UK: Set Britain free! Unsure how to vote? This brilliantly incisive verdict from the Spectator, the nation’s foremost political magazine, might help

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And when Britain last held a referendum on Europe, every newspaper in the land advocated a ‘Yes’ vote. Only two national titles backed what is now called Brexit: the Morning Star and The Spectator.

Our concern then was simple: we did not believe that the Common Market was just about trade. We felt it would be followed by an attempted common government, which would have disastrous effects on a continent distinguished by its glorious diversity.

The whole project seemed to be a protectionist scam, an attempt to try to build a wall around the continent rather than embrace world trade.

We repeat that line today.

Since 1975, the EU has mutated in exactly the way we then feared and now resembles nothing so much as the Habsburg Empire in its dying days. A bloated bureaucracy that has outgrown all usefulness. A parliament that represents many nations, but with no democratic legitimacy. Countries on its periphery pitched into poverty, or agitating for secession.

The EU’s hunger for power has been matched only by its incompetence. The European Union is making the people of our continent poorer, and less free.

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