Dear Mr. Soros, I feel that despite your own history you have forgotten how what has replaced Nazism particularly in the guise of the EU has many of the traits and similarities that democrats like myself so fear. I find it impossible to believe when you say that the world is turning from peace you regard the EU as an instrument of peace. OK there has not been a war in (western) Europe for the best part of a century, but that does not mean that the nationalist egos which caused previous conflicts have not been in operation. If anything, for many in the UK we have seen the EU become a very obvious platform for Germany to cast off its "German" mantle and become "European" whilst continuing to disguise and propagate the German National interest under the radar. The mistaken creation of the Euro in sucking in economies that were clearly not strong enough to share a currency like that was a political decision by Germany aided and abetted by France to allow the Euro to exist and continue to hide the strength of the Deutche Mark so that the formidable manufacturing machine that is Germany could continue its work to dominate Europe through exporting to the nations that surrounded it in a currency those nations could afford, thus strengthening and growing its own power base. At the same time it (EU) has made exporting to Germany and France very difficult in areas that the French and Germans want to keep for themselves, and why the marketing of financial services from the UK has not been very successful because of the blocking tactics of these two nations. Britain with her very open trade approach, have allowed Germany to export vast amounts of manufactured goods and to compete on an equal playing field with UK companies, Germany has side stepped obligations for EU defence and have been happy to allow the UK to pick up the tab for that, whilst supplying equipment to the UK armed forces for the task, and bit by bit, quietly and surreptitiously France and Germany have been creating the EU in its own image.

I speak not as an anti EU Brit, but as a German heritage English born businesswoman, with family who have explained to me what Germany is doing and I feel that it is important to highlight what Germany is doing and to really warn others, that Germany's ambitions of world domination have never gone away, they have been frustrated but have never faded and that far from the EU being an association of equals, you have in fact a client State in Germany and the rest of the vassal States dependant on the Euro and Germany's patronage of that currency basically calling the shots.



All this ridiculous hysteria about populism, is simply the realisation of many educated people that we are sleep walking into a German dominated political and economic structure, where the shackles have become the Euro and the key to release is economic collapse. I am sure Machiavelli could not have thought of a more devastating method of coercion. The people in Britain have always been highly sceptical of the EU and whilst content to be part of a "trading bloc" in the guise of the EU no one until last year had ever been asked if they want to be part of a political AND economic Union. And herein lies the problem. The Elites were prepared, with the connivance of our own Europhile left leaning politicians to sign up to any numbers of Treaties, bringing the creation of the EU and a United States of Europe closer. Mr. Soros you may have been a key player in this, but being a successful money man does not necessarily make you a human psychologist or have empathy with those who could see the tell takes signs of an emerging authoritarian State. Perhaps the best example of how the EU will behave to States who do not tow the line is what has happened to Greece, Peace as you put it, is secured by putting people's feet to the flames, as it was in many other authoritarian empires (none of which I hasten to add have survived to the modern day). The fundamental error of the EU elites and of course people like Jean Monnet and other incarnations was (as we know) to create a United States of Europe by stealth and by the time the sleepy half daft populace woke up there would be nothing they could do about it. What a ghastly plot and as we can see now, what a massive failure it was for elites to double cross the populations across Europe, because what "populism" is, is a wholesale rejection of the plan to force everyone into a one size fits all currency; political and regulatory framework and enforce and encourage mass migration to destroy cultures and languages and values and belief systems and replace them with a mishmash of neo liberal candy floss, spouting multiculturalism and effectively the freedom not to be free any longer.

The EU has pumped huge amounts of money into gagging the population either by empowering the European Court of Justice or its own internal systems which prevent any criticism or debate on any culture on the basis that such discussions are regarded as racist. So if in Britain (and France) we see Hungarian gypsies expanding their territories in pick pocketing; fraud and violent crime the public is silenced. Likewise in the UK we have had a large number of Poles involved in people trafficking and closed shop employment but nothing can be said because that would be racist. Germany admitting a million unknown peoples into a free travel Schengen zone, undermining everyone's security, nothing can be said because this is regarded as anti refugee and racist. See the trend. Europe is free to obey, we are not free speak our minds, we are not free to debate, and the latest plans for the EU to make negative comments about the EU to be outlawed is further evidence (if it were needed) that the EU has taken on the characteristics of a rather nasty authoritarian post democratic superstate, which is modelled very much on the lines of the old soviet union, with Germany at its heart the nation pulling the levers of power.

Britain was never content to be a full political player in Europe. It is not for any fanciful belief we have an ego way about our punching weight, simply that as a country that has fought to the death to defend our home and our values, we see in the EU a wreckless, democracy free enterprise which we will not entrust with our future. The UK never was part of shengen, never was part of the Euro and for very good and sensible economic and political reasons. Our decision to "leave" the EU was a democratic choice, while we were still able to vote, that choice will surely be closed after we have left and all those left in the EU will be locked in forever - how that will pan out into the future we can only guess, but if history is anything to go by it will not end well.

Britain will hopefully be able to expose the worst excesses of the EU in its negotiations with us, where the peoples of Europe will see the mask of the elites slip as the old tendencies of Germany and an embittered France will try to place the knife into the British economy. What the elites fail to understand is that the whole world and the Europeans will be watching and if the EU is stupid enough to play this out publicly then what happens with the UK will form the blue touch paper of its own undoing.

Europe is not the ill educated heartlands it was in the past. Many of us have one or two degrees of education, we have the internet we have 24/7 news.

All Britain and the USA have done in voting for Brexit and Trump is to flag up that the existing models we are being forced down are failing, the EU has failed at virtually everything it has set itself to achieve....foreign policy; security policy; military policy; economic policy; trade policy; transparency; etc etc and so too in the USA where the States is failing millions of people by allowing its own manufacturing base to wither and die without extracting better trade terms from China and other large trading partners.

Populism is the messenger is the messenger and the message - the question is whether navel gazing EU elites and elected politicians can step up to lead the world onto a brighter path. I fear we lack the leadership to enable that to happen.