The EU re set is an ill conceived danger to UK growth and prospects. The government pretends the negotiations are not underway when they are well advanced. They pretend they are not making big sacrifices of money and powers, but they are.
It is all based on lies about what has happened since our half hearted Brexit departure. ONS figures say our trade has risen, yet the re set case is based on the damage they say was done to our trade by leaving. They forget we paid a big price to secure a tariff free trade deal anyway.
Our GDP followed a very similar course to the EU countries that stayed in, well ahead of Germany and a little ahead of France and Italy in growth. That was not surprising as the UK governments stayed fixed to so many laws, rules and taxes from our EU membership, and we continued to pay sums to the EU as some kind of guilt penance. We are now largely free of sending them money which means we now are saving the sums promised on the bus. It’s a good job we are given this government’s propensity to run up huge extra bills and to max out the borrowing.
I have set out here and in the Lords how in the past our joining the EEC slashed our growth rate, and joining the restrictive and costly single market slowed our growth rate further. Why does the government perversely think adopting more EU rules and sending them more tribute money will increase growth? It is bound to be another negative.
MPs who want this re set need to be asked to explain themselves. They also need to be asked
- How much extra money will the UK be expected to send to Brussels when the full re set agreements are revealed? How will this extra cost be raised from taxpayers?
- Joining the EU carbon trading and carbon tariff system will mean dearer energy and dearer imports. How many job losses and closures will this bring?
- Will the UK need to pull out of its trade deals with TPP, India, US, Australia etc as the rules of the single market it will have to adopt makes these Treaties illegal in EU law?
- Why is it acceptable that in important areas the UK will have to adopt whatever laws the EU demands of us with no right to influence, vote on them or reject them?
April 7, 2026
Dreadful state of affairs with Labour just selling out to the EU for no good reason or return – simply unable to think beyond the concept.
Mitigated to at least some extent by the mess the Conservatives made of Brexit and further recently by the behaviour of Trump who drives Labour further in the same direction. Doubly defeating.
We need a fresh approach. Reform.
April 7, 2026
As with net stupid, there’s no logic just ideology driven madness. Starmer can’t even get candidates to stand in the local elections because liebour are so despised but he ploughman’s on with his wanton destruction.
It’s way past the time that the Royal Perogative was ditched to stop these ruinous moves by one man.
Then again if the tories had cancelled EU regulations like they promised this reset would have been nigh on impossible.
April 7, 2026
Is it correct that Starmer will be abe to carryout the ‘Re-Set’ plans without debate or vote, even though it involves substantial payment to the EU?
April 7, 2026
Brexit has cost us billions. Vastly reduced trade with the EU, no improvement in trade with the Rest of the World. And exposure to the monster Trump. The reset can’t come soon enough
Reply All lies. ONS figures show good trade growth since 2016
April 7, 2026
Simply not true Joan look at the real figures. plus what do you mean by exposure to the monster Trump? If only Starmer would take Trump’s sensible advice on drill baby drill, spend on decent defences, ditch the net zero hoax and get energy cost down to USA levels about 25% of our. Would you really have preferred the senile Biden or the daft as a brush Kamala Harris?
What is killing the UK’s economy is over taxation, over regulation, rip off energy, far too much government, vast net cost open door immigration, failure to deal with or deter crime & a total lack of confidence in this Doom Loop Labour Government. Also a failure to take full advantage of the new Brexit freedoms.
April 7, 2026
MPs who want this re set need to be asked to explain themselves. They also need to be asked
Do you think honestly that the 17.4 million who voted out will except it, the hell we will, then there’s the Scottish vote on independence do you think for one minute that the SNP won’t be shouting for a revote on independence you can bet you sweet nelly they will
April 7, 2026
Good morning.
It was the plan all along since day one of the Glorious Referendum of 2016.
1. Try and stop it or, slow down the process.
2. limit the scope of departure / divergence.
3. Stay closely aligned as possible to minimise impact against (5).
4. Flood the UK with immigrants to reduce opposition.
5. Re-join in all but name.
6. Say that, since re-joining we are paying in with no say and that we need to re-join fully.
7. Adopt the Euro locking the UK into the EU forever.
April 7, 2026
I agree, except I think the Establishment is aiming for Associate Membership …. outside the Eurozone.
April 7, 2026
Starmer and his cronies don’t care about the economic damage – or even any economic benefits – the whole ruse is simply another part of the sinister globalist Trotskyite plan to create a world government. He’s quite happy to lie about anything to fulfil the agenda.
April 7, 2026
The biggest danger of the EU reset is to our so-called Democracy. In the biggest democratic vote the country has ever held, a clear majority voted to LEAVE. They did not vote to be semi-detached, which is what the deal made by the pro-EU Establishment has stitched us up with. Sunak then set the ground for us to be steadily re-attached with the Windsor Treachery, and Two-Tier is now advancing the project to make us as Associate Member.
The clearly expressed wishes of the majority are being ignored by an arrogant Establishment and it is a clear demonstration that they (just like the EU) consider democracy to be an inconvenience.
Two-Tier/Labour will not answer the questions put by Lord Redwood. It isn’t an economic project, it is a political / ideological one.
Since we know the Not-a-Conservative-Party will never LEAVE the EU, we must hope that Reform is elected and Farage does it.
April 7, 2026
Ten years ago at the time of the vote many had their sights set on a new beginning with for instance that great trade deal with the US being uppermost in their minds but there was also expectations of a worldwide renewal of trade deals with old commonwealth friends but unfortunately since then wars and other events have taken hold so that even the WTO is now wilting away. Looking back we can see how things have changed – how we have long since swapped out our skills and zest for long distance commerce with merchant shipping largely depleted and ports turned into yacht marinas – some allowed to silt up. Next the disappointment with the Administration in the US leaves us cold however we still have Canada as a friend, and despite everything most European countries are still very well disposed towards us and that is something we shouldn’t easily dismiss . Logistics and geographical circumstance alone with defence matters should also tell us there is need for a re-think in all of this and knowing that there are some no matter what who are guided by ideological objection to things EU it cannot be denied that it is there – an economy with consumer base of 450 million just twenty miles away – Government is right to explore every avenue to seek to get us back on track