‘The war is over.’ Those were Nigel Farage’s words when it was announced that, at the last minute in a year of transition, the UK had struck a trade deal with the European Union. Yes, some of the deal is iffy, especially on fish, Northern Ireland and the creation of new UK-EU committees, but ‘on the big stuff’, said Farage, this is the end of the war. Boris Johnson deserves credit, Farage later wrote in the Daily Telegraph, for ‘bringing the Brexit wars to an end’.
Farage has been right about many things in recent years, and he deserves a great deal of the credit for bringing about the 2016 referendum in which 17.4million people expressed their democratic desire to free the UK from the EU. But on this matter, on this ‘war’, he is wrong. The war is not over. It has only just begun. Brexit is best seen as the first battle in the war; as the first stand-off in a far broader struggle to take back control, not merely from Brussels but from our own elites. The war for democracy must continue, and with vigour.
Farage and others are right to see the trade deal as a very significant moment. Even those of us who are concerned about aspects of the deal – the political annexing of Northern Ireland, the UK’s continued lack of control over its waters, our ongoing submission to certain globalist treaties – can and should celebrate the deal as yet another blow to the Remainer elites who still thought, right up until the deal passed through parliament, that they could obstruct Brexit and in the process bin the votes of 17.4million of their fellow citizens.
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