Nearly three years ago, the majority of British voters, chose to leave the European Union. The fact that they never voted to join it, and were quite happy with the Common Market beforehand, has been delightfully airbrushed out of political history for decades. Three days ago, the UK should have left the EU, and guess what – they didn’t!

While the unelected elite of the EU swan around Brussels or Strasbourg, sipping champagne during their five-course lunches, with hardly time to convalesce before the next call to evening cocktails, the British flunkies nip out for a quick sandwich before parking themselves back on their seat of toil. Of course, with over €20,000 a month per nose for higher-ranking EU members, or €32,000 per month in the case of Donald Tusk, they won’t feel inclined to nibble on a packet of crisps and a bacon butty.

We remember with fondness, the abounding generosity of Baroness Catherine Ashton (Labour), First Vice President of the European Commission. Back in 2011 she was commuting between Egypt and Tunisia, pumping EU-money into their countries to encourage «deep democracy» – a truly laudable project. In the meantime, hundreds of millions of Euros have been donated by the EU to Egypt alone, for various well-meant, projects and because it’s all so nice, it continues every year. Indemnities were never paid by Egypt to the victims’ families of the Luxor massacre of 1997, because the authorities didn’t «wish to create a precedent» – so that’s alright then.

The Ukraine alone has received 500 million euros from the EU in 2018, to prop up Mr. Poroschenko, who I am sure was very thankful to his EU chums. His salary increased by 95 times in 2018, which, together with returns on investment saw a total income of $40.4 million. The all-embracing benevolence of the EU bigwigs, for non-European countries must be astonishing for the recipients. However, it is a little mysterious, to be handing out such enormous amounts of EU-taxpayers brass, to countries so renowned for their deplorable corruption, and where the president himself could feed his flock single-handedly.

In the light of all this bonhomie, one could be forgiven for querying why the UK needs to pay upwards of £250 million to the EU each week, and will be charged £39 billion divorce fee upon finalising Brexit, plus a £1 billion per month deferral fee for not completing Brexit on schedule. I suppose in the socialist sense, it’s OK to go splashing the cash to others, when you can screw the plebs who have no say. Amid crumbling roads, a strained NHS, over-crowded schools and housing and annual mass immigration it was no surprise that the British taxpayers and seriously concerned residents of the UK, voted for Brexit.

Then David Cameron bunked off straight after the Brexit result, like a king-sized wimp. So the staunch Remainer, Ms May took up the cause to steer Brexit through the choppy waters of the EU’s spasms of sabotage. This boded not well for a timely solution. Looking at it from my relatively safe zone in Switzerland, I am horrified at Ms May’s feeble attempt to appear sincere while she has botched repeated opportunities to exit the exclusive club of Europe. I ache for the Brits who surrendered their «Leave» vote in good faith, that it would be parliament’s objective to expeditiously execute their earnest wish. I am convinced, that if the Remainers had won the vote, the Leavers would have honoured their decision and by now, there would have been an even more stringent strangle hold by the EU on all aspects of British life. What a travesty! However, the one person who you have to admire in this entire spectacle is Nigel Farage, (ex-UKIP-leader) who has conducted himself with restraint and distinction and should be knighted for his spirited efforts to maintain his country’s sovereignty. In the meantime, don’t hold your breath.

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