Help from Our Friends

The day after I posted my previous piece about the importance of defending ourselves and not relying on "our friends in the EU," as the Prime Minister calls them, Allister Heath wrote:

"At a time when Britain is taking moral stances on Hong Kong and Alexei Navalny, the EU continues to suck up to the Russians via Merkel’s beloved Nord Stream 2. At best, the supposed European superpower intends to act as some sort of amoral non-aligned player, friendly to China and happy to take NATO handouts in return for nothing."

The delusion that the EU is responsible for peace and harmony in Europe is a matter of faith, not historical analysis, says Robert Tombs.  Tombs cites evidence from Sir Ian Kershaw, "who ascribes post-war peace to the defeat of Germany ‘once and for all’, to the Cold War and superpower hegemony, to new prosperity, and to nuclear weapons – not, in short, to European integration."

Hopefully, in the wake of the spiteful Article 16 debacle, more Rejoiners will begin to see the EU as unreliable and, as John Gray puts it, "the dangerous myth of some semi-sacred institution."