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“If they win on Thursday (EU referendum, 2016), the process of abolishing Britain will be complete. If they lose, as I hope they do and still think they will, there is a faint, slender chance that we may get our country back one day.”

Peter Hitchens

2016-06-19

PETER HITCHENS: There's a faint chance we may get our nation back one day

Mail on Sunday

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/06/peter-hitchens-theres-a-faint-chance-we-may-get-our-nation-back-one-day.html
On the pro-EU political class

Hope , Thinking , Chance , Country

“Many of the things which New Labour were doing had in fact been presaged by John Major [Conservative PM 1990-97], who really was the first New Labour Prime Minister.”

Peter Hitchens

2013-03-23
This house believes that New Labour ruined Britain
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUHNFY1ksPw
On John Major

“Every Prime Minister since Edward Heath has come back from negotiations with Brussels without his trousers, and without his wallet, and said, "I've just won an fantastic victory". They keep on doing it. They've always lost, the European Union will always take us for a ride - that is what it's for, and until we leave it, it will continue to do so.”

Peter Hitchens

On European Union negotiations

Victory

“In an incredibly short time, we have been turned into a nation without heroes, without pride in our past or knowledge of either our past triumphs or our past follies and disasters. We are like an amnesia patient, waking up in the hospital ward, with both past and future great blank spaces stretching behind and before us, doomed to repeat mistakes we do not even know we have already made.”

Peter Hitchens

Source: From 'The Abolition of Britain' (1999), p. 62-63

Knowledge , Time , Past , Future

“To complain that a European Union official is a federalist, is like complaining that a bicycle has handlebars. That's what they are, that's what they do.”

Peter Hitchens

1998-01-98
Peter Hitchens on David Cameron and the EU
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjmNWwA6V5I
On David Cameron's opposition to Jean-Claude Juncker's appointment