The government which gained a majority by uniting pro Brexit voters with Remain voters who wished to accept the referendum and go with some Brexit wins, needs to be aware that some forces that cannot accept Brexit are out to push back on policy.
- They are trying to oust the Home Secretary as they fear she will take action to stop the flow of illegal migrants across the Channel. Anti Brexit lawyers and some Home Office officials are out to prevent policies that could work, as they dislike the wish of many Brexit voters to take back control of our borders..
- They want to sell out the Unionists in Northern Ireland who are resisting the EU’s unreasonable misinterpretation of the Protocol to stop the free flow of GB to NI trade, to stop NI benefitting from any VAT cuts, and to keep NI under EU laws. They wish to block a moderate UK legislative solution to restore UK trade and taxes in NI which is necessary to reinstate the Good Friday power sharing arrangements.
- They want preventĀ gas exploration and development where communities want the revenue and the jobs it could bring, and where companies are willing to produce more from the North Sea,Ā to keep the UK import dependent
- They continue to block VAT cuts on energy despite the advantage this would bring by lowering the inflation index and helping people’s personal budgets
- They wish to impose an austerity budget toĀ deepen and lengthen the downturn and worsen the UK’s economic performance
- They want to abandon the Bill to reduce the volume of inherited laws from the EU and to establish the full supremacy of UK courts.
October 31, 2022
It seems that the PM is going back on promises.
āA new Brexit delivery unit.
Reviewing every EU law on our statute book.
Starting in my first 100 days
Letās keep Brexit safe.ā
Well whereās the unit? Is JRM being sidelined too?
October 31, 2022
What ever are these “brexit wins”?
Come on?
Well done to the voters of Brazil incidentally. The vote is more significant than the close result would indicate, given the widespread intimidation by Bolsonaro’s mob towards pro-Lula voters and the country’s endemic violence on their account.
October 31, 2022
Well.
If I were you Iād pack my bags and pop off for nice Brazilian holiday.
Better still..try a dinghy and try for asylum.
Iām sure theyād have you.
After all the evil old Brexit U.K. is currently approving 76% of all asylum applications.
October 31, 2022
Brazil? nuts!
October 31, 2022
You did not acknowledge the significance of the vote to leave the EU despite the establishment lining up behind remain @NLH. Why highlight a socialist winning on the other side of the world?
October 31, 2022
@NLH, The UK has never left the control of the EU, so you cant have “brexit wins” all the time you are under control of 1 Those that don’t believe in Democracy and Sovereignty the WEF 2 All the time you take your orders from a unelected unaccountable Foreign Power. Which ever way you voted the concern must now be that Governments are not working for you but their masters elsewhere
October 31, 2022
” A small number of bureaucrats in Brussels think they can create Europe but they are wrong. Europe is made of nations. Free and sovereign nations ” ( Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki )
October 31, 2022
ah, bless
October 31, 2022
Indeed. It has been blatantly obvious for a long time , back as far as Major, that the Tory’s are a left of centre, anti English, pro EU, net zero loons, pro mass immigration and all things minorities, pro high taxation, pro PC/ woke and introduced non Equality laws to stop free speech. They have had 12.5 years to have repealed the Human Rights Act and ECHR. The fact they haven’t reveals their true beliefs. Why is the BBC allowed to continue its left wing output in all its programmes? The Tory’s are toast
October 31, 2022
Agree
October 31, 2022
NLH:
The forces SJR describes are not just anti-Conservative.
They are anti-UK.
Are you?
What do you do to support UK interests?
October 31, 2022
NLH savings:
1/ Erasmus The EU Erasmus + program cost the UK around ā¬160 million each year. Plus the cost of EU student loans, how many of them are outstanding NLH not repaying 1% let alone the 9% English students pay back?
2/ Not paying the drug and prostitution tax enforced on us by the EU but not collected since 2014. 31 Oct 2014 ā The UK has been asked to pay an extra Ā£1.7 billion to the EU budget.
3/ Tax from ROW imports into the UK at 80% of duty rates.
4/ No longer have to pay child tax credits for children not resident in the UK
5/ No longer have to give housing benefits and other benefits available as for British residents that have been here over 18 years.
Just five off the top of my head, do you want some more?
October 31, 2022
Good post tracey
October 31, 2022
I don’t think that either candidate was a good choice. Much like other presidential elections in the modern world it seems voters get offered authoritarian choices with corruption never far away. Lula was sentenced to nine and a half years for that. Not an inspiring choice.
October 31, 2022
āSentenced by a court that did not have proper juridiction over his caseā. If you take your info from Wikipedia please put it in full ā¦
October 31, 2022
We have known this all along, how come it’s raken so long for anyone in Parliament to realise.
Soinack is a WEF plant and will follow their agenda.
October 31, 2022
Well Sir John why not name some of the Remainers, the public should know – just like Farage is known for the opposite.
October 31, 2022
Farage argues for PR, that would devastate the U.K.
October 31, 2022
That would give proper representation to the various political forces within the UK. Donāt you and freenations want such an improved democracy?
November 1, 2022
Alternative vote per constituency @hef with 50% threshold required to win maybe but not the stagnation that national PR causes
October 31, 2022
āā¦.Some forcesā¦ā JR means majority of Tory party past and present.
October 31, 2022
At least we are funding the Ukraine, following Net Zero and ignoring the floods of illegals turning up on our shores.
A country where governments cannot operate effectively also suits outside interests who want to implement massive change. Opposition is ineffective.
Meanwhile faction fighting continues. Reports of plans to unseat Sunak now.
October 31, 2022
Peter, it is not a question of governments being unable to operate effectively. Parliament has disposed of the pro Brexit prime minister and cabinet and put in place a WEF toady. The government is operating effectively to keep us tied to the EU which we never properly left.
October 31, 2022
**Sorryā¦since JRM has returned to backbenches he canāt be in charge of sunset clauses. So who is supposed to be?
October 31, 2022
+1 just as he went back on the triple lock and all the manifest tax promises and the net migration promises.
October 31, 2022
Going back on promises? It’s a u-turn a day and now it seems he is considering going to the Egypt jolly because Boris has said he will go. We didn’t want this globalist but the undemocratic Tories foisted him upon us even though he lost twice trying to be PM. All part of the plan. Why did they waste time, money and put the country at risk with no government to speak of while they held a sham election for leader? Roll on 2024, just to see the Tories get the pasting they so richly deserve.
October 31, 2022
When Sir John refers to “The anti Brexit establishment” and says “some forces that cannot accept Brexit are out to push back on policy” he is, of course, referring to RISHI SUNAK HIMSELF.
It is Sunak that is refusing to allow Braverman to leave the ECHR – an ESSNTIAL prerequisite to stopping the illegal migrants;
It is Sunak who refuses to trigger Article 16 of the NI Protocol;
It is Sunak who has reversed Truss’s return to fracking;
It is Sunak who pushed JRM out and is reversing the abolition of retained EU laws;
And it is Sunak who is forcing through tax increases that will increse the recession.
The ENEMY of Brexit, of Britain, of the British economy, of energy security and independence and of the Britaish people is SUNAK himself.
October 31, 2022
+1 he sold his soul to become PM. A matter of ambition over ability and experience.
October 31, 2022
Didnāt you know, Rishi was in fact the Manchurian Candidate.
October 31, 2022
Every time we change our laws, it means manufacturers have to comply with the new UK rules, and set up a different production line to meet EU rules for exports (and the EU is our biggest export market by far). That wastes money. So, after review, we donāt change our rules. We follow EU rules, but we have no say anymore in making those EU rules. Has the penny dropped yet that Brexit was pointless and an act of national self-harm?
October 31, 2022
Why penalise all companies with the burden of EU regulation ā surely only those companies exporting to the EU need to follow their regulations ā¦not every company in the UK complies with USA regulations, only those exporting
November 1, 2022
Which bit of “our biggest export market by far” didn’t you understand, glen?
November 1, 2022
Biggest by Ā£price not by number of companies – you’re talking about ten multinational companies that trade between UK-EU ….most companies don’t, so why burden ‘most’ companies
November 1, 2022
The bit where he said not every company trades with the EU
November 1, 2022
Lentona
Companies that export have to make products that comply with all the markets they export into.
And they have to offer products that suit the customers in those markets.
They have been doing this for decades.
In fact there are different requirements in individual European countries as well.
It isn’t that difficult.
You sound like someone who has never exported nor manufactured products.
October 31, 2022
Obviously not really knowing anything regarding how to proceed, I would suggest that Brexiteers need to plan a HUGE push back.
Stop bowing down to leftists/globalists.
This is really existential now.
October 31, 2022
Since when were leftists globalists? I remember the Seattle Riots, the Genoa Riots both massive anti-globalist both left led.
Have you been reading Elsworth Tooey’s newspaper columns?
That said, JR made the point that left vs right is a false dialectic in current politics.
October 31, 2022
So you know precisely who is planning a push back?
Well pray do tell.
October 31, 2022
gyges:
Labels rarely define groups precisely as all group members straddle a mixture of interests. Conservative and Labour oppose each other yet most intend good via different routes. It is those who intend and do bad things that a sharper label should define. Sensible nations label them as CRIMINAL in cells.
October 31, 2022
Globalist where once referred to as capitalists led by multinational companies ā¦now its more akin to communist world government led by the UN and the left political elite
They just hijack or change their names whenever it convenient (eg global warming to climate change)
October 31, 2022
Or another explanation: that people are utterly confused by the labels and will follow the loudest Pied Piper ā¦
October 31, 2022
True
October 31, 2022
Or sad clown heffy vents.
Take your pick.
October 31, 2022
Those on the left are the biggest supporters of anything that can hurt the status quo. As they have become so loud in their protests, whether supporting woke craziness or just wanting to loot, their actions meld nicely with globalists ambitions. They make great bedfellows.
October 31, 2022
The first thing JR and chums need to do is oust Sunak. I believe he did a deal with the devils to become PM.
October 31, 2022
This is what I think. But neither so I believe that he is alone in that.
+1
October 31, 2022
Oh I see nowā¦it is LEFTISTS pushing for right wingers to be purged from the cabinet.
So much for Tory āunityā.
Greatā¦just great. Not.
October 31, 2022
As soon as you realise that our government & the parliamentary party are the ānew-new labourā everything becomes clear
October 31, 2022
Good morning.
Utter rubbish !
Items 1 ā 5 have nothing to do with BREXIT.
Non-EU nationals could always be removed from the UK, it is simply the governmentās lazy callousness and incompetence that has allowed this crisis to fester until GBN started to report on it.
The government negotiated and signed the NI Protocol.
The government has created legislation that stops gas exploration.
The government could cut VAT at any time.
If the government wishes to impose austerity upon us then so be it. Its life expediency will be similar to that of a WWII Kamikaze pilot, moment before impact with the next GE.
And as for those laws ? So what if they do ? It is not as if any of them will benefit from it one way or another (see above)
I am tired of hearing it was / is someone elses fault. Your party and the Establishment have drunk the WEF Cool-Aid. All we can do is await the inevitable, and final outcome.
October 31, 2022
This government (and the other main parties too) want to destroy patriotism and change the country into something the Brits hate. That way the patriots won’t defend the country when the politicians sell us to the EU (or any other organisation), because we will be past caring about our country. I must admit it is working. I am beginning to hate what our country has become, thanks to our politicians. Double standards apply everywhere you look, and the majority Brits ALWAYS receive the harshest treatment, be it housing, NHS, dentistry, justice … everything! Minorities rule OK. This government cares more for the illegal immigrants (and minorities) than the tax paying law abiding decent citizens.
October 31, 2022
Shirley,
Mass immigration=cultural destruction of nation states. That has been Tory policy for 12 years while lying to get elected. It was a choice. It was and has been encouraged.
ECHR needs to be scrapped to get back control, Tory party do not want to scrap it. Braverman stated she did. If UK scraps ECHR as part of the EU sell out agreement it would end the EU sell out agreement within 12 days.
As Tory govt spent billions for such an eventuality it should be prepared.
October 31, 2022
The data below is for the 24-hour period 00:00 to 23:59 30 October 2022.
Number of migrants detected in small boats: 468
Number of boats detected: 8
Only one infantry regiment size flotilla yesterday, just another stream of young teenage criminal men ā¦will it ever end
October 31, 2022
Shirley
Agree, it is truly sad to see that the absolute fabric of our society is now falling apart.
Work for very many thousands does not pay any more.
The NHS is failing no matter how much money is thrown at it.
Law and order is breaking down as few have any respect for their fellow citizens or the Police service any more.
In turn Morale in the Police is failing due to the complexities and delays within the legal system itself, where in many cases crime does seem to pay, given the very low successes in prosecution !.
Thousands of people in the Voluntary Charity sector are now being overrun by thousands of people and families who appear to need help.
Our universities seem more interested in bringing in foreign students (for greater income) than educating those who already live here.
Too many people it would appear expect the Government to solve all of their problems, and too many Politicians think they can, even though the Government has no money of it’s own !
The very, very basic cost of living, Heat, Light, Power, Council Tax, Rent, Food etc etc is now proving too much for millions.
Unfortunately not a single one of the Political Parties seem to have a clue or a sensible plan as to how to improve matters, which is a very real worry going forward, because that means people may eventually take matters into their own hands.
October 31, 2022
Oh, Shirley, who hurt you? Not a word of what you wrote bears any relationship to reality but you believe it anyway. Have you been reading that nasty Daily Mail or listening to Nigel Farage?
October 31, 2022
Well she would have to listen to Nigel Farage, as ALL the other MSM is ignoring it.
Ever asked why ?
October 31, 2022
In denial and please stop patronising me. Do you have a problem with people who speak their mind or is it because my opinion differs to yours? Farage has been a darn sight more honest than most of those sitting in Parliament!
ps. I don’t read the Daily Mail, but I may start … if it annoys you.
October 31, 2022
I agree with Shirley.
November 1, 2022
Keith. She is using her own eyes and common sense. You only have to see the footage and read the numbers to realise we have an invasion. As for Farage, if it weren’t for him and others on GBNews the general public would be unaware of such an invasion as the BBC don’t cover this issue and many others. Perhaps you should apply some common sense and open your eyes to what IS going on.
October 31, 2022
Shirley
+ many
100%
Agree with every single word.
October 31, 2022
First class comment.
I’m tired of hearing too.
In fact it’s downright insulting to expect us to keep believing the same old rhetoric and the same old promises of ding something about it all.
October 31, 2022
Agreed.
October 31, 2022
Sensible estimates conclude that about 2.4 million of the 17.4 million Leave voters have now died.
October 31, 2022
So just get Starmer to put rejoining the EU and joining the Euro in his next election manifesto. Should be a massive vote winner according to you.
October 31, 2022
Died of what? Frustration? Hypothermia? Malnourishment? Various undetected cancers became terminal? Covid/pneumonia? or even the will to live in this mad world / country?
October 31, 2022
Presumably no remainers have died NHL
Estimates you agree with are “sensible”
Hilarious.
October 31, 2022
Which is a great source of pleasure to many.
The comments on social media regarding the older generations were vile. They would never have been allowed against another group, without prosecutions for some ‘ism’ or ‘phobia’.
Those wishing to return to being run from Brussels giving the MP’s here the safety of a skirt to hide behind for their incompetence and of course a nice remuneration package, will by the way things are going get their way.
I hope it chokes.
October 31, 2022
Vastly more of the Remain voters in 1972 have also died. So we best cancel the result of that Referendum as well. Which means we left the EEC in 1973.
October 31, 2022
Sensible estimates conclude that 4 million of the 16 million Remain voters have matured into realists.
October 31, 2022
Indeed, but it is convenient for some to be able to write a blog āUs and Themā. No need to try to find any deeper explanation: if they are not āOne of Usā they are therefore the enemy.
Incredible what age can do to people supposed to be intelligent.
October 31, 2022
Hefner
This is unfortunately the way Sir JR has described it. Them and us, like another enemy scenario.
October 31, 2022
I don’t agree heffy.
Its you, don’t you realise?
You only accept people who have exactly the same opinions as you.
November 1, 2022
Youāre funny. You think you know my opinions and whether and how I vote. Hilariousā¢ļø.
What was this song from Carly Simon?
November 2, 2022
I just read your words heffy
The regular rudeness and disdain you show to anyone that dares to have different opinions to you is is obvious for all to see.
PS
I never spoke about how you vote.
You made that bit up.
October 31, 2022
In your bizarre world I presume that Remainers are immortal.
October 31, 2022
As have, no doubt, a similar number of remain voters. So what is your point?
October 31, 2022
Most of those who voted for Atlee’s Govt are dead too, so maybe people should leave the NHS.
October 31, 2022
Nice one
October 31, 2022
There are a few of us still hanging on NLH š
October 31, 2022
Therefore approx 2.4 million Remainiacs will also have snuffed it ……………………..
October 31, 2022
At least Starmer is on message ?
“There are some who say we donāt need to make Brexit work ā we need to reverse it.
I couldnāt disagree more.”
https://labour.org.uk/press/keir-starmer-sets-out-labours-5-point-plan-to-make-brexit-work-2/
October 31, 2022
@Mark B. I think you have it wrong
Item 1, She wishes to leave EU control and the ECHR which is not compatible with Democracy. The Establishment fights that therefore is fighting her.
Item 2, Under duress from a remain Parliament that wanted to ensure the EU Commission remained our masters.
Item 3, That is more a WEF requirement to keep us energy wise controlled by the EU. The majority of Energy supplies in the UK are controlled by the EU State in some form. Boris/Rishi ensure the UKās ability for independants remained in the ground.
Item 4, The UK Government cant cut VAT that is controlled by the NI Protocol. The UK Parliament has no say or vote.
Generally speaking if your Parliament doesn’t make the Laws, Rules and Regulations that Govern your daily life and then canāt amend or repeal them, you are not a Sovereign Independent Country. You are as the EU Commission Stated at the time of the WA just a Colony of the EU.
If your interperation was correct we wouldnāt be having this conversation
October 31, 2022
Not only could non-EU nationals be removed, but it was always permitted to remove EU nationals in certain circumstances as well. For example, the following is official advice to Irish citizens:
“Your right to stay in an EU, EEA country or Switzerland for up to 90 days could be cancelled if you become an unreasonable burden on the social assistance system of the member state.”
The fact that it wasn’t done is the reason you already identified – the UK government’s incompetence.
October 31, 2022
You ignore how our Blair stuffed courts apply article 19
The right to family life Peter
And if their home country isn’t as good as the UK in terms of justice and freedoms.
But you actually know all this don’t you.
“certain circumstances”…hilarious
November 1, 2022
My comment related to the ability to remove EU nationals when the UK was a member. EU member states tend to have similar levels of justice and freedoms to the UK, and other EU member states regularly exercised this right to remove someone back to their home country after 90 days.
Had the UK gocernment been as comptent, the UK could have as well. The problem, as so often, is failure in Westminster, but blamed on somewhere else.
November 1, 2022
Tell us which illegal immigrants come from countries with similar levels of justice and freedoms Peter and therefore can be sent back?
Very few
And the right to family life is another way of avoiding deportation.
But you know that already.
October 31, 2022
We’ve been saying this for a while. You’d think, in a democracy, that it wouldn’t be possible, but yet Parliament allowed the Benn Act which was a direct attack on the prospects of the UK. I knew then that PM’s were majority undemocratic and disrespectful of the electorate and to many, actually treasonous. Why didn’t a ‘Gina Miller’ type of person stand up and sue the government ‘to protect democracy’? Likewise when so many PM’s (mostly Tories) ignored democracy to push us further into the EU.
Democracy is DEAD in the UK. Politicians want to grab ALL the power for themselves. They will want us to pay extra money to the EU to do the work that THEY are paid to do and the EU won’t put the UK first, as our MP’s are SUPPOSED to do, but don’t. This is what the EU have taught them! Being an MP is easy money when you don’t give the electorate a choice, or a voice, and can set your own rules and agenda.
The future looks bleak, very bleak!
October 31, 2022
+ plus.
A thin veneer of democracy delivered by a ‘spivocracy’ as someone so rightly coined it.
October 31, 2022
Indeed.
I note that some politicians and the the BBC have started to call the invasion (by thousands of economic migrants each week) the āsmall boats problemā. No one has a problem with inanimate āsmall boatsā the problem is the invasion by vast number of illegal migrants and the governmentās failure to deter & even encouraging ever more of them.
This selective use of highly deceptive language is clearly deliberate. It there some Quango that decides on these political language distortions? Rather like the pushing of the bonkers idea that āglobalismā is anti-semitic.
October 31, 2022
+1 Every single word you have written, Shirley M, sums up my own point of view. Our MPs don’t give a toss about us. They are behaving like a bunch of spivs. I have zero respect for any of them now.
October 31, 2022
dystopia rules!
October 31, 2022
Shirley M +1
October 31, 2022
At the time that Gina Miller went to court over Brexit I was annoyed. I thought she was trying to scupper it. Sheās been on GB News a couple of times recently. She explained that she wanted it to be done legally. She expects fairness and is utterly logical in her approach to life and politics. Iāll say it quietly, but I was quite impressed by what she said and how she came over. She has a political party (I know nothing about it) and I suspect would be a formidable force to be reckoned with.
October 31, 2022
Article 50 wasn’t complied with, the UK extension wasn’t in the rule book or law and yet the courts stopped any objective to it ?
October 31, 2022
I don’t think the UK has ever been a real democracy-it became a little more responsive to the public for a while after WWI due to fears of the Bolshevik revolution spreading here.It’s a republican oligarchy with a monarch as a figurehead and increasingly a distraction from the activities of those who really wield the power.
I tend to think Robert Michels 1911 “Iron Law of Oligarchy” applies:
“all forms of organization regardless of how democratic they may be at the start will eventually and inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies,thus making true democracies practically and theoretically impossible,especially in large groups and complex organizations.”
The current risible proposition of a struggle between “Autocracy vs Democracy” (as articulated by the likes of Biden-if articulate is the correct word to use of Biden!)is a nonsense-it’s the nation or civilizational state as portrayed as autocracies by the west against globalists posing as democrats (and where globalism and American imperialism are conflated).
October 31, 2022
Ex Home Secretary HoL committee Oct 2021
āWe simply do not have the infrastructure or the accommodationā
And now hotel costs have gone up by Ā£1 BILLION and there are rumours of govt. expecting to put refugees into second homes, old peopleās residential homes and hotels in use for holiday makers ( although I think that already happens).
I think that the PM promised to sort all this out but he is too busy deciding whether To go to the COP meeting, having said he would not!
Like he wonāt go?
October 31, 2022
Ex Home Sec Patel?
She got her Indian Migration Compact a long held wish I believe for a ‘living bridge’.
Anything else seemed of less priority.
According to Migration Watch she’s said the crossings would be a rare occurrence by spring. Then spring turned to summer, turned to winter turned to spring again. Still, she didn’t specify which spring. Why say that one minute, then the next all the woe is me my hands are tied nonsense.
It’s all just playing to the gallery and feed the public the usual waffle.
Likewise Johnson on camera saying ‘if you come here illegally you will be sent back’ or words to that effect.
Dishonesty seems to be the lifeblood of our system
October 31, 2022
Yes, her.
They now seem to be bamboozling us with notions of āillegal migrantsā.
As far as I can see ā¦under what we have signed up toā¦they are all legal since we are obliged to take ANYONE arriving and claiming to need asylum. Some are already have refugee status and those who do not must be received, housed etc and then have their claim assessed.
Currently 76% of applications are approved.
Citizenship follows.
So the govt. tells us a load of bs.
October 31, 2022
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck 9 times out of 10 itās a duck ā¦.theyāre all economic migrants travelling from a safe country(s)
October 31, 2022
We need to be out of ECHR to gain control of our borders. Full stop.
October 31, 2022
CORRECT
October 31, 2022
I now understand how and why fascists parties gain membership ā¦its when the so called mainstream parties no longer protect its own citizens or country
October 31, 2022
Farage has warned them. If they don’t stop the channel invasion and severely reduce immigration, the next “Populist” Leader won’t be anything like as civilised as he is.
November 1, 2022
Farage – all talk as usual.
November 1, 2022
Aren’t they all, these days?
October 31, 2022
How are hotels going to manage reputational risk? Security risks etc.
HMG will never stop illegal immigration. It will stop only when the support systems collapses. This is as planned to imperil our national coherence and stability.
Just waiting for mortgage defaulters and those being evicted being given a hotel and expenses. Then why not renters who miss a payment?
This dovetails with all the other strategems to cause disharmony.
So now our new Great Leader & regime is in place.
So many hands out! So many hand in the cookie jar! Its about time the “elite” were asked to contribute properly.
– maximum salary & bonus.
– no defined benefit pensions.
– minimum rate ot tax.
– 1 set of rules applicable to all residents on worldwide income, no special non-dom rules, no IHT or special tax exemptions for Royalty/WEF/EU/ UN types.
– ban private jet travel or add penal supertax to it.
October 31, 2022
No doubt Labour party leaders and some Tory MPs will be in some way involved
October 31, 2022
I’d suggest 80+% of the House of Commons and 99% of the House of Lords
October 31, 2022
They only want to enact the laws they like and not the laws that the people voted for or want
October 31, 2022
And no doubt Brussels, Washington and the WEF
October 31, 2022
I simply cannot believe what I’m reading.
These points have been written as if they are something that will be a new strategy by those who really run the country.
None of this is news, we’ve seen it in action from day one.
What we haven’t seen is any action taken to put a stop to it.
Your party in government could have at least, as I’ve said many times, do something about the BBC and its part in all this.
Am I then to believe absolutely nothing can be done with these people, and they are at liberty to thwart the democratic wishes of the people and continue with this mess which is helping ruin the country?
Braverman has to go as she is a ‘threat’ to national security!!!
These people aren’t??
What about all those turning up illegally that we know nothing about?
What a perfect opportunity for someone with a grudge to use this illegal debacle to their advantage… and if I’ve thought of it you can bet on Putin having thought of it, for a perfect little terrorist war on the ever so humble and welcoming British shores.
October 31, 2022
@Michelle +1, The enemy within has always been this Government, Parliament and the Establishment.
Its a criminal offence to enter the UK illegally. So let all Criminals go free, why one rule for the indigenous and onother for foriegn criminals?
October 31, 2022
+ 100
October 31, 2022
NB. Personally I am pro Brexit:
Britain, with all its opt-outs, didnāt fit well in the EU, and the EU has already moved on.
But:
– Sovereignty? Britain recently couldn’t take back control from the markets, a costly experience.
– Economically, Brexit is always about the future: while the UK GDP will soon suffer 4%, the Brexit opportunity of the trade deal with Australia promises a GDP gain of 0.08% in 2035!
– Donāt forget that the DUP campaigned for a long time against the Good Friday Agreement – see Wikipedia. Would the DUP mind if the Good Friday Agreement were harmed?
– Outside the EU, it is still possible to have a customs union and become part of the single market. Pragmatism could win over ideology.
October 31, 2022
Fake news in conjunction with all the other anti Brexit people. They were all against it before the vote and no surprise they are still at it. The were wrong the first time round so zero credibility.The hard evidence is that Brexit is having little effect with trade with Europe recovered to pre Brexit levels despite some of the, still in place frictions. GDP growth is towards the upper end in Europe and inward investment is still strong.
Your comment about a 4% future hit is typically Project Fear, which we saw through at the time and has proved to be completely wrong. You have no way of knowing what Putin might do, inflation levels, the value of the dollar, mid term American elections etc, and their differing impacts on different countries.
We saw the very agile reaction from the BOE to fix the Bond Markets, the ECB is slow and clunky politically riven with a zero credible French place woman in charge.
To suggest the DUP is deliberately using the Protocol to unravel the GFA is the usual duplicitous smokescreen to cover up the EUs deliberately ignoring the āgood faith elementā to support the Southās power grab and keep a toehold in the U.K.
The customs Union is again a back door method to get us back in, in all but name, exposing us once again to the ECJ whose only role is to defend and enhance the role of the Super state. People in Norway have told me they have zero independence, the EU āruns a flag up a pole and Norway salutesā
Physician health thyself.
October 31, 2022
-Sovereignty? Indeed, but for some reason we seem to respect the sovereignty of countries outside the narrow confines of the EU. The EU seems to have no concern for those, east nor west of you.
-Economically, agreed, Brexit is about the future. The EU is about the past. On that we’re agreed.
-The DUP are concerned that the GF agreement is being harmed. More importantly, the sovereignty of the UK is being ignored and the EU is acting rather like a Just Stop Oil protestor gluing themselves to the road, stopping traffic on some sort of ill-thought out and selfish principle. See sovereignty above. Of course our police won’t remove them, but in the end the population get fed up and just remove them or drive round them. Same will happen here.
October 31, 2022
Strange that independent countries who trade the most with the EU don’t belong to a customs union nor are members of the single market Peter.
October 31, 2022
@ Peter2 :
If I take the Netherlands, the largest proportion of our trade is with other countries inside the EU.
If by “independent” you mean outise the EU, then I’m not surprised by your observation.
But for me it makes more sense to look at the trade of my country.
November 1, 2022
Missing the point Peter.
You were claiming the UK needed to be in the Single Market to successfully trade with the EU.
Yet, for example, China America South Korea and Japan trade very successfully in the EU and are not members of the Single Market
October 31, 2022
Italy doesn’t fit well in the EU either, with its ballistic national debt, well above the Maastricht rules.
So why hasn’t it been kicked out, or at least heavily fined for treaty violation?
October 31, 2022
Italy doesn’t get kicked out: instead it suffers repeated regime change at the hands of the EU and financial system, as we have just done.
October 31, 2022
So according to you in the recent Italian elections the success of Fratelli dāItalia and the arrival of Giorgia Meloni as PM are the results of a āregime change at the hands of the EU and financial systemā. As someone would say: hilarious.
October 31, 2022
Perhaps a shot across the bows in the form of what happened here will suffice this time.
October 31, 2022
hefner,
That is not my interpretation of the post. Meloni has only just gained power – so early days.
I assume regime change refers to earlier incumbents. The EU finance man Draghi was an Italian Prime minister when their economy was in bad shape. Greece got similar treatment.
October 31, 2022
No
Obviously it is a reaction to it.
Surely someone as hugely intelligent as you heffy would be able to work out that simple logical reaction?
November 7, 2022
Rose wrote: Italy āsuffers repeated regime change at the hands of the EU and financial systemsā. So how do you know that this time it is not the EU but a reaction to it. You must have some elements for such an argument, I would guess. What are they Peter2? I want to learn from somebody who has such a strong logical explanation.
Thanks a lot for your help.
October 31, 2022
Ps. The anti Brexit forces SirJR talks about are transparently engaged in bringing about GDP reduction that you talk about. Uncompetitive Corporation Tax, thousands of economically restricting EU laws, a failure to free up the City so New York prospers etc.
Peter, you are frightened of competition, hence the moves mentioned above to keep us aligned and not show up/out compete the EU. This would, of course, show member states like the Netherlands, Germany, France how much better off they could be either independently or as a Customs Union of three without the financial blood sucking of the old eastern bloc, a bankrupt Italy, maybe Greece plus the mind numbing bureaucracy both in terms of cost and time of dealing with 28 nations.
Punishing the U.K. to discourage the others demonstrates you are prepared to sacrifice economic benefits to cover up the inefficiencies in your bureaucratic behemoth.
EVL, your president, a failed German politician, imposed by the now discredited Merkel without democratic legitimacy sums you up. As an EU propagandist you are doing a great job. Alternatively one day in response to a Sir JR topic you will share your misgivings, criticisms, etc about your Bloc as we do.
I wonāt hold my breath.
October 31, 2022
Yes, one thing that has become clear since the U.K. referendum is the EU does have a clear federal political union objective, in a way that was always denied by the majority of U.K. supporters of membership. It is interesting that even non-eurozone EU members are on the hook for the euro bailout schemes. Many more of these must of course be expected. So youāre probably right that the EU is better off without the U.K. which would always have been an impediment to the federal agenda.
One thing though – despite the shambolic incompetence of British govt in much of the period since the referendum, U.K. economic performance has not suffered in the way the the EU and remain campaign said it would. GDP per capita growth is in the middle of the pack, unemployment is much lower, debt/gdp is better than many major EU countries, and even trade hasnāt really been affected, though it has been rebalanced away from the EU.
But the EU was always a political project first and foremost. Perhaps as you suggest some sort of compromise would be in order given there seems to be no appetite, even among Tory Brexit advocates, to actually do what clean Brexit in theory makes possible.
October 31, 2022
@Peter VAN LEEUWEN
‘Sovereignty? Britain recently couldnāt take back control from the markets, a costly experience’ – That was 100% of the WEF Establishment briefing against the UK. Those that now Control our Cabinet do not at any time want competition it is about creating a comfort blanket/protectionist racket for the 1000 dominant Companies that have signed up to the ‘Great Reset’, with minister and Parliment coalescing – they attend the meetings They now have a compliant Government in the UK
October 31, 2022
UK Column had a chart on their website some time ago, showing the worldās hierarchy. Governments were third down the pile. Ian B – it would seem you are spot on in your assertions.
October 31, 2022
From here it looks like the EU is going backwards, Peter.
There are more disagreements and rows between member states and even Macron and Scholtz can’t agree on most things. In fact, there seem to be less arguments with the UK than between some member states ! All they need to do is abandon ignorance and become realistic and sensible over Northern Ireland.
Then we have the dispirit support for Ukraine with Finland and Sweden have spurning the Macron and VdL’s European Army because they know that only NATO can offer the protection they need.
Which Country leads the NATO groupings in Europe ? Why, the UK, of course.
We will not be rejoining the customs union or single market because the same old arguments apply : free movement, control of taxes etc. We will have to take some draconian action to stop the economic migrants crossing the channel illegally because of Macron. Everyone knows that the whole problem will stop if France agrees to take them back on arrival. They won’t then even bother coming to France !
October 31, 2022
An unhelpful and misleading comment. The DUP campaigned against it during the consultation period and while it was being negotiated but supported it after ratification. One could easily question the motives of promoters of the agreement but that would be equally unhelpful.
October 31, 2022
@ None of the Above: Maybe I read the Wikipedia wrongly but at the 1999 ratification of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement it says: ” The BritishāIrish Agreement came into force on 2 December 1999. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was the only major political group in Northern Ireland to oppose the Good Friday Agreement. ”
Power-sharing including the DUP only took off in 2007, even though the DUP may have had good reasons (suspicions) for delaying.
October 31, 2022
Before we try ‘Pragmatism’ could we try a real brexit, the one the people and not the politicians wanted …the leave all EU institutions, organisations and laws brexit ā I havenāt seen that brexit yet
October 31, 2022
@ Dave Andrews :
– The Maastricht treaty requirements were relaxed when the pandemic made it difficult for most countries.
– There is no mechanism for “kicking out”, nor for enforced membership. Members are free to leave, as Britain’s departure showed.
October 31, 2022
That just about figures. The unelected EU machine can pick and choose which EU laws to enforce and which to ignore.
So much for EU countries voting the treaties into force.
October 31, 2022
@ glen Cullen: What makes you so sure that “the people” wanted ” to leave all EU institutions, organisations and laws Brexit ” ?
In 2016 I was more interested in Brexit and that was not my impression of what people wanted.
October 31, 2022
Its not my interpretation nor your interpretation that matters, the referendum ballot paper was binary āremain or leaveā
October 31, 2022
In 2016, Cameron and Remain warned us clearly that leaving meant leaving all the EU institutions. They sent out a rather expensive brochure did you read it?
Afterwards May tried to give us a fudge and the people reduced her majority, then we had an EU MEP election with the Brexit party winning a large % of the vote with a firm Brexit message. The Lib Dems wanted to go straight back into the EU losing out massively in MPs. Then Boris told people in 2019 he would deliver a firm leave promise and not put a border in our Country but then he did, we were told by May no deal is better than a bad deal, Boris seemed to agree with that yet he and Frost fudged up. We got a bad deal a weak trade agreement that was only in the EU benefit, with no barriers to their goods whilst we had barriers to ours.
October 31, 2022
Spot On
October 31, 2022
Well I’m pleased to see that we are both agreed that the EU was not a good “fit” for the UK Peter.
There is too much focus on the economics of this issue and very little about the other factors. I didn’t vote for Brexit for economic reasons, although there were good reasons to do so. I mainly voted for Brexit because I didn’t want to be part of a political union run by a bureaucratic oligarchy. However, this whole GDP ‘comparison’ issue is highly misleading. First, it is subject to currency fluctuations. When Mark Carney recently compared the UK to Germany, he conveniently forgot that the exchange rate was significantly different at the times he quoted. Secondly, the whole idea of GDP ‘growth’ is a distraction from the real issues of Balance of Trade in my view.
The UK had a very lop-sided BoT with the EU, about Ā£200B pa in the EUs favour if I recall correctly. This represents a draining of real wealth from our country and also is severely damaging to our credit rating (which underpins our currency). In simple terms we imported far too much from Europe and sold them a lot less. It was very much a one-sided arrangement. We do much better with the US for instance.
It was however, something that had developed over four decades, so it won’t improve overnight. Strangely, some of the barriers the EU is creating to make Brexit ‘sting’ are helping to solve this problem. It is becoming just as easy (maybe easier) to export elsewhere in the world as to the EU, so our remaining industries are now beginning to look for markets elsewhere. This may not look great at the moment but we are hopefully starting to remember that we have always been a global trading nation. We just need government to get out of the way and stop tinkering all the time.
Sir John, I think your frustration is beginning to show. Not a criticism by the way, I share it.
October 31, 2022
Ps. Ps. A clearly held view by the Late Noble Lord Trimble, Nobel peace prize winner was that amending the Protocol wouldnāt compromise the GFA and he should know.
Your seductive reasonableness masks the actualitee.
October 31, 2022
@ Nigl : I suppose that would very much depend on what kind of amendment. I read that the EU would be willing to compromise on the type of protocol implementation and that there is a “landing zone” possible in the negotiations.
November 1, 2022
You know the minds of the 27? amazing.
October 31, 2022
PVL – this is what all this is about the EU needs the UK’s money, not the UK! As you indicate, we don’t fit.
ā¬40bn short in the accounts this year as the UK payments are dropping.
“Now you Brits behave and start paying back-in” for a trade deal we’re supposed to have got anyway with a hefty divorce bill and constant payments for all and sundry. We were always the cash cow on our knees, and it is this that the people rebelled against. e.g. Paying for children and dependents not even living in the UK, paying tax on Ā£10bn pa of made-up taxes on vices we don’t tax, paying out EU student loans and maintenance loans and not getting anything like as much back 5% or less as our Universities are world-class and much better, our housing benefits bill skyrocketed, our top-up benefits bills like WTC blew up because people were working for just six months then getting top-up benefits to take home to make up to 12. I wonder how much UK furlough was paid out to people not living in the UK?
Blair caused this split when he stamped on his voters, Cameron and Juncker screwed up a couple of minor concessions and bam. We are where we are.
October 31, 2022
The markets control the UK? Of course, that is what happens when you live above your means on other people’s money. By the way, most of the National Debt was incurred when we were members, so I don’t see that EU membership was a great success either after 40 odd years, we were and are poorer than ever. So is most of the EU come to that.
October 31, 2022
Agreed.
Few people realise that when you take out a loan (eg a mortgage), whatever you buy does not belong to you until the debt is cleared.
October 31, 2022
It’s being reported that German pensions are at breaking point. Not just here then.
October 31, 2022
Peter, inside the CU and SM sounds like a Norway solution, where they call it ‘all pay and no say’. Thanks!
I see that your government is determined to destroy the agricultural sector in the Netherlands, one of the most successful in the world. You must be proud.
October 31, 2022
Of course the DUP campaigned against the Belfast Agreement. Most sensible people who read it did. It was a craven capitulation to an enemy which had been roundly defeated and comprehensively infiltrated. But having been passed, the DUP would be mad to allow only those clauses which favour the republicans to be adhered to, and not the ones which uphold Unionism.
October 31, 2022
PVW , I have responded to you before saying that I consider the EU to be a defunct bureaucracy . The extreme differences between its member countries – culturally , economically , politically , geographically – and others , make it impossible to weld together with a common purpose to make it work . Its central committee are driven by ill-conceived priorities that cannot make sense at a local country level ; the sooner it finally disintegrates the better for Europe . I withdrew my businesses from it in the early 70s due to ill-conceived interference and transferred my activities elsewhere where they were both welcomed and profitable .
October 31, 2022
@ Bert Young
I believe had read your earlier comment and: Good for you!
If business in the US worked better for you, thatās great. I sawm no reason for further comment.
Disintegration of the EU didnāt happen in the seventies, nor the eighties, nor the nineties, or even up to now in the 21st century. . . . but there is no reason not to keep hoping for it, if that is what you want.
November 1, 2022
Disintegration is not likely to happen when most of the members are on life support of handouts from the wealthier parts. Turkeys and Christmas and all that. Don’t care what happens to them actually, 90 percent of our ‘biggest market’ are only a few of the members. The rest don’t have a pot to p….in and can’t afford our exports anyway.
November 1, 2022
Graham
Ia usual generalisation with no substantiation or explanation rather sad
November 2, 2022
Check it out yourself Bill, you’ll see I’m right. You always demand other people provide chapter and verse but can’t be bothered to do it yourself. Sad, or justincompetent?
October 31, 2022
PvL
Welcome back.
BREXIT was never about taking control of markets. We have had plenty of market problems (Black Wednesday) in the past whilst in the EEC / EU.
Yes we were a bad fit, but not in the way you suggest and, being members of the Single Market and Customs Union would be no better not be BREXIT. This is because the UK trades more with the outside world than the EU.
How is the stealing of the farmers land going ? Have the house builders for new immigrants started to build on them yet ?
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October 31, 2022
Mark B
A lot of members of the EU trade more with the rest of the world than the EU. So that argument doesn’t stand up. ( See, Fin, Netherlands)
November 1, 2022
Of course they do – better products available outside this protectionist monopoly.
October 31, 2022
Why are you here? Go away. We’ve had your comments, unwanted in the EU. We’re out so you are as relevant as the Dodo bird.
November 1, 2022
Time action
Always open for democratic and tolerant debate
November 2, 2022
Be good to see you take your own advice eubilly.
All we get is trolling posts from you droning on about the EU.
October 31, 2022
‘ – some forces that cannot accept Brexit are out to push back on policy’. Love it, Sir John. Why not live dangerously and call them what they are: ‘Globalists’?
By the way, thank you for posting my comment which I made late yesterday, on a Sunday too, about the Reform Party’s refusal to accept a digital currency. I do so appreciate your Diary.
October 31, 2022
I welcome your acknowledgment, Sir John, that there are forces at work trying to take the country in a very damaging direction. You do not actually say where these ‘forces’ are to be found, but I and probably many readers of your blog know that to a large extent they’re in your governing party. You rightly denounce these policy directions, but where are you getting support for the positions you take, I wonder? I do not believe that there is anything in the advertised policies of Reform UK that you would disagree with. In that case a conclusion should follow.
The overthrow of the Truss and Kwarteng has surely made it clear that for you to oppose this country’s rulers from within the ruling party is futile. I am sure you are not about to launch your own coup, but it seems that within the Tory Party that is now the only modus operandi.
October 31, 2022
We are all Europeans in my family. My Wife is French I am Welsh and our two daughters Celine and Sandrine each speak 3 European Languages, we have a house in France and Oxford and now that I am retired we spend 6 months in each country. My Daughters live and work in the UK. Even our Dogs are French.
More European than us you cannot get!
However
We all voted for BREXIT!
This is because we did not feel comfortable with an unelected elite in Brussels dictating our personal and national Sovereignty, the “us and them” mentality with EU Teachers being paid much more than British-qualified teachers tax-free, and many other “glitches” which pointed to favoritism in the EU Establishment narrative, the anti-Christian stance, the unfettered immigration …etc. etc.
Our Concept of the EU does not include the idiotic Policy Mandates above and respects individuals. Family and Nation.
Conclusion :we have the wrong people ( Sect ) in charge of the EU and need to revise the concept along the lines of a Federated Union of States with a Constitution similar to The USA Constitution and Bill of Rights.
October 31, 2022
Hear Hear
November 1, 2022
well said.
October 31, 2022
The problem is you can replace āTheyā with āSunakā in your post with no real problem.
For example George Osborne is all over the media at present having met Hunt prior to his recent statement. Looks like austerity is back.
October 31, 2022
‘The government which gained a majority by uniting pro Brexit voters with Remain voters who wished to accept the referendum and go with some Brexit wins, needs to be aware that some forces that cannot accept Brexit are out to push back on policy.’
Yes, and they sit among you on Conservative benches. They combine with those of similar views across the house and the Lords and work with the globalists.
They appear willing to leave no stone unturned to achieve their aims, regardless of harm to the UK.
A complete clear out is needed.
October 31, 2022
Been going on for years John, problem is too many in the Conservative Party have gone the same way.
We have even had Prime Ministers who have failed the Brexit test.
Cameron, then May, then eventually Boris with his oven ready deal, which was never taken out of the freezer.
Afraid the whole fabric of the Country is now showing signs of breaking down, as it is in other Countries, (even some within the EU) and we are now having problems with law and order.
The socialist left and the net Zero greens are in the minority, but are being pandered to, the fact that the maths regards to all of the costs and taxation to pay for it all does not add up, does not matter to them.
We and the rest of the World will wake up eventually, but by then it may be rather too late to reverse without even more pain.
Will it be reversed in my lifetime, I doubt it, as Governments still think they are the solution, not the problem !
October 31, 2022
Well. You all voted for Sunak and this is what you get. We knew it, so thatās why Truss got the nod.
Yet again you will be loyal despite him breaking the words he said to get this job and that what you have set out is diametrically opposed to what you believe in.
Paper tigers.
October 31, 2022
Is the government united? Is the government too busy meddling abroad to focus on the
the responsibilities they are paid to discharge? The Tory Party has a majority to pass the laws and execute the actions under Royal Prerogative it believes are necessary to govern the country; if the Civil service is being uncooperative, then heads need to roll. However, all the laws that stop the Tories from getting rid of undesirable aliens are still on the Statue book, the Climate Change Act, likewise. The Statute book is still overburdened by the consequences of our membership of the EU.
Is the Tory party united at all? There needs to be a replacement to the failed electoral system which now gives us a choice of either bad or worse governance. When politicians have fundamental disagreements on policy, it is a deceit on the public for them to posture as one political party; however, with the current First Past the Post system none is minded to break away and form their own party because they know they would be wiped out at the next election every time. So a tiny group of party funders will continue to control the mainstream parties and their policies and ensure a mixture of highly unrepresentative and low calibre candidates are put before local selection committees.
October 31, 2022
I think the time has come for you to name and shame these people to give them an opportunity to come out or defend themselves. Or would it be too embarrassing to include those in your party?
October 31, 2022
The party needs to admit to itself that it split; they could start with a consensus in a new manifesto – backed & signed by every single MP
November 1, 2022
actions speak louder than words – or signatures!
October 31, 2022
I watched the speech of the present Home Secretary to the recent conference on TV and found it a model of assertiveness and clarity: she articulated the needs of the British people, especially regarding the control of illegal immigration; she didn’t have all the answers, as she acknowledged, but she appeared to have a very strong will to succeed, and I feel sure that if she fails it will not be for want of trying.
To “oust” the Home Secretary would be an own-goal for Britain. Anyway, she has been punished enough and fully deserves a second chance.
October 31, 2022
I agree – I also can’t understand why the Tory MPs got rid of Liz and her policies of growth & low taxes …they sound like reasonable tory policies to me
November 1, 2022
On 30/08/2022 centreforbrexitpolicy.org.uk had a post āSlash taxes by Ā£76 bn to double UK growth, urge top economistsā. It is worth reading given the incoming 17/12/2022 budget to realise
– how the authors of this original CBP report could be so ignorant of the UKās economic situation, (after all, they are modellers so that might count as a mitigating circumstance ā¦)
– how much Truss and Kwarteng by being influenced by this type of people (and not accepting a possible report from the OBR nor indicating how they would found the tax cuts in their mini-budget) shot themselves in the foot with the subsequent impact on currency and mortgage rates.
October 31, 2022
So you sow so you reap.
The people who run this party need to get their A’s into gear.
Whatever happened with getting people committed to the Brexit cause?
Too many are not, add to the mix all those with their own secret agenda’s and the end result is what we have
a government with a big majority and unfit for purpose.
To compound the problem it is the same for all the other parties. Time to open the sludge valves.
October 31, 2022
Well colour me shocked. No-one could possibly have foreseen this …. and certainly not the useless idiots in the Not-a-Conservative-Party.
Of course, the big problem is that many of these anti-Brexit Establishment figures are found in Westminster: in the House of Frauds and House of Commons. One of them is even found in The Treasury.
I guess the Not-a-Conservative-Party really does have a death-wish.
October 31, 2022
1. We had a solution to the boats when we were in the EU – cooperation with France under EU law. Brexit means we are now on our own and have no solutions.
2. The only people who sold out the Unionists in Northern Ireland are the Tory MPs (including you) who voted in the oven ready deal to keep NI under EU laws.
3. Nothing to do with Brexit.
4. Nothing to do with Brexit.
5. Nothing to do with Brexit.
6. Nonsense. Brexit established the full supremacy of UK courts. If you want to show us some Brexit “wins”, get on with it. No one is stopping you
October 31, 2022
Tell us what this solution to the illegal boat people would have been gazza.
And what EU law are you talking about.
PS
You say co operation with France.
So France are not currently co operating.
October 31, 2022
I think the new Tory plan is to take as many as possible over the next 18mths hoping the 6mths before the election the numbers start to fall ā as weāll have taken every single one of them
October 31, 2022
Peter 2
Likes to ask less relevant questions and never answer himself. Wonder why? But rather hilarious.
November 1, 2022
Our EU troll billy speaks again.
No actual response from you as usual.
Hilarious.
November 1, 2022
Of course France are not currently cooperating. We left the EU, which is where European states cooperate. You know what you voted for, right?
November 1, 2022
Thanks for confirming what we all can observe gazza.
Deliberate refusal to apply international law.
You listening eubilly?
November 2, 2022
There’s no international law that says the EU has to help a non-member which can’t help itself!
November 2, 2022
You are wrong again, as usual.
France we were talking about.
Not the EU.
November 4, 2022
You are wrong again, as usual P2.
France simply applies strictly international law, in a way you donāt understand (or did not bother to research).
Prior to 01/01/2021 the Dublin Regulation was to be applied. The DR establishes the criteria and mechanisms for determining which state was responsible for examining an application for international protection. In particular migrants are supposed to apply for asylum in the first EU country they entered as all EU countries are assumed to be safe. Given this and the fact that practically no migrant gets directly to France as their first safe EU country but is more likely to arrive first in Spain or Italy (from North Africa) or in Greece (from the Middle East) France can claim not to be the first country that the migrants entered and therefore not to bear responsibility for the migrants who want to go to the UK.
For those migrants willing to settle in France, they are registered, have to wait for nine months to get the authorisation to stay. The French system is such that if after nine months the migrant has not got the official authorisation to stay but has a letter from a potential employer he/she gets a work permit valid for three months renewable every three months till his/her case is properly settled. On average, migrants get such a settlement within a year to 18 months from the National Court of Asylum.
Lemonde.fr 02/11/2022 āFranceās new immigration bill: We want to create a residence permit for trades with labor shortagesā. Thatās the new law to be debated in early 2023.
October 31, 2022
I hope Rishi remembers in detail his meeting with the ERG and their announcement immediately afterwards that the NI bill would go through and be enacted.
Also to follow on from Lz Truss and get rid of all the red tape caused by incorporating EU law into UK law. A stupid mistake.
A guest on GB News said they had learnt that the civil servants were say they have too much work to do it. Who the hell do they think they are? They need to go back to basics and do what they are told.
The anti-Brexit lot are a nasty bunch of quislings and they will wreck this country if allowed to continue. unchecked
October 31, 2022
On the protocol, a letter sent to a number of newspapers:
“Michael Gove may have a point when he criticises the EU for its “too legalistic” approach to the Northern Ireland protocol.
But even if that is correct it is a secondary point, the main point being that the EU checks and controls are being applied to the wrong flow of goods – imports into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, rather than exports from Northern Ireland across the land border into the Irish Republic.
Three years ago when it seemed there could be no deal between the UK and the EU the Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney was openly discussing how checks on incoming goods could, and would, be conducted away from the land border; that possibility has always existed, and indeed the Republic has since adopted that practice for imports of solid fuel from the north.
So why not replace the irrational import controls demanded by the protocol by rational export controls, extending the UK’s existing system of export controls?”
October 31, 2022
The enemy within has always been the Government and Parliament.
To many things have been contrived to make the UK citizen compliant and manipulate the return of the unelected and unaccountable.
October 31, 2022
The only answer to this treachery is to identify those working against what was the will of the British people. NAME AND SHAME
We should then encourage those found to explain exactly how they will not benefit personally from us sinking back to become another EU vassal state.
There has been too much power used by vested interests that has gone against what is decent and right over the last 5 years or more from within Parliament – Time to stop the shenaninigans and at least allow the new PM to do something and show his hand.
October 31, 2022
There are some on this site who don’t understand the definition of Austerity; it means a reduction in real terms public spending per head. Principally because they don’t know the difference between Nominal (Cash) and Real spending. Politicians always quote Nominal, it looks like they are always increasing spending to the uninformed voters. Likewise, as JR said recently, referring to interest payments on index linked Gilts; the difference between Cash and Accrual accounting.
Follows, a Chart of Conservative Austerity 1.0; before Covid exposed the fact that the UK had no resilience to a pandemic, because “just-in-time” economics had caused the nations resilience inventory (PPE etc) to be sold off. Imagine what Austerity 2.0 will have to be to recover the Ā£380 billion extra Covid spend.
https://www.primeeconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/chartJSprodpublicspend.png
October 31, 2022
So now you have your own definition of austerity acorn.
People might think it meant a reduction in annual state spending.
But no.
It is not increasing spending as much as you want.
Hilarious
November 1, 2022
I might not be the only one here in defining āausterityā as a personal impediment, as an increase in my cost of living, a reduction in my opportunities whether related to food, leisure, holidays, health provision, ā¦
It might suit you to define āausterityā by some figures going up or down within the State. But I guess a lot of people might consider their own circumstances first and foremost.
Youāre a happy man if as a person you do not feel the effects of the Governmentās (whatever its colour) policies.
November 2, 2022
You talk of changes in your standard of living heffy.
I was talking about the word austerity as defined by acorn.
The word austerity is being used to describe government spending levels not your standard of living.
Two totally different things.
But at least you managed a post without making rude personal comments.
Keep it up.
November 7, 2022
Interesting, but do you really think that changes in government spending levels are completely disconnected from what happens in schools, hospitals, local councils, or state of roads, or what the military might be able to do, or ā¦ ?
November 1, 2022
acorn, ok, now tell us about the EU fund, and what will Austerity be like in Europe? “A total of ā¬2.018 trillion in current prices* are helping rebuild a post-COVID-19 Europe. It will be a greener, more digital and more resilient Europe”. Where did that money get printed?
āNext generation EUā the recovery fund is worth ā¬750bn and is designed to help Europe’s economies, and societies recover from the Coronavirus pandemic” Parliamentmagazine, so what magic money do they have?
Europe’s financial system faces the threat of a systemic crisis caused by the falling value of assets, high interest rates and a decline in property prices, the EU’s watchdog has warned. 30 Sept 2022 European systematic risk board.
We are all in the same do-do thanks to covid lockdowns.
October 31, 2022
The biggest threat to the UK is its Government it calls itself Conservative but it is anything but. I hate the idea of Labour and their ways, but it now becomes the only choice to clear out the terrorist within Government.
My dilemma Sir John is that you are my MP, you are on mine and every other āConservativesā wave length. Here in Wokingham it looks like we need to sacrifice even you to what would be the Not So Liberal Democrats just to cause a clear out at the top of this WEF Government. Although hand on heart I like many will just abstain.
October 31, 2022
I don’t want Labour either, but if the country decides that is what will happen, at least it will be by popular vote, not by jerrymmandering the system as the Tories have lately taken to doing.
October 31, 2022
I was under the impression that weāve been under a labour government for the past three years
October 31, 2022
If only it was truly Labour, but they care more about the idle on welfare than people who actually work.
October 31, 2022
I think youāll find that labour care more about the illegal immigrants before the idle on welfare or the people who actually work
November 2, 2022
That may well be the case but it is stone cold certain with the Tories – thick end of 7 million a day to house them, and now about to welsh on the triple lock as ‘we can’t afford it’. B.S. Sheer incompetence and nastiness.
November 2, 2022
PS i’d accept the triple lock renegement (not much choice anyway) if the govt would pay all my bills and give me Ā£40.80 per week for spending money.
October 31, 2022
Care to name names?
October 31, 2022
Item 4 – VAT cuts on energy – is particularly noteworthy. Mr Sunak could have introduced some at least a year ago in the face of the growing energy emergency, acknowledging the windfall tax element of the increased VAT take in the first place. He chose not to to so. Might we cynically conclude that his primary motivation was to avoid making Boris Johnson popular again, at a time when he was already plotting to overthrow him?
October 31, 2022
@David Cooper – This is blocked by the EU Commission under the NI Protocol, The UK Government would have to accept that NI is no longer part of the UK for it to happen. Laws, rules and regulations are being applied without any democratic rights afforded to UK Citizens.
October 31, 2022
CORRECT
October 31, 2022
http://www.gov.uk 18/05/2022 āAccounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021ā.
Those are the texts defining the rules of the trade. In particular āArticles 201 and 211 of directive 2006/112/EC mean that it is for the UK Government to determine important practical details as to how this will operateā.
This last sentence would appear contradicting Ian Bās assertion that āThis is blocked by the EU Commission under the NI Protocolā.
October 31, 2022
Some good news on windfall profits tax. Shell reported they didn’t pay any.
Why is that good news? Because it means they invested at least 4 times as much as they would have paid in enhancing production and new projects like Cambo and Jackdaw. Still small beer, because their UK operations are a small shadow of what they used to be. But at least the right direction.
October 31, 2022
@Mark. Shell doesn’t pay UK tax because like many international companies it is foreign domained for that purpose. So even if a windfall tax were to be introduced they would escape it’s reach. Tax is paid by just those companies that remain in the UK. Indigenous companies subsidize the large international ones
October 31, 2022
There is more to it than that, brevity at play
November 1, 2022
Shell pays little tax on its UK operations because they are now small (It has no refineries, sold many of its North Sea interests, is a smaller utility supplier). It has no means to escape taxation of its North Sea operations which are ring fenced. However, it can offset capital spending in the North Sea against the windfall tax.
November 7, 2022
Mark, +1
15/11/2021 āOil giant Shell chooses UK for tax residency and drop āRoyal Dutchā from nameā
October 31, 2022
Some forces= globalists, common purpose, open society, WEF members including big corporations, banks and finance houses, civil service, and 2/3 of Blight Blue blobbys.
October 31, 2022
The prime minister baton has now been passed to the last runner in the race. He will bring home the globalist prize of a subjugated UK.
There is only one way of beating these people and that’s getting behind Nigel Farage and the Reform party. He has been the most influential politician in my lifetime. Brexit supporting MPs need to be brave and switch to Reform. As he’s said he can’t do this on his own. There’s no point staying with the Conservative party as they are now a lost cause.
Without a new party both Brexit and the country are lost.
October 31, 2022
Christine. Hear hear.
October 31, 2022
+1
October 31, 2022
Your last sentence says it all ā¦we need the Reform Party (strange they not getting any airtime (outside talktalk))
October 31, 2022
The most depressing aspect of all this, is how much of it is coming from within the Conservative parliamentary party. It begins to look as if the inly hope is a formal split, and if that brings in Labour for a bit, so what? It could not be much worse than what we have at the moment.
October 31, 2022
@William Long – the greater majority of the Conservative Party as it is with Parliment and the Establishment/Civil Service are anti-Brexit and voted against it. Now they have dug their heels in and would prefere the demise of the UK economy than accept responsibility to Govern for the benefit of all(What the taxpayer pays them for) – great pay, benefits and an easy life is the order of the day
October 31, 2022
If it is civil servants who are getting in the way of Brexit reforms sack them or just as good, promote them sideways to a DSS office in Wick, or if punisment is considered appropriate, Liverpool.
Incestuous lawyers who feed on Brexit and its consequences should fund their activities other than through legal aid. Consider it a contribution to our balance of payments defecit.
October 31, 2022
Perhaps you woud care to enlighten us as to why Liverpool or Wick are punishments.
Where do you live, or are you not UK resident ?
October 31, 2022
Somewhere is Spain? Somewhat like LL who shares his wisdom from his non-dom crowās nest in Guernsey.
November 1, 2022
So what?
One minute heffy you are pro globalism and the joys of the EU, next minute you fire off another grumpy petty personal comment because someone doesn’t always live here in England
Hilarious
November 7, 2022
I find you priceless Peter2. I am now a pro-globalist, whereas you telling us how you are a world exporter and supporting āGlobal Britainā as part of the benefits of Brexit obviously are not. Interesting.
Anyway nobody is exempt from contradictions/inconsistencies/incoherencies, I assume.
October 31, 2022
I cannot express my disgust strongly enough. All the available hotels are full of ‘uninvited guests’. Now the government (via Serco and other organisations) is offering FIVE YEAR leases on properties to house these immigrants. Your party really knows how to kick taxpayers in the teeth, especially when these law breakers get better treatment than the legal and law abiding people who pay for it all. FIVE year leases!!!!!!! The governments intentions couldn’t be clearer. What next? Displace legal citizens from their homes, or force us to take them in as lodgers? It wouldn’t surprise me!
I hope you party loses power and NEVER gains power again. You really are in the wrong party, Sir John. I think you are a decent and patriotic person but you support a party that is anything but decent, patriotic or democratic. It is pure scum, out to destroy the country!
November 1, 2022
Shirley, seriously which party do you think, if ever elected, would ever be able to change the rules without a big kick-off from the other side of the debate from yourself? There are so many supporters of immigration we are told. Andrew Mitchell in the Tory party always saying we should give more and more.
“16 Jul 2021 ā I voted against the cuts to aid because it will make little difference to the UK’s economy” AM
“19 Apr 2022 ā We need instead to process claims faster and create safe and legal”
There are so many backbench lawyers in all parties why aren’t they volunteering to help out processing all these extra incomers? Who are we expecting to do this job? How can we train enough when we’re suddenly inundated? Lets find real solutions for fast resolution to claims, deport immediately when people fail like the Liverpool bomber who overstayed.
I see these people, supporters of open borders, lawyers making a good coin to keep people here, on GB News, thankfully given an airing, so that we can hear what they are about, they are just as strongly pro-immigration, with open borders and doors to all who want to come. They say we are a rich country that should take money off the ‘rich’ and give it to everyone who wants to come here. Berate the government for not building enough housing and paying enough benefits.
October 31, 2022
1. Repeal our membership of Council of Europe – ECHRs
2. Repeal the EU Northern Ireland Protocol
3. Repeal UN policy of Net-Zero
4. Repeal the EU Trade & Cooperation Agreement
5. Repeal any WEF agreements & targets
6. Produce a new manifesto
October 31, 2022
Glen šš»šš»
October 31, 2022
Yes Glen, irs time to stop faffing about and kick back at out ENEMIES in the eu , particularly France.
Start by cancelling holidays in EU countries, dint give your money to those who hate you!
October 31, 2022
Totally agree Glen.
October 31, 2022
Agreed. I cannot wait for the next GE. I hope it comes much sooner than expected.
November 1, 2022
I presume you look forward to a Labour government? And you believe they will do any better?
I fear they will do much worse because their current leader does not have the experience required to run the country. Therefore, he will be in the hands of the unelected Whitehall mandarins who are so eager to re-capture the power to control our lives.
October 31, 2022
Glen Cullen
Brilliant
October 31, 2022
Glen
Lots of examples but no reasons why it should happen. Nor any arguments what should replace them. Rather weak and unsolid
November 1, 2022
Theyāre my six answers to SirJ six questions in his article above ā have you read it ? Theyāre arenāt examples, theyāre a list and therefore donāt require any argument ā¦theyāre just treaties, laws and regulations which this government could repeal today and donāt require any replacement
November 2, 2022
Peter 2
Stop playing Troll, but it is probably a better role for you than serious debate with substance.
November 1, 2022
Another earth shattering post from our eubilly.
November 1, 2022
6. would be a waste of time – a fairy tale.
October 31, 2022
I detect a confrontational approach from Sir John which regular blog watchers will know has simmered but is now being expressed. Thank you, Sir John, and I hope you can work with all your political soulmates, of whatever label, to address the failings to deliver true democracy.
October 31, 2022
+1
October 31, 2022
@Pominoz, +1
November 1, 2022
Pominoz
Exactly it is now all about them and us.
The world for Sir JR has turned black and white. Retirement?
November 2, 2022
Another ridiculous post from you
We must only have one view says eubilly
You sound more like Guy Verhofstadt with every post.
October 31, 2022
On the Suella Braverman situation, you have to ask who is it in the Civil Service that is leaking confidential information to the MsM. Then ask why is the Taxpayer still paying their wages?
Clearly politicly motivated actions
October 31, 2022
She had the audacity to say openly that she wanted to something about illegal immigration, something the left and the civil service cannot accept. Since Blair/Brown they have wanted open borders and to ‘rub our noses in diversity’ as Blair said, to change the demographic of this nation, presumably for some kind of electoral advantage. Trouble is brewing on the immigration front and the government will get a huge blowback soon for not doing their job.
October 31, 2022
Why do you assume it is someone in the civil service? It is MPs who appear to be the leakiest vessels, including Braverman herself.
November 1, 2022
Whoever explained the Official Secrets Act and the Code of Connection to her fell on deaf ears.
October 31, 2022
Eu intransigence will continue. Invoke Art.16 and order Assembly elections now.
No more prevaricating, please!!!!!
October 31, 2022
How much noise would it make if we ‘Proscribed’ ‘Extinction Rebellion’ and ‘Just Stop Oil’,
we could then seize their assets and sanction all the organisations that fund them.
What a wheeze.
October 31, 2022
NotA – it is a good thing that the Brexit voters are not like ER and JSO to get their way. Can you imagine what the police would do if they sat in roads or spray painted buildings or went around shouting at people with megaphones?
Let’s put it this way they would be locked up faster than you can say ‘you’re nicked’
October 31, 2022
I seem to remember miners who did something similar were handled in a different way.
I remember a drunk man being jailed for a sewerage water discharge.
Lawfare is being used. It is not being applied evenly to all its citizens, even when the same law. This excludes the special laws for the little helpers.
October 31, 2022
I disagree.
Whilst I do not like the means and disagree with their views I would not want to use such measures against them. There are others means and laws that can be used but, for some reason they are not. If the government is deliberty trying to prevent the law from being used then it is on their head. Those that are inconvenienced and those that support them are doing themselves and their cause no favours.
Funny how all these protesters are mostly old white people.
November 1, 2022
MarkB, it’s not really funny; they can risk a prison sentence or record; some of these degree-level students are stupid because direct action can and will affect job prospects and security clearances for important jobs in the future.
Because they’re on the global message greenies, they probably get clean away with it. Not even expected to clean up their own mess, personally, I’d give them a toothbrush and cleaning agent and make them clean all these buildings doing a night shift with their little orange boiler suits on that they like the colour of so much. They don’t get to stop until everything is spotless.
October 31, 2022
@None,. It’s surprising they are not proscribed, when the are run and funded by foreign organisations for the sole purpose of disrupting the UK
October 31, 2022
I think there are many in Sir John’s party that must be included in “some forces that cannot accept Brexit”.
October 31, 2022
Enough, That is clearly the point of his post.
October 31, 2022
The anti Brexit push by the establishment for the last 6 years has now escalated into the far more serious anti Britain crusade.
The unilateral science denying CCA/Net Zero is designed to destroy the UKās economy and make us dependent upon China et al for our energy, raw materials, goods and food.
The anti British establishment is not only organising and encouraging massive legal immigration to overload our institutions and infrastructure but also the Channel invasion of tens of thousands of young men with no ID, with the offer of free accommodation, Ā£40/week pocket money and the freedom to roam our streets, to create social instability and increased criminal activity or worse.
I no longer believe that a majority of our MPs, Civil Service, quangos, judiciary, and heads of institutions including the police and even our armed services want the UK to be a stable, socially cohesive and prosperous nation.
If this continues weāre on the path to a new Dark Ages.
October 31, 2022
Dear Sir John
I despair! Why vote anymore? It really dies seem that no matter what vote wins, the Opposition will undo it. What answers do you propose?
November 1, 2022
Internal opposition is more effective than across the benches.!
October 31, 2022
I think the problem is that John doesn’t have majority MPs’ support in his own party; they deceived us to get elected. Otherwise, this struggle he mentions wouldn’t be happening. John, you are running out of time; ‘they’ need to stop us from signing the CPTPP trade area. The public is at a tipping point with the hotel guests we’re paying to live better than many of our own pensioners; if someone gets hurt in a hotel with half our dingy guest residents not living by the same rules as we do, there will be serious trouble in this Country.
The UK is stagnating – the EU is stagnating; the Germans did a lot of damage threatening their UK customers and being so nasty. Who now wants to buy German goods when they told us we wouldn’t get parts and are a 3rd Country to be mistreated? When there are alternatives, French vehicle sales will fall off a cliff too. Pushing up the price of the Brit favourite Lurpak caused a significant movement to other brands. Our public and arts sector is benefitting and encouraging foreign and minority employee choices over Brits its whipping up a perfect storm. Aldi and Lidl have to pretend they’re British with their Union Jack flags everywhere, looking more patriotic than Tescos and all their profit for the paramount staple need; our food and drink are flowing out of the UK, we are so stupid we will bring on our own downfall because British supermarkets rip us off! We are told they don’t even pay people as well as the German supermarkets do, well that is what the papers are currently promoting.
The 2% saving the Germans make not having to pay towards Nato goes a long way spending-wise, and them not having to pay Rishi’s new corporation taxes, they get massive tax advantages, don’t they?
October 31, 2022
…and they don’t want us to have a comptetitive corporation tax regime
October 31, 2022
…and they want to ditch the investment zones because they won’t comply to eu environmental standards.
Basically, anything that threatens the eu – and our future membership of it – is being ditched
October 31, 2022
I believe that Gove is already cancelling the ‘investment zones’ due to net-zero etc
October 31, 2022
Even after the rise (which only applies to companies making profits of over Ā£250k per year), the UK will still have the lowest rate of corporation tax in the G7.
Business investment in the UK has lagged noticeably behind the rest of the G7 since 2016 despite a way lower rate of corporation tax. It’s almost as if the rate of corporation tax isn’t the root cause of the problem. Could the cause of low business investment be down to something else? Maybe it relates to something that happened in 2016, maybe around June.
October 31, 2022
Yet again you avoid mentioning the very different allowances G7 countries have for corporate taxes
November 1, 2022
If that’s the case, why don’t you provide real, detailed examples to show why the UK can onky be competitive at a rate of more than 6% lower than sny other G7 country.
November 1, 2022
Corporation tax is one element of many state and local taxes and red tape that companies in the UK are burdened with.
The overall burden is too high compared to other nations we compete with.
The increase to 25% is a retrograde step which will do nothing to improve invest levels that you desire.
November 1, 2022
Peter 2
Asking for facts
Hilarious
November 2, 2022
Where are yours eubilly?
November 1, 2022
As you donāt seem to accept the comparisons given by tradingeconomics.com or taxfoundation.org, show us the goods Peter2. Give the figures, detail the allowances, donāt be shy.
November 2, 2022
I do accept the headline percentage rates of corporate taxes in the G7 that are published heffy eubill and Peter.
When have I ever said I didn’t?
My point is if you look at different corporate allowances in these nations and the different overall tax burdens in these nations it adds another dimension to the headline figures
I’m not going to be writing long cut and pasted posts at your demand.
I’m making a simple but correct point
Our rise to 25% corporation tax on top of all the other tax and red tape burdens companies have to face, is a step in the wrong direction.
November 1, 2022
Peter, where have you read there will be a Ā£250,000 corporation tax-free allowance? Or the rise only applies above that, it is not my understanding. Companies pay 19% on every Ā£1 at the moment.
October 31, 2022
Well we never got a true and full Brexit anyway and it was obvious that some scheming anti democratic mps would always try and overturn the vote of the people. Can anyone tell me when NLH ever supports anything in the UK or anything sensible?
Your party risks total animation if they take us back in John. At least it will GBNEWS an opportunity to highlight what is wrong with our politicsl parties now and Farage will love it. Good on him. We certainly won’t hear much detail from the BBC.
October 31, 2022
Apologies. That should be annihilation.
October 31, 2022
Name some names.
You’ve got an 80 seat majority, so why can’t you get some changes through and into law ?
October 31, 2022
Theyāve had an 80 seat majority for three years ā¦.and what have they achieved ā Nothing
November 1, 2022
They have managed division like never before!
October 31, 2022
Sir John,
It would be amusing to see how these anti-Brexiters are going to push the benefits of rejoining the EU.
No more rebates and opt-outs. If anything the price of membership will increase, probably to Ā£500 million a week. We’ll also have to make up for the funding not paid while we were out, plus interest. Free trade doesn’t come cheap.
New EU laws and regulations on a daily basis, all eagerly enforced by a compliant civil service and a moribund parliament.
We can forget about the pound sterling, as adoption of the euro is mandatory. At the moment it’s worth slightly less than a dollar, so that’s easy to remember.
We’ll also be made to become part of Schengen with all that free movement. At least the boats across the Channel will stop, they’ll take the ferry instead.
The good news is that all those Westminster career politicians will be licking their lips at the thought of living off the gravy train known as the European Parliament. The real prize is to be appointed an EU commissioner.
Tony Blair might finally realise his dream of becoming President of the EU.
November 1, 2022
We were not given any choice at all with the UK joining the EEC/CM (1972) or the EU (1992), the government just went ahead and did it.
October 31, 2022
The reality is that brexit was a big mistake – all reasonable sensible right thinking people now realise that – but there is no going back – not even if we wanted to there is no way they would ever put up with us again – we have already shown we are much too much trouble. So what to do? well we could apply for access to the EU SM and CU and that would go a long way to easing our trade difficulties not to mention encouraging better relations – badly needed.
Brexit has failed because our politicians and those in leadership roles advancing it did not think it through properly we were told about the sunny uplands and of new trade deals with countries far away when we don’t even own suitable merchant ships anymore – at a time when international trade is becoming much more regional especially in the jnterests of transportation costs and the environment – here I would remind all that australia and NZ sailing dustance or time is still at least one months remove from us – France and the EU us only twenty miles away. So go figure
Am sure that if we were to apply for EU associate membership a lot of our troubles would fall away.
November 1, 2022
‘Am sure that if we were to apply for EU associate membership a lot of our troubles would fall away.’
True – -our power costs return to 2020 levels, no illegals crossing the Channel, Putin would withdraw from Ukraine, our PM would still be in the job in the Spring, the French Customs would wave lorries crossing from UK through unchecked. Its a wonderful world.
October 31, 2022
Itās not as though we ever got Brexit. JR was correct when he said in the House on D1 that we needed to leave immediately and negotiate from a position of strength. Instead, we landed up with a Withdrawal Surrender Document drawn up by Sabine Weyand, a German Civil Servant.
The question is what to do now. Each time there is a glimmer of hope, it is snatched from us. Where is the Britain of my youth, the days before Maastricht? In those days it could be called Great, but now … I know that despair doesnāt help, but one feels so helpless. We know the problem. Please will SOMEONE give us a realistic solution? JR4PM is the only one I can think of, but it aināt realistic in the present climate.
October 31, 2022
Conservative MP Roger Gale, is quoted by the MsM suggesting that Criminals need to be treated better than those taxpayers unwillingly subsidising them.
October 31, 2022
He goes on to demonstrate his lack of understanding, its these people that have deliberately put themselves in that position ā no one else. Its simple, as foreigners donāt break UK Law
October 31, 2022
O/T but I have just done my end-of-month personal accounts. Now that I have done the energy efficiency measures that Liz Truss didn’t want to encourage others to do (for fear of nanny-statism), and have begun to receive government energy bill support, and have enjoyed a warm autumn (on the south coast), my NET energy bill is some Ā£10/month LESS than it was a year ago – and I will bring it down further next month. Deduction? That the government is giving MORE than enough support for domestic consumers. (Support that will be paid for by taxing citizens and by borrowing.) I’ll now go back to watching BBC Parliament where MP after MP is complaining about the ‘cost of living crisis’.
October 31, 2022
Iām not surprised that youāve chosen not to publish my comments
October 31, 2022
Slightly of topic, but BREXIT related:
From New Electronics magazine:
“According to trade bodies and entrepreneurs, inventions created here in the UK are having to be brought to market overseas because new Brexit safety certification rules mean they canāt be sold in the UK.
The blame is being put on the governmentās decision to stop accepting the European Unionās CE mark and its plans to create a new UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark showing that a product is safe. The new system will require a UK manufacturer to pass one set of tests for the EU and then another for the UK.
The UK, however, doesnāt have the facilities to carry out these tests and as a result companies will struggle to qualify devices. In response, a growing number are setting up new divisions in the US and Japan to bring their products to market”
So CE certified products that were fine here until we left the EU are no longer safe [apparently]. So which UK Government department got involved with this and why?
No wonder people are questioning what was the BREXIT benefit?
October 31, 2022
Yes Sir John you are quite right in what you say in today’s Diary but please be aware that it is not just the Anti Brexit Establishment we need to fear.
Please see the comment I have only just made, to yesterday’s Diary.
There are in fact, global organisations working towards establishing World Government.
Please READ MY COMMENT to yesterday’s diary.
How can the Home Secretary hope to solve the illegal cross channel immigrant crisis while we are signed up to the Marrakesh Global Migration Compact?
October 31, 2022
Is Boris attending the UN COP27 in an official capacity representing either the Tory backbenches, the membership of the House of Commons, his own constituent members or as a private citizen. Has his visit to the UN COP27 been sanctioned by the government and is it at the taxpayer expense ā¦can MPs go anywhere in the world at the taxpayers expense attending whatever conferences they like with or without justification ? I believe the UN COP27, as an organisation, to be anti-brexit
October 31, 2022
Really one could criticise the Sharm El Sheikh jamboree for being a lot of things, globalist, costly, non-democratic, polluting, useless, ā¦ but anti-Brexit? Could you share with us the arguments that led you to this assertion. Thanks in advance.
Did you ask a similar question when Liz Truss had meetings in the USA with the Heritage Foundation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute or the American Legislative Exchange Council, all organisations fighting any effort to deal with climate change?
October 31, 2022
Glen who talked about COP27 never mentioned brexit heffy
Gosh you trigger so quickly.
November 1, 2022
Canāt you read Peter2? Glen wrote āI believe the UN COP27, as an organisation, to be anti-Brexitā.
November 2, 2022
I just feel that every time Brexit is mentioned you and your pal eubilly are triggered into posting.
I missed glen’s last line that is true.
But just for the record I agree with him.
October 31, 2022
Not long before he starts taking back 400 on energy bills for not having a smart metre.
October 31, 2022
Sir John has a valid point, in that a common feature of these reactionary remainer moves all lead inevitably to anti-competitive regulation, statism, tax rises, and a growing mindset that gives a nod to welfarism under the guise of ‘fairness’.
So for example, receiving benefits is now a briefed ‘right’, and must be indexed to inflation, making it even less worthwhile for the economically inactive to seek work.
At the same time, we are now being told to accept that the state pension triple-lock is ‘indefensible’ – except for ‘vulnerable’ pensioners. ‘Vulnerable’ means receiving pension credit, an entirely taxpayer-subsidised benefit given as a reward for not having worked the required number of years, not having paid enough tax or NIC, not having made an adequate contribution to a full pension.
This message of demotivation goes down the generations.
The golden pension schemes of the state employed (of whom MPs are just one group) are also deeply unfair to private sector workers who pay net taxes.
All benefits (including pension credit) should be linked to wages, and all their discounts (as well as pension credit itslef) should be phased out completely over the next 20 years.
October 31, 2022
Thanks for proving beyond doubt exactly where you stand in the government circle of lies and proving that the story is true
Donāt worry itās widely available on other sites and Iām spreading it far and wide also on TCW
October 31, 2022
Three cheers for Suella Braverman and her speech in Parliament today. The British rags and ghastly media should not be able to bully her into resigning. There has been too much of that lately. We need people like her.
October 31, 2022
@Fedupsoutherner, +1
October 31, 2022
All sound propositions, SJ. Again.
You are well respected as an authority on fiscal matters and the financial structure of this country and you also were appointed a key adviser to Liz Truss during her passage to Number 10.
It is clear to me and most of the posters here that you should be part of any Tory UK government. So can you tell us why you have not taken up a position there? Your country needs you!
Reply I was not appointed an adviser
November 1, 2022
More is the pity. However, I guess I took in one of the “rumours”.
October 31, 2022
In the HoC today we were informed that the taxpayer is funding each Criminal that enters the UK to the tune of Ā£1360.00 per week. At the same time we struggle to give pensioners that contribute for 30 plus years their basic pension of Ā£141.85 per week. Go figure
October 31, 2022
And if there were a vote in the HoC tomorrow to return them all back to France or their home country ā¦every MP would vote it down
October 31, 2022
the establishment is open doors immigration, high tax and borrow, throw public money away on stuff nobody wants it spending on, bow down to the WEF and big state, Stalinist top down control, limiting freedom of individuals, destroying British businesses. the voting every 5 years bit is just a sham, as the same nonsense gets imposed regardless.
November 1, 2022
spot on.
October 31, 2022
When Boris was alleged to have said F&*K business, it was clearly a hidden thread to the Tory//Lolabour/WEF policy – reinstate the increase Corp Tax to 25% and extended IR35 nonsense, so we’re completely EU aligned, not a ciggy paper’s width now between any of the main countries taxation policies.
Next it’s repeat of breaking 2019 manifesto promise on state pension triple lock.
* New tories = new labour = same old danger
* Tough on crime, er no
* Strong border controls, er really no
* Safe pair of hands for economy, er no
* Not giving handouts to scroungers, er no
What are the options now for Brexit/right of centre voters?
Reform, that’s what’s left, sorry Sir J….
October 31, 2022
Well said – but why do not others with similar views speak out?
This vitally important but, as usual, is being swept under the carpet.
October 31, 2022
Sir John I see it like this
1. There should be a passenger vessel anchored near Dover and all illegal immigrants should be processed there – those that qualify can be landed – those whose application don’t hold up can be sent by sea to North African ports of their choice either that or they join the British army for six years to earn their allegiance after which time they may be given permission to stay.
2. Why is it everything about the UK is labelled as moderate while everything about the EU is extreme? The DUP in NI have had more than their fair share of publicity – they held the upper hand in the May govetnment for two years but did nothing to help the negotiations and nothing was good enough and now they are still they not happy. They make up for only about 20 per cent of the people in NI – so let them go whistle – I say
3. Great to hear you so concerned about the communities and jobs for the locals but apparently not interested at all in the fracking company’s profits? – I believe you
4. VAT cuts??? I don’t know what to say also I don’t know what any of the above has to do with anti brexit establishment plans ??
5.. We can’t spend w hat we don’t have – trickle down economics is BS
6. Yes this madness c/o Rees Mogg is like himself consigned to the back benches – it would be foolish to ditch so much law now in one swoop, what if someone else decided to ditch all old Roman Law still pertaining and while we’re at it all law enacted before 1800? Stupid stupid
October 31, 2022
From the Telegraph,
Hunt & Sunak “They agreed that ātough decisionsā would be needed on tax rises, given the āeye-watering sizeā of the Ā£50 billion fiscal black hole left by Liz Trussās disastrous mini-Budget.”
That’s right blame others for your own inept performance
October 31, 2022
On number 1:
The Cabinet Secretary, as Head of the Civil Service, should be asked by the PM to remind all permanent officials that they do not decide who their Secretary of State is. Furthermore, it is the elected politicians who set policy, not the civil servants, and if those officals do not agree with it, and refuse to implement it, then it is they and not the Secretaries of State who should depart. This needs to be told to all Departments, but particularly at the moment to the Home Office.