I find it odd that hardened Remain supporters claim moral and intellectual superiority whilst reading and understanding little of the EU or our relationship with it.
They think the Uk can only grow if we sell more goods to the EU. At the same time their net zero policies ban the oil, gas, oil products, petrol and diesel cars that made up the leading items we exported. I set out yesterday for them the big surge in service exports to non EU and how our trade is now dominated by services and non EU markets, but they will ignore that.
Now they want the Uk to be able to get some money and orders out of a borrowed fund of 150 bn the EU plans for weapons they are buying.Why? We have our own money to buy weapons. We need to use that to expand our own weapons industry. If we joined in their fund we would need to take joint responsibility for all the extra debt. They will need to buy from UK companies if they want certain products anytime soon. If they refuse it will be their loss.
The PM has shown how divided over Ukraine the EU is. He has demonstrated that NATO remains our best way of encouraging defence collaboration. He has also proved that as in 1940 the UK has to arm to be able to defend our islands without European help.
France wants to grab more of our fish, and prevent us rebuilding our once self sufficiency with our own trawlers. We need to take back control as transition in fish ends. They have plundered our seas and taken most of our fish for far too long.
They want to put us back under their laws , pretending that would be good for trade. UK companies need to be free to design and make things for global markets, not impeded by the EU single recipe.
March 22, 2025
Of course they are and two Tier Kier’s Labour seems very determined to help them as much as he possibly can in their aims.
March 22, 2025
Given Keith’s proclivity to appear on TV as some heroic military leader, one feels that Macron will agree to let him lead, and then fail, the European military defence, for the price of …our fish…..cash…our fighter planes…..cash….our fighting men…cash……more cash..
There is clearly no will in Europe to put bodies and money into the defence of Ukraine. Will somebody tell Keith?
March 22, 2025
Sadly “War is a place where young people who don’t know each and don’t hate each other but kill each other, based on decisions made by people who know each other and hate each other, but don’t kill each other.” —Paul Valéry
March 22, 2025
Superb quote, LL. So true.
March 22, 2025
@Lifelogic & @Hat man – agreed
March 22, 2025
Good morning.
The EU are allowed all this because those who we have elected want this. The vast majority of MP’s, political party’s, HoL and the Civil Service are Remain and want to, if not rejoin outright, move in lockstep with them.
We cannot and will not move away from the EU until we have those running the country wanting to.
March 22, 2025
@Mark B +1
They will fight the people and the country if need be to the death. They prefer the unelected, unaccountable directions from masters in other parts of the World, as opposed to having to stand up do their job that they have been empowered and paid to do. In essence they are not only traitors the are lazy free-loaders
March 22, 2025
Yes to all that SJR, but we have a majority in Parliament of a remain persuasion. Beyond Kemi Badenock we have no idea of the preferences of the rump conservative party in Parliament. The jerrymandered local elections in may should indicate what some of the electorate are thinking.
Yesterday was a wakeup call. A major world airport and a large chunk of London ground to a halt by a fire at one national grid sub station. I cannot think of a more appalling condemnation of UK infrastructure and Nett Zero than happened yesterday. Since the 1980s, on returning to the UK after numerous visits to other parts of the World, I always became aware of what a dump british politicians had created, and have not stopped creating to this day. The abandonment of fundamentals in every aspect of UK life, and love affaires with trendy irrational theory have taken us to the bottom of tbe pit. Who cares what gender the pilot might aspire to if he is prevented from taking off. There is so much that is wrong, that a manifesto for any party intent on reversing these dreadful deficencies almost writes itself.
March 22, 2025
Well said.
I haven’t been to Birmingham for years: the sight of the piles of bin-bags in the run-down, rat-infested areas on the TV is enough to keep me away for good.
March 22, 2025
It is alas not limited to Birmingham but most UK cities. The local authorities are far more interested in taxing people, extracting fines and fees and blocking the roads, while failing on rubbish collection, schools, pot holes, policing, social services, transport… Many council leaders pair circa £500k plus gold plated pension for abject failures.
In the case of Birmingham they were also caught out by the absurd legal judgement and moronic laws on equal pay for work of equal value. As determined by lawyers rather than the market.
Browns moronic Equality Act 2010 and the
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Statutory Code of Practice on equal pay.
Then the lawyers taking the piss and making a fortune in the process.
March 22, 2025
@Lifelogic – the same here in Wokingham, a real dump, a dirty unkept place. We used to have a good council and an MP interested in the local as well as the National situation. On my visit yesterday I was aware of the street beggars calling themselves homeless, the sleeping rough gangs. Grown from just a week ago. With our previous MP the merest suggestion of some on being homeless was met with board and lodgings not growing street encampments.
Plenty of scruffy unkept Parking Wardens lurking to trap the unexpected though
March 22, 2025
Ah – parking wardens those people who are employed to deter visitors spending money in the shops, salons, coffee houses and charity shops which are expected to shore up the cost of nonsense road changes and other mad policies like gender and sex terminology managers funded from council taxes.
March 22, 2025
30 seconds over on the parking and you are mugged. A bit of shop lifting or mugging and you almost never do the police even bother to turn up. They want fine income not hassle with criminals.
March 22, 2025
That’s exactly why Rodney and I developed the ‘BDI’ – we invited all the candidates of the Parliamentary parties to commit to reinstating our Constitution. They were self-identified. We needed a majority in the House, then we could have passed that Bill (which one of the BDI candidates would have laid before the House) and by passing it we would have withdrawn from the EU without even mentioning the EU.
We still need that Bill as you have identified. People need to know who they are voting for. If one candidate in a constituency signed – they all did. If the reneged on the commitment to their electorate – at that same time they took the Chiltern Hundreds – so the whips were constrained in some of their more outrageous bullying.
Part of the power was that the electorate could still vote along party lines, because many Labour MPs and candidates signed, even some Liberal Democrat’s signed!
We invited Farage to use UKIP as a tool to get these signatures, standing where there was no BDI candidate. He refused.
This is introduced in 1999. We still need that strategy so that the electorate can make an informed decision and cast their ballot accordingly.
March 22, 2025
Incidentally, many MPs do not understand that when they take the Oath of Allegiance to ‘The King In Parliament’ – it is to The People. The people also misunderstand. By making the BDI a commitment and contract between the MP and his electorate, everybody understand who can sack whom.
Enoch Powell, Sir Julian Hodge, Norris McWhirter and many more supported and were patrons of this strategy. In fact it was novel because it was a Constitutional (not a political) Pressure Group, it established a contract between MP and electorate, and it introduced the self-inflicted ‘repeal’ of MPs who double crossed their electorate.
It invoked the ‘implied repeal’ of non-constitutional Bills (and if the Remainers had claimed that the Treaty of Rome was constitutional, then. We could have pointed out that it was NOT legally enacted because it had not EXPLICITLY repealed those Constitutional statutes it has contradicted. It was a win-win strategy without the massive risk of the Referendum – which is non-binding anyway,
Norris initially told me these novel aspects meant it could not be implemented. But Enoch said our Constitution was alive and flexible and if a novel attack was launched a novel defence could be deployed. So Norris concurred.
March 22, 2025
@Lynn Atkinson +1 – the only loyalty now seen in Parliament and you have to call it for the whole of parliament as no one is standing ‘up’ is to ones personal, very personal esteem.
March 22, 2025
And how many prospective candidates have ever signed the British Declaration of Independence since 1999? And how many were voted in over the years?
That would be an information worth publishing, wouldn’t you think so?
March 22, 2025
Nevertheless we secured and won the referendum.
March 22, 2025
No Hefner, when you are acting as a Whips Office, even on this single Constitutional issue where there is not political divide, you do NOT publish the numbers.
Actually it was devised in 1995. It was launched in 1999 and the first signatory signed publicly, and became the MP subsequently.
But I can tell you that both front benches could boast signatories.
March 22, 2025
@deniscooper Brexit has not been implimented Denis. Had we secured a patriotic House majority, we would have had Brexit, that fight is yet to be won which is why I say ‘we still need the BDI’.
The drafted Bill reversed the constitutional destruction as specified in the 1994 Treason Charges brought by McWhirter/Atkinson (and not answered) that case is live and can be resurrected under the Treason Laws on the Statute book at that time.
The Bill can be redrafted and we can include that the House is specifically refused permission to delegate legislative and taxing powers to any other authority.
March 22, 2025
I seem to remember when Boris was trying to get the Internal Market Bill through it was very difficult, but a judge was able to override the Act of Union in one ruling.
March 22, 2025
Parliament is overturned only because it allows it. Parliament has the authority from the Sovereigns – us, to assert our sovereign power.
I don’t believe it is authorised to dispose of that, even temporarily.
March 22, 2025
I’m afraid I agree AG. This Government is both inept and frankly too indocrinated to take the necessary measures required to right the boat. It would be good to see a viable alternative but unless Badenoch can conduct a purge of the Tory Party how can we trust them again? As for Reform, I still don’t see a ‘Government’ in waiting. They have a very long way to go yet and Farage alone is not enough. Where are the people of talent willing to work with & for him? It’s hard to see what our choices will be in 4 years time but we will certainly need a good one to get us out of this mess!
March 22, 2025
@IanT I broadly agree with you. I don’t see how Badenoch or any of her team emerging to be an answer they were all part of the collective responsibility they kept and enhanced the downward spiral the Country and its People have been forced down. It was always in their gift to change things – they refused. Even while the outcomes they created were showing terminal decline for the Country.
I agree on ‘Reform’ the best they are is that they are not any of the other crowd.
Parliament its functionaries(not forgetting the HoL) all need clearing out and a start over working with and for the people team put in place
Reply The electorate has just got rid of c. 230 Conservative MPs and chosen hundreds of new Labour MPs. The Conservatives who survived all accept tge last government got things wrong, especially migration. You have to work with the Parliament you helped elect.
March 22, 2025
@Reply – for the most part the Countries Conservatives steered well clear at the last General Election. There is no indication they were the ones switching to Labour(did anyone switch to Labour), as Labour only found support with 1 in 5 of the electorate. The Countries Conservatives were diss-enfranchised, it is possible to suggest there were no Conservatives standing for election, just at best a handful of Liberal Democrats pretending. Which is why some of us feel those running the outfit now are not fit for purpose – they remain the problem, they were the problem at the GE and remain so now.
The most we know about the ‘chosen one’ for Wokingham is that on just one day she crossed the bridge at ‘Remenham’ for a brief meeting with her leader before disappearing back to Milton Keynes or wherever. That is how CCHQ views the electorate.
March 22, 2025
Reply to reply. We need to select our own candidates else we did NOT choose who sits in Parliament. The choice of the party machines, including Reform’s machine is unacceptable. Farage is permanently at war with those he himself selected! He’s not up to the job – neither is the Labour or Conservative Machine.
March 22, 2025
When will you stand and waving what colour?
March 22, 2025
reply to reply ….the tragedy being the surviving ones who had ‘safe’ seats are the ones who took no notice of the shit policies over so many years.
March 22, 2025
The problem with the airport electricity will not turn out to be sabotage or terror related. It will be the age old problem with politicians and big companies that the equipment is old, not enough investment and has long had its day. To think that one of the world’s busiest airports relies on one sub station and that the back up doesn’t work is testament to the poor level of politicians and business people we have. It is the sewers all over again, reliance on ancient kit for an easy time now. On the other hand, getting the thing up and running again in 24 hours is testament to the workers who know what they are doing.
March 22, 2025
Just imagine if Heathrow were run by the state!
March 22, 2025
Agricola
Agreed ,and if you add to that by importing nearly a million people a year (with no money) from third World Countries, eventually you end up with a third World Country where nothing works.
March 22, 2025
Micron is behind this nonesense . As you say we will have all on funding our own re armament
The EU expects us to pay our fair share to participate which no doubt will be the lions share. Then most of the money will be directed at French and German manufacturers.
Micron wants to export the EU youth unemployment and plunder our waters for fish
This is a very lopsided agreement. No doubt the idiots in Westminster will agree to it
March 22, 2025
Unfortunately the government is re-joining the eu by stealth and most of the media is ignoring each chess move in this game.
March 22, 2025
Indeed and Boris did not leave properly and Sunak’s Windsor Accord was appalling.
March 22, 2025
AGREED +1
March 22, 2025
Not much stealth – more simple mission creep.
March 22, 2025
Farage arranged it thus. He didn’t have to. He could have had an intelligent strategy.
March 22, 2025
+1 he would have had to defer to somebody with intelligence. An impossibility for him.
March 22, 2025
Quite right!
The EU wants to expand its territorial limits, globalist ideology, political and military power, control over its member nations and citizens etc. Its allure to our remainer establishment is the greatest danger to our way of life, “our” meaning the ordinary, common people who still make up the bulk of the UK.
I saw a report of an announcement from Lagarde saying the EU would launch its digital currency in October. That is horrifying, as our politicians will use that as a reason to follow suit with a digital currency here. The servitude of social credit scores would then only be a few years away.
March 22, 2025
The EU wants to DESTROY the U.K. and USA. It wants to DESTROY democracy and capitalism. It’s is opposed to both – as Starkey says, Hitler was elected therefore elections = bad!
Trump gets it. He said the EU was developed to ‘screw the USA’.
In fact it was developed to screw England and the English System which they can’t beat economically or on the battlefield.
March 22, 2025
@Lynn Atkinson +1
March 22, 2025
The stupid political class strikes again.
March 22, 2025
‘stupid’ not required.
March 22, 2025
Of course the EU wants to drag us back under their control. They’re scared by the thought of a successful UK, trading globally and demonstrating to the other captive nations that Nation States can govern themselves and build a successful economy without the unelected, unaccountable Kommissars running them.
But the EU has never done anything to us that the anti-British Establishment and politicians in our own country hadn’t agreed to, with no mandate from the people. And under Two-Tier it will be no different: he and his ilk never respected, let alone accepted, the result of the Referendum which is why we haven’t really LEFT the EU. The Treacherous Tories left us in a position which makes it easy for him to drag us further back under their control.
The British Establishment seems to be terrified of upsetting Macron. I wonder why? Is it because they’ve made us reliant on French energy and, having effectively dismantled our borders, fear that he’ll send us twice as many criminal migrants?
March 22, 2025
@Donna +1
March 22, 2025
Letwin was worried about the cables from France and therefore supported Remain.
March 22, 2025
He should have been much more concerned about our need for what we buy over the cables!
March 22, 2025
Dealing with the EU is like measuring up for a Savile Row suit and being stuck with a strait jacket, unable to get out of it in a row.
March 22, 2025
Gold prices climbed to unprecedented heights on Wednesday, closing at a record $3,047/oz after the Federal Reserve concluded its March FOMC meeting with a decision to maintain current interest rates.
The dollar’s recent performance represents a significant reversal from its February position. As recently as February 27, the dollar index closed above 107, but has since experienced a devaluation of just over 4% just in the past 13 trading days. This is driving the gold price higher
More strikingly, since Trump’s January 20 inauguration, the dollar has declined by almost 6% against the basket of currencies that comprise the dollar index. This weakening has provided additional support for dollar-denominated commodities like gold.
As global trade tensions escalate and economic uncertainty grows, gold continues to demonstrate it’s traditional role as a store of value during periods of geopolitical and economic instability. Trump’s tariffs have already begun disrupting global trade flows and the markets have responded with a 10% correction.
2025 gold sovereigns can still be had for £571 each. There is no VAT on gold bullion
March 22, 2025
That’s right, look at the symptom not the cause. You describe the immediate reactions of the stupid traders who flourish in fluctuating markets and who therefore drive them.
Try looking at longterm issues, longterm prosperity. Nobody buys shares based on a ..00001 fluctuation! Th look at the COMPANY, it’s longterm PROSPECTS.
Trump is doing better by a legion than any other current option.
March 22, 2025
I think for once SG is on to something interesting here. What happened on 28 February, the day after the dollar closed at its recent high? The Trump/Zelensky debacle. That made it clear that Project Ukraine has no future. Which suggests the end of the war comes as bad news for the currency speculators.
March 22, 2025
Lynn is correct. Don’t take notice of short term market action. The traders only make money when they are trading up or down. They will use any old excuse to sell off and re-buy at lower prices and this will happen. They are not long term thinkers, they are not politicians – they are driven solely by today’s profit.
March 22, 2025
Gold is so old-fashioned, don’t you know that carbon is the thing now?
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-carbon-futures-jump-talk-074539816.html
“UK Carbon Futures Jump on Talk About Link With EU Market”
“UK carbon jumped to the highest level since June after a minister said that the UK is discussing linking its carbon market to the larger trading system in the European Union.”
Not good news for any UK business that needs to buy official indulgences for its emissions of carbon dioxide, but combating global climate change must come before other considerations like growing the UK economy.
Oddly enough I was watching a TV programme last night which lamented Roosevelt’s 1933 decision that the US economy took priority over any international agreements seeking to combat the rise of fascism, which put paid to a Monetary and Economic Conference being held in the Geological Museum in London:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Economic_Conference,
I’ve walked past that building hundreds of times, and been in it many times, without knowing about that.
March 22, 2025
@Dennis Cooper
I know nothing about carbon trading, other than it adds to the costs of British industry. Along with generating 40% of our electricity from ridiculously expensive imported gas – meaning that the fossil fuel cartel continues to hold us to ransom each winter.
March 22, 2025
So let’s use our own gas then, rather than pouring concrete down successful wells.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/starmer-must-fight-milibands-fracking-luddism/
“Reacting to the news last month of the discovery of a massive gas field under Lincolnshire, a spokesman for Miliband declared that it was the government’s intention to ‘ban fracking for good’”
March 22, 2025
SG
Impossible to live in a world without fossil fuel for a long time yet, so get used to it, and if we must use it (insulation for electrical cables amongst many other uses) then for goodness sake use that which we own, instead of leaving it in the ground and importing it at a higher cost and higher pollution.
March 22, 2025
Mr Gold. You should have stopped at the third word.
March 22, 2025
Strange that there should be no VAT on gold bullion. One would have thought that would be a loophole the Labour party would want to close first in their ambition to tax the rich. After all, it’s not poor people who buy gold.
March 22, 2025
The VAT ruling applies to “Investment” gold bullion – bars and coins of a certain purity. SG mentioned gold sovereigns, which being a valid UK ‘currency’ are also capital gains free. I hold Gold ETCs as both an inflation and currency hedge but this cuts both ways. Gold in US dollars has increased by 2.97% in the past month but by only by 0.77% in Sterling terms.
However a 60.5% increase in Gold (Sterling) prices over three years hasn’t been so bad. Of course a 626.9% rise in Rolls Royce shares over that same period would have been much better (or even 70.5% in HSBC) assuming you had them tucked away in an ISA or Pension. This is the wonder of hindsight of course, You’d have lost 27% in Tesla, 40% in Vodaphone and 11.5% in BT.
March 22, 2025
You can be sure that if we joined the EU’s fund we’d end up paying more into it than we got back in orders to UK suppliers. Interesting the French are so obsessed with fish – we should make extending the fishing agreement contingent on France stopping the small boats (which they could quite easily do).
March 22, 2025
+1
March 22, 2025
Interestingly,Japan is required to ask permission from -and make a payment to- Russia for fish(salmon and trout) caught in its own EEZ because the fish originate from rivers in the Russian Far East.The agreement has just been renewed.
March 22, 2025
The EU is a trading/protectionist block that has a single currency and much shared regulation. This should not be confused with concepts such as Taxation, Law or indeed Defence. In the event of war, who will actually look to Brussles for direction? The larger countries, most especially France and Germany, will look to their own national interests before all else. Who would really expect anything else?
Covid clearly demonstrated that it is possible for the UK to move quickly if required and without waiting for permissions from the Brussles bureaucracy. We could (and should) be moving quickly to shore up our defensive capabilites in order to prepare for an increasingly dangerous & unstable European Continent. I don’t believe this government will do what is required, instead using the situation to plaster over ongoing damage to personal reputations and extremely poor economic performance. To use a hackneyed phrase, we should be moving “at pace” to do whatever we can in the short term to better defend ourselves and in the longer term to repair the immense damage done to our armed force capabilites by successive governments.
Churchill would write on this memo – “Action This Day!” Starmer seems to prefer “Action by 2028! (Maybe)
March 22, 2025
Far too simple an argument for our politicians to understand Roy !
March 22, 2025
We need our own armaments, designed and built in the U.K. we absolutely do NOT want to produce part of a ‘French’ or ‘EU’ armament. Just too easy for them to disarm us by refusing to supply the other half. We also do NOT want to share details of our equipment with any nation which was/is/will be the enemy.
fYI – this is what the USA ‘achieved’ by arming any passing nation:
Drug cartels’ arsenals have been replenished with Western weapons. Mexican media were surprised to discover that the militants of the Golfo cartel are armed with American Javelin grenade launchers.
Journalists note that these weapons appeared on the black market only after the United States supplied them to Ukraine.
March 22, 2025
“Journalists note that these weapons appeared on the black market only after the United States supplied them to Ukraine.”
At least TASS reported about this. LOL.
https://tass.com/world/1911109
U.S Officials have not found any proof on this.
But they have found out that arms sent to Mexican police and military tend to end up at cartels weaponary.
March 22, 2025
UA Officials have reported that the USA has its own Javelins targeted at it. Also ‘that there cartels have paid insurgents in the US deep state’. Col. Douglas McGregor, ex Defence Pentagon Advisor to the 45th President.
March 22, 2025
Lynn, I hope you realise that your argument is exactly what the EU is saying about their €150 bn fund, no external providers, UK, USA or Turkey.
March 22, 2025
But the EU has no money Hefner – that’s what is
these idiot women think they open a bank account and say ‘it’s going to have a value of 55 million billion trillion’ and that will make it so. The bank account has an overdraft!
Anyway there are a lot of second hand French guns for sale, never fired, dropped once!
March 22, 2025
Even more important is who controls the operational software-which is why buying American is particularly problematic.It’s also one of the reasons why Turkey bought the Russian S400 air defence system after the attempted coup in which the US was strongly suspected of involvement.
March 22, 2025
Would you be kind enough to copy this blog post/article to the leader of the Tory Party.
March 22, 2025
Anyone for a Kapp-Luettwitz Putsch (equivalent) here in the UK?
March 22, 2025
You left out the umlaut! The 13th March is past. So no.
March 22, 2025
Sorry my phone doesn’t have it. The e after u replaces it as any German reader would understand it.
March 22, 2025
Gosh you mean you don’t have a German keyboard in your phone? Must be because German Europe can’t manufacture anything and have to buy technology from the English speaking world.
March 22, 2025
For the lovers of the EU, arguments are irrelevant. The EU is their Shangri-La. They wilfully cast their crowns and worship at the feet of Brussels. For them, it’s the pinnacle of human evolution – the paragon of civilisation.
Present objective arguments and they will just put their fingers in their ears and cry “la la la, can’t hear you”.
March 22, 2025
The EU is a trap, a snare, and the UK has been preyed on by them for far too long. Our current PM will only make that worse.
The EU offers us nothing that we can’t have fully outside of it’s influence, so let’s stop pretending it is a place of milk and honey. The EU uses money subsidies and other treats to entice countries to join. This works well with countries the size of Scotland. They look at small countries within the EU and see how well they have been doing, how their infrastructure has seen significant investment, but with a broke EU that all stops, and the rules increase.
Check with the people of France and Germany to see if EU oppression and control is worth it in the end.
We want our fishing industry back, and so much more – we want our rogue government gone and real democracy re-established under an honest government. The current government has no backing to start wars or give away anything more to the EU.
March 22, 2025
The EU is surely still out to ensnare us but its eager accomplice is the British political class (with a few exceptions).
March 22, 2025
We should not give too much weight to national stereotypes, but nevertheless:
https://facts4eu.org/news/2025_mar_german_promises
“The last time a leader in Berlin acted like this, it didn’t end well for Europe, or the UK …. “
March 22, 2025
The Enabling Act of March 1933 was not a constitution. The Weimar constitution (181 articles) had been cancelled, the new Act (of only five articles on two pages) gave unrestricted legislative power to A.Hitler (the Chancellor) and its NSDAP (Nat.Soc.Party of German Workers).
But does anyone expect facts4eu to (even try to) have a historical perspective close to the facts, even more so when addressing a non-UK country? Really?
March 22, 2025
Why don’t you write to them and out them right?
March 22, 2025
Hefner we know exactly what the Enabling Act was. It overrode the Constitution and the Parliament. That’s why so many of us were horrified when Westminster passed the same thing in favour of Johnson’s ‘experts’, who did us much damage. We all know what political colour Enabling Acts have. Why do you think so many despair at the current mob in Westminster and why their instinct is to ‘rejoin N*** German Europe’?
March 22, 2025
John
They simply do not want to understand. !
They appear to be absolutely wedded to the Idea that everything EU is great, because it is next door to us, and it would seem they feel we must get on with our neighbours, at all and any cost.
Always found that good strong and high fences to rear gardens are the best way to get on with neighbours.
Lower fences to the front ok, unless they prove to be a problem.
March 22, 2025
Have you seen Alan Sugar blaming Brexit for our economic woes? I would normally suggest a lack of business acumen but hard to say that in his case so wonder how you would explain this and would love you to send him these arguments?
March 22, 2025
“The EU are still out to ensnare us” and Parliament are complicity, what we call ‘our’ MP’s have flatly refused their function as the UK’s Legislators, as UK MP’s even. At every turn they have sort refuge in hand me down Laws, Rules, and Regulations, given them from unaccountable unelected bosses elsewhere in the World – they are more concerned with their personal image abroad than that of the people that elected, paid and empowered them.
It is the UK Parliament helped by their unelected unaccountable Civil Service overlords, that keep ramping up the Fight against the People and the Country. We could be Great, Prosperous, Self Sufficient but the War raged from ‘with in’ is to destroy the very fabric of Society.
March 22, 2025
“The EU are still out to ensnare us.”
This is to be expected. What I did not expect was that despite a referendum to leave the EU we still have a Uniparty and Civil Service with the same aims. I expect Harmer, Hermer and Robbins are busy cooking up a deal whereby to be compliant with an ECJ ruling we must give away our seas and coastlines to the EU and then pay rent on any fishing access we are allowed and for all our wind turbines.
March 22, 2025
Off Topic for today.
Solar panels bought for English schools and hospitals will come from China, Ed Miliband has admitted, despite concerns over human rights and impacts on the environment.
The first project of the Energy Secretary’s new green quango will see it oversee a £180million project to install rooftop panels on 200 school buildings and almost as many NHS sites.
He told broadcasters yesterday that the investment from Great British Energy will immediately save the public sector money on electricity bills, with services able to sell excess power back to the National Grid.
But when asked where the solar panels will come from he conceded that some will come from China, which is responsible for an estimated 80 per cent of total global supply. Quizzed as to why British ones were not being used, Mr Miliband told LBC radio: ‘Our solar panel industry has not got this kind of share of the market.’
Critics say it makes no sense for Britain to attempt to cut emissions in the UK by shipping materials from China, where they are likely to have been manufactured using electricity from coal-fired power plants.
March 22, 2025
‘”Our solar panel industry has not got this kind of share of the market.” makes no sense.
March 22, 2025
Sir JR, as an ex-parliamentarian, can you advise on how we could protect ourselves against what is happening in Bristol — With significant road restructuring to keep an area isolated or difficult to get to, with the intention of breaking up the city into self contained districts, with very limited interchange possible.
The deceit behind it is amazing — The workers arrived at 3am along with dozens of police!
So how do we stop this going on and spreading around the country?
Riots won’t do it, MPs ignore this subject.
Reply Mobilise opinion on social media and find anMP/ Councillor willing to pursue it. Get local paper/ radio behind you. Hold public meetings.
March 22, 2025
Thanks for the reply.
That might have worked a decade or so past, but we don’t have any honest media left, they are all controlled by the deep state.
MPs refuse to get involved in any such protests, while the police would be sent to stop public meetings taking place.
March 22, 2025
Bryan, think about fire and how they burn strips on the moorland so that it can be stopped.
I believe they are preparing for ‘fire’ in Bristol etc.
March 23, 2025
hence the term ‘fire break’
March 22, 2025
Quite so, Sir John.
March 22, 2025
I can see no reason to be surprised that the EU are doing all they can to get us back on board again. The EU is after all a supremely expansionist organisation, something that arguably was a major reason for Mr Putin deciding to invade the Ukraine.
The much more strange thing is the other point you flag, which is the keenness of the ‘Remainer’ politicians and civil servants (almost all of both groups) to subject us once again to EU law without even wanting to ask for anything in return. For some inexplicable reason they regard the union of Europe as a ‘Good’ thing, while our national interest is a ‘Bad’ thing. There never was any logic behind it.
It is all part and parcel of the abdication of responsibility by British politicians, and their preference for subjection us to rule by unaccountable bodies.
I am afraid I have come to think that the only political party that sees this as problem and might do something to change it is Reform. I see no sign that anything has really changed in the Conservative party under its new leader.
March 22, 2025
We are fast becoming a country of no patriots but full of fifth columnists.
March 22, 2025
Dear Mr. Redwood,
It never seems to occur to our craven establishment to stand up for Britain. Always, the EU is allowed to set the running…join a security pact, participate in the Horizon scheme, pay billions into the EU defence fund and give us your fish and we might just let you have a few arms contracts.
Never do they try to extract concessions by saying we don’t want a security pact and we will collaborate militarily if it is in our interests. As you say, we have our own money to buy arms and at the same time expand our own weapons industry; why funnel billions into the EU’s coffers? As for fish, why don’t we turn the tables and say to the EU and especially the French; you will not be allowed to catch a sprat if you don’t give us something of what we want in return? Why aren’t we saying the small boats must stop or, e.g. British troops will be withdrawn from Estonia? The EU likes playing for high-stakes but our feeble establishment are content to just accept what we are offered.
In an increasingly uncertain world with a divided EU, a wobbly NATO and a USA that has bigger fish to fry, self-sufficiency in agriculture, power, manufacturing, security and much else besides is the way to go – as you have pointed out on this blog many times.
March 22, 2025
There are none so blind as those who will not see! Remainers are still in love with the EU, including our PM and most of his party. Can’t they see the EU’s refusal to allow the UK defence industry to bid for contracts as part of the New 150 billion EU defence fund sums up their attitude to the UK? The EU only want to rip us off and weaken us in every way they can.
But what do you do with a remainer PM and Government?
Too many of the current Conservative MPs are also Remainers, so there is no hope there. Already, the backstabbing of Kemi Badenoch has started.
We need a recall system for MPs now. Why do our MPs hate the UK so much? Why do they hate democracy so much? Why are they focused on worshipping Net Zero?
March 22, 2025
“At the same time their net zero policies ban the oil, gas, oil products, petrol and diesel cars that made up the leading items we exported.”
Net Zero is not going to last much longer. Clean Power 2030 isn’t going happen. One side of the Uniparty has already said this week that Net Zero is impossible and will bankrupt the country. The next renewables auction, AR7, is running late. Perhaps they’ve woken up to the fact that de-industrialisation and electrification is incompatible with the defence of our nation? Perhaps relying on interconnectors and rolling blackouts (even if voluntary) as required in NESO’s Clean Power 2030 plan is not a safe option for when Europe/the UK is under attack? Perhaps they’ve costed the defence of thousands of unguarded offshore wind turbines and thousands of unguarded kilometres of undersea electricity cables from mass attack by cheap air and underwater drones? And even the defence of thousands of squares miles of hitherto unguarded solar estates?
To ditch Net Zero they’re going to have to also ditch the false claim that we have an immediate climate crisis caused by burning hydrocarbon fuels which will destroy the planet. Not difficult when the funding stops.
March 22, 2025
876 criminals arrived in the UK on the 19th, 20th & 21st ; from the safe country of France …didn’t hear this on any news channel
March 22, 2025
They just don’t care. I don’t understand how females do not appear to be more worried by this illegal influx.
March 22, 2025
Starmer said ‘I’ll stop the boats’ , and whispered ‘being reported on’.
So who is complicit in this deceipt and scandal?
March 23, 2025
Add to that a total yesterday 22 March – 241.
So, 1117 over the last 4 days – total 20 boats.
Come on Angela, get building !
March 22, 2025
There are not enough Brexiteers left in the Conservative Parliam4entary Party for a new leader committed to making Brexit work to take control. It therefore stands to reason that only a Reform-led government can make sure we take full advantage of Brexit. Any other government is going to take us all the way back in, or at least tie us so deeply into Brussels that we loose our ability to trade independently and be in control of our own borders and defence.
We will need the full support of everyone who voted for Brexit to keep our independence.
And a Reform-led government.