The Sun Says we can’t wait to free ourselves of the two-bit mobsters who run the European Union

Euro mobsters ambush May

WE can’t wait to shake ourselves free of the two-bit mobsters who run the European Union.

EU leaders promised a fair hearing on our future relationship at yesterday’s crunch Salzburg summit.

Instead, Mrs May was ambushed with a cack-handed attempt to sign us up to Brussels’ unacceptable terms there and then.

The PM refused to budge on the UK’s red lines, and she’s absolutely right to do so. This lot are more Bugsy Malone than Al Capone.

Yesterday the leaders of the undemocratic European Union showed their true colours.

This isn’t some grand project, designed to bring the peoples of Europe together in one happy union. It’s a protection racket.

But even before the Prime Minister had been the subject of calculated attempts to humiliate her, we saw just how detached from reality Europe’s leaders have become.

Maltese and Czech leaders told Britain to hold a second referendum, employing the same tactic that the EU has used in Ireland and Denmark before.

This isn’t based on the half-baked “democratic” argument clung to by never-were and past-it grandees at home, such as Andrew Adonis and Lord Heseltine.

They just want us to be given the chance to vote the “right” way. Fat chance of that.

Throughout this process, the European Union has shown time and time again why more than 17 million people voted to leave.

They have refused to negotiate in good faith. They have refused to compromise, even while Britain has worked day-in, day-out to find agreement.

They have insulted the Prime Minister, ignored their own citizens, and are willing to accept a massive economic hit for the sake of flexing their muscles.

Like all good gangsters, they’re trying to rule by fear. That’s the only weapon in their arsenal on the Continent, where more and more voters are turning against an outfit that increasingly looks more at home in Sicily than Strasbourg.

All they have is the chance to punish us, and prove to the rest of the continent that it isn’t worth leaving.

The message they want to send? You won’t get away with it.

Well, Mrs May is right to say that we’ve nothing to be scared of.

Yes, it is without doubt that we need to pick up the pace on preparations for a clean-break Brexit.

It is vital we show the European Union, who still seem to think we’ll roll over when it really matters, that we are ready for a new future free of their cold, dead hands.

And despite no-marks such as Donald Tusk trolling the PM on Instagram, and the puffed-up pomposity of France’s Emmanuel Macron and Ireland’s Leo Varadkar, we haven’t entirely given up hope that sensible forces within the EU might find their voice in the crucial months to come — and work with the UK, not against it.

The Government should be all ears if Brussels makes us an offer that works for both sides.

But after yesterday’s performance, we don’t hold out much hope.

Brussels has made us an offer it thinks we can’t refuse.

Today we join the Prime Minister in saying no.