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Some choice pars from Jennifer Oriel’s column in tripod ats Australian.

Brexit: vote is an escape from EU’s politically correct fanaticism

“…Every mass movement has an iconic moment — a picture that tells a thousand words. Brexit’s iconic image was rock star Bob Geldof on a pleasure cruiser with EU elites sticking two fingers up at a fishermen’s rally for Brexit. The EU’s let-them-eat-bread moment was met with a let them eat Brexit landslide. The largest voter turnout since the 1992 general election returned a decisive victory of 52 per cent for Brexit.

The hard Left has gone into overdrive to revise the reality of Brexit by framing it as xenophobic and demanding another vote. It is a pity it doesn’t reflect on why it lost the vote. The pro-EU rhetorical weapon of choice against Brexit was the race card. People supporting self-determination and sovereign democracy over supranational demagoguery were vilified as racists and xenophobes.

Brexit signals the return of people power to politics. It would be an error to reduce the decisive victory for pluralistic democracy to a caricature of populism. The broad concern with EU politics is substantial. Its fatal flaw is supranationalism; an anti-democratic form of governance that superseded the transnational trade alliance that formed the basis of the European common market.

The pinnacle of EU supranationalism is the European Commission whose unelected membership drafts the laws that govern member states. While legislative proposals are discussed in the European parliament, they are not drafted by elected representatives. As a result, the commission’s prosecution of open borders was perceived broadly as evidence of rule imposed by unelected bureaucrats.

The perception that an unrepresentative elite is ruling the masses without popular consent has proven disastrous for regimes throughout Western history. The EU’s transition from a transnational trading alliance to a supranational bureaucracy may prove to be its undoing. By embracing supranationalism, EU leaders flouted the basic principle of liberal democracy that the people should govern the executive, not the reverse. Brexit is a reveille announcing the dawn of Western Civilisation in the 21st century.

It has returned power to the people in the land of the Magna Carta.