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Soon to be Ex-President Obama Threatens UK With Back of Queue Trade Deals

Mr. Charrington
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Soon to be Ex-President Obama Threatens UK With Back of Queue Trade Deals

Britain is already back of the queue in the EU, paying £19 Billion to Brussels every year. EU regulations cost British businesses £41 Billion every year. The costs outweigh the benefits of EU membership. Britain is the EU’s cash cow and needs to break free from this costly unprofitable exploitative EU money black hole.

Firstly, Obama is a lame duck president, and has no powers left. On June 24, if the country has voted to leave, nothing much would happen. There is no sudden cut-off period, and there will certainly not be any volcanoes erupting in Shropshire or Nuneaton as the scaremongering Remain campaigners are suggesting.

Respected credit agency Moody’s acknowledged in a recent conclusive report that: “No tariffs or treaties would change on 24 June, in the event of a vote to leave“.

Secondly, Obama will not be president in November, he will be gone and will not be able to damage Britain further, so his intervention is misplaced scaremongering from a lame duck with no qualification to lecture the UK, or spread malicious scare stories to skew the EU referendum.

Thirdly, the UK has the highest growth in the G7. The OECD has forecast that the UK will be the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2016, with growth of 2.1%. On Brexit, this would be an immense bargaining chip to open up further global deals across areas currently restricted by the EU. Voting Leave opens the door to a myriad of trading deals, that will be lucrative for Britain in the long term, and increase its economic status to much higher projected levels than ever before.

Not only does Obama not have the power any more to stick Britain in the back of the queue, but as an example the US-Australia FTA was concluded in less than two years: Formal negotiations for a free trade agreement began in Canberra on 18 March 2003. The agreement came into effect on 1 January 2005. The US Government states that ‘as a result of the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement, tariffs that averaged 4.3 percent were eliminated on more than 99% of the tariff lines for U.S. manufactured goods exports to Australia’. Therefore, Obama’s misplaced scaremongering comments are moot and false.

If the country Votes to Leave on June 23 not only will Britain take control over its laws, and retain its sovereignty, but our economy would grow solidly with newer better trade deals, we would also increase levels of employment. In a recent report for the CBI, PwC had to admit that employment will grow if we Vote Leave. It also stated that ‘our model estimates suggest that [t]otal real UK GDP could be around 36-39% higher in 2030 than in 2015 in the two exit scenarios’. The paper also admits that growth will continue in the short term and that, in the long term, economic growth will be stronger outside the EU compared to remaining inside.

Do not listen to people putting Britain down, do not listen to the scaremongering threats.

We Will Vote Leave on June 23 and there is NOTHING they can Do About It.

 

Lord Owen: People Puzzled by Obama Intervention to Stay in Dysfunctional EU

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US Presidential visits traditionally do not occur close to elections and the British people are ‘puzzled’ that Obama is urging the UK to remain in a ‘dysfunctional’ EU, especially as the Eurozone is so close to ‘impending collapse’, Lord Owen says in his speech this evening.

 

“When you are a member of a dysfunctional organisation like the EU that can neither reform nor restructure you have two choices: either to reluctantly remain in the organisation or be brave enough to leave.  That is the choice that faces individual British voters on 23 June.

“There has been a long tradition that US Presidential visits to this country do not take place close to General Election periods. The reasons for this are obvious and hitherto scrupulously observed by Washington D.C. They also govern Prime Ministers visiting the United States.

“In the autumn of 1978 as Foreign Secretary I mused about possibly inviting President Carter to repeat his very successful 1977 visit to Britain before October 1979. In the event we had an election in May. But I was wisely reminded that there had been some criticism of the only precedent of a visit close to a likely election when President Eisenhower met with Harold Macmillan on a visit to Britain from 27 August – 2 September 1959 with an election being called for 8 October.  President Carter played these sort of issues by the book and so I quickly shelved the idea. There were correctly no Presidential visits by President Ford surrounding the 1975 referendum on coming out of the Common Market.

“President Obama’s first Secretary of the Treasury has used some very tough language about the Eurozone in his book Stress Test published in 2014. He wrote, ‘The second drag on our recovery was Europe, which was in financial and economic disarray,’ and ‘the European mess was a serious threat to us… The sudden panic in Europe was shocking… Now Europe was burning again, and it did not seem to have the tools or the desire to control the fire. The Eurozone was sixteen [now 19] nations with sixteen fiscal policies and sixteen banking systems‘.

“Geithner writes in words with which I totally agree.  ‘For all the flaws of the U.S. system, our fragmented regulatory agencies were at least part of the same nation, with a common language and traditions. And we routinely transferred resources to economically weak regions through our national budget.’

“Six years later, despite constant urging by Geithner and Jack Lew, his successor as Secretary of the Treasury, the Eurozone remains basically unchanged, though now practising quantitative easing under ECB Chairman Draghi.

‘No wonder many British people are puzzled, to say the least, why President Obama should, in the light of his and our failure to reform the Eurozone, come into the midst of our referendum campaign to urge us to remain in the EU, despite an impending collapse of the Eurozone which would impact far more on the UK than the US.

“The U.S. Defence Department for decades has been hostile to EU ‘common defence’ and to ‘autonomous defence’ in the EU as well as to having two planning centres for defence in Europe, one in the EU and one in NATO. That is no secret and a factual judgement which I and many other people in Britain share.

“President Obama in his recent interview for the Atlantic magazine, correctly, and in the view of many Europeans rightly, openly criticised us in Europe for ‘freeloading’ on the NATO defence budget. It is clearly not tolerable for the U.S. voters that they should pay 73% or 75% of the NATO budget. That direction of travel has got to be corrected and soon.  But it will not be done by the EU.

“While the EU is dysfunctional NATO is not. NATO would benefit today from a solely committed British voice not one hovering between it and EU defence. By the people’s choice, not its elite, Denmark is not part of some EU treaty language on defence. A core priority after Brexit must be for the UK to strengthen NATO and help improve the Alliance’s capability to act cooperatively to preserve peace and security including dealing with ISIL.

“President Obama is, I am sure, aware that his former Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates, records in his book Duty  that the then Secretary General of NATO, Anders Rasmussen ‘had shared with him his concern that Germany would not agree to any NATO action on Libya, mainly because it wanted the European Union to be in the lead.’  We also know from General David Richards, the then UK Chief of Defence Staff, that he ‘insisted in the National Security Council that any military operation in Libya had to be a NATO operation’ and that President Sarkozy was advocating an essentially Anglo-French operation ‘but we could not have done it with the French alone.’ As it turned out the handling of the aftermath in Libya was a failure which President Obama admits more openly than David Cameron. There are many lessons for EU and NATO to be learnt here. They also have implications for the UN. Russia and China, having abstained over Libya in the Security Council so the military intervention was legal, have been far less receptive to help over Syria in the Security Council apart from negotiations over sarin gas.

“In Europe we are sleepwalking in relation to security questions and the situation is not stable.  There is no shadow of doubt that all European NATO member states should now increase their defence budgets as agreed two years ago in their Newport meeting to 2 per cent of their GDP. Sadly, there is little chance that they all will, but at least the UK has committed itself to doing so. There should also in future be less talk about EU military defence in EU documents such as the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement, less talk about EU common defence, and a far greater European commitment to NATO, not just in words but in actions.

“Outside the EU, the UK has an unique opportunity to shield itself from a future collapse in the Eurozone by starting to negotiate global trading arrangements, improving our competitiveness and simultaneously demonstrating a greater commitment to NATO.”

How Anti-British Obama Discarded White House Churchill Bust

Mr. Charrington
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How Anti-British Obama Discarded White House Churchill Bust

President Obama is not an American, he is more Kenyan and has deep anti-British sentiment. This is why he has no qualms about having Britain throw its sovereignty and control away, much like he discarded Churchill’s bust from the White House as soon as he became president.

Not only is Barack Obama not really an American, but he does not hold American values with regards to its allies, and its greatest ally has always been Britain, but under his tenure, this has faltered and become moribund.

The first thing Barack did when he got into the White House as a token president, was to angrily ask for the bust of Churchill to be removed from its place. He despised it, and he despises the British as much as he despises democracy, and freedom.

Ever the staunch Marxist, and follower of Alinsky, the U.S. president has condemned his own adopted country to a severely fractured state, as well as the global mess he will leave behind when he finally leaves office and hopefully is never seen again.

A disgrace to the office of the United States presidency, and a disgrace to the global order. But what else can be expected of someone only trained as a community organiser, with no geopolitical sense?

 

EU Referendum: Obama’s Blatant Hypocrisy Revealed by Iain Duncan Smith

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EU Referendum: Obama’s Blatant Hypocrisy Revealed by Iain Duncan Smith

 

Obama’s stark double standards will come to light as he is escorted around town, a mouthpiece for the disinformation peddling Project Fear headed by David Cameron and his left hand man, Lord Mandelson.

Why should the UK give up its sovereignty and control of its borders when the USA does not have free movement of persons with the EU, Mexico or Canada and has no intention of introducing such arrangements?

Furthermore, the USA is now considering imposing visas and extra security screening on EU members because of the dangers now presented from the EU’s security failures. President Obama, however, advocates that British citizens remain subject to these dangers.

The US refuses to countenance any surrender of national sovereignty to international courts or organisations.

Iain Duncan Smith MP, who is part of the Vote Leave campaign, revealed his discontent at this hypocritical Obama intervention during the lead up to the EU referendum:

 

“I have a huge amount of respect for America’s unrelenting commitment to the patriotic principle of self-governance.

 

“President Obama, and every one of his predecessors, have ferociously protected the sovereignty of the USA – and I only wish we could say the same of our leaders.

 

“What I do find strange is that he is asking the British people to accept a situation that he patently would not recommend to the American population.

 

“I can imagine no circumstances under which he would lobby for the US Supreme Court to be bound by the judgements of a foreign court. Nor can I imagine any circumstances in which he would accept that laws should be made for­-  or taxes imposed on­ – the people of the United States without the approval of Congress.

 

“If he believes it would be unacceptable for the American people – those he is actually elected to guide – I fail to see how it is appropriate for him to recommend that the British people continue to relinquish their right to democratic self governance.

 

“It is wrong for the US, and equally I believe it to be wrong for the UK. That’s why I am campaigning for us to leave the European Union and take back control of our borders and our law making powers, as well as the £350m we send to the EU every single week, so we can spend it on our own priorities instead.”

**** Everything Prince Just Died!

Mr. Charrington
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**** Everything Prince Just Died!

The heavens opened up last night, something big was moving on up into the universe, may have been little in the physical world but damn it Prince Rogers Nelson was a big soul.

Apart from being able to play twenty instruments, arrange, dance and compose some amazing songs, Prince was also a reclusive eccentric who was born into a time that made his music timeless.

From falsetto to baritone, this mutha had everything, and there will possibly be none like him ever again.

Prince was always on.

The Squib office is now officially in a mourning period, as we hail witness to one of the greats, a contemporary genius and innovator.

 

R.I.P April 21

Sometimes it Snows in April

Tracy died soon after a long fought civil war,

just after I’d wiped away his last tear

I guess he’s better off than he was before,

A whole lot better off than the fools he left here

I used 2 cry 4 Tracy because he was my only friend

Those kind of cars don’t pass u every day

I used 2 cry 4 Tracy because I wanted to see him again,

But sometimes sometimes life ain’t always the way…

Sometimes it snows in April

Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad

Sometimes I wish life was never ending,

and all good things, they say, never last

Springtime was always my favorite time of year,

A time 4 lovers holding hands in the rain

Now springtime only reminds me of Tracy’s tears

Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain

He used 2 say so strong unafraid to die

Unafraid of the death that left me hypnotized

No, staring at his picture I realized

No one could cry the way my Tracy cried

Sometimes it snows in April

Sometimes I feel so bad

Sometimes, sometimes I wish that life was never ending,

And all good things, they say, never last

I often dream of heaven and I know that Tracy’s there

I know that he has found another friend

Maybe he’s found the answer 2 all the April snow

Maybe one day I’ll see my Tracy again

Sometimes it snows in April

Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad

Sometimes I wish that life was never ending,

But all good things, they say, never last

All good things that say, never last

And love, it isn’t love until it’s past

On Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday the Threat to the British Monarchy Grows Ever Stronger

Mr. Charrington
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On Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday the Threat to the British Monarchy Grows Ever Stronger

The Queen has shown strength and dignity throughout her years as regent, and as head of the constitutional monarchy of Britain she has led with stalwart grace.

Yet, as the EU referendum descends upon us, we know as a nation that we may never see her kind again, her lineage may be one only of name as power and constitutional monarchy will be abolished by the EU.

Britain’s Constitutional monarchy as laid out in the Bill of Rights of 1689 would be terminated by the EU.

An Oath of Allegiance to our monarch would thus be aligned instead to the EU presidency, needless to say, the Commonwealth realms would also be threatened eventually.

The EU wishes to effect ever closer union within a Federalist state, and this ever closer union would involve the evisceration of the British monarchy for numerous reasons. Firstly, the British monarchy is symbolic of nationhood, and under EU regulations in the future, this will be seen as a threat, and watered down. Secondly, all laws will emanate from Brussels thus bypassing the Queen and her Cabinet.

The European Union will make sure that all funding towards the remaining British monarchy will be reduced to very little through controls in domestic funds from Brussels. This action alone will ensure the demise of the Windsor family’s ability to retain any semblance of power in the future.

The Queen herself, reportedly told Nick Clegg in a conversation that she held reservations about the EU, although denied later by both parties, there is no doubt that the Queen’s role as regent and the rest of the family are at great risk if Britain remains in the EU.

Moving on to the current leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, he has been a lifelong eurosceptic, however when the EU referendum was announced, he suddenly switched sides. Why would he do such a thing? Because he knows what the EU will do in the future, Corbyn despises the monarchy more than anything else, and his anti-royalist sentiment supersedes his eurosceptic views.

This is why amongst the myriad of reasons to leave the EU, if you love your country, your Queen and your constitution, you must vote to leave the EU. In the interests of democracy, sovereignty and the economy there is no alternative but to Vote Leave on June 23.

 

EU Referendum: Nick Clegg – Wrong Then, Wrong Now

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EU Referendum: Nick Clegg – Wrong Then, Wrong Now

There has been more scaremongering from Nick Clegg this evening, the Lib Dem former leader has come out with some real choice phrases.

“We will be left with no empire, no union and no special relationship. We will never have been so alone. Never so isolated. Never so powerless.”

This like many of Nick Clegg’s woeful pitiful words is pure nonsense. Britain will always keep its seat on the UN Security Council, will always be at the helm of NATO, and will always have a special military and political alliance with the United States. Britain has the fifth largest economy in the world, and opening the country up to global trade on Brexit will increase its wealth enormously. Britain also has the fifth largest defence budget in the world.

Nick Clegg and his histrionics are never far from the levels of preposterous over emotional babbling, and his staunch pro-euro stance is a danger to the UK’s stability.

In 2002 he told Prospect magazine: “If we remain outside the euro, we will simply continue to subside into a position of relative poverty and inefficiency compared to our more prosperous European neighbours.”

Look where we are now in 2016. The euro is sinking, Greece is bankrupt 10 times over, Italy is on the brink and with mass unemployment in some EU countries at 45% of the population as well as mass unfettered migration causing immense burdens on EU coffers, there is no way that joining the euro currency would have been good for the UK in 2002 let alone in 2016, or any time in the foreseeable future.

Here is the hypocritical Nick Clegg today cosying up to the Americans with another begging speech at Princeton about how much the UK will lose out if we leave the EU, but in 2010, he told Politico magazine: “We still too readily put ourselves in a position of unthinking subservience to American interests, even when they’re not necessarily in our strategic interests.”

Wishy washy Clegg doesn’t know which way he’s coming or going, one minute he says one thing, the next he’s off on another tangent in the complete opposite direction.

Suffice to say, people with a surefire dedication to Brexit will not be assuaged by Mr. Yellow, any time soon.

Lest we forget what Clegg told the Guardian about the UK’s stance towards the US in 2004: “Above all, Blair confirmed the suspicion in many European capitals that, in the end, De Gaulle was right: the UK will always remain a footsoldier of US transatlantic power, incapable of committing itself to its own European hinterland. When push comes to shove, the UK will always choose America over Europe.”

Mr. Clegg has no leg to stand on, and his little miserable speech today at Princeton putting down Britain will go nowhere, much like his policies, his piffling little words, or his party.

Not only did Nick Clegg lie about tuition fees, getting him a seat in the government but he promised a referendum before backtracking on his words. Mr. Clegg lies more than David Cameron, and that’s saying something.

Britain will vote for Brexit on June 23, and nothing will stop the UK gaining its sovereign freedom, not least, words from a squirming dilly dallying Clegg.

Clinton and Trump Take New York

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Clinton and Trump Take New York

Evangelist Ted Cruz was licking his wounds today despite GOP dealing blows for Trump with underhand tactics in several states by stealing delegates and orchestrating voterless elections.

The people saw through that debacle and handed Trump New York on a silver platter.

Hillary Clinton is clearly the winner over Bernie Sanders in the democrat circle, and her campaign has been one of class, as opposed to Trump’s brutish vulgarity which has become his calling card.

To get the 1237 needed by July by Trump should be no problem, however GOP may still have some dirty tricks up their sleeves, and there is a chance they may still derail the Trumpster.

Ideally, the resultant contest should involve Clinton and Trump, a showdown that would bring an explosive finale to the final death knell of the Republican party.

The Daily Squib prediction may very well come true soon.

European Army: The Ultimate EU Goal is to Take Russia

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European Army: The Ultimate EU Goal is to Take Russia

There is a very valid reason why under everyone’s noses, the German army is now strengthening itself by integrating with the Dutch army.

This move away from NATO is a direct threat to global stability and yet here we are 70 years after World War II, in the same zone of Germanic supremacy.

The Daily Squib warned in 2012 of the threat of an EU army and when the European Union poked the Russian bear with a stick in Ukraine by ousting its Russian allied leader, and installing a pro-EU stooge. Naturally, the Russian bear did not take too kindly to this and annexed the Eastern portion of the country.

In an article on November 2014 we wrote that the EU is essentially doing the reverse of what Hitler did from 1939 onwards. Where Hitler bounded in first militarily, the EU has utilised a reverse tactic of bounding in economically and taking over territory with fiscal might. The next stage after this is military union in a covert fashion, and its working. The planned conflict will come last.

What the pro-EU element of the UK government under David Cameron is not telling anyone is that eventually the British army will be swallowed up by the EU army and incorporated into the ranks if Britain remains in the EU. For such a thing to happen would be devastating to Britain because it would be a signal to Russia that the UK would be target numero uno when conflict arose. Purely because strategically Britain would be weakened by not having its own military command and the UK is a great place to utilise for further attacks on Europe and the United States.

The British army has always prided itself in its effectiveness in combat, but under EU orders this would be compromised, and as the UK would be a sitting target it would be overrun in a few days if the Russians pleased to do so.

Napoleon Bonaparte tried, Adolf Hitler tried, but they both ultimately failed to take Russia, both caught out by the Siberian winter.

Jean Claude Juncker, may try as well. It is his dream to expand into Russia, and if not economically take the Slavs, he will, once the EU army has been built up, maybe jaunt across the Steppes and try for himself. Of course, there will have to be a move first by the Russians, and the EU move will be made to look retaliatory, but if Putin is around at the time, the EU will have its work cut out trying to best the grand chess master himself.

If Britain chooses to leave the EU however, it will have a chance in any future conflict. For a start, it will still have full control over its army, and secondly it will not be seen as such a threat to Putin. The real threat for Russia right now is the EU, and during a conflict, Britain would be seen as a neutral observer to the conflict if outside the EU.

When China joins in, as it is Russia’s ally, then things will change, but that will come later, as the Chinese are still building up their forces, and are not finished developing their military with high end equipment.

Britain must stick with NATO if it wishes to survive. This is something the EU is moving away from as they see NATO as a mainly Anglo led alliance, and the Europeans out of spite more than anything else are not happy with that reality.

The UK has its best chance of surviving if it always stays within the bounds of American NATO influence and aligning itself with the U.S. military supremacy, not only in defence but offence.

The recent foray into Syria by the Russians was indeed a good demonstration of what their military is currently capable of, and their hardware has improved considerably since the Cold War era.

For the safety of Britain, it is imperative that we all vote to leave the EU, we must not listen to the daily Project Fear bulletins fired from the StrongerIn campaign. They are misleading the people, and walking into a living nightmare which will eventually end in conflict.

The EU is planning for conquest in reverse, first economic, then military. Yes, it is covert and unseen to the untrained eye but there are little clues now and then that reveal the truth.

In the interests of global security, the EU should desist immediately from creating its own non-NATO military force, and should stay with NATO. We all know it won’t do that, and has already begun creating its own amalgamated army much to the detriment of global peace.

Michael Gove’s Positive Brexit Speech that Puts Fearmongering BSE to Shame

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Michael Gove’s Positive Brexit Speech that Puts Fearmongering BSE to Shame

The EU referendum has been marred by the negative StrongerIn campaign spreading their woeful stories of disaster and impending doom upon the population, they have continued to put Britain down, to negate the people’s ability to think for themselves, in short, they have treated the people like children.

Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Michael Gove on the other hand, today gave a speech setting out clear grown-up plans for a Brexit, with a zing of optimism, we can do this, and Britain can regain its rightful sovereignty back from the faceless eurocrats who have been running things for awhile now.

There will be no volcanoes, if we Brexit, as StrongerIn seem to relate, there will be no earth opening up and swallowing whole cities into a mass of red hot lava. Brexit would be conducted in a very orderly and calm manner befitting the British sensibility, and maybe after a cuppa or two, we would get moving, in our own time.

The Daily Squib was given exclusive full access to the Vote Leave conference today in London.

“It has been argued that the moment Britain votes to leave a process known as “Article 50” is triggered whereby the clock starts ticking and every aspect of any new arrangement with the EU must be concluded within 2 years of that vote being recorded – or else…

“But there is no requirement for that to occur – quite the opposite. Logically, in the days after a Vote to Leave the Prime Minister would discuss the way ahead with the Cabinet and consult Parliament before taking any significant step.

“Preliminary, informal, conversations would take place with the EU to explore how best to proceed.

“It would not be in any nation’s interest artificially to accelerate the process and no responsible government would hit the start button on a two-year legal process without preparing appropriately.

“Nor would it be in anyone’s interest to hurry parliamentary processes.We can set the pace.

“We will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, which automatically gives EU law legal force. But we can change it on our terms at a time of our choosing. After we establish full legal independence we can then decide which EU-inspired rules and regulations we want to keep, which we want to repeal and which we wish to modify.”

On the subject of the free trade zone, Mr Gove gave a simple yet erudite explanation:

“There is a free trade zone stretching from Iceland to Turkey that all European nations have access to, regardless of whether they are in or out of the euro or EU. After we vote to leave we will stay in this zone. The suggestion that Bosnia, Serbia, Albania and the Ukraine would stay part of this free trade area – and Britain would be on the outside with just Belarus – is as credible as Jean-Claude Juncker joining UKIP.

“Agreeing to maintain this continental free trade zone is the simple course and emphatically in everyone’s interests.”

There is a vast chasm between the positive nature of the Vote Leave campaign and the negative, fearmongering one of the StrongerIn group, who do not address the people with any positivity instead talk down to them. One can immediately feel the affirmative nature of a Brexit as Mr Gove spoke.

On immigration, Mr Gove called upon an Australian points based system of entry into the UK, which is what many have been calling for for years.

“Further, there are five more countries – Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey – in the queue to join the EU – and the European Commission, as we have just experienced ourselves during the recent negotiation process, regards ‘free movement’ as an inviolable principle of EU membership… And my ambition is not a Utopian ideal – it’s an Australian reality. Instead of a European open-door migration policy we could – if a future Government wanted it – have an Australian points-based migration policy. We could emulate that country’s admirable record of taking in genuine refugees, giving a welcome to hard-working new citizens and building a successful multi-racial society without giving into people-smugglers, illegal migration or subversion of our borders.”

Mr. Gove also touched on a subject that many have ignored so far from both sides of the campaign, and that is a reform of Europe. Britain on a Brexit would thus force the EU to re-think its undemocratic stance to many ongoing issues, and a Vote to Leave would invariably bring about other imprisoned states to break free from the suffocating octopus-like grip of the EU.

“Leaving would also bring another significant – and under-appreciated – benefit. It would lead to the reform of the European Union.

“At different points In campaigners like to argue either that Brexit would lead to EU nations using their massive muscle to punish us, or that Brexit would lead to contagion and the collapse of Europe – just as Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union collapsed following secession from those unions.

“Manifestly both cannot be true. An EU without the UK cannot simultaneously be a super-charged leviathan bent on revenge and a crumbling Tower of Babel riven by conflict…

“The UK’s success will send a very different message to the EU’s peoples. They will see that a different Europe is possible. It is possible to regain democratic control of your own country and currency, to trade and co-operate with other EU nations without surrendering fundamental sovereignty to a remote and unelected bureaucracy. And, by following that path, your people are richer, your influence for good greater, your future brighter… Our vote to Leave will liberate and strengthen those voices across the EU calling for a different future – those demanding the devolution of powers back from Brussels and desperate for a progressive alternative…

“But for Europe, Britain voting to leave will be the beginning of something potentially even more exciting – the democratic liberation of a whole Continent.

“If we vote to leave we will have – in the words of a former British Prime Minister – saved our country by our exertions and Europe by our example. We will have confirmed that we believe our best days lie ahead, that we believe our children can build a better future, that this country’s instincts and institutions, its people and its principles, are capable not just of making our society freer, fairer and richer but also once more of setting an inspirational example to the world. It is a noble ambition and one I hope this country will unite behind in the weeks to come.”

Full speech here

Michael Gove speech starts approximately 26 minute mark.

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