The trouble with our being bound into this "one of the largest trading blocks in the world" is that it is, from our pov & to our detriment & bane, predicated on the fact that its two leading members, France & Germany, have only one thing they really agree about — they both HATE LOATHE AND DESPISE US. Having made things as hard as they could for us to get in [don't get me started on that perfidious, ungrateful, bite·hand·that·feeds·you heap of dribbling pigshit De Gaulle], they eventually conceded to the importunities of the certifiably moronic own-nest-feathering arslikkin Heath for the express purpose of finding some common ground — the process of frustrating us at every possible turn. Out of that stinking organisation is the only way forward if our very polity is to survive. Makes no odds to me. I'm 83 and have no children to worry about, so I'm not going to have to live with the consequences of keeping blindly on this self-destructive track of complacently just sitting there being Aunt Sally and hoping they might come to love us if we put up with it for long enough. So there is clearly only one way to vote -- and do please stop this unworthy evocation of Godwin's Law every time this is pointed out in a disgraceful attempt to blacken the only party promulgating the only policy that can save our nation.

And if you think this all sounds maybe a bit paranoid, don't forget the unassailable principle postulated by Joseph Heller et al, that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get you.

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