Brexit wasn’t the end. It was just the opening shot.
And now — with delicious irony — the person keeping that spirit alive is a man sitting in the Oval Office, while Britain’s own government behaves like a traumatised intern petrified of upsetting Brussels.
Let’s call it what it is: Donald Trump is championing Britain’s fight for you.
Nine years after you told the EU to sling its hook, Trump is gearing up to help four more nations wriggle out of the bloc’s statist grip. Italy, Hungary, Poland, Austria — all on Washington’s VIP list for the grand liberation. And the Brussels crowd? They’re reacting like someone’s just unplugged their life-support machine.
A leaked, unredacted draft of Trump’s National Security Strategy lays it out plainly: Make Europe Great Again — MEGA — by backing the nations that still remember what borders look like. Not the fantasy borders on PowerPoint slides in Brussels. Actual borders. With fences. And guards. And the ability to say “No, you can’t come in”.
The official NSS, released last week, already delivered a blistering verdict on the continent: mass migration, censorship, and “woke” ideology are driving Europe towards “civilizational erasure”.
The longer draft goes further, naming Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Austria as priority partners precisely because their leaders refuse to bow to Brussels.
Giorgia Meloni has slashed migrant crossings and defended the traditional family. Viktor Orbán has stood firm against EU quotas and gender ideology mandates. Poland guards its borders and its courts with fierce pride. Austria, with the Freedom Party surging, looks ready to join the rebellion. These are the nations that still put their own people first – exactly the spirit Britain showed when you voted Leave.
Keir Starmer cornered as explosive leak reveals Donald Trump to seal EU's borders with Brexit 2.0 - Lee Cohen | Getty Images
You can hear the panic ricocheting through EU HQ. They called an emergency meeting to “Trump-proof Europe”. Seriously? They can’t even leak-proof Europe.
And while Trump is ripping open the EU’s curtains and letting in some fresh air, what is Britain doing under Keir Starmer? Hiding behind a potted plant and mumbling apologies to Brussels like you’ve been caught shoplifting in Waitrose.
This Labour government is the most pro-EU administration since Tony Blair. Every week brings another soft shuffle back towards Brussels — youth mobility deals, regulatory shadowing, defence integration, little nudges and winks that say: “Don’t worry, Ursula, we’re coming home.”
Grovelling. While Trump offers a lifeline to sovereign nations, Labour is busy inching you back towards Brussels’ orbit – talk of “resets”, youth mobility schemes, and regulatory alignment that smell suspiciously like re-joinery by stealth. Starmer’s Britain is the one still half-tethered to the sinking ship, surrendering fishing waters you fought to reclaim, flirting with EU defence structures, and prioritising Davos photo-ops over the will of the British people. It is the opposite of everything Brexit stood for.
Look at the contrast. Trump praises Meloni as a “fantastic woman” and Orbán as a strong leader. He sees in them the same defiance that Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, and millions of ordinary Britons showed in 2016. He understands that real strength lies in nations, not supranational bureaucracies. A Trump White House is openly rooting for the patriots of Europe – the very people Labour scorned as racist, populists during the referendum campaign.
Just imagine the possibilities: the United States, Britain, Italy, Hungary, and Poland – perhaps soon joined by others – trading freely, securing borders together, defending Western values without apology. Energy deals that bypass EU red tape. Security pacts that put national interest first. Cultural ties that celebrate heritage rather than erase it.
Brussels would have a collective aneurysm.
Which is half the point.
Britain should be leading this charge, not trailing behind with Starmer’s hand-wringing excuses. You blazed the trail out of the EU; now you have the chance to help others follow. Trump’s MEGA is not just about Europe – it is a direct endorsement of everything Brexit promised and everything Labour is quietly trying to undo.
The message from Washington is unmistakable: the future belongs to sovereign nations that put their own citizens first. Brussels is yesterday’s failed experiment. Brexit was right. Trump knows it. Meloni knows it. Orbán knows it. Millions across the continent know it.
It is time the Government in Westminster recognised it too.
Let the rest of Europe follow where Britain bravely led. Make Europe Great Again? With Trump in the White House and the Brexit spirit alive, it might just happen – and Britain will be right at the heart of it, where we belong.
Trump gets it.
Meloni gets it.
Orbán gets it.
Millions of Britons and even Europeans get it.
Only Westminster seems determined not to.
Europe can be great again — not because Brussels demands it, but because free nations choose it. And if Starmer won’t champion that future, someone else (paging Nigel) must.
Brexit was right.
The EU is failing.
Trump’s plan is the sequel the continent has been begging for.
And if Britain survives its Labour-induced stupor, you’ll be right at the centre of it with an impressive head start over the other EU sceptics— laughing as the Brussels bubble finally bursts.