Boris Johnson and Michael Gove WILL honour their promise to Sun readers
The leaders of Brexit are ready to spell out their plan for Britain's role outside the EU
DEFEATED euro-fanatics, still seething over last week’s thrashing, are mounting a desperate rearguard action to overturn the vote and sabotage Boris Johnson.
An unscrupulous black propaganda campaign claims the former London Mayor will break his most important campaign promise — to control immigration.
They even suggest he is considering a second referendum to get us back IN.
The BBC has joined the campaign with a series of alarming headlines about racist attacks in the wake of the Brexit vote.
And Radio 5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire yesterday asked listeners to describe the impact they have felt on their lives and businesses after the referendum — mostly adverse.
The Sun’s Rod Liddle, a former BBC editor, wants viewers to report evidence of BBC bias.
“Last night it ran a report from its idiotic northern correspondent, Ed Thomas, which attempted to suggest the Leave campaign was responsible for nasty things being said to immigrants,” Rod wrote in The Spectator.
“Thomas is an appallingly partisan correspondent and presumably has his job because he is the only person in the BBC with a vaguely northern accent. He chose to interview two Neanderthals.”
Absurdly, the Remain camp blames Brexit for failing to draw up plans for life outside the EU.
Why should it? It is not the Government . . . yet.
As I pointed out a week before the vote, it was the duty of Government ministers and Whitehall mandarins to prepare detailed contingency plans for leaving the EU.
It was their job to work out trade and treaty options for a sensible divorce.
“Anything less would be a grotesque dereliction of duty,” I warned.
Now, five days after the earthquake, they are putting that chump Oliver Letwin — arguably the most ludicrous political figure of modern times — in charge of gathering the Government’s thoughts.
Almost every disaster that has befallen the Tories — from the Poll Tax to Letwin’s dumping of state secrets in a St James’s Park garbage bin — can be traced to this Old Etonian twit.
He was also the clown in custard-coloured corduroys who gave away press freedom in a 2am stitch-up over pizzas with Labour, Lib Dems and the zealots of Hacked Off.
As rising Tory star Jesse Norman tweeted: “Extraordinary that the Government did not make at least short-term contingency plans for the possibility of Brexit.”
It is more than extraordinary. It is a betrayal of the national interest by both Prime Minister David Cameron and top Whitehall mandarin Sir Jeremy Heywood.
Their arrogance and complacency is breathtaking. Cameron was so convinced of victory, he left the country to wallow rudderless in the aftermath of defeat.
Heywood — aptly nicknamed Sir Cover-Up — was too busy throwing the entire Government machine behind deceitful Project Fear to safeguard Britain’s future.
He should be sacked.
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Now the sour and spiteful Remain camp wants to scupper last week’s display of democracy in action.
They refuse to accept the clearly expressed will of the British people in a 72-per- cent turnout, the highest in decades.
They are spreading baseless rumours about Boris Johnson and Michael Gove reneging on their campaign promises.
Tomorrow we will know the truth as the two leaders of this triumphant campaign spell out their programme for Britain outside Europe.
They will honour ALL their promises to millions of Sun readers and others.
“Boris and Michael would be finished if they didn’t give effect to what they said in the campaign,” says one source.
First and foremost, all laws passed by British MPs at Westminster will trump edicts handed down from Brussels.
Second, those laws will be enforced and upheld by the British Supreme Court — without interference from the meddlesome European Court of Justice. Third, immigration will be on our terms and in numbers decided by the British government. EU citizens will be treated the same as those from America or India are today.
Fourth, we will trade freely in Europe’s single market, with no tariffs or cash contributions to the EU budget.
And — most important of all — there will be NO second referendum.
“We will control immigration,” said one Brexiteer. “The British people will accept nothing less.”
Remainers are desperately portraying a Britain sliding helplessly towards economic meltdown. The opposite is true.
Britain will thrive. The Pound will rally. It is EU leaders who are reeling over the consequences of last Thursday.
There was near-hysteria in Brussels yesterday as belligerent Jean-Claude “Drunken” Juncker demanded tough action to punish the UK.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Council President Donald Tusk know better. They understand Europe must curb mass immigration. Europe’s dodgy banking system is in danger, not Britain’s.
Other countries — Holland, Sweden, Denmark and even France and Italy — want to follow Britain’s example.
“We want to be in charge of our own country, our own money, our own borders and our own immigration policy,” declared the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party yesterday.
“If there is a risk of political and economic instability, it is in the EU, not here,” a senior banking source tells me.
The British people voted decisively last week. It is up to both Remainers and Brexiteers to implement their clear and explicit wishes.