A semblance of national sovereignty

Western Daily Press, 25 October 2024, p. 15

I am very grateful to Jeremy Comerford for his long and informative letter on populism (‘Lessons of populism need to be heeded’, Letters, October 22), which amply confirmed my own take on the question. Indeed, his letter is so impressive that I even ended up wondering whether it might be AI-generated! – but no doubt even thinking such a thing would do Jeremy a great disservice. Let’s hope that the days of AI-generated Letters to the Editor will never come!

The core question has to be, do we wish to be governed by elected politicians who genuinely represent popular sentiment and viewpoints held by the citizens who elect them?; or do we naively entrust our human future to globalist elites driving through their own dubious agendas without any public participation, or say in, and consent to the content of, those agendas?

The fact that populism is on the march globally is precisely because so many so-called ‘democratic’ systems have been effectively captured by globalists who are driving through elite agendas that have nothing to do with ordinary people’s concerns.

Indeed, Klaus Schwab, erstwhile head of the World Economic Forum (WEF), openly boasts about how ideologically driven WEF ‘young leaders’ have ‘penetrated’ Cabinets across the Western world – the most flagrant examples of many being Trudeau in Canada and former leader Ardern in New Zealand.

I couldn’t disagree more with the letter on Brexit by Michael Warne in the same issue (October 22). On the contrary, remaining within the corrupt globalist European Union would have been an ‘unmitigated disaster’ for all true democrats in this country.

Furthermore. nothwithstanding the back-sliding we’re likely to see from our Europhile leader Keir Starmer, we now have at least the semblance of national sovereignty once again, which is a necessary, if not a sufficient, condition for rebuilding a genuine representative democracy in Britain.

I think Michael massively overstates the economic losses the country has endured as a result of Brexit. For me and many others, some small relative material loss constitutes a very small price to pay for having escaped from the labyrinthine globalist nightmare of the European Union, with its flagrant political agenda leading inexorably to a ‘United States of Europe’.

Richard House

Stroud, Gloucestershire

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