The recent Britain Unbound You Gov poll showed once again the people are more sensible than their government. 59% rejected the idea of surrendering some of our rights to self government to get better access to the single market, and only 27% supported it. A government in search of popularity should look at these findings and think again about its desperate wish to be loved by the EU.
Re set is one of the few “growth” policies they claim to have left. Their blizzard of taxes and high energy costs has laid waste so much of our business and destroyed so many jobs, pricing young people out of work and closing industries as energy costs and business taxes overwhelm them . They say that a Re set signing us up to EU food laws and to the EU emission trading and carbon tax scheme will add a mere £9 bn or 0.3% to our economy by 2040, 15 years hence. Clearly no early wins there then to persuade a sceptical public. The truth is higher taxes and more laws will depress our growth further, not boost it. If the EU model made you rich the EU would not be languishing at half the US growth rate and half the US GDP per head as they are.
The UK paid a high price with delayed exit to secure tariff free trade with the EU. Our trade has not fallen as a result of Brexit, and remains heavily in deficit with the EU as it was when we were full members. The government does not seem to recognise that the EU trading system has delivered them a big surplus and their rules and taxes make it difficult for the UK to succeed as a goods and food exporter to them. Boosting our imports from the EU in a new one sided arrangement will reduce our GDP by the amount of domestic UK production the extra imports displace.
Re set will be all cost and little or no benefit. The EU sees the UK as weak and likely to give in on paying them more money, on accepting more young people from the continent , on accepting more restrictive EU food rules and cementing in their high energy costs and taxes. As we are much more the customer than the supplier in this trade arrangement if anyone has to pay to play it should be the EU, not the UK. Why are our negotiators so weak or always on the EU’ side? Why do we end up with the extra bills, the extra laws and the extra tariffs? If this was a fair relationship genuinely wanting to promote more trade both ways the EU should copy some of our successes instead of trying to force us to do it all their way. In these negotiations the best word for the UK to use is No, as EU terms are totally unacceptable.
June 17, 2026
We have to ackowledge that the current government – and the last one was almost as complicit – wants to see this once-great nation destroyed then susbsumed by the EU. Some of us have been aware of this for a very long time and spent many years praying for a referendum as our chance – as the people paying for this dreadful social-engineering mess – to have our say. We are running out of time and we need the gullible to start waking up and seeing what the rest of us independent thinkers see so that we can put a stop to the march back into the EU which will be the final nail in the UK’s coffin. How dare our politicians treat us this way?