Brexit: Dear English friends

Good luck since this is the choice you've made, which, I have to admit, surprised me . But it seems that you have never felt it is better to prefer our neighbours to our distant, that there is a community of culture, of feeling, of history, of destiny among the European countries and that in the absence of a consistent European policy in the economic, social and environmental fields as well as for external relations and industrial policy, then we will inevitably condemn ourselves to decline and domination by the Chinese or American empires. It seems that you have never felt, beyond our differences, the need for European solidarity and even a certain friendship, and that you are sticking to the Thatcher motto : I want my money back. It was not exactly the language of Churchill.

In this connection, it seems to me that the Conservative party, for years, has betrayed what was his greatness, from a noble and visionary policy to a policy of loudmouthed and intellectually limited shopkeepers; and that similarly, the Labour party has betrayed what was its DNA, social progress, its relationship with the unions and the employees  for a fascination with high finance ; and this does not only occur in your country, with the same results: a threatening  wave of anger.  Also, welcome in a world for which you had a mild contempt, the world, let's say latin,  of ungovernable countries; because finally, it seems to me that you have rejected an ultraliberal derive  generating inequalities while your politicians, those that you elect, are those who have more maneuvered to impose this type of policy in Europe; and those who have led the fight for the Brexit are among the most liberal and the most representative of international finance. You really count on Farage and Boris Johnson to save the NHS and fight social inequalities? And contrary to what wrote liberal columnist Leparmentier in Le Monde,  June 28, it seems that the English have refused a liberal Europe they helped to shape. And, also strangely, an immigration policy that  your politicians has encouraged beyond what Europe demanded.

Moreover, both Johnson and Farage, and they are much obliged to recognize it, lied, lied and lied again during this campaign (it's pretty fun, in Hungary, this type of fair admission after a won election has led to the complete destruction of the Socialist Party in less than a month). But the pro-Europeans cannot be exempted from their responsibilities. It seems that they are ashamed of their European convictions, they seem unable to defend their ideas with charisma, to design a future, a destiny, a historical perspective, a hope, they were even enable to denounce efficiently the tsunami of lies of their opponents. Most worrying, is that it is not just in England. We need serious work. And we need to seriously address the issue of immigration, it is clear that the peoples of Europe want it to be controlled and strongly limited.

I hope that the bad wind that rises will not turn into storm, and that EU leaders will be able to seize the opportunity, or rather, will be at the height of the duty which is required now to them, to relaunch European integration on other bases. Meanwhile "in is in and out is out ', and the agreements that we wiil maintain will be not in a punitive mode, no desire because I  hope that one day we will be again together, but in strict reciprocity. For a start, there is no more reason to keep the English border in Calais; inhabitants - the bourgeois of Calais have already given too much - it's also part of the common history that we share. It would be quite understandable that Ireland, which is becoming used to peace and reunification by each day policy, refuses to see a border separate it again and will  finally ask for institutional reunification; Europe should welcome a reunited Ireland , and also a fraternal Scotland (Edinburgh, intense source of European enlightenment!) if Scottish want to stay inside the EU.

Until we will be all together again ! And if Cameron had the honesty, courage, vista, political cleverness of a great Man of State or even of a Victor Orban (see above), he  would provoke a general election and would fight meeting after meeting like a dog, to denounce the lies of the supporters of the Brexit,  find a new political legitimacy and cancel the referendum.