Eurocrats still don’t get it. They still don’t get Brexit. They still don’t understand that us Brits didn’t vote for some kind of trial separation from the EU. No, we voted for a full and everlasting divorce. There’s no going back. We’re out (or will be soon) and we’re staying out.
The latest EU bigwig to advertise his ignorance about Brexit is Guy Verhofstadt, the EU parliament’s ‘Brexit negotiator’ (that’s Eurospeak for Brexit wrecker). On the Today programme he said he agreed with Labour MEP Seb Dance, who said the UK is merely on ‘sabbatical’ from the EU. We’ll be back, said Dance.
‘I think that will happen, yes, [but] it’s difficult to say when’, said Verhofstadt. He said that in the ‘coming decades’, the ‘young generation’ will demand a return to the bosom of Brussels. ‘Maybe you will not see it in my life, but it will happen’, he said.
There are two things to say about this fantasy of Brexit being reversed in a few decades’ time.
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