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| Henry VIII was Britain's First Brexiteer |
For people in Australia the whole EU Brexit thing can be
very weird. That’s because we don’t teach European history in schools. So for
those interesting in such things let me explain….
Europe was first integrated by the Romans who established
the first centralised EU bureaucracy. Eventually the Roman Catholic Church
replaced the Roman Empire. Once the Vatican got Western Europe established they
decided to expand into Russia with the fourth crusade in 1201. It took the Russians a while but they won back their lost lands in 1261. The
Russian Orthodox Church got a bit miffed about it all and didn’t talk to the
Vatican for over eight centuries. They have been a bit suspicious of Western intentions ever since.
In 1531 the English king Henry VIII got a bit miffed with EU
regulations, specifically the one about not chopping your wife’s head off and
marrying someone else, and took Britain out of Europe. In doing so he
inadvertently helped the Reformation along which led to the industrial revolution
which made Britain a world power and established global European supremacy in the 19th Century.
The next major attempt at European unity was secular and led
by the French dictator Napoleon. Napoleon thought that invading Russia would be a good idea,
assembled a coalition of European nations, and marched on Moscow. The Russians
slaughtered them, and the Prussians and the British BREXITed Napoleon at the
battle of Waterloo.
Sometime later the Prussians, the Brits and the French
decided to have another go at Russia and invaded Crimea. The Russians
slaughtered them and the Brits went home and built the British Empire instead.
(Prussians are Germans BTW).
Then in the early 20th Century the British
establishment became concerned at the rise of Germany and their military and
industrial potential, so they allied with France over a relatively trivial
border dispute and imposed a naval blockade on Germany. This precipitated a war
which got rid of a lot of unnecessary working class people (around 15 million
of them) who were getting a bit uppity about their rights, and put Germany back
in its box. This is called ‘World War One’. Just to be sure, the treaty of Versailles was designed to destroy
the German economy.
After this Germany developed a more muscular policy towards
European integration and integrated the whole of Western and Eastern Europe
suppressing popular nationalist movements. Hitler thought that invading Russia
would be a good idea, assembled a coalition of European nations, and marched on
Moscow. The Russians slaughtered them.
The British establishment was favourable towards European
integration but were thwarted by the British secret service, the working class,
and a maverick Tory named Winston Churchill (not to mention the RAF).
In the 1970s Thatcher led Britain into the Common Market - a
Northern European customs and currency union. However, this became a mechanism
whereby the Germans and French re-integrated the whole of Europe including the
Eastern States suppressing popular nationalist movements. Once they got Europe
established they decided to expand into Russia. So they and the USA sponsored a coupe in Ukraine which
aimed to capture …. Crimea. Russia held a free and fair referendum in Crimea and
the majority voted to stay with Russia, which they did. So after three hundred
years of Europe trying to annex Crimea, the Western media now accuse Russians
of Annexing their own country. It’s really quite funny.
The British establishment remained favourable towards
European integration but some idiot named David Cameron forgot that the British are British and allowed a popular vote on staying in the EU which the EU lost. The establishment pulled out all stops but still it may now have been thwarted by the working class telling Jeremy Corbyn to get stuffed, and a
maverick Tory named Boris Johnson (not to mention an annoying nationalist
called Nigel Farage).
Not discussed in this article is Islam’s thousand year
attempt to colonise and occupy Europe. Facilitating that is now the policy of
Germany, the EU, and all the leftist/progressive parties of Europe, and around
200 NGOs funded by an ex-Nazi collaborator called George Soros. This is of
course an underlying reason for BREXIT.
So there you have it. It’s all about chlorinated chicken,
silly internet memes, and a man with a bad haircut.
Personally, now that the people have spoken through two
elections and a referendum this is the message I would like Boris to take to the EU.
