Remainers’ fantasy of EU powering ahead of Brexit Britain is bunkum… it’s crumbling and you don’t look hard to see it
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AS we awaited Brexit and the arrival of a new decade five years ago, no one had any idea that within weeks we would be plunged into a pandemic. Boris Johnson’s government was cruelly robbed of its chance to show how Britain could take advantage of its newfound freedom outside the EU.
![[Aggrieved Remainers rarely see the underbelly of the crumbling EU as they glide to and from their Tuscan villas]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/full-frame-shot-cracked-wall-960622228.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Needless to say, however, Covid-19 didn’t stop frustrated Remainers trying to blame absolutely everything on Brexit. Empty supermarket shelves, rising global inflation, economic stagnation — all were apparently caused not by global supply chains being interrupted by lockdown, but by Britain’s “self-harming” decision to leave the EU.
![[In once-placid Sweden, gangs now fight each other with grenades]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/movement-led-danish-swedish-rasmus-769705374.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
It is true that economic growth in Britain has ground to a halt — a promising economic recovery in the spring being snuffed out by the current Labour Government. After much consideration, I had voted Remain in the 2016 referendum. I thought there were good arguments for both sides, but eventually came down on what at the time seemed the safer option.
![[Germany, where one in three long-distance trains is late, outdoes even Britain]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2023-german-rail-passengers-face-837346165.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
I became appalled, however, by the behaviour of Remainers who refused to accept the vote. From the morning after the result, they settled on trying to undermine it by trying to spin the yarn that, while Britain had inexplicably turned itself into an economic basket case, as well as descending into a racist, xenophobic hellhole, a prosperous and civilised EU was sailing off into the sunset without us.
![[In France, our old friend Michel Barnier has just been thrown out of his job as Prime Minister]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-frances-president-emmanuel-macron-930437535.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
