Why did the UK pull out of the European Union (EU)? A Labour Government or a coalition government between Labour and Lib-Dem would not have exited the EU.
The Conservative Party took the UK out of the EU because the current generation of the Conservative Party leadership is the ideological inheritors of Thatcherism. We will return to that point below.

Mrs. Thatcher did not like Germany because she feared its hegemonic racism and messianic quest to dominate Europe. In his memoir, “Kill The Messenger”, the long serving press secretary of Mrs. Thatcher, Bernard Ingham, wrote that she disliked Germany and was insanely hostile to German unification. If Mrs. Thatcher did not appreciate Germany why did the UK under her leadership stay so long in the EU with Germany and in NATO with Germany?

Because there was a country that Mrs. Thatcher hated more than Germany. What happened then under Mrs. Thatcher was that she used Germany in a brilliant high-stake game of realpolitik. Mrs. Thatcher co-existed with Germany because Germany was pivotal to Europe’s policing of Russia.
The thinking was not just based on realpolitik but also commonsense. For Thatcher, Russia was a bigger threat than Germany, so why not encourage Germany to be the essential plank against Russia.
Western Europe has a deep, ideological and racist hatred for Russia. It is ideological in the sense that France, Germany and the UK did not want, in the past, and do not in the future, a huge power in Europe like Russia that they cannot control.
All three countries believe Russia is a threat to their respective domination of Europe. The logic is simple. Russia is the largest country in the world whose population is 144 million compared to the UK, 67 million; Germany’s 84 million and France 67 million, and has the largest armed forces in Europe.

We return now to Brexit. The Conservative leadership that took the UK out of the EU was the post-Thatcher generation that shared her outlook on Germany. The elites in the Conservative Party resented an EU with Germany being the dominant force. For this reason, the UK got special dispensations as an EU member and never thought of joining the Schengen visa programme and adopting the Euro currency.
Each enlargement of the EU brought further British alienation from the EU because the larger the bloc the greater the power of Germany. One day the denouncement occurred – Brexit. Mrs. Thatcher’s vision prevailed and the UK left the EU. The UK now feels that it is on par with Germany and not a subordinate to Germany in the European Union.

Within the European family of nations there are subliminal or Freudian distrust and dislike particularly between the French, British and German. But it will never spill over in open hostilities and when it does, the United States moves in as the arbiter. We come now to the racial question in Europe. The English are Anglo-Saxons, the Germans are Germanic and the French are the descendants of the Gauls.
The racial feelings among ancient European nations have never been openly expressed to cause uneasiness among European countries because the common enemy of Russia provides European nations with the silicone to glue them together. In no other country this silicone was more effective than the UK

under Thatcher. Despite her Freudian dislike for Germany, Mrs. Thatcher never did anything to upset Anglo-German relations.
The issue between Europe and Germany is not only ideological but racial. The Russians are Slavic people and throughout Western European history, there has been a disdain for the Slavs. The elite group within the European nation, including Scandinavia, the Dutch, the Swiss and Italy see the Slavs as an inferior European tribe. I am not sure if the Irish and the Scot think this way.

As a reaction to hundreds of years of racial alienation, the Russians have become an introverted set of people. They fear that the world does not recognise them as an equal European nation and this explains why even under the USSR, the country was never a dominant world player. The break-up of the USSR presented Western Europe with the final opportunity to achieve the demise of Russia.

There were two opportunities. First, Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, after the USSR, was prepared to take Russia into the orbit of the West and accept a subordinate role in world affairs. Secondly, the enlargement of NATO to include all the former countries of the Warsaw Pact was intended to encircle and weaken Russia. At that time, the spy chief of USSR was Vladimir Putin. What he knows about the mistreatment of Russia after the fall of the USSR and the intention of the West in the Ukraine war have left him in permanent anger.

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