No kidding – Britain’s contempt for other countries makes no sense
Spain’s foreign minister Alfonso Dastis at an EU meeting in Brussels this momth: ‘The European Union was born without the United Kingdom and it can continue perfectly well without it.’ [Image: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images].
Mrs May’s words were described as challenging, hostile, hard, threatening, without concessions, illogical, extreme or fierce.
According to Miguel Otero-Iglesias, a member of the main foreign affairs thinktank Real Instituto Elcano: “The time when the British empire used to decide the rules of the game was back in the 19th century.”
Source: Britain’s contempt for other countries makes no sense | Ana Romero | Opinion | The Guardian
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Miguel Otero-Iglesias is right. Too many Tories still haven’t come to terms with the fact that the British Empire ended decades ago. They are incapable of working alongside people of other nations unless they are lording it over them.
Funny how they don’t ever complain about the hostile threatening behaviour of the unelected eu mandarins such as Verhofstadt, and to a lesser extent Barnier or the others who wish to punish us for having the temerity to leave a corruption riddled democratically deficient club. May was completely right to stand up for the nation she is Prime Minister of, against the bile emanating from Brussels. Perhaps he thinks we should all kow tow to the unelected committee like Cameron did, when he went cap in hand to have some help keeping us in their club, and came home without his cap. It is this sort of arrogance that has turned so many, not only in the UK but in ever increasing numbers throughout the eu against what has become nothing more than an aggressive protectionist group of nations, without any viable leadership.
Guy Verhofstadt MEP is Group Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group in the European Parliament. He is a democratically-elected representative of the people of Belgium and former prime minister of that country.
Michel Barnier was a democratically-elected MEP for the people of France from 2009-10, but resigned in order to become a European Commissioner. It would be very difficult to suggest that he somehow does not merit his role in European democracy.
As for the rest of your comment, I see a lot of unevidenced vitriol. You are right about the arrogance that has changed the minds of so many in the UK and abroad. It is entirely in your attitude and those of people like you, who have changed the minds of our European colleagues away from friendship and towards enmity.
Johnny Foreigner
(ˈdʒɒnɪ ˈfɒrɪnə)
Definitions
noun British informal, pejorative
1. a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
⇒ They were for Queen and country, maintaining the union, and keeping an eye on how many Johnny Foreigners we let in.
2. a personification of people from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
⇒ For a thousand years we British have peered at Europe from behind our coastal forts that were specifically built to keep Johnny Foreigner out.