If Brussels is willing to offer the British Parliament only a dog’s Brexit, that should tell Parliament everything it needs to know about any future prospects for a Britain tied in with the EU. It is about time for Parliament to say, ‘Enough is enough’. As every Greek polis (city state), however small, averred, its aim was to ensure that it alone was the arbiter of its own freedom.
Antiochus III, a distant successor to Alexander the Great, had ambitions in 196 bc to ‘bring all the cities of Asia under his domination, as they once had been’. But while Antiochus was sure that many Greek cities on and around the western coast of Turkey (according to the historian Livy) ‘were ready to accept his yoke because they had little confidence in their location, fortifications, weapons or warriors’, there were two still holding out and ‘there was a danger that if they were allowed their way, other cities would follow their lead’.
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