Remain wreckers should listen to the Queen’s Brexit intervention and stop trying to overturn EU referendum result
Royally right
THE Queen’s timely Brexit intervention should be listened to by the Remain wreckers trying to overturn the result of Britain’s biggest ever democratic exercise.
Her Majesty is right that MPs must find the common ground. But whatever compromises are made on the finer details, that “common ground” must at its core deliver on 17.4 million votes to leave the EU, and the promises made in both Tory and Labour manifestos at the last election.
Those trying to derail Brexit are the ones who are, as Her Majesty puts it, “losing sight of the bigger picture”. After all, it is they who are willing to rip up centuries of democratic understanding and procedure to keep us locked within the European Union.
So terrified of Britain flourishing, free from Brussels’ dead hand, that they will happily destroy public trust in Parliament in order to succeed.
We wish they shared Her Majesty’s obvious confidence in her country.
As MPs return to their constituencies this weekend, they will hear the same thing over and over again: deliver what we voted for.
Those still hoping to delay Article 50 or even for a second referendum MUST realise the stakes.
Exit for Eeyore
MARCH 30th should be a momentous day, our first outside the European Union. And it should also be the day the Prime Minister fires her hapless Chancellor Philip Hammond.
Free to set our own course again, we can create the world’s most competitive economy — with lower taxes and business-friendly regulation that allows our brightest companies to prosper here and across the world.
Our Eeyore Chancellor is about as far away from the dynamism we need as it is possible to imagine. At a time when we need to put energy into the economy, Hammond is human chloroform.
And that’s before we get on to his outrageous disloyalty in Davos this week.
The clock is ticking.
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Dopey duo
JUST as most serious European leaders are thinking of creative ways to stay close to the UK after we leave, Leo Varadkar and Emmanuel Macron show just how hopeless they both are.
That France’s Macron — a Poundshop Napoleon without the self-doubt — dares to lecture us when he’s got riots on the streets and approval ratings to match his stature really is quite something.
Meanwhile Ireland’s Leo, who never knowingly turns down the opportunity to insert his foot squarely into his mouth, threatened that he would send the Army to the border yesterday before being forced into a screeching U-turn.
And they say we’re the problem…