Andrew Rawnsley: posh twat peddling propaganda

If the cap fits ...

With prior apology to anyone other than the target of my ire, I'm a bit of an inverted snob on occasions. Once in a while that BBC patrician voice, larded with lazy superiority, sticks in my craw. So it is that I read Andrew Rawnsley's latest deceitful bollocks in the Guardian, with a curled lip, a snarling grimace and a frisson of jacobin intent.

It's the official version of the Tory 'eurosceptic' struggle. Naturally it supports the Establishment line that leaving the EU cannot happen. It is their Berlin Wall. It can never fall.

Rawnsley's blinkered gaze can only see so much. He certainly cannot grasp the essential issue, which is about Britain's continued membership of the EU. This being unthinkable, he cannot get past the issue of internal Tory disputes:

"Whatever their vintage, it seems to me that they now share a common problem. The Tory Eurosceptics don't know how to cope with success. They have captured the Conservative party almost in its entirety."

Rawnsley's implication is that the eurosceptics should rejoice that they have won! There's nothing left to accomplish. What more could they ask for? He can't imagine what further goals they may have, because, as I've noted, leaving the EU is unimaginable.

For him, euroscepticism should be nothing but a private matter, such as religious faith. There is no implied necessity for action, it is enough merely to confess a euroscepticism of the heart, indeed it is somewhat coarse to espouse it openly.

"In Mr Cameron, the Conservatives have their most Eurosceptic prime minister ever to occupy Number 10. He is more sceptic than Sir John Major, who once talked of putting Britain "at the heart of Europe" and signed the Treaty of Maastricht. Mr Cameron is also more of a sceptic than Margaret Thatcher: the real Thatcher that is, rather than the handbag-swinging myth. Worshippers at the shrine of the Blue Lady often forget that she signed the Single European Act, one of the most integrationist pieces of legislation ever. In William Hague, they have the most sceptic foreign secretary there has ever been and, in George Osborne the most sceptic chancellor."

Rawnsley's comments on Thatcher lack insight. He claims her 'worshippers' forget certain things. Rawnsley forgets certain others, or maybe never knew, such as the struggles within her government, her changing position, the pro-EU coup within her party which toppled her, following the "triple no speech" from the Dispatch Box. Rawnsley is trading on ignorance, pandering to his Observer-reading audience's vanity. He ends his piece by accusing those who wish to leave the burning building of Brussels of being the fire-raisers, rather than those who merely saw the bolts being drawn on the fire doors and smelt the acrid smoke.

"This is the fundamental divide between the prime minister, chancellor and foreign secretary, sceptics who have had to come to terms with the real world and those Tories who still live off-planet."

So, as ever, those of us who look at the evidence and conclude that Britain would be better off outside the EU, whether for economic reasons, democratic reasons, reasons of liberty, history, culture or whatever, or whatever combination of the above, are derided as mad, bad and dangerous to know. The fact that this applies to a growing majority of the people of this country is hardly mentioned, because to Establishment whores like Rawnsley, we don't count.

The Berlin Wall can never fall. Ain't that right, Rawnsley, you posh cunt.