MOS COMMENT: Grandiose Macron and the vaccine show we have reason to go

The behavior of the European Union in the Brexit negotiations shows very clearly why it is necessary for this country to leave that body.

The EU is incapable of respecting the sovereignty and free will of any nation under its authority.

Faced with a country that wishes to pursue its own interests, the superstate becomes intransigent and impossible to negotiate with it.

In terms of normal diplomacy, the decision of the EU negotiating team to pose almost impossible difficulties in the final days of negotiations is stark, rude and dangerous.

Demanding unrestricted access to fish in British waters for ten years would be a hasty and difficult demand at any stage.

With hours to reach an agreement, it was simply irresponsible.

The same can be said for the suggestion that Britain should be effectively bound by the same EU regulations that exit allows us to escape. Experienced negotiators consider the sudden lockdown “ridiculous” and “ridiculous”.

This is not the way civilized statesmen treat each other, and it puts Britain in a position where it must stand firm.

The behavior of the European Union in the Brexit negotiations shows very clearly why it is necessary for this country to leave that body. In the photo: the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen

The EU is incapable of respecting the sovereignty and free will of any nation that is under its authority, says the Mail on Sunday. In the photo: Boris Johnson

This country is already beginning to benefit from the freedom that independence gives. Our decision to go ahead with Covid vaccines is a perfect example.

We no longer have to wait, like a fast ship forced to go at half speed in a convoy, for the slowest and most bureaucratic states of the EU to make up their minds.

We can do what we think is best in our national interest. And that is what we will be able to do in many other fields, once we have regained the freedom of action that we gave to Brussels almost 50 years ago. One release will lead to another. It is an appropriate symbol of our new status.

So why did the French president, the imposing and great Emmanuel Macron, throw his key into the works with days to spare before a deal is due?

It’s easy to guess that he did so because of his domestic troubles (he has currently had to back down from a scandalously oppressive new police law, and a group of Paris gendarmes have been accused of savagely beating a black music producer).

He almost always seems to have domestic problems, and his original promise to be a new kind of politician has long since faded.

But it is also true that France has never hesitated to use the European community to get its way. In the 1960s, President de Gaulle ruthlessly blocked British entry for selfish national reasons.

The French president, the imposing and great Emmanuel Macron, threw his key in the works with days to spare before a deal is due.

Now, in a curious change, another interested French president is blocking the British exit.

The rest of the EU, especially Germany, may feel that this is nonsense, but the European need for unanimity and the special position of France at the heart of the project, give Paris extraordinary power.

In normal negotiations, this kind of thing would not happen. Both parties would seek the best possible deal for themselves and come to an agreement on that basis.

But these are not normal negotiations. Politics, more than mutual prosperity, has the advantage.

Faced with this kind of stupidity and petulance, Boris Johnson has no choice but to defend his position and not give in.

And the British people, who can recognize arrogant obstruction when they see it, will certainly stand behind their Prime Minister at all times. We can’t give in to this kind of thing and we won’t.