Consider these three bits of hyperbole. Churchill liberated Europe. Margaret Thatcher molded it into a single market. Tony Blair enlarged it. Hyperbole or not, there’s no doubt Britain played critical roles at the critical moment. Do you really want to look on now, a spectator like Switzerland, as Europe retreats into illiberalism and protectionism, and its eastern fringes drift into the orbit of a neo-imperial Russia? You can’t isolate yourself from these; you can only worsen them by refusing to do your part. Do you want to be a hostage to the bloc’s failing fortunes? Was it for this the British men and women sacrificed so much when facing down a previous, totalitarian “European union”?
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