Thanks for sharing this and my deep respect for Geoffrey for his words and courage!

It is shocking how much our freedoms, our peace and our prosperity is taken for granted by some and how little understanding of history, economics and common sense there is. I for my part am gonna stop trying to disprove all of these ludicrous statements, as frankly facts are being made up along the way. Just one example for the nonsense that's been written:

This is no big revelation but just simple algebra: USD cancels out. It would work with "pink bunnies" instead of "USD". Needless to say, the rest is also wrong.

Another one is this:

i'm sure Franco was a delight! And indeed, there are no parallels to Mussolini's fascismo. None at all! Franco was a moderate. A man of the people! So, it's OK moving a bit into that direction, cause it wasn't really that bad.


Absolutely! I recently read an article on the Weimar Republic: Many people tend to forget that the NSDAP started off as a grassroots anti-establishment movement and over more than a decade its influence on public opinion, together with socioeconomic factors and a xenophobic, antisemite and nationalistic sentiment have led to the atrocities that followed. This is not to draw a direct comparison to current debates, that would be inaccurate. But the very fact that some of the sentiments and campaign slogans reappear, not only in the Brexit discussion, but accross Europe (or even the western world), should worry people. It should worry them a lot!