RECENT events at Westminster have given fresh hope to Remainers.
With the prime architect of Brexit hounded out, they can’t wait to enslave us in the EU once again.
But, our decision to leave is evidently the right one.
Riven by toxic disagreements, the block moves further from ever closer union by the day.
To the south, Italy and Greece are left to shoulder the burden of illegal migration – and the blame when it goes wrong.
Only last week the Greek coastguard was accused of the ‘systematised pushback’ of an overladen fishing boat, which sank, killing at least 500 people.
Such ‘irregular’ entries across the central Mediterranean have doubled in a year according to Frontex.
Once in, Schengen allows unlimited free movement, while who pays, and how many each country takes, add to existing squabbles over budget contributions.
Germany, the EU’s largest contributor, has refused to pay more this year after the commission gave $79 billion in aid to Kyiv and is planning a further $79 billion.
Like other EU members, Germany has been forced to make cutbacks, while frantically rearming.
Even Mr Macron has abandoned his dream of a European army in favour of NATO.
Meanwhile, the EU’s vast, post pandemic recovery fund remains a source of contention, with renewal projects mired in delay and payments forcibly withheld from countries like Hungary and Poland.
At PMQs this week, Dr Liam Fox reminded the House that the EU is in recession, while we are not.
He added that our exports to the EU were not just the highest since Brexit, but since records began.
Time to “talk Britain up,” he concluded.
I concur.
While the EU remains impeded by 26 decision-makers, we are free to move onwards and upwards.