Category: Europe

A vision for a Better Britain

Updated on

14/05/2026 by author

I’ve prepared this vision in advance of a leaders’ debate on Tuesday May 26 via ZOOM from 19.00 – 20.30 hours with someone who still believes that Brexit was a good idea. Please mail me to join this major event via reboot@brexitrage.com Thanks to Celia Morris, Sean Hodges, Klara Goldy, Robert Anthony, Greg Newman, Tessa Tiley and Helga Perry for their help in compiling this list. To support our costs in running the event please go to SUPPORT US.

For an amusing aside to one of the many failed attempts to get a Brexit supporter to attend, see our private e-mail exchanges with Steve Horton, leader of “Logical Politics”, a group which aim to bring the far right into a harmonious fighting corp, including the BNP, who may as well be described as a proscribed terrorist organisation. Anyway, on with the positive vision.

A better Britain in a better Europe for a better World

I want to live in a country where I can drink clean water, eat fresh food and embrace the diversity of British culture, from curries to chips, chops, kebabs, chinese and way beyond.

I want to welcome strangers here and help them contribute to society.

I want to be friends with our European cousins and remove all the social, political and legal barriers created by Brexit.

I want to live without fear of losing my human and workers’ rights and extend this courtesy to all who visit our country.

I want Britain to be a gold standard bearer for upholding the rule of law.

I want to live in a country with leaders who respect our environment and the welfare of the other species who share it with us.

I want to Rejoin the EU fully, not a bundle of half measures.
I want freedom with responsibility not freedom to hurt others.

I want to push back on bullies. This is not who we are.

I want Britain to lead the way on measures to combat climate disaster.

I want Britain to put vulnerable people first. The elderly, children and the infirm.

I want to know that timely and effective treatment for any ill, condition or ailment that befalls me is conveniently available, freely and without delay, anywhere in the land.

I want a fair wage for a decent day’s work and worker’s rights that match those offered to workers in Europe.

I want women to be treated fairly based on knowledge, skills and experience rather than patronised or sidelined.

I want Britain to get back on the road to sustainable growth.

I want a sustainable energy sector that is the property of the people, not shareholders.

I want a transport network that works for the people, not for profit takers, and one that helps us reduce our addiction to the infernal combustion engine.

I want our politics to be inclusive via the setting up of citizens’ assemblies and other hallmarks of a participative democracy.

I want my vote to count more than it does currently in our broken electoral system.

I want our children to be able to live, love and work in Europe freely.

I want Britain to develop food security, something we have gradually lost since WWII.

I want to live in a country that celebrates the arts, maintains our artistic heritage and invests in our artistic and cultural future.

I want us to put education to help people learn continuously, become emotionally literate and decode truth from misinformation to be at the heart of British culture.

I want a health service that is free to all at the point of use.

I want our Government to take action on large enterprises who do not pay their fair share of tax.

I want Britain to lead in technology, science, hard and soft engineering and AI, but not be slaves to machine learning.

I want to live in a country where respect for every generation is a virtuous circle.

I want our police to be more interested in preventing and dealing with serious crime rather than acting as tax collectors for the government.

I want people who go to prison to come out better than when they went in.

I want immigrants to experience our culture and feel so welcomed and inspired by it that they willingly choose to embrace it and become British.

I want a country that celebrates all faiths.

I want social cohesion to be actively cultivated through integration, participation, shared education, and communities that genuinely mix rather than live separately alongside one another.

I want investment put back into Britain’s towns, services, infrastructure, education, and communities so people feel there is stability, dignity, and opportunity again.

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April Brexit Fools

Updated on

02/04/2026 by author

Peter Cook

Well, it’s not April Fools’ Day, so you’ve already fallen into my trap … Nonetheless, the tomfoolery of Trump and Brexit continues in a world where its increasingly hard to know the difference between fact, fiction and fantasy. Here’s a sobering update on world events from our continuing activism. To help support our costs and further actions via lobbying MPs and so on please send us a tip via SUPPORT US.

Our work in world media

Dubai TV called for our views on Keir Starmer’s recent pivot towards Europe. Here is our video plus some out takes we made to prepare for the interview which was done at very short notice:

Credit where it’s due. Keir Starmer has FINALLY plucked up courage to face down the orange psychopath, perhaps, in part, because he no longer has people like Morgan McSweeney driving Downing Street’s agenda. That said, and it’s a VERY BIG IF, Starmer must match fine words with action and apply to Rejoin the EU FULLY as an urgent priority. It matters not how log the journey takes but we must begin NOW. I concur with the FT analysis that says that going back to Europe for yet more concessions will be met with a dull bureaucratic thud of entropy.

Article content — Extract from FT article.

Grab copies of our book on Rejoining the EU and send to MPs and influencers. Written by 60 people and recently updated to address Trump 2.0. Proven to move the dial on Brexit with movers and shakers. Also valuable in shifting minds with people who still believe that Nigel Farage has answers to Reboot Britain. Hard copies and Kindle version available direct via Amazon and other bookshops. Author discount copies available via email reboot@brexitrage.com

Our work on the street

I attended the Together Alliance March on Saturday 28 March, with the single objective of getting a copy of the book to Billy Bragg. Mission accomplished !! Please get in touch with the bard of Barking to remind him of the book which aligns with much of Billy’s own thinking on England’s septic isle, poisoned by Brexit inspired racism, but which has always been there.

Billy performed three songs at the event. One I remember from seeing him at Harlesden and at “Red Wedge” from his early work:

Another poignant piece about the recent killings of innocent citizens in Minneapolis. This is matched by my own rendition of David Bowie’s “Where are We Now?” in honour of Renee Good and Alex Pritti, murdered by Donald J(anus) Trump.

And finally, here’s Billy’s 2000 piece he produced with Wilco, based on the words of Woody Guthrie about fascism, which sadly seems more prescient than ever. They shall not pass …

Five ways to defeat Brexit inspired fascism

All of us are able to act in smaller or larger ways to defeat the rise of Brexit and now Trump inspired fascism as outlined on our webpage: Rage Against The Brexit Machine aka Reboot Britain. Please SUPPORT our continuing work. We can only do this with your help. We do not have the luxury of subscriptions like the larger enterprises, the bank of goodwill is empty, and trips to MP constituencies / Parliament and so on cost money.

ger islands within our “Indonesian structure” such as The European Movement. I am told that we achieve far more impact through the targeting of influential people, via one to many MSM communications and daily acts of “Brexorcism”. Small can be beautiful in the wake of our unwillingness to resolve the structural, leadership and OD (Organisational Development) deficit of our “17 000 islands”. Here are the five ways you can act on a daily basis to end Brexit (and Trumpian) populism:

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The indifferent majority

Updated on

06/12/2025 by author

Peter Cook

It was Ken Clarke that popularised the term “the indifferent majority” … aka the vast swathe of people who couldn’t give a fcuk about politics. Farage has weaponised some of them into a loose cabal, united by swans, painting roundabouts, disinformation, shouting at hotels, attacking women and children, paedophilia and flagshagging. They are not the subject of this article however. Here I refer to the great swathe of Remainers / Rejoiners who know what they are against (Brexit and its offspring), but who are unwilling to do anything functional about it, apart from bleating about it on social media, which we all do, but is in effect it’s merely a form of therapy. It achieves very little apart from a release of angst into the ether. Worse still, the Brexiteers mostly love it, as it increases their sense of “winning”. Living as I do in Brexit Central, Reform types love nothing more than the “salty tears of Remoaners”. Nigel Farage benefits tremendously as Remoaners are, in effect, his unpaid marketing force as Reform fans are united by shared victimhood at Maslow’s sense of belonging level of his hierarachy:

Brexit Dark Side of the Loon — Maslow’s hierarchy reframed.

Remoaners generally have no strategy. This, in part, is due to a leadership and strategy and collaboration tactics vacuum at the “top” of the movement. I have written about our structural deficit many times before and in the books. The Rejoin movement resembles Indonesia, 17000 islands, some uninhabited with a few big ones (European Brexit Movement, Best for Brexit Britain etc.), none of whom collaborate and all of whom have different ideas about the “destination and journey” (What, Why and How) of our quest. When asked about what to do about Rejoining the EU, they come up with many different objections, some of which are captured in this graphic. We’ll never achieve anything like this.

Paul Cawthorne sums up the poverty of the “incrementalist” approach rather well …

Cherry pickers guide – TY Paul Cawthorne.

I have become tired of fighting this war on two fronts. I don’t mind dealing with Leave voters, but dealing with Remoaners who are acting to preserve the stasis sucks the very life out of me … am I beginning to sound like Liz Truss here? !! 🙂

One of my final actions before retirement was to speak about this at the recent North Herts for Europe event, where I also gave a synopsis of the Brexit RIP book. Find the masterclass below. The event was invaded by Reform UK types exposing themselves (literally), although I have removed the offensive material here.

If you like this, send copies of the book Brexit RIP to MPs and influencers. It’s far more effective than posting memes and shouting on social media to be frank. I await the hate mail and excuses from Remoaners … It’s the ideal Christmas gift for Brexiteers in remorse and Remainers in remission. QR codes are below for sharing with friends and connections. My Labour MP has a copy and is circulating it within the government, which is where we need to be if we are to be effective influencers.

Brexit RIP Book Cover — Brexit is dead … but the body is still in our lounge … get rid of it.

RBB QR codes — QR codes. Also available direct from the author at a discount via e-mail reboot@brexitrage.com

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The battle of Rochester

Updated on

21/10/2025 by author

Peter Cook

I attended the anti-racist event in Rochester. Some 200 people attended to face 15 UKIP supporters with perhaps 100 police in attendance. The bill for these protests will mean more money wasted to build a better Britain (The Farage Riots of 2024 cost £32 million). This year’s flagshagging events will cost more. The flagshaggers marched up to Rochester Castle, not to pour boiling oil and shower us with arrows from the turrets, but for a much needed toilet break after a heavy session in Wetherspoons … They then departed. MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, I bumped into the Labour Party MP Tristan Osbourne and met with the Green Party of Medway and Lib Dems at the event.

Labour in vain

I congratulated Tristan on Labour’s decision to talk about Brexit after snuffing out all conversation about a major source of our malaise in the General Election. See Labour GE Post-Mortem for more detail.

I then pointed out that ‘one swallow does not a summer make’. Tristan agreed and responded by saying that Labour would be making a statement about it in the budget. Whilst I fully understood why he could not tell me what the statement might be, I took away the idea that it may well be more ‘logical incrementalism’ rather than a fundamental reversal of the Brexit mess. He hinted at this saying that he wanted Brexit reversed within his lifetime, however he is around 40 and I am 67! I pointed out that the matter was urgent and important and that death by 1000 ameliorations is still death. Faced in real life with a rapid death over a slow painful one, I’d opt for the rapid one. So it is with Brexit. Labour must act now or face the consequences.

Tristan then tried to punt the idea to me that the EU had said that we could not return until the threat of Farage had passed, meaning post 2029 at the earliest. I re-rehearsed the arguments that we had previously: This would be too late for a host of reasons explained in Reboot Britain. I also pointed out that what matters is putting in the application, not the end of the process. Frankly this was the part of the conversation I did not believe, since the EU have stated publicly that they would welcome us back on many occasions. See political capital in Reboot Britain.

Tristan’s answer reminded me of a teenager wanting to ask a girl out but does not want to get a no !! This was the least believable part of our dialogue and I don’t know what purpose Tristan thought it might serve, given my knowledge, skills and experience.

We went on to discuss the optics of Reform UK and agreed about a lot of that. It was a cordial and intelligent dialogue and I thank him for it. I explained that I’d given a keynote at MP Sadik Al-Hassan’s town hall meeting on Brexit and it turned out that he and Tristan are good friends. All in all a valuable ‘brief encounter’. I’d had a similar meeting with my Labour MP Naushabah Khan recently and she dropped similar hints that Labour would be more bold. I’d welcome it.

Dead Brexit — The only good Brexit is a dead Brexit.

Zac attack

I also had a great encounter with Medway Greens and was asked why I had not joined them. I stated that I was still considering standing a cat for election locally in 2027, perhaps a green cat … What was most interesting was that there was broad agreement that Zac Polanski was a force for good in terminating the rise of the far right in Britain.

Dem Libs

The Lib Dems led the charge in terms of marshalling people at the event. I have explained to Mark Pack that since Labour are on the move re Brexit, it is time for the Lib Dems to recalibrate their position on Brexit to move the Overton Window. I do hope that they don’t miss the boat on this.

Lib Dem Cat — The local Lib Dem still sees my cat as an existential threat to the survival of the Lib Dems. Amazing !!

Side note: I asked a policemen early on, had they (UKIP – UK I Pee) urinated? – he seemed confused and a little disturbed. until I pointed out that this was the key metric which would determine their eventual departure back to Wetherspoons. Youth and inexperience !!

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Sir Ed Davey

Updated on

01/09/2025 by author

Peter Cook

Check our mini interview with Sir Ed Davey out on LBC:

Help us Break Brexit Before Brexit Breaks Britain.

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Labour one year on

Updated on

21/07/2025 by author

Peter Cook

In the run up to the 2024 general election, I was told by numerous Labour voters and activists “Look, just vote Labour. It’s going to be alright. As soon as they get elected, they will end Brexit”. Although I did not believe them (and have been proved to be right), I agreed that the Tories needed to go. So I made sure that my election campaign did not harm Labour and then waited. I’m still waiting. In this article, I take a dispassionate view of Labour’s first year in power.

A good start marred by sheer incompetence

Labour got off to a good start, facing down “The Farage Riots” to great effect. It is to Labour’s actual decisions that I have the greatest issues. Decisions which barely touch the sides of our problems in Rebooting Britain, but which have generated so much heat and given the far right media so many easy wins. For example : The pensioners heating allowance last winter. Worth a measly £1.2 billion (Yes, I’d like to have £1.2 bn but it’s petty cash in the grand scheme of things). This generated so much heat for so little financial gain … in fact if the heat generated by public and media reaction had been stored we could have heated the whole country for several winters!! Worse still, Labour have now backtracked on it, long after the damage to the Labour brand has been done.

Death by 1000 Brexit ameliorations

Labour claim to have kept their Brexit red lines but in fact broken them in several areas. See Labour’s Red Lines. This has not gone unnoticed by Farage and the Alt Right Wing press. Even though Labour’s strategy on Europe amounts to “death by 1000 Brexit ameliorations” rather than more fundamental fixes, they have gained just as much damage to the Labour brand as if they had applied to Rejoin the EU. Brexit costs us £140 Billion every year in lost opportunity and taxes. This dwarfs the pensioners’ heating costs, PIP, social care etc.

Shameful behaviour

The PIP fiasco was yet another disastrous decision, presumably informed by the triumph of ideology over pragmatism and an adherence to the doctrines of Morgan McSweeney. On this subject, I find it hard to tell the difference between Starmer’s government and the Tories. I could go on about rollback on climate commitments, social care, toadying to Trump due to our Brexit weakness and Labour’s point blank refusal to provide safe routes for migrants, instead preferring to up the ante about undocumented migration, in order to pray at Nigel Farage’s fascist altar.

Sympathy for the devil?

Yes, we have had 14 years of managed decline via austerity on steroids amplified by Brexit, and most people do not understand how long it takes to turn the economic cycle round, so it’s slightly unfair to expect Labour to be able to waive magic wands on all the issues competing for their attention. However, there was no need for Labour to prey upon our most vulnerable citizens in order to look tough for a few knuckle dragging gammons in the so called red wall. There are plenty of other good choices to be made. There is no way Labour can discuss growth without confronting the Brexit elephant in the room. See our work in Somerset for the Labour MP there. Labour are also shamefully complicit in the genocide in Gaza and for trying to criminalise old age pensioners who use the word Palestine as part of civil protests.

Death by 1000 ameliorations is still death

We were asked to give an interview for Dubai TV in Arabic regarding the Kensington Treaty. This is an agreement between Chancellor Merz and Keir Starmer on defence and security, climate, economics, trade and STEM co-operation. Starmer chose to highlight the rather thin issue of some basic co-operation on migration control to appease Farage. Here is the raw interview. We simply need to apply to rejoin EU fully to overcome the problems facing Brexit Britain. Death by 1000 Brexit ameliorations is still death, albeit a slow one.

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Free Scotland

Updated on

06/07/2025 by author

Peter Cook

I wrote this song as a campaigning device to raise the issue of Scottish Independence on the agenda. Scotland did not vote for Brexit and therefore has a legitimate right to ask the question about independence again. The song (and film) are currently in draft form.

We need:
A poem spoken across the introduction, with a female voice.

Male and female vocalists to sing the main lyrics.

A larger number of male and female vocalists to sing the refrains.

A bagpipe player.

A film maker to make some better promotional films.

A team of people to share the song when it is released so that we can reach far and wide.

Financial support to ensure that the song and film reach a wide audience.

We also need some people to develop our webpage on Scottish Independence.

If you can help, get in touch via reboot@brexitrage.com

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War, what is it good for?

Updated on

10/06/2025 by author

Peter Cook

I was called to give some interviews for various Middle Eastern TV platforms on the reasoning for Mark Rutter’s visit to UK on Monday 9th June. The interviews are obviously not in English, so here I set out some of the arguments I made. The TV clips can be found below.

37 pence a day for 70+ years of peace in Europe

Mark Rutte visited UK to shore up support for NATO, Ukraine etc.

Starmer is desperate for friends in a post Brexit jurassic world. However, kowtowing to Trump and Farage is not the right strategy. More courage is needed from Starmer. Morgan Mc Sweeney must go.

Trump knows that Starmer is beleaguered by Brexit so he uses Britain as a bridgehead to batter Europe and the EU for his ally Putin.

Our natural partner is Europe and Britain must show unity. We have no other choice and cannot continue with “cakeist democracy”.

Sadly, the only defence strategy is to show Putin a united front.

UK is strapped for cash due to Brexit. But a 1% rise in defence spending equates to £30 billion pa. Brexit costs us £140 billion EVERY year in lost opportunity and tax receipts, so defence uplift can be afforded if Starmer will face down the Brexit elephant in the room. Read more at Rejoin the EU.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Brits paid 37 pence a day each for our EU membership. Go compare how much we paid for EU membership from your council tax bill (see below).

Whilst Starmer needs to be courteous to President Trump, he goes too far in the appeasement game. Instead, he must learn from John Bolton, Mark Carney, Chancellor Merz and President Zelenskyy.

Moving from 2.5% to 3.0% in the next Parliament is simply too little, too late. It places politics before country. Do better.

Council Tax bill — Our contribution to the EU was negligible at 0.1%

Deep Brexit Water — Brexit puts us in peril. Get rid of it.

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The only good Brexit

Updated on

29/03/2025 by author

Peter Cook

This piece was first written in 2024. It’s still as relevant (perhaps more so) under the Brexit Labour Trump Government … The only good Brexit … is a dead Brexit … it has become painfully clear that Brexit has not delivered any of the so-called freedoms, nor solved any of Britain’s problems or opened up opportunities of equivalent or better value when compared with our previous membership of the ‘club’. Read Rejoin EU: Reboot Britain for more on this. Better still, mail copies of the book to MPs or support our project to do so.

Even the Financial Times find it necessary to court proven liars such as Matthew Elliot in their recent film on the subject. Elliot attempts to make the argument that Brexit has not delivered because our mainstream politicians are not willing to seize opportunities, but then fails to identify any. It’s a thinly disguised argument to invite the Brexit ultras to the table, and with it, full fat fascism to Little Britain. Watch the FT film at the end of this article. Before that, watch this two minute short piece which sums up what Brexit was really about. My film is devoid of academic references as these tend to need much more time, but the supporting facts and validation can be found at the accompanying article Populism will eat itself.

Music soundtrack by Peter Cook. Available on Bandcamp with all proceeds going towards our campaign.

Brexit has failed

The film has already produced a visceral reaction from a leave voter who has clearly been affected by the film’s dystopian machine-styled soundtrack (deliberate) and the speed / brevity of the messages. He appears to have been somewhat triggered by the experience, which is good. Sadly, ‘Alan the Hat’ has no collateral in terms of his own research, content etc. Nor does he have any followers on his You Tube channel. I aim to provide a good (free) service and admittedly packed a lot of text into two minutes. Alan clearly has problems reading big words and sentences that are more difficult than “the cat bit the dog”, so I have provided a summary of the points below so he may study them in greater detail.

Brexit in 2024 – a summary

Tory gaslighting on an industrial scale fuelled Brexit. It continues via a daily stream of dead cats to take people off the scent of Brexit. Examples incude the need to incarcerate legal migrants, identity politics, constant scandals etc.

Brexit delivered 4.5% GDP LOSS into perpetuity and a broken NHS which Boris Johnson promised to fix, with the fabled £350 million per week on the bus. Brexit has damaged our resilience as a nation and therefore our ability to settle strikes with public sector workers and so on. Growth is for the birds in such circumstances. We are once again the sick man of Europe.

Cost of living impacts have Brexit as a major contribution. Food inflation has reached 20% There are more to come once border checks come in later in 2024 … In the next 28 days we will see further inflation on goods imported from Europe and barriers to trade for exporters. See Brexit Inflation. The Brexiteers’ explanation of this is that Brussels are ‘punishing’ us. Get real, we are now no longer a member of the golf club hence there are associated costs and barriers. The Golf Club analogy I made in 2018 is prescient here:

Brexit Golf Club Analogy — We are now a third country. Membership had benefits.

Brexit has delivered broken businesses, broken promises, broken lives and broken livelihoods. It is not true to say that Brexit Breaks Britain as this implies that Brexit is done. It is not and I deliberately choose the phrase Brexit’s Breaking Britain as it is more accurate.

Brexit weaponised an increase in racial tension from Brexit extremists such as Patel, Braverman, Badenoch, Anderson, Gullis, Mordaunt, Mogg, Farage, Tice Truss et al. They are responsible for killing people seeking safety from warzones.

Brexit has meant broken promises to farmers, fishermen, police, teachers, social carers et al. As a small example, the British replacement for the Common Agricultural Policy does not compare in any way to what we had, faults and all. Listen to the farmer in the FT film below for more on his topic.

Perhaps one of the real reasons for Brexit is yet to materialise … ‘Singapore on Thames’ beckons, with the ‘sale of the century’ via SEZs and a return to a feudal society. If you want to understand what an SEZ is, read @EuropeanPowell’s explanation of what you are about to receive whilst you are being gaslit by tales of royal cancers and gender reassignment..

Extract from @EuropeanPowell’s work. Follow him on Twitter.

Brexit is not done per Boris Johnson’s lie of an ‘oven ready deal’. Impacts will continue for the next decade.

Liz Truss’ experiment in Brexonomics cost an uncool £70 billion and ruined young people’s hopes of home ownership in just 49 days. Just imagine what the Brexit hardcore could achieve.

Boris Johnson used COVID to literally ‘mask’ Brexit impacts … what I termed a ‘Britastrophe‘.

Brexit means a loss of freedom of movement, student exchange scheme and more travel friction / costs. All of this is self inflicted as part of our so-called democratic referendum.

Both the Tories and Labour are presently engaged in distraction, distortion and dead cattery, in their attempts to erase the mistake of Brexit and secure votes. Brexit has so far claimed five Prime Ministers. It will also claim Keir Starmer.

Brexit will continue to break Britain unless we Join the EU anew. We can do this. The door remains open and even The Telegraph are now recommending it.

All the while, Labour are asleep at the wheel of Brexit misfortune. Keir Starmer cannot deliver his transformation without recovering our resilience.

‘Stop the boats’ has failed. It was yet another dead cat to channel people’s anger in the Daily Mail / Excess. In any case, better answers to migration are available. See our immigration algorithm.

The damage of Brexit is cumulative and much of it irreversible. Labour’s talk of rejoining from 2032 is therefore disingenuous and despicable.

We are essentially Sunakered. Listen to our dialogue with James O’Brien on this point.

Brexorcisms still needed

Do have a look at the FT film which overall gives a good coverage of the state of our Brexit nation. I am disappointed at the lack of fact checking of some of the statements by Matthew Elliot. Where the film falls short is in the area of leadership, preferring instead to look for incremental adjustments which will not address the elephant in the room. A few mealy mouthed journalists apologise for Keir Starmer’s “management by focus groups”. Peter Foster makes the error that, since nobody wants to talk about Brexit, it will go away as an issue dividing families. Perhaps he needs to study the psychology of ‘closure’ a bit more carefully. Sure, the word Brexit can be airbrushed out of public discourse and there has been a concerted effort by politicians on most sides to do so, but the ‘dark mark’ of Brexit will be left on society unless the issue is resolved. Resolution can come through a number of means and not just another referendum. As I said in 2019, “Let’s Talk About Brexit“, maybe the title of their film acknowledges this need. Martin Wolf comes out head and shoulders above the rest of the journos and politicos with an honest appraisal of the mess that we’re in. We do need to talk about Brexit. Conduct a Brexorcism today.

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The Semi-Detached European

Updated on

03/11/2024 by author

Peter Cook

If there wasn’t a 20 mile strip of sea between Dover and Calais I suspect that Michael would not have written this book and I would be reviewing it … Michael Hindley is a former Labour politician and MEP over many years and writes from years of experience of our turbulent relationship with Europe.

The Semi-Detached European describes our hokey-cokey relationship with Europe and the EU. Importantly it gives us a lesson in history for those who appear to have forgotten or distorted the truth about our relationship with Europe. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, Jacque Delors, Clement Attlee, Theresa May, Charles De Gaulle, David Cameron, Jean Monnet and many others.

We continue to suffer catastrophic losses from our so-called freedoms from the largest market and successful experiment in large scale democracy on the planet. Our continuing ambivalence towards Europe will finish The United Kingdom off economically, socially and politically. Michael helps us to understand our grand mistake. In his words … ” We had to resort to a referendum to put a complicated question, whose solution had escaped the wit and skill of politicians, to a popular vote.

Sign our petition to Rejoin the EU

The Semi-Detached European will help you explain the real value of the European project, warts and all, to the few remaining doubters who believe that we should erect more walls to make us feel secure rather than building bridges.

Michael gives talks across Europe about his work. You are welcome to contact him via mhindley1947@gmail.com