{"id":42737,"date":"2018-04-08T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42737"},"modified":"2018-03-18T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:47:18","slug":"brexit-why-britain-left-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/08\/brexit-why-britain-left-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Why Britain Left the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GLp7LtXmy68\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>PragerU<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 12 Mar 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is the European Union good for Europe? Or would Europeans be better off without it? Nigel Farage, a leader of the United Kingdom&#8217;s Brexit movement, shares his view.<\/p>\n<p>Script: <\/p>\n<p>If one big government is bad, imagine how much worse two big governments would be. But that\u2019s what people living in Europe have had to deal with: their own nation\u2019s bloated government and the super-national government of Europe, now known as the European Union. Bureaucracy times two! How\u2019s that for a horror show? <\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, you\u2019ve no idea. It\u2019s worse than you think. Believe me \u2014 I know, because for seventeen years, I\u2019ve represented South East England as a member of the European Parliament, the EU\u2019s legislative body. I was also leader of the UK Independence Party, or UKIP, where I lead Britain\u2019s efforts to leave the European Union. To their everlasting credit, that\u2019s just what happened on June the 23rd, 2016: The United Kingdom left the European Union. The world knows it as \u201cBrexit.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Brexit is a statement of national sovereignty. Don\u2019t misunderstand me: I like nations. I like borders. I like the people that live within those borders making their own laws. But I don\u2019t like it when faceless bureaucrats make laws for nations they don\u2019t even live in. <\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s what they do in the European Union. <\/p>\n<p>Imagine a Belgian telling a Brit how much he can charge his customers \u2014 or the reverse. The EU bureaucrats do this in a myriad of different ways, all day, every day. It is a conspiracy of the elites. <\/p>\n<p>Who are those elites? Well, they\u2019re a bunch of self-important, overpaid, social engineers with useless college degrees who have never done a proper day\u2019s work in their lives and have no connection with ordinary, decent people. I\u2019ll take the good sense of an Italian farmer or a French baker over the arid intellectualism of an EU bureaucrat any day. <\/p>\n<p>And I say these things not as an anti-European; I love Europe! It\u2019s a fantastic, exciting, great continent: different peoples, languages, and cultures. But these peoples, with their languages and cultures, have effectively been hijacked by a giant, ever-expanding bureaucracy: the European Union. <\/p>\n<p>People will say, \u201cbut isn\u2019t there a parliament, a European parliament, that represents the people of Europe?\u201d Well, yes, but this body has got no real power; it can\u2019t make its own laws. Rather, the power resides with the European Commission. They\u2019re unelected and they can\u2019t be removed, and that\u2019s how absurd the whole thing is. <\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament meets in Brussels. At least, that\u2019s what I thought when I was elected there. But once a month, do you know what happens? They load the contents of our offices and papers into big, plastic trunks, and they put those trunks on lorries, and they drive them nearly 400 miles down Europe\u2019s motorways to a French city called Strasbourg where, for four days, the contents of our offices, and our papers, are put into a new office, and the parliament then sits there. Twelve times a year this back-and-forth happens, and this from an organization who say they want to reduce their level of carbon footprint! This, from an organization whose accounts have not been given a clean bill of health by the auditors for the last twenty years! <\/p>\n<p>This\u2026a parliament? It\u2019s more like a traveling circus. <\/p>\n<p>For the complete script, visit https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/videos\/brexit-why-britain-left-european-union<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PragerU Published on 12 Mar 2018 Is the European Union good for Europe? Or would Europeans be better off without it? 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