The much travelled PM thinks UK growth has to come from more trade with the EU and China. I am not sure he knows our big trade with these two is heavily weighted to imports, not exports.I worry he doesn’t realise importing more from them lowers GDP growth.
He is right that if we could export more to them without importing more that helps growth. So why does he follow anti industry anti farming policies that mean we will make and grow fewer things they might want to buy? We used to sell lots of oil, gas, refined oil products and petrol cars to the EU. All these are on the ban and tax more heavily list. We watched as EU grants tore out our orchards, as EU quotas limited our dairy and meat production. Since leaving the EU the farms tax, higher National Insurance, grants for not growing food mean less agricultural output not more exports to a loving continent.
The net zero extremism means high energy costs. There has been a rush of closures in steel, ceramics, cement, plastics, other building materials as demented accounting means we have to import energy intensive products rather than make them for ourselves. The decision to keep our own oil and gas in the ground so we import LNG which creates so much more CO 2 instead is particularly damaging.
This is bad economics and worse politics. The UK trade more with non EU so the PM concentrates on the EU trade in long term decline. We trade more in services than goods, so the PM concentrates on goods. We run huge deficits with the EU and China and a good surplus with the rest of the world. By concentrating on the two big deficits and giving in to them the PM makes more imports and less growth the more likeky outcome. China has no intention of helping us rebuild our industries and every intention of making us depend on their batteries, cars, turbines and solar panels. The EU has every plan to use the reset to impose many rules to ensure they sell us more and buy less.
January 29, 2026
My Lord,
We do need to make and indeed grow more of our own products and food.
Other nations put their own country first, we don’t. Well, we do, but our government don’t.
We all know what needs to be done to grow our economy and expand our manufacturing base but the government prefers to ignore us and Brown nose the EU and other anti democratic nations.
January 29, 2026
Good morning.
He is only following orders, much like all PM’s past. They only difference is, he does not care what we, (Leavers) think. Unlike Alexander Johnson who, told a pack of lies (ready made BREXIT) and believed that we had to take Remainers views into account.
The vast majority of MP’s, if not all now, believe in some alignment with the EU and we should pay them money for them to sell into our market. But none of them run a business which explains much.
January 29, 2026
Sir John, your criticisms of the Starmer Gang’s policies are not merely correct but should be a blinding glimpse of the obvious to this Gang. That they are not leaves only one conclusion: the damage they are doing is deliberate. Yet you have never, to my knowledge, said so.
This is nothing like the old politics of envy. It is hard Left socialism driven by visceral hatred. Destruction of all the Gang hates is the Gang’s purpose. I’ll bet you, also, that if it does not succeed in its aim by 2029 it will seize the opportunity presented by there no longer being any MPs, to stay in power until it has completed its objectives or is thrown out by force, bribery or coercion.
January 29, 2026
Indeed the anti-growth agenda of doom loop Reeves, Starmer, Miliband, Lammy, Phillipson… is misdirected on every level. So are they A very dim and deluded or B evil and actually wish to damage the UK’s economy and its abilities to compete and even defend itself.
So Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks Kemi should not put a candidate up in Gorton and Denton – I agree. But I suspect Kemi will get this wrong to. It which will be another large mistake by her. After all Farage stood down many candidates to allow the Boris Tories to win in 2019 alas they betrayed this. The Tories have no chance whatsoever of winning currently about 6% in the polls with Reform on 30% Labour 27% and Greens on 17%.