According to the organisers of the so called People’s Vote march through London yesterday (20/10/2018) nearly three quarters of a million people marched to demand a vote on the Brexit deal. Of course we’ve already had a people’s vote which those marching lost. However, as the Peoples Vote group claim they only want a referendum on the deal, there is no possibility at all of them overturning the referendum result. Right?
I fully support people’s right to peaceful protest. I also accept the People’s Vote argument that the British public should get a chance to decide whether or not to accept the terms of any future Brexit deal, defining our future relationship with the EU. However, the decision to leave has been made. I reject any suggestion that this can be overturned before it has fully taken effect. To do so would make a complete mockery of so called democracy.
In 1975 Britain voted to remain in what was then the ‘common market’ of the European Economic Community (EEC). This decision stood for more than 40 years. In the intervening years many came to realise that the 1975 vote tied Britain into a plan to create a federal European super state. This caused unease, because people thought they were voting to be members of a free trade block not a federal state superseding British sovereignty.
Just as the 1975 vote, effectively taking Britain in to the EU, was respected so should the 2016 referendum result taking Britain out. Otherwise, what purpose do plebiscites serve?
Therefore, any referendum the People’s Vote are calling for cannot legitimately be a vote on Britain’s membership of the EU. The only justifiable question the People’s Vote can reasonably suggest is an electoral choice between either exiting the EU on the terms offered or exiting the EU with no deal at all.
If this is their contention it seems a perfectly reasonable proposition. Personally, at this stage, I’d go for no deal as that is certainly preferable to the Chequers Plan currently on the table. This is essentially the same as staying in the EU, without any of the benefits of leaving while, at the same time, giving away any say in decision making. This is certainly worse than ‘no deal.’
However a cursory glance at the People’s Vote ‘roadmap to the People’s Vote’ clearly includes remaining in the EU as an option in all of their suggested referendum questions.
So it is difficult to see how this could possibly be construed as anything other than a call for second referendum (or rather third after the one that took us into the EU in 1975). This is unreasonable and anti-democratic.
For example London Mayor Sadiq Khan implored the Prime Minister not to be scared of the People’s Vote, clearly stating the option to remain in the EU be on the ballot paper. A second (third) referendum in other words.
Other celebrity attendees to the People’s Vote March, such as comedian and actor Eddie Izzard, said:
“I can’t think of anything more democratic, anything more British, than trusting the judgement of the British people”
Though he isn’t trusting their judgement because we’ve already voted to leave and he wants to overturn that democratic decision. Clearly what he really meant was that he is only willing to trust the judgment of the people providing it agrees with his own. Which it doesn’t.
However, regardless of the People’s Vote’s nonsensical claim to respect democracy, the question of greater interest to me is why so many people, who claim to want a better future inside a federalist Europe, would believe that international banking cartels would care to offer them one. Because there is no doubt that the People’s Vote is a run by those cartels and those marching were effectively doing so at their behest.
The People’s Vote website claims the following:
“The People’s Vote is a grassroots campaign supported by its constituent groups including Open Britain, the European Movement UK, Britain for Europe, Scientists for EU, Healthier In, Our Future Our Choice, For Our Future’s Sake, Wales For Europe & InFacts.”
The definition of ‘grassroots’ is:
noun: (used with a singular or plural verb) Also grass roots.
1. [of] the common or ordinary people, especially as contrasted with the leadership or elite of a political party, social organization, etc.; the rank and file.
There is absolutely nothing ‘grassroots’ about the Peoples Vote. The people who funded the march have co-opted the support of misinformed ‘well meaning’ participants and organisers, enticing hundreds of thousands of deceived people to jump on their bandwagon. Unfortunately the wagon is wholly owned by billionaire oligarchs and operated by ‘the leadership or elite of a political parties.’ Or rather, many political parties in this case.
One of the main financial backers of the People’s Vote protests are Open Britain ltd whose registered address is given as Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, England, SW1P 4QP. This is the UK address of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. Soros is an international financier, billionaire investor and supporter of numerous political causes. He is a former director of the Deep State policy group the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). I suggest most of those who marched on Saturday had no knowledge of his backing for their People’s Vote protest, but those who did surely can’t believe his desire for Britain to remain in the EU is selfless?
In 1991 Soros, on the back of Britain’s ill-fated attempted entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) made, what has been called, one of the greatest currency trades of all time. He recognised that the pound was weakening against the German mark and U.S dollar. So he decided to short the pound. This meant he agreed to buy an amount of sterling using another currency. If the exchange rate changes in favour of the purchasing currency the amount of the ‘short’ currency you can purchase is increased. Soros made an estimated $1 billion on the trade.
While many would see this as little more than a shrewd investment the problem is that investors like Soros can effectively create the financial conditions from which they profit. By 1992 Soros was holding $10 billion worth of short options on sterling. Investments on this scale drive, rather than reflect, financial market conditions. Individual’s like Soros know their portfolios are being tracked by others and can effectively shape the financial markets as they see fit. Always for staggering personal gain.
The impact upon the British people was severe. Following ‘Black Wednesday’ the pound collapsed, wages stagnated, prices rose and unemployment soared. Britain entered a lengthy recession thanks, in no small part, to the position Soros took on sterling.
So why the People’s Vote marchers now believe Soros only want’s what is best for them is beyond me. Clearly remaining in the EU is in ‘his’ best interests and Soros’s interests rarely coalesce with those of the wider public.
Of course by criticising Soros, who happens to have been borne Jewish, I will be accused of anti-Semitism by some. I’m not anti-Semitic and don’t see that his alleged and widely assumed faith has any relevance the issue under discussion. In reality, Soros is an atheists who doesn’t even self identify as Jewish. However, that won’t stop the inevitable allegation being made.
A director of Open Britain ltd is Peter Mandelson. Mandelson is the chairman of Lazard International and a senior advisor to transnational merchant bank Lazard. Another directing of Open Britain is Roland Rudd. Rudd is the Public Relations spin doctor who was a close advisor to both Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair during their years in official office. Fellow Open Britain director Michael Rake has been a chair, adviser or president at organisations including easyJet, Worldpay, the CBI, the RNIB, Teneo and Business for New Europe. Indeed, if you go through the list of Open Britain directors it is hard to find one who doesn’t have close ties to global corporations.
By researching the ties between global corporations, as Swiss academics have done, we know that just 147 corporations control the global economy. Chief among these are the international banking cartels. Regardless of the b-list celebrities and politicians who joined in the festivities, the individuals who backed the Peoples Vote protests are almost exclusively members of this tiny, globalist clique.
So it is difficult to square these globalist connection with the concept of a ‘grassroots’ movement. The People’s Vote website appears to be disingenuous to say the least.
However, when we look at the misleading conduct of Open Britain, this is perhaps to be expected. Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Neil, Open Britain Director James McGrory weakly tried to defend a misleading video Open Britain produced following the 2016 referendum result. They tried to claim that leading Brexit campaigners had said they wanted to stay in the European Single Market. Thus creating the myth that Brexit voters didn’t know what they were voting for.
Despite the fact that this is absurd nonsense this myth continues to be a core belief of many of the People’s Vote marchers. For example, TV chef and businesswoman Delia Smith said:
“When the vote first happened we weren’t fully informed.”
I don’t know how it was possible that Delia was misinformed. Though, given the unethical tactics of Open Britain, I can understand why she, and many others, are confused on the issue today. However, if Delia cared to check, she will discover that even the staunchest ‘Remainers,’ like then Prime Minister David Cameron and former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborn, were very clear about what the vote was all about.
Prior to the Brexit Referendum, Cameron said:
“The British public would be voting, if we leave, to leave the EU and leave the single market.”
Osborne said:
“We would be out of the Single Market. That’s the reality. Britain would be quitting, we would be quitting the Single Market.”
When asked by various interviewers if we would remain in the single market (and the customs union) every single lead Brexit campaigner, including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Andrea Leadsom and Nigel Farage confirmed that reality. If people like Delia were confused at the time, and felt they weren’t fully informed, they weren’t paying much attention.
The claims of Open Britain and the People’s Vote, that the case for Brexit was confused, don’t stand up to any scrutiny at all. However, the intent of the strategy is merely to suggest the possibility, in the hope of convincing hundreds of thousands of people to march in protest under that misapprehension. It appears to have worked.
Open Britain ltd, along with the People’s Vote’s other listed partners, Scientists for EU and Healthier In the EU, are situated in the offices of supposed campaign group ‘Best For Britain.’ They were formally called ‘Britain Stronger in Europe’ and led the Remain campaign under that banner. However their real name was ‘The In Campaign Ltd.’ In keeping with this deceptive web of multinational corporations masquerading as ‘grassroots’ movements of the people, Best for Britain’s real name today is UK-EU Open Policy Ltd.
This limited company was established by George Soros and fellow Bilderberg Group attendee Martin Sorrel, who built up the advertising giant WPP and bought out Rudd’s PR firm Finsbury. UK-EU Open Policy Ltd are also heavily backed by Richard Branson’s multinational Virgin empire.
So, regardless of what the People’s Vote protest marchers thought they were marching for, the reality is that that they were marching in to support the agenda of the multinational corporations and globalist oligarchs who organised their event. The Banks, pharmaceutical corporations, weapons manufacturers, hedge fund managers and the assorted array of globalist power players, who desperately want the UK to stay in the European Union, require the protestors to fundamentally misunderstand what the European Union is. Namely an unelected, unaccountable corporate hegemony. In order to generate public support for their totalitarian plan, they need ‘Remain Campaigners’ to believe they are standing up for a better future for their children.
They’re not. They are standing up for the continuation of a globalist agenda aimed at consolidating all political, economic and military power in the hands of tiny corporate ‘society of the elect.’ They don’t know it, because the people funding their marches and protests also own their news media.
While the British public are distracted with all these arguments the deep state milieu who actually run things are happily getting on with the business of ensuring Britain can never escape the clutches of the EU corporate oligarchy. What the people want, what they vote for, protest for, or against, is totally irrelevant. It’s simply a puppet show to keep people invested in the falsehood.
We only need look at PESCO the Permanent Structured Cooperation agreement within the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) to realise what a total charade the notion of Brexit really is. It forms the basis for a single EU military structure, under the command of unelected EU bureaucrats. Via the treaties Britain has already signed with France, regardless of what the UK Mainstream Media blackout on the subject won’t tell you, in every practical sense, the British military are part of it.
If you are British you may be wondering when you were informed about the decision to put British troops, sailors, airmen and women under the command of the EU. You weren’t. That’s the way the EU works. A form of dictatorship which hundreds of thousands of People’s Vote protesters are apparently strongly in favour of living under.
Another prominent backer of the People’s Vote march was the JP Morgan’s investment bank employee Tony Blair. Blair lied to the British public and their parliament about Sadam Hussein’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and led the country into a disastrous, illegal war that killed millions.
It is therefore ironic that so many parallels have been drawn between the People’s Vote March and the Stop The War Coalition March in February 2003. That day, an estimated 1 million British people marched to stop the insane barbarism of Blair and the idiot Bush. It didn’t work. None of the politicians took any notice at all.
Somehow, I suspect the People’s Vote march may prove to be more influential. But not for the reason’s those who marched in protest believe.
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