{"id":4008,"date":"2023-02-15T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2023-02-15T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T10:05:39","slug":"verhofstadt-slammed-by-brexiteer-for-fantasising-about-united-states-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/verhofstadt-slammed-by-brexiteer-for-fantasising-about-united-states-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Verhofstadt slammed by Brexiteer for fantasising about \u2018United States of Europe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An influential Brexiteer has reacted angrily to the hardline federalist who fantasises about a United States of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guy Verhofstadt was today slammed by a Brexiteer after claiming that making a success of the UK&#8217;s departure from the EU is a &#8220;delusion&#8221;. The Belgian MEP took to Twitter after it was revealed that a secret summit was held to address Brexit&#8217;s flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;British politicians are far behind public opinion; making Brexit work is a delusion,&#8221; said Mr Verhofstadt, who was the European Parliament&#8217;s Brexit boss during the tortuous UK-EU negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Time for pro-Europeans to put a roadmap for a different relationship on the table!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">British politicians are far behind public opinion. <br><br>Making Brexit work is a delusion. <br><br>Time for pro-Europeans to put a roadmap for a different relationship on the table!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/giaeM0Pk0i\">https:\/\/t.co\/giaeM0Pk0i<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guyverhofstadt\/status\/1625412132895326209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But Tory MP Mark Francois, who is chairman of the powerful European Research Group, suggested that the former prime minister of Belgium is &#8220;pretty delusional&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Francois referred to the EU propagandist&#8217;s recent sensational claim that Brexit was to blame for Vladimir Putin&#8217;s brutal invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Just the other week, Guy Verhofstadt tried to blame Brexit for the invasion of Ukraine &#8211; that sounds pretty delusory to me!&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Verhofstad&#8217;s remarks come in response to reports of a cross-party conference last week on &#8220;making Brexit work better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An influential Brexiteer has reacted angrily to the hardline federalist who fantasises about a United States of Europe. Guy Verhofstadt was today slammed by a Brexiteer after claiming that making &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Verhofstadt slammed by Brexiteer for fantasising about \u2018United States of Europe\u2019\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/verhofstadt-slammed-by-brexiteer-for-fantasising-about-united-states-of-europe\/#more-4008\" aria-label=\"More on Verhofstadt slammed by Brexiteer for fantasising about \u2018United States of Europe\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,33,16,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}