A vote for Brexit is a vote against Toryism

It’s the rage I struggle to comprehend. There is, I am sure, an entirely reasonable case to be made for leaving the European Union, it’s just that, for the most part, we’ve not heard it. Instead, the dominant feature of the Out campaign has been its anger. Many of these people really do seem to think this is some kind of struggle for national liberation.

If they didn’t they wouldn’t talk about Britain regaining its ‘independence’. Nor would they suggest that being a member of the EU is somehow incompatible with being a ‘free’ country. This, I am prepared to venture, will be news to the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Romanians and all the other countries of eastern europe who, just a generation ago, could have told you all about the deprivations of being locked into a supra-national pact that denied the possibility of meaningful independent action. The EU, however, is not the EUSSR no matter how often some swivel-eyed, beetroot-faced, blusterer insists it is.