We are getting close to May 19, the date of the UK/EU summit. The UK has asked for too little in a re set and is likely to give away too much.
There is talk of a Defence partnership. This would entail sending our forces into EU wars when they asked. So few EU countries have sufficient defence so of course they would like us to help out. We already offer this to NATO members who are under an obligation to spend more and to look after their own defence. Some new EU legal structure to erode our control of our own military is a bad idea. Anything that undercuts or seeks to supplant NATO is also abad idea, as US membership of NATO is crucial to its forces and credibility.
There is talk of the UK government giving money to secure access for UK defence contractors to the planned Euro 150 bn borrowed fund to boost EU country armaments. There is no need for the UK to pay anything. The EU will need our defence contractors where they have the best kit or are part of existing European. consortia. Any extra money we have for defence must be spent on our own forces, where it will generate orders for UK defence companies.
There is also suggestion the government will give away our fish, open our borders to the under 30 s and align us with EU rules. All bad ideas.
Such a deal would be a humiliating surrender
May 13, 2025
Good morning.
So now we are being asked to subsidise UK defence contractors and other countries defences. Oh, how generous of our government to give away our money. I wounder what they will cut to pay for that ?
It is almost like Teresa May never left. 😉
May 13, 2025
Addendum
This was always on the cards. They very morning after the result you could see the political class were in shock. We the people, delivered the result ‘they’ did not want, and ever since they have been slowly reversing it all back.
Such treachery.
May 13, 2025
Agreed Mark. Starmer & the cabinet are EU zealots to the core. They are tying us into the EU and will continue to give away our sovereignty and money. The people will make him pay but unfortunately we will have had another 4 years of damage by then.
May 13, 2025
+1
May 13, 2025
Such nonsense. Whatever deal is agreed will be a decision taken by the UK government alone – the whole point of Brexit! You won, get over it
May 13, 2025
They have no locus to overturn the direct instructions of the Sovereigns (the voters). We will destroy them party by party. Get over it.
May 13, 2025
Keith doesn’t see this as a surrender, or anything negative; he WANTS us back in the EU, in any way available. The existing and potential conflicts around Europe simply provides the opportunity. Never waste a crisis.
It will without doubt involve financial contribution, the EU is always looking to gain from our impoverishment; has he told his chancellor she needs to find more money to give away?
May 13, 2025
PS, Sir J, saw you and JRM once again failing to argue effectively against the ‘natural gas price is based on world prices so whatever we produce won’t reduce our gas price’. Please do your homework. According to my quick check, US households pay £0.35p per cubic meter whereas UK households pay £0.93 per cu.m. Does that sound like an equalised world market?
Reply I did explain that US has a domestic lower priced gas market and we could do so too
May 13, 2025
Only Reform are against this surrender. Farage is clear that he will repeal any of the surrender deal and will not be blackmailed by the French over power.
The uniparty are all in favour of the so called reset and it’s obvious that only a small portion of any money handed over will find its way back to British companies. The bulk of spending will be to France and Germany .
Net Stupid is another ploy to keep us under the yoke of Brussels.
Reply The Conservatives have pledged to repeal any surrender measures and have told the EU Ambassador.
May 13, 2025
I’m sure the likes of Rolls Royce, BAE Thales etc don’t need the government bribing Brussels for morsels from the table. The government could start BT awarding a contract to RR for a batch of SMRs but that would benefit Britain so it won’t happen.
Shysters the lot of them in the uniparty.
May 13, 2025
Whilst the wind continues on its sabbatical providing only 3.4gw and falling we are Importing 18% of our electricity at £105 per mwh.
As the Norwegians have pulled out of Hornsea 4 wind farm because £85 per mwh was deemed too low, Milibrain is looking to lift the cap on subsidy for the next round of bidding in the autumn.
This is the man who is going to bring security and reduced prices to our bills when other countries are cancelling windmills because the subsidy is too high. What an idiot we have s no energy secretary.
May 13, 2025
@Mark B – the ghost from Parliaments past still haunt us
May 13, 2025
Indeed. Ann Widecombe the other suggested Theresa May was even worse than Starmer the worse PM in living mempry. Mau was indeed truly appalling but rather stiff competition from Heath, Wilson,( even Thatcher to a degree) Blair, Major, Brown, Cameron, Boris, Sunak who gave us the appalling Starmer. The dire May is now in the Lords thanks to Kemi and Sunak. Yet Ann Widecomne who sensibly voted against the Climate Change Act is not.
Good performance on the energy lunacy on Mogg last night.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle is potty on early all subjects (or is he just lying) He studied at the University of Bradford and the University of Sussex. Not sure what he studied but it seems unlikely he read physics, engineering, maths or similar. The idea of switching of gas to move to electricity, green hydrogen, EV cars and Heat Pumps will never work. It would need vastly more generating capacity, grid capacity (esp. in Winter and be unaffordable.
He even said that new houses are so well insulated they rarely need the heating on. If so why bother to insulate them as no heat to be kept in other than bodily warmth perhaps. Insulation cannot keep heat in that is not there. Is Russell-Moyle only on GBMews to give us someone to laugh at or feel sorry for?
May 13, 2025
Ann Widdicombe and the others you mentioned were not in the same league as Thatcher.
Ann Widdicombe has displayed two serious weaknesses, she is unable to objectively assess Farage and she converted to the Church of Rome.
May 13, 2025
Margaret Thatcher – Lecture for the Ozaki Yukio Memorial Foundation (1991)
“The fact is that people will not take an active part in defending or engaging in democratic politics unless they feel committed to the identity and interests of their own political community.
And the deeper that commitment is the more they will be prepared to make sacrifices for the common good.
Of course, inter-nationalism is not only valuable but necessary—international cooperation to defend the rule of law against aggression, international effort to relieve hunger and disease, international resolve to ensure that free trade through the GATT prevails.
But there is a perverse and foolish internationalism which seeks to suppress national identity and ignore national loyalties.
This is a force which will threaten democracy if it is not checked.”
May 13, 2025
@Mark B; “So now we are being asked to subsidise UK defence contractors and other countries defences.”
The UK has done that since the 1950s, defense provision has been internationalized since the formation of NATO, whilst provision was and is a highly privatized industry (with many £m and £b’s made off the tax payer back), how many private defense contractors built warships, aircraft, tanks etc, very few RN dockyards had such ability in modern times, the RAF have never built their own aircraft, nor the Army their tanks etc. Promising contacts for, thus incentivizing the design of, future hardware was and is still very common, payback being an above market price tag – although this of course came unstuck with TSR-2.
May 13, 2025
It is hardly surprising that EU-obsessed Two-Tier is preparing to sell-out the nation to the EU.
What WAS surprising was the Not-a-Conservative-Party’s refusal to deliver a real Brexit and then, having finally been forced to implement Johnson’s weak “deal,” Sunak making it even worse with the Windsor Treachery and refusing to do anything meaningful to take advantage of the few freedoms we DID have.
I hope, as soon as the details become clear, Farage makes it perfectly clear to the EU that a Reform Government will rip it up.
May 13, 2025
Farage cannot rip up an international Treaty
May 13, 2025
Parliament is sovereign and if Parliament says that we are cancelling a treaty then that treaty will be cancelled.
May 13, 2025
Wrong. Parliament is sovereign over national law but it cannot change international law
May 13, 2025
‘Sovereign’ means cannot be challenged in any sphere. The British people are Sovereign and we lend our Sovereignty to our Parliament for a duration.
You are very confused.
May 14, 2025
Parliament being the supreme legal authority for the UK can decide that an international treaty will no longer have effect in our domestic law. The government having previously deposited an instrument to ratify the treaty, saying that the UK consented to be bound by the treaty, would then have to send a letter saying that the UK no longer consented to be bound by it.
May 13, 2025
The PM can rip up any Treaty using the Royal Prerogative Power.
May 13, 2025
The House of Commons certainly can withdraw from international treaties.
May 13, 2025
Exactly! If they did not have the power to withdraw they would not have the power to accede.
May 13, 2025
It certainly can not.
May 13, 2025
Of course he can! Treaty law is the lowest level of law.
May 13, 2025
@Donna – yes got in one, they ensured the door was kept open.
May 13, 2025
@Donna; “a Reform Government will rip [international treaties] up”
President Trump might be able to get away with ignoring international treaties but I doubt Farage will, or any other UK Prime Minister for that matter. The USA has the ability (like Russia) of being a self sufficient country if push comes to shove, and it would come to shove.
May 13, 2025
The U.K. has ripped up very many Treaties. It’s pretty normal procedure.
May 13, 2025
And as usual with Lynn she says a thingy without any proof of what she advances. If ‘the UK has ripped up very many treaties’ it should be a doodle to give, I don’t know, a list of five or ten such recently ripped up treaties, shouldn’t it?
So Lynn give us a few …. I’ll help you: how many of the those below have been ‘ripped up’?
ft.com 30/05/2017 ‘After Brexit the UK will need to renegociate at least 759 treaties’.
May 13, 2025
Sorry to be pain hefner but can I very politely ask you to try an internet search…
treaties the UK has ended, history….even I was surprised.
May 14, 2025
@Sam; So presumably you have done as you suggest hefner does. Any chance you could share the results of your own internet search? Or are you, once again, jumping in without checking who might be bluffing and who is not.
May 14, 2025
Thanks, I followed your advice Sam. I came upon different treaties that were abandoned for various reasons, none really ‘ripped up’.
Among these readings there was 29/01/2024 committees.parliament.uk ‘Parliament scrutinity of International Agreements in the 21st century’, HC204. 75pp.
The summary (only 3 pages) would, I guess, be very useful to some here who seem to repeat things that might have been valid in the ‘70s, were certainly not valid while the UK was in the EU, and are not valid now. In particular the ‘sovereign British people’ seems absent from this document.
Therefore the proposals in that document, some very interesting but (the way I understand them) very unlikely to be handled by anybody outside the Government.
(More details in Conclusions, p.59-66).
I also try to find out whether there had been any action by the previous or present Government following up on this Commission’s report recommendations but couldn’t find any.
May 14, 2025
So “ripped up” is required by you for a treaty to be ended.
Hilarious hefner
And to your pal Jerry I would simply say follow my simple idea do a search and get informed.
It’s not hard.
May 14, 2025
@Sam; What is your definition of “ripped up” then? Given the context the phrase is being used, “ripped up” being a metaphor for an abrupt, often unilateral, ending to a treaty or legal agreement.
May 15, 2025
You need to ask your pal hefner Jerry
He claims it is the only way a Treaty can be ended.
May 16, 2025
Sam, If you had read even only the 3 pages of the summary of the 29/01/2024 report, how could you have written this plainly stupid comments?
May 13, 2025
Good morning, Sir John –
well, what would us peasants saying ‘no’ achieve? Nothing. We know this because you and a few valiant colleagues – far more powerful than we – were not able to carve out a proper Brexit at that time, nor did your PMs, ministers and colleagues in Parliament get the relevant statutes rescinded. Given the cabal of Remain, now supported even better by their friends in the press where virtually nothing about the state of the various EU states is reported, it’s not surprising that most younger people are now indifferent and couldn’t care less.
May 13, 2025
Humiliating surrender is coming, though it will be dressed up as a great deal by the majority of our politicians and the MSM.
At least it will give Reform more ammo.
May 13, 2025
Useful for Reform to see just how keen the French are to have fishing rights – a useful negotiating lever to use against them on small boats and other issues after the next election.
May 13, 2025
Why the fuss about fishing? The industry is worth 1% of national debt interest payments.
May 13, 2025
Are you keen on eating? You will find that % of GDP does not indicate importance to human life.
May 14, 2025
Because fishing supports our coastal communities, which have been completely wrecked since Heath handed our territorial waters over to the EU, and it has the potential to contribute a great deal more than 1%.
May 13, 2025
The writing was on the wall when the Consocialist uniparty refused to repeal the thousands of EU initiated laws clogging up our statute book. They can do their worst. We can wait and reverse it.
May 13, 2025
They repealed it – voted to do so 3 times; unilaterally Kemi Badenoch withdrew the Bill under instruction of her civil servants.
Farage will be no better.
May 14, 2025
I doubt if Farage would be so “compliant.”
May 13, 2025
During the fourth round of nuclear negotiations talks in Oman on May 11, the Ayatollah regime reportedly refused to dismantle it’s uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, Fordow, and Esfahan.
The only reason for enriching uranium to the levels undertaken by Iran is to build a nuclear bomb. If they refuse to dismantle their nuclear facilities and ship their large stock of highly enriched uranium to a third country, the only other option is military action.
The Iranians have developed long range MaRV ICBMs which can reach Faslane and the Western Isles. As we found out when dealing with Da’esh in Iraq, religious fanatics are not deterred by the prospect of death and regard “martyrdom” as an honour.
Israel has destroyed the Iran-backed terrorist organisations Hezbollah and Hamas. The Americans have bombed the Houthis into submission. Israel has recently called up their reservists. Watch this space
May 13, 2025
SG. US intelligence has repeatedly said the Iranians don’t have a nuclear weapons programme (2003, 2007, 2012, 2024…).
May 13, 2025
Only Putin can control Iran. He has promised to do so but you want his destruction, so let’s hope you don’t get your own way.
May 13, 2025
Putin, the war criminal, will find a pretext to refuse to attend the proposed peace negotiations in Istanbul on Thursday. The reason is obvious – Putin fears being deposed in a Kremlin coup. Such things are easier to organise if the person to be deposed is out of the country
In an interesting development, the Russian military command appear to have deployed the elite Russian FSB Presidential Regiment to the front line, apparently to reinforce Russian forces attempting to seize Chasiv Yar. This unit is responsible for Putin’s personal protection.
The implications are obvious.
May 13, 2025
Not the Praetorian Guard SG? Poor Vladimir must be getting worried.
The price of petrol has gone down by another 1p at Tescos too – he won’t like that either….
May 13, 2025
@SG. He’s more likely to avoid a ceasefire because he’s winning…
May 13, 2025
I’d be surprised at that. The elite regiments comprise the well connected, whose job it is to dress up for parades and march past the Kremlin with shiny shoes. They are too valuable to be risked on the front line.
May 13, 2025
If you look back to earlier cases in the 20th century (Balkan wars, Versailles, Vietnam, peace negotiations have taken place between diplomatic and military teams from the two sides. Not between heads of state. They sign the final documents. I wonder if anyone around you in 77th brigade knows that, Sakara.
May 13, 2025
Any military cooperation should be on a mercenary basis with our soldiers sent oversees at a cost which delivers a margin for the British taxpayer.
The only reset we need with the EU is the revoking of the Windsor framework and a simple free trade agreement. We still import more from them than we export so this is in their interests.
May 13, 2025
Labour’s stupidity knows no bounds.
May 13, 2025
It will be a sad, humiliating surrender because the Labour government wants it so. Once the general populaces resistance has reached a new low, no doubt they will have us resign up to the failing EU through ‘another’ reset referendum.
Quite depressing that we still have four more years of this.
Hopefully some other party (Reform) can start putting some concrete policy proposals to completely reverse all this. Fishing stocks would be a great start (similar to something like Norway or Iceland operate).
May 13, 2025
Surely we can expect a series of humiliating surrenders to the Evil Empire: it is what a treacherous political class be like.
May 13, 2025
If only May, Johnson, Sunak and Parliament hadn’t been so treacherous towards the UK and its People, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
If only we had an elected Parliament that was prepared to be the UK’s Legislator’s on behalf of the Country and its People, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
If only we had an elected Parliament that the people empowered and paid that could serve them as promised and not their personal ego and very personal self-esteem, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
May 13, 2025
Firstly, our present economic stagnation dates back to 2008, not 2016 or 2021.
Secondly, the EU declared that its four freedoms were inseparable, and so it would not be possible to continue with freedom of movement of goods without also having freedom of movement of people. As we gained little from freedom of movement of goods when we were in the EU and Its Single Market we would stand to gain little from returning to that arrangement, and even less if we did not also return to freedom of movement of people.
Thirdly, as correctly stated in this 2000 Communication from the Commission on the precautionary principle:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/21676661-a79f-4153-b984-aeb28f07c80a/language-en
the EU has the right to decide what level of protection should be afforded to its inhabitants, and therefore what checks and controls it should apply to goods coming into its territory from other parts of the world. We could decide that certain goods are acceptable in our home market but for exports the test should always be whether they would be acceptable in the destination market; we should only supply what the customers want.
Fourthly, before we start offering to pay a fee for improved access to the EU market, we should ask ourselves whether we really want to descend to bribery to circumvent product standards set by the EU. If we believe some of those standards are too high or have no objective justification or are really a disguised form of protectionism then we should say so, not slip them a backhander so they will bend their rules.
Fifthly, I was particularly interested to read that Commission document published in 2000 because since then average incomes in the US have increased twice as fast as they have in the EU:
https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/draghi-report_en
May 13, 2025
Any one unsure of the Governments stand on the criminal invasion of the so-called boat people.
From the media
“Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has rejected calls to take down an official government web page promising asylum seekers a home and £49.18 cash every week in the UK.”
From the Government itself – https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get
May 13, 2025
I refer readers to my comments a few days ago on this issue; I fear few on this site actually understand what democracy is, or are prepared to play fast and loose with it. If Starmer is ‘constitutionally’ not allowed to change the countries direction today, that will also stop any future Conservative or Reform government from doing so tomorrow, and were does it leave Mrs Thatchers legacy?
Unfortunately for those who voted for, now approve of, or have come to accept Brexit the electorate made a different choice last July (this EU reset, ‘making Brexit work’, was flagged in their manifesto), and by similar margins that Heath, Thatcher, Johnson all use, to either take us in, kept us in, or kowtow to the EU threats when we left.
Reply Labour can change the laws and policies anyway they like. What they must not do is to write changes with the EU into a binding Treaty which undermines Brexit without a new referendum giving permission.
May 14, 2025
@JR reply; The elected government can do whatever they damn well wish, there is no requirement under our (unwritten) constitution to hold referendums.
The whole Brexit debate was framed around who governs Britain, Westminster or the EU, how did that problem arise, if not signing up to EEC/EU binding treaties that changed how the UK was governed, not once was there a referendum after 1975, until 2016 and even that referendum was unnecessary, a simple parliamentary majority and a manifesto pledge could have brought about Brexit too.
May 14, 2025
But there never was “a simple parliamentary majority ” Jerry.
The political elite didn’t want to leave.
But when a referendum happened which was the biggest vote in our history we found a million more people were in favour of leaving than remaining despite a big pro regime campaign.
Remember that Cameron promised that even if it was a tiny majority they would respect that decision and carry it out.
May 15, 2025
@MiB; “But there never was a simple parliamentary majority … The political elite didn’t want to leave.”
Well that was the choice made by the electorate, as always. From 2015 UKIP stood candidates in almost all constituencies. Were they did not, in most cases, it was because there was a (previously sitting MP) candidate who was a confirmed Brexiteer.
As for the Referendum result, what’s your point exactly, whilst Leave meant leave, what did leaving actually mean to each of those individual voters, leave on WTO terms or leave the EU but join the EEA/EFTA, after all Norway for example is not a member of the EU. Then of course what of the 25+% who cast no vote, presumably they held no opinion and thus were happy with the status quo, how would they have voted had there been compulsory voting.
May 15, 2025
The choice wasn’t made by the electorate post Referendum but by MPs supported by a dreadful Speaker and Cameron who ran away leading to the dreadful T May
PS
It was a simple question in the Referendum leave or remain.
You seek for fudge the issue.
May 13, 2025
SKS is a Remainer, judge him by what he does, not by what he says. Reform will reverse it on steroids in four years time. Hopefully putting any treachury on trial as an amuse bouche.
May 13, 2025
The first step is to sign the petition (152851070) to ‘Hold a UK Referendum before joining any defence and security pact with the EU’. Writing to MPs seems useless as there are no commanding numbers in the Conservatives who might or might not support this idea so best to stick with the petition and hope the numbers grow quickly to stop this nonsense. Action needs to be swift.
May 13, 2025
Again, the Labour government takes us for fools.
The last thing we need is to get too close to the continent and invite the kind the trouble they are having.
The next last thing we need is to have even more armed forces abroad. Bring them home.
May 13, 2025
What a load of hyperbole about NATO!
NATO HQ is in Europe anyway, and as for the USA, all this talk of a (European) Defense partnership has come about due to doubts over the USA’s on-going willingness to commit to NATO, it is Trump threatening to withdraw from NATO, not the European nations!
As for becoming involved in “EU wars” if a European NATO member triggers Articles 4 or 5 of the NATO treaty the UK is duty bound to help, just as we were after 9/11 when the USA needed our collective military assistance.
May 13, 2025
Not so. If an EU country is attacked we agree to ‘help’ – we can decide whether they deliberately provoked such an attack. We can send a box of tissues of that is the help we choose as appropriate.
May 14, 2025
@LA; NATO Article 5 Request: We’re going to advance, send reinforcements. Response; Your going to a dance, we’re sending 2/6d!…
May 13, 2025
Opening the border to EU citizens is not opening the border to European people. Vast numbers of ex-asylum seekers now hold EU citizenship. They will all come because Britain was their original goal, and the influx will be ‘legal’.
Interestingly a Parliamentary Committee observes that ‘The UK uses deprivation of citizenship orders more than almost any country in the world. At the same time that it is important for the government to be able to take steps such as citizenship stripping in the interests of public safety, there is a serious lack of transparency and oversight when it comes to the use of this power.’
We have to do this because of the number of persons holding British citizenship who have gone to fight for instance, for Syria, and who have committed heinous crimes. 4,000 are known to have returned to the U.K. with impunity. The Appeal Court has just confirmed that a mother, born in Britain, must be deprived of her citizenship and not allowed to return in spite of that causing her to be separated from her 3 ‘british’ children, so horrific are the crimes she has committed.
The more intervention and gerrymandering of British citizenship which of course gives the right TO VOTE (!!!) the more vicious we will have to be in removing that citizenship and impunity from prosecution for war crimes and worse.
May 13, 2025
Sir John, it is worth noting the man who is going into the EU to secure a ‘deal’ is the same man who along with his deputy took the knee in support of a gangster and committed criminal who died during arrest in America a continent away. Is that the mindset of a person you would expect to stand up for the UK’s rights.
He will be on his knees, as ever, pandering to whoever or whatever woke initiative they demand he conforms with.
May 13, 2025
“Say No to any surrender to the EU in a reset”
It doesn’t matter what we want or what we say, this will go ahead. Why does 2TK have money for foreigners but never for those struggling at home?
With every one of these treasonous acts, he is opening the doors for a huge Reform victory in four years. Let’s hope we still have a country left to save.
May 13, 2025
We can only hope that surrender monkey Lammy doesn’t roll over like he did over the Chagos Islands, but I’m not hopeful. The FO is still dominated by Remainers, as is the rest of the civil service.
As for 2TK, he’s such a weak individual that he will agree to anything the EU demands, like the disaster that was Teresa May, who was, of course, the original cause of our failure to make any headway with Brussels.
We can only hope that Nigel and Co make it crystal clear that when they take over in 2028-29, they will reject anything Starmer and Co have sign up to that is not in our best interest.
May 13, 2025
Or as most people who support Brexit and can see through the antics of our globalist PM would say; THIS IS TREACHERY OF THE WORST KIND!
There is no compelling reason to get closer to the EU, showing just how irrational Starmer’s approach to government is. He is a true believer of the Startrek mentality. A mentality borrowed from those TV programs and films that where everyone is equal and nobody has money and few personal belongings – but of course they get to visit other worlds.
We’ve already heard it before here in this century, “You will own nothing and you will be happy”
No thanks, I have no wish to be a part of some insane borrowed ideology — If Starmer wants to do the best for Britain then he should resign NOW – his betrayals will be the death of us!
No doubt our PM enjoys flying around the world, paying his carbon tax somehow, flitting from one jollie to another, pretending to be a statesman, while all the time he is following his true leanings as an unfaithful son of these shores, willing to give us away at every opportunity!
May 13, 2025
Andrew Neil noted recently after the local elections a watershed moment in Britain that we are slow to anger and tolerant people but when we do we mean business.
Nearly a decade after voting for Brexit and yesterday’s U turn by Starmer on migration he would be very foolish and unwise to cooperate with the EU. Sadly we know what he is weak and may take revenge not on them but us.
May 13, 2025
To Peter Wood – Could you stop calling the PM, Keith? That is my name, and it offends me being linked with two-tier Keir!!
As far as the PM’s reset goes, it is an act of treachery. The people voted for Brexit, and Two Tier Keir should be on trial for treason. This is what happens when our leaders think they are more important than democracy.
I hope both Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch make it clear to the EUI that any deal with Labour will be reversed when Labour is kicked out, as it will be. Sadly, they will do a lot of damage before that happens!
May 13, 2025
So the UK taxpayer is to give the EU money, hand over political, territorial resources, defence and trade control to the unelected unaccountable – for as usual nothing in return. Just as giving the unelected, unrepresented WHO control over the UK’s health and wellbeing. Why do we have a Parliament?
Then add in from today’s media “A government spokesman said: “We are helping more people install heat pumps, including with our £7,500 grant – and supporting industry to develop financing models that can remove the upfront cost entirely.” Who pays for this grant money, which tree is it being pulled from – Oh! the taxpayer once more – the government and parliament just sits on its hands once more while the People and the Nation gets robbed to appease ego.
May 13, 2025
Make no mistake, there will be no “surrender” because the items listed will be amongst those requested by our Civil Service in the “negotiations” with the EU.
Socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor.
Expect also the UK to be joining the EU ETS and CBAM schemes. BTW I have yet to see an explanation for the necessity for CBAM when we are told by DESNZ and the CCC that electrification and free energy from wind and solar will make our electricity and hence our goods far cheaper than those countries who are still using hydrocarbon fuels and destroying the planet as a result.
May 13, 2025
This won’t end nicely.
May 13, 2025
I have been rewatching ‘The World at War’.
Really terrifying because it’s easy to see that we tread the very same road.
I don’t know whether native European people can survive another such trial.
May 13, 2025
The 32 hours of it?
May 13, 2025
Sir JR. Your last words (Such a deal would be a humiliating surrender) will be exactly what two-tier gets and wants.
May 13, 2025
Some people are hoping that massive rearmament programmes by the EU member states will give a much-needed boost to economic growth in the EU, but these authors ore concerned about the impact on global warming:
https://euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the%20World/arec5a86ca
“The carbon footprint of EU’s defence spurge”
For them the “climate crisis”, and “climate justice” is far more important than concerns about military threats, and that is just in the rearmament before any of the new arms are actually used.
What a pity the EU did not apply its precautionary principle (see above) before Catherine Ashton flew to Kiev and told the anti-Russian faction that they could count on the support of the EU:
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-criticizes-violence-against-maidan-protesters/a-17288602
May 13, 2025
Let’s say again – The US cannot be relied on to help with the defence of Europe and
UK is not strong enough by itself to face Russia for instance so therefore we need allies and the best way to maximise effort here is to pool resources – we need allies and we need european defence for european countries. Nato only comes second for defence of European countries because help from the US cannot be relied on – it so depends on the humour of a US President at any particular time.
May 13, 2025
601 criminals were smuggled into the UK yesterday; from the safe country of France… criminals from the EU, energy from the EU and orders from the EU
May 13, 2025
Why is the Home Office encouraging these unidentifiable criminals with free collection from French waters, free accomodation, £40/week pocket money, free healthcare and entertainment and the freedom to roam our streets unhindered and take black market jobs?
May 14, 2025
Because, I suggest, the Establishment made a secret deal with the EU/Macron during the Brexit negotiations that “we’d take our fair share” of the criminal migrants Merkel encouraged to flood into Europe. For the sake of appearances successive British PMs have pretended they want to stop the invasion and Macron pretends he is trying to.
The close co-operation/co-ordination between the French and British Authorities seems to me to be proof that it is deliberate policy.
May 14, 2025
Three days arrivals 10/5-12/5 – 891 people ( plus however many arrived yesterday 13/5, they’re perhaps still counting as the number not yet on the stats, as I write ) That may be around 450 hotel rooms. 450 rooms held in contingency ? ready & waiting for them ? and at what cost ?
And hardly a word.
May 13, 2025
We need a constitution that forbids the government of the day from making any political agreements that tie the country to foreign-made laws, and to treaties that cannot be broken by a subsequent government except by risking sanctions. We need to write into such a constitution the removal of any judge who puts a treaty above the common law.
All foreign treaties and important changes in law should be subject to referendum, as in Switzerland.
There is too great a danger of politicians buying personal riches and power in return for treason.
It is not enough to tell the EU we shall revoke any treaty with them that Starmer makes. They are malicious enough to find a way to make any revocation unaffordable.
The EU hates any form of democracy.
May 13, 2025
It does! The defender of the Constitution (defending it from politicians whom it binds) is the Constitutional Monarch. That’s why the Monarchy cannot be political, because they have to constrain all politicians.
You can judge how well the Monarch has justified the single, sole reason to exist.
May 14, 2025
The current Monarch supports the anti-democratic objectives of the EU and the WEF’s mission to ensure “we own nothing.” He would do well to study some history; particularly the years 1625 – 1649.
May 14, 2025
agree
May 13, 2025
If anyone thinks and believes that 2TK and his team will use common sense and logic or even support this fine nation of ours and its people, they have lost their marbles. It’s all about personal self-esteem, ego and sucking up by giving the UK away to people that are not interested. We have learnt and he has proven he does the opposite to what he says or suggests, he just tries to spine the headline away from all the lies. “Cut back on immigration” spun as removing the boat people while all the time he is adverting to the World they can come get money, get housed and be able to steel from the taxpayer.
The deluded sucked into the Socialist WEF thinking is that we need a new World Government, but only if it is them in charge with people bowing and scraping to their personal needs and instructions. Hence the phrase he and his Government have earned with medals ‘TwoTier’ everything, the them and us society
May 13, 2025
The necessity for the Supreme Court to rule that XY is not the same as XX has demonstrated how our elitist rulers will attempt to ignore/overrule very basic and obvious science in order to force us to believe in their irrational beliefs. So why should we believe their “science” that CO2 controls the planet’s temperature and that if net zero emissions are not achieved by 2050 then the planet faces extinction?
May 13, 2025
+1. That ruling is humiliating isn’t it? Even my dogs know the difference between xx and xy.