Matt Goodwin, the former academic turned right wing rabble-rouser and comically hopeless Reform electoral candidate is a big fan of sovereignty, invoking it at every point when defending his cherished pet project of Brexit.
“We need to revive our national sovereignty,” he told Hungary Today as recently as last month, while in a speech to the European Parliament last year he fretted over how “illegal migration crisis is making a mockery of the United Kingdom’s claim to be a self-governing, independent, sovereign nation”.
But what actually does Goodwin mean by “sovereignty”? Judging from an appearance on GB News at the weekend it’s… signing up to be the 51st state and allowing Goodwin’s hero Donald Trump to run the country!
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In a debate over the Trump administration’s reported plan to review its stance on the UK’s claim to the Falkland Islands, Goodwin defended the president and insisted that, under his counsel, the USA was getting many more things right than the UK.
“Let’s just face it, I think America have [sic] got a lot more things right than we have,” said Goodwin. “And I thank, every, every day I thank, you know, God that we have the United States of America defending us from Russia, defending us from mad Islamists in Iran, defending us from what’s going on in the Middle East.
“I think it’s great we have the United States saying ‘Guys, we’re gonna do this, but here’s the conditions: we want free speech, we want controlled migration, we want you to spend as much on defence as you did during the War’.”
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Told by a fellow panellist that “I don’t want to be ruled by the Americans. And that’s what you’re describing there isn’t it?”, Goodwin responded: “What’s the alternative?”
“Based on what Europe has done over the past 20 or 30 years on energy and defence spending, does Europe seem like a credible alternative to the United States? So you would rather rely on Ursula von der Leyen than the president of the United States of America?”.
So there you have it – Goodwin doesn’t think there is any “alternative” to being ruled by America. What a strange champion of sovereignty he is!
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