THE ALTER OF FREE TRADE

In my book, Brexit Means Brexit: How The British Ponzi Class Survived The EU Referendum, I wrote:

‘There is no point in winning an argument on immigration, vital though that issue is and even though the policy of mass immigration is one which English people have never wanted, if, on the left, there is a major flanking manoeuvre to the effect that an argument is advanced and won uncontested – the argument being that without membership in the Single Market, economic ruin would be unavoidable and so catastrophic that Britain must accept free movement no matter what the consequences of doing so are. The failure to contest the Single Market flanking manoeuvre was a failure of UKIP policy and strategic thinking.’

That flanking manoeuvre has now developed into being an encircling movement. Some Brexiteers are fleeing into the supposed security of the possibility of another round of EU elections, some are swapping sides and joining the Brinoists, and some are making a bit of a stand.

The argument about the virtues of the Single Market stem from the globalist obsession with free trade, that has become the alter upon which Brexit is now to be sacrificed. Even among the Brexiteers, we find many who prioritise unilateral free trade rather than genuine independence. The surrender of the Brexit cause is a casualty of this.

In my book, The Ponzi Class: Ponzi Economics, Globalization and Class Oppression in the 21st Century, I pointed out how Keynes described the crisis facing Britain after the termination of Lend Lease at the end of WWII as being a ‘financial Dunkirk’. I concluded that:

‘What is needed is a rejection of Ponzi economics, a rejection of globalization, a removal from office of the Ponzi class, and a government committed to protecting the national interest. It is time to reverse Britain’s economic decline or else we face not an economic Dunkirk, but an economic Fall of Singapore.’

Crispin Blunt MP, a Tory, rightly described May’s stance opposition to No Deal as being ‘the most shameful surrender by a British leader since Singapore in 1942’. I regret that what I wrote years ago has proved to be so prophetic.