Peter Hitchens Quotes

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history.

Your dependence upon the crown is no advantage, but rather an injury to the people of Britain, as it increases the power and influence of the King.

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'

I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

As far as I am concerned this referendum should settle the matter. I believe it will one way or another be decisive. Britain will not want to go through this again. On the other hand if we vote to leave, this really is irreversible.

When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

As far as our rulers in Brussels are concerned, Her Majesty can stand for the European Parliament and vote in the elections for it. She doesn't, but she could.

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

Brexit is a self-inflicted wound; the people of this country hold the knife, and they don't have to use it if they don't want to. The people, not the hardline Brexiteers, are in charge.

Genuinely, as a mum, all the sunlit uplands are when we leave the European Union.

To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

The British people voted to leave the European Union - let's just leave.

When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

I was strongly against Brexit. I speechified against Brexit.

The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.

Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.

The E.U. Withdrawal Bill fulfils an absolutely essential role in delivering a smooth and orderly Brexit.

I want to stop Brexit.