The government’s policy of ever closer relations with the EU will damage our slow and stuttering growth more.
It means sending more money to the EU which in turn means putting up taxes further. It is Labour’s massive tax rises to date that have slowed growth, destroyed jobs, slashed vacancies and put up unemployment. Why do more of the same?
It means adopting the higher carbon taxes under the EU emissions scheme, putting up the costs of energy. Far from helping abate the cost of living crisis they talk about, it will make it worse.
It means adopting a version of the EU carbon border tax or tariff, designed to make things we import from outside the EU dearer if they have used fossil fuel energy in their production and transport. That might invite retaliatory damaging tariffs from the US and others.
It means accepting more young migrants from the EU keeping wages lower and taking job opportunities our young people need.
Far from boosting our exports it is more likely to boost our imports and displace imports from non EU. This will not increase our GDP and will help push up the cost of living.
December 28, 2025
It will be interstellar to see what happens to cars. We are the only country not applying tariffs to Chinese cars but this won’t be possible if we rejoin the Customs Union. Also the ban on ICE vehicles from 2030 won’t be allowed. Perhaps the idea of joining is to give a smokescreen for ditching these things under the pretext of compliance.
Reform have said they will cancel all these agreements so Brussels must see Starmergeddon is a dead man walking, so perhaps they won’t be so keen to let us in after taking our money.
We really are being taken for fools by this pile of excrement in Westminster. The stables really need a good clean and disinfectant.
December 28, 2025
We are a self governing country the sooner these politicians get that into there thick heads the better, we’ve tried being apart of the dreaded EU and looked what happened to our heavy and car industries, we will not be pushed around again like a lap poodle so if people don’t want to be part of a country run by its citizens then bugger off and live in your beloved EU bye bye you’ll not be missed
December 28, 2025
Exactly, but it is surely rather clear that virtually everything Labour is doing is anti-growth, anti-jobs, anti-business, anti-feee speech, anti Britain, anti-democratic, anti-Semitic. Either Reeves, 2Tier, Lammy, Mamood, Miliband, Phillipson… are extremely dim and totally deluded or they do actually want to kill growth and damage the UK at every turn or both. No other explanations are there?
December 28, 2025
The government don’t care.
They will do it anyway, with encouragement from the Liberal Democrats.