Euroscepticism rise in Europe has become one of UK’s greatest exports, Sir Bill Cash argues

After the Referendum, our Parliament, on behalf of its voters, passed the necessary legislation. This Referendum result was endorsed by Boris Johnson’s 2019 General Election victory.

Only the Conservative Party can carry through Brexit, and because of this victory, has a substantial majority.

Indeed, legislation can only be passed in Parliament with a majority. This is unachievable by a Party with no MPs and no prospect of any majority whatsoever.

The pitch for proportional representation, which itself creates economic and democratic instability, is a betrayal of real democracy. Deliberately undermining Conservative MPs simply punishes the entire UK, undermines Brexit and condemns the voters to the prospect of Labour’s Eurofanatic Government and economically incompetent record.

The rise of Euroscepticism in Europe has recently become one of the UK’s greatest exports. In the early 1990s, I campaigned across Europe in European Referendums at huge rallies such as in France with Séguin against Maastricht – and we only lost by a mere 0.8%.

Again, in France in 2005, I similarly campaigned with De Villiers, and we won this referendum, but the French simply refused to accept it. I also campaigned in Denmark and Ireland.

European voters have finally got the message that the undemocratic EU is beyond its sell-by date. I have asked Remainer and Reverser MPs in the Commons to answer a simple question: “will you publicly ask your constituents the following – Would you want to rejoin the EU, where laws are made not by your elected MPs in Parliament, but by the Council of Ministers by majority vote of 27 Member States behind closed doors and without even a transcript?” No MP has dared to reply.

There is a massive EU backlash from voters on illegal migration, and many of the EU Governments are tearing their hair out because the EU is now subjugating their voters to quotas and fines imposed by majority vote. For us however, no EU means no such subjugation.

On the economic front, the IMF and Deutsche Bank now state that Germany is losing its manufacturing dominance and the UK will soon outgrow Germany and France as they suffer from the failing Eurozone itself.

In these difficult economic times created by Covid, followed by the energy crisis and the Ukraine War, none of which are the fault of the Government, we are meeting the economic challenges and increases in the cost of living and interest rates. The writing is on the wall for the EU.

A recent House of Lords Report confirms that “London has retained its position as the world’s second largest (or most important) financial centre and the most important in Europe”.

Our GDP growth for 2021 and 2022 was higher than that of the EU. Irresponsible ranting simply misleads the British people. This is not to say that the job is done.

There is more to do, but the British economy has proved that Project Fear was a bunch of lies. While Europe is plunging into recession, we are resilient, and our economy is improving.

Brexit was absolutely the right decision for the UK. The last thing the British people need now is to lose the Conservative Government that delivered it and the sovereignty and democracy on which Brexit is built.