Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s abrasive representative in the Brexit negotiations, has denied he is interfering in Britain’s elections by campaigning with the Liberal Democrats, who want to overturn the EU referendum result. Verhofstadt argued he was campaigning in his capacity as the “leader of the liberals and democrats for Europe” — the former Belgian prime minister leads the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE) euro-group in the European Parliament, which includes the Liberal Democrats — so his actions did not amount to foreign interference in Britain’s affairs.
Never Mind the Lib Dems: Remainer Party Launches ‘B*ll*cks to Brexit’ as EU Election Campaign Slogan
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“This is Europe. Europe. It’s all Europe,” he insisted.
The Liberal Democrats launched their 2019 EU Elections campaign yesterday, fronted by their confrontational but self-explanatory campaign slogan: “Bollocks to Brexit“.
The intervention of the Belgian politician in the campaign of a British political party comes just days after top Eurocrat Jean-Claude Juncker expressed his regret at the European Union not having interfered more in the Brexit referendum in 2016. Remarking that “I was wrong to be silent at an important moment”, the EU president said if he’d intervened, the EU could have destroyed “lies” being perpetrated during the campaign.
Verhofstadt, who suggested Brexiteers could “end up on the guillotine” in February, is more up-front than most europhiles about wanting the European Union to seize more powers from the national governments of its member states to establish a federal United States of Europe.
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Verhofstadt and his team have also been up-front about the purpose of the so-called Brexit deal the EU put together with Remain-voting British prime minister Theresa May, making a number of revealing comments in a recent documentary showcased by the BBC.
“We finally turned them into a colony,” one of his staffers appears to gloat at one point, seemingly in reference to the terms of Mrs May’s deal.
“And that was our plan from the first moment,” he added, while another staffer laughed.
Delingpole: Olly Robbins Killed Brexit. Belgian Citizenship Is the Least He Deserves
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“Olly Robbins came to me and said ‘Guy, can I become a Belgium citizen after this whole thing because I don’t think I will return’,” laughs Verhofstadt himself at another point, in reference to the Civil Service bureaucrat who Mrs May has relied on to handle much of the negotiations, allegedly behind the backs of Brexit-supporting ministers at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU).
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