Sea Change

There’s no doubt in my mind that the Remain campaign has economic sense, political reality and moral righteousness on its side. Sadly, this won’t stop it from losing its protracted battle to prevent the UK leaving the EU. In fact, I would go as far as to say that its tactical ineptness and catastrophic misreading of politics mean that it probably deserves to lose. Take the most recent hullabaloo over Boris Johnson and the perplexing decision by a district judge that he must appear in court over the claims he made during the referendum campaign. Even setting aside the legal rights and wrongs – it’s hard to imagine any precedent for ‘misconduct’ actually being extended to include campaign sloganising – the celebrations among Remainers are completely premature and misplaced. If I were a hard Brexiter, I would love the court case. It would confirm all my narrative about the political and legal system doing everything in its power to obstruct the ‘will of the people’. It is

We all grew up with the adage that we must careful what we wish for. Before we know it, we’ll find it’s actually happening. And here we are with the European Elections on 23 rd May. Secretly – and latterly not-so-secretly – Remainers longed for the idea of deferring the Brexit withdrawal date. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, they imagined, if May were unable to force us to quit the EU at the end of March and we would continue as full members of the club? Just think of the egg on the Prime Minister’s face as she was forced to concede that elections to the European Parliament would have to go ahead after all. Well, May will have egg on her face after 23 rd May. But so will everyone else, apart from Nigel Farage. Numerically, the anti-Brexit voters in the population are pretty strong, but who are they supposed to back? The revived ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ Liberal Democrats, perhaps? The newly-formed Change UK? Maybe they think the Greens are a good option? Or does nationalist l