Rejoice!
Despite months of intense scaremongering by the Remain campaign, it now looks as though we are heading towards victory for the Leave campaign and a firm vote in favour of the UK leaving the European Union. As of 05:15am this morning the Leave campaign have received 15,437,289 votes, compared to 14,328,314 for the Remain campaign, placing Leave on a 51.9% share of the vote counted so far and 1,108,975 votes ahead. Already Nigel Farage has given the…
Reasons to Vote Leave
As we enter into the last week of campaigning to get Britain out of the European Union, I list what I see as the key reasons why we should choose to vote leave: The EU is modelled on the Soviet Union The constitutional model for the EU is a virtual carbon copy of the constitution of the Soviet Union and incorporates all of the same constitutional flaws. It is strange that during the Soviet era the Soviet…
What’s the Point of a Points Based System?
You will have seen that both of the pro-Brexit factions – the Tory dominated VoteLeave and the UKIP dominated Leave.eu – want to introduce what they call an “Australian-style points based immigration system” in the event that we leave the EU. That we should leave is profoundly to be desired for all sorts of reasons which have already been well rehearsed on Western Spring, but not least because a country which cannot control its borders…
An Unnatural Growth
We have now been able to enjoy yet another episode in the “Project Fear” story as Dave and George ramp up their vision of a post-apocalypse Britain should we peasants dare to defy the global establishment and vote for freedom. This ghastly vision does cause one to wonder, and I am by no means the first to notice, what on earth did our Prime Minister think he was doing when he ordered a referendum knowing…