Brexit at last: Johnson’s victory, media hoaxes, the two lessons from London
After more than four years, Brexit is finally here. Against all odds, against any more or less false revelation of the mainstream media, and against the propaganda of Brussels, the United Kingdom has stood up to 27 nations and the political-administrative machine of the EU, bringing home an agreement on the Canadian model that that was what both sides initially hoped for. The EU struggled to give up its desire to punish London for the vote on 23 June 2016, but in the end realpolitik prevailed: the UK remains a leading ally and already Michael Gove, one of the most important ministers of the Johnson government, spoke of a new "special relationship" with community institutions in the columns of the European Times .
Several things were not understood by reading a lot of our local press that took up step by step the pro-European English one (the Guardian in particular). Why should the UK perish outside the EU when countries like Switzerland and Norway are among the most prosperous in Europe without being members of the Brussels club? Because London could not become an economic and tax haven if within the Union there is a country that already is, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom itself within it, already as a member of the Union it had territories that already were ? Why should London outside the EU have to submit to Brussels directives and regulations and why should disputes over the agreement have been brought before the European Court of Justice and not before an impartial international body? Questions that are unlikely to be answered, given that for years we have had to witness a rambling hunt for the brexiteer , complete with announcements of famine, lack of basic necessities, toilet paper and so on and so forth. Last in order of time, the legendary Guardian who wrote that the exit from the EU would cause delays in the arrival of the anti- Covid vaccine in England. Instead, England was the first country to vaccinate its citizens.
Lost as they have been in these trifles, many commentators have not remarked on how Johnson was a more skilled negotiator than Theresa May and was in a win-win situation . If he had arrived at the no deal , he would still have obtained the applause of many of his backbenchers , who have long been on him for the botched management of the lockdown and for its effects on the economy. If, on the other hand, he had obtained an agreement, he could have presented himself to the municipalities in time to have it ratified in a hurry before the hour x, obtaining a great parliamentary victory. Because this is what will happen on December 30, when the Brexit Deal will be presented to the House of Commons: the anti-Europeans of the European Research Group within the Tory party have already convened a technical meeting to verify the legal aspects of the agreement but they know very well that with the favorable vote of Labor, their defection would be worth little or nothing in numerical terms to the Municipalities. Labor leader Starmer has led Labor to positions of pragmatic brexitism: ok to the agreement because in this way the business world will suffer as little as possible. Starmer reconnects with the British Confindustria (CBI) and the Red Wall Leave voters, but within his Shadow Government it seems not everyone wants to follow him. Furthermore, it will be curious to see how the 650 MPs will vote in the House of Commons with the heavy restrictions imposed by the lockdown and social distancing measures. Last spring, for the vote on measures to support the economy, the queue of voting parliamentarians reached as far as Portcullis House, seat of the Parliament offices, on the other side of Westminster Bridge.
The exit of a prominent member from the EU has determined an epochal historical and geopolitical fact, which cannot be limited to the end of the Erasmus program or to the return of the passport to go overseas. A United Kingdom freed from ties that most Brits considered to be too close with Brussels faces international relations with a new strategy – called Global Britain – which will allow it greater room for maneuver in the field of trade agreements, defense strategies and migration policies. In just one year, Johnson delivered what he promised in the 2019 election campaign: to complete Brexit. In the United Kingdom, the electoral program is not a simple piece of paper to "sell" to the voters, but the beacon of the activity of the relative majority party, of the Government and of the technicians who have the task by law – we repeat: by law – to implement it. From London there are at least two fundamental lessons also for our country: the citizens' vote must be respected even if they do not like it (and even if it takes place through a consultative referendum) and electoral promises are kept. Frankly, a whole other world.
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