it has been a long and bitter campaign
but finally it is coming to an end and
tomorrow Thursday the 23rd of June 2016
you have the power not the talking heads
in the studios not the big politicians
not the banks and the finance houses and
the big multinational corporations
who've paid so much to persuade you to
remain in the European Union you have
the power to change your own life and to
change the course of history you'll have
noticed by now that almost nobody
campaigning for Romain has tried to
persuade you that things are good in the
European Union that your life is going
to be better if we remain in the
European Union instead they have sought
to instill fear amongst you and a lack
of confidence in our own abilities they
have promised you the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse War famine pestilence and
disease disas
a bomb under the economy they have tried
everything to terrify you about the
dangers of leaving the European Union
and nothing to inspire you about how
things will get better I've just been
watching a speech by the right honorable
Peter Shaw a man I was proud to sit next
to in Parliament over several years
which he gave at the Oxford Union on the
eve of the referendum in 1975 and he
made this similar point
he said we've been in the European Union
2 and a half years so they can no longer
promise you that things are going to be
good if we remain they can only seek to
terrify you about how bad things will be
if we leave the truth is apocalypse does
not lie on the other side of brexit
Britain will remain a powerful trading
and Manufacturing Nation with a great
history and something of a name in the
World Britain with its population of 65
million people it's hint a land of a
commonwealth with hundreds of millions
of people many of them in economies
doing far better than ours Britain will
continue to exist and to thrive if we
leave the European Union on the other
side if we stay in the EU it's more of
the same a fading failing collection of
European economies whose future is
increasingly in doubt itself you see if
there was a referendum tomorrow across
the whole of the European Union about
whether or not people should join it I
promise you it would be overwhelmingly
rejected so I think that this whole
project has been about making you lose
confidence in yourselves lose confidence
in your own ability and in your own
democracy they say that ukip will Thrive
if we brexit in truth the result that
ukip want most is a narrow defeat for
brexit because they will be the
Principal beneficiaries of it the fact
is the anti-eu cause was always a
leftwing cause Mr Tony Ben was its great
leader Peter Shaw Michael foot the great
Trade union leader ERS they were the
ones who led the campaign in
1975 in the last referendum and if they
had or their counterparts had led this
campaign well we would have swept the
country if everybody could hear Peter
Sha's speech we'd sweep the country if
Peter Shaw or somebody like him had made
a speech like he did at the wemble arena
on BBC question time last night we would
have swept the country which is the the
reason why people like Peter Shaw were
not chosen to appear on the BBC so I'm
asking you to have confidence in
yourself stop
overestimating the Roman Empire that is
the EU and start valuing your own
abilities your own abilities to control
your own lives if we do that I believe
that we will have a great future outside
the EU we'll continue to trade with its
member countries of course because they
will want to continue to trade with us
but we'll be able to conclude trade
Arrangements even trade deals with the
countries we turned our backs on in 1973
when we joined the European Union some
of them as I say burgeoning and growing
like Topsy in the world most of the
countries in the world are not in the EU
most of the G8 are not in the EU most of
the G20 are not in the EU and many of
them are doing very well as we will
ourselves I believe let's look for a
minute at the domestic
consequences if we brexit tomorrow David
Cameron will be gone by lunchtime on
Friday or at least the process of
removing him will have started people
say well we'll get Michael Gove or Boris
Johnson and I reply and they're worse
than David Cameron and George Osborne
how but the truth is the Tory party will
begin imploding exploding actually
falling apart and a general election
will not be long delayed and in that
general election we'll have a choice
between Jeremy Corbin and his labor
Outlook and proposals his honesty and
sincerity up against who Boris Johnson
my money would be on Jeremy Corbin we
could get rid of the Tories starting
tomorrow and we could get a labor
government in
conclusion leaving the European Union is
a necessary but not sufficient condition
Britain is not the Britain we want it to
be British democracy not as Democratic
as we want it to be we will still have
much to do to build a Britain fit for
our children and their children but we
will not even be able to begin to do so
if we don't take the chance that's
offered to us tomorrow to be free to be
independent to be Sovereign and that's
what I'm asking you to grasp grasp back
from the unknown the unnamed The
Faceless unelected
unremovable powerful wealthy people who
rule us now take it back into our own
hands then we'll be responsible for our
own destiny in the skies above me in
1940 when we stood alone with Hitler at
the channel ports we stood alone and if
we had not the course of world history
would have been very different and I'd
be speaking to you on this video in
German if I was speaking to you at all
Britain is a great country its people
are a great people they can stand up for
themselves they can govern them
themselves and they will have the chance
to do so God willing after a brexit
victory in tomorrow's
referendum the whole thing is an
absurdity and therefore I urge you I
urge you to reject it I urge you to say
no to this motion and I urge the whole
British country to say no on Thursday in
the referent
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