy, like the Netherlands following our example and grasping the opportunity to free themselves from this 1950�s sclerotic defunct organisation�.

France will benefit from the lessons learned on the UK side if it wants to avoid a �Treaty of Versailles� (Brendan Chilton) in reference to a Withdrawal Agreement that demands 39 thousand million pounds from British taxpayers in return for a promised vassal state status.

We are together fighting the same battle for democratic Western values that are rooted in the bedrock of our civilisation. The UPR Gaullist party � with its 37,000 activists in May 2019 � will be leading the way in France, thanks to the support of their British allies. As stated by Lord Tebbit:

�Brexit is the ultimate expression of the kind of national sovereignty that General de Gaulle understood. It is the very expression of democracy that he fought to preserve. But it is not something that we aspire to jealously guard for ourselves. We want to share our new liberty with our old friends. Join us in our escape from The Bastille of Brussels. We shall eat cake together in freedom�.

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