Anything from the remainers?

Six years after the event Pepe Escobar summarises the reasons why the British electorate-minus the intelligentsia and the liberals- voted to leave the EU. The lies at the time insisted that only idiots and bigots would vote for Brexit.

And since then smug snobs, full of contempt for the common folk, having torpedoed the option of sovereignty, anti-imperialism and socialist reforms, have blamed 'Brexit' for reducing Britain to the NATO hyena that membership of the EU just confirms.

"...As many as 60 European ‘directives’ are issued every year. They must be imperatively transposed into internal law of each EU member-state. In most cases, there’s no debate whatsoever.

"Then there are more than 10,000 European ‘rulings,’ where ‘experts’ at the European Commission (EC) in Brussels issue ‘recommendations’ to every government, straight out of the neoliberal canon, regarding their expenses, their income and ‘reforms’ (on health care, education, pensions) that must be obeyed.

"Thus elections in every single EU member-nation are absolutely meaningless. Heads of national governments – Macron, Scholz, Draghi – are mere executants. No democratic debate is allowed: ‘democracy,’ as with ‘EU values,’ are nothing than smokescreens.

"The real government is exercised by a bunch of apparatchiks chosen by compromise between executive powers, acting in a supremely opaque manner.

"The EC is totally outside of any sort of control. That’s how a stunning mediocrity like Ursula von der Leyen – previously the worst Minister of Defense of modern Germany – was catapulted upwards to become the current EC Fuhrer, dictating their foreign, energy and even economic policy..."