The national security adviser to U.S President Donald Trump has poured scorn on the EU for treating the citizens of its member states like “peasants” who it forces to vote again if they disagree with the Brussels elite.
Speaking to the media in UK ahead of his meeting with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Mr Bolton said
“The fashion in the European Union when the people vote the wrong way from the way that the elites want to go, is to make the peasants vote again and again until they get it right.”
This followed assurances from the National Security adviser that the U.S will rush a free trade deal with the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Mr Bolton’s comments regarding the elite of the EU and their disregard for the democratic will of the EU member states citizens is no doubt referencing those within the EU and Europhiles in the UK who are demanding a re-run of the 2016 referendum in the hopes that a remain vote will triumph.
The EU once forced Denmark to re-run a referendum after they rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
In 2005 after Holland and France rejected the EU constitution and Brussels, for all intents and purposes, renamed the agreement the Lisbon Treaty and imposed it on all member states without a popular vote with the exception of Ireland.
Twice, the Irish people were overruled in their democratic will. Once in 2002 when the Irish people rejected the Nice Treaty and again after the rejected the Lisbon Treaty in 2008.
Former EU Commission President Jean Claude Junker is even quoted in 2014 as saying “There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties”.
As it stands the UK looks set to leave the EU and at the moment a no-deal scenario is looking most likely.
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