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?
June 17, 2026
Indeed. It will be a total betrayal by Starmer of his manifesto of lies. I knew he would be even more dire than the 14 years of the Con-Socialist be he has been even more dire than I expected.
Spending money doing net harm is a large feature of UK governments this on the EU for 40 years, paying the French to control their migrants, net zero, The Covid duff and dangerous “vaccines”, Covid lockdowns, sick joke Covid and other legal Inquiries… then we have HS2 that if it is every finished will perhaps have a little utility say 5% of the cost rather similar ratio to the two air carriers they built but cannot even get one to work.
June 17, 2026
A good new Spectator Video with Gove, Madeline Grant and Simon Heffer “Was Enoch Powell Right (his excellent book “Life the Roman” book is being reprinted).
Apparently Enoch thought he should have been given half the credit for Friedman’s Nobel Prize.
June 17, 2026
Plus the vast cost of prosecuting & keeping Lucy Letby in prison when the 15 conviction are so obviously unsafe. Much talk of the death penalty in the light of the recent convictions for the death of the young boy by the two men who adopted him. I am against this but I suppose it might finally get a half sensible appeal court judge to finally give her an appeal.
June 17, 2026
Ideology beats common sense every time with the uniparty.
No doubt there’ll be no agreement on returning the invaders but we’ll probably sign up to the refugee resettlement programme.
Reform need to make it perfectly clear that they will repeal any agreement made by this traitorous bunch.
June 17, 2026
And of course undo everything done by Starmer, Phillipson, Rayner, Lammy and Reeves.
June 17, 2026
The Telegraph reports that the UK is subsidising electricity in France as part of Starmers great Europe reset.
You would have thought giving them free reign over our fishing grounds was enough.
Never mind vast sums to stop the boats which keep coming, should have asked the Russian navy to do it instead eh.
June 17, 2026
John, you ask why does the government keep agreeing to the EU demands? The simple answer is the government its agents and the current leadership of Labour all want to see the EU control our lives and our economy at every turn.
The critical observer might ask, is Starmer and his cabinet some form of agency controlled by the EU?
Alternatively, are the Labour Cabinet suffering from Stockholm syndrome, they have been captured by the EU for so long they actually now have positive feelings for their captors?
What ever the reason, we know the British public will be worse off following Labour’s determined, re-join the EU policy.
We did not vote for this!
June 17, 2026
Rod, indeed many of our pathetic politicians still seem to want the comfort blanket of always being able to blame someone else for our Countries policy mistakes.
“nothing to do with me ” syndrome
Always a get out claim for weak and ineffective leadership.
The public can see it, but the Westminster bubblele have not yet woken up to the reality.
June 17, 2026
Alan, I suspect the Westminster bubble contingency are still miffed at the referendum stopping their regular and pointless jollies. They are missing their first class travel trips to the continent for some meeting/conference or other. With a bit of tax payer funded expenses thrown in needed to make the time away so enjoyable, now no longer available. That is/was a major loss to their important establishment social expectations.
June 17, 2026
Stockholm Syndrome is a fitting diagnosis for much of Labour, but the treatment is too slow and long to bear. Perhaps deporting Labour to the EU would snooker the malady to the UK’s advantage. Then we could proceed in freedom to pursue our own interests in happiness.
June 17, 2026
The recent Britain Unbound You Gov poll showed once again the people are more sensible than their government.
You can bet your bottom dollar we are more switched on than this bunch of indoctrinated leftist load of morrons in parliament now and past, the politicians of today had the leftists views shoved down there throats by the lefty teachers and mainstream media so are unable to communicate or think for themselves without the little red Marxism-Leninism booklet, well we are switched on to continuation of freedom from the dreaded EU so if you try to sneak us back in you’ll have a hell of a fight on your hands,we will not be ruled by foreign powers ever again we are British and not Europeans
June 17, 2026
Good morning.
I am not really surprised. We knew from the reactions of all the main political parties that BREXIT was the bastard child no one wanted.
Shame. For only the second time, or is it the first as the first referendum on the EEC / EU was about remaining and not joining, we the people were asked what we wanted. And what we got was not was promised.
June 17, 2026
We need to sink a few Russian ships (pour encourager les autres) that take the p**s by running the Channel. A few nautical miles S of HMNB Partsmouth and HMNB Devenport. We didn’t – and now Russian frigates are firing on unarmed British yachts trying to do the Admiralty’s job for them
This is a country with which we are already at war. The Salisbury nerve gas outrage. The frequent fires at warehouses holding war materiel destined for Ukraine. Using dastardly tactics like employing paid proxies to outwit the Security Service – while undertaking arsonist attacks on the Prime Minister’s property etc. etc.
The senior MoD civil serpents, who waste countless £billions on procurement cock-ups and who have scrapped British military capabilities to save their jobs, have led us to this pathetic state.
“The Ministry of Defence said its assessment that the incident was isolated and unconnected to last week’s boarding of the sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker Smyrtos”
Phew, so that’s alright then. For a moment there I was worried
June 17, 2026
+1 does not seem likely that it was not a deliberate provocation to me.
June 17, 2026
The current (so called) government and those that preceded it, never wanted to leave the EU. They thought the sheeple would heed their ‘project fear’ They were wrong, we voted ‘out’ Undeterred government(s) ensured first, we didn’t fully enact Brexit and ever since have been slipping us back in via the back door.
And they wonder why they are despised…..
June 17, 2026
+1
June 17, 2026
You have as much chance of persuading this government to think rationally as you do of persuading the likes of Michael Heseltine of the benefits of sovereignty outside the EU. The anti Brexit propaganda is taking hold in people’s minds through bogus statistics and selective interviews in the main media. All the government has to do is legalise its impending commitments to the EU. The next government will not have the courage to fully reverse them because most MPs are content to manage UK decline. Donald Trump and JD Vance see clearly where we are heading. Keir Starmer and co simply don’t care.
June 17, 2026
Do you mean the Donald Trump who made a spectacular b-lls up of Iran that a GCSE student could have warned him against.
June 17, 2026
Being a member of the EU delivered us a significant trade deficit which we had to pay significant membership fees for while also handing over all import duties and VAT collections. We were the only member to suffer the dual costs and therefore took the least benefit from the arrangement as a country (some producers benefited from having easier access but overall as a country we suffered).
Allied to our civil servants gold plating all EU rules which made life more difficult for our producers, including those who did not trade with the EU, we had to leave.
Trading with the EU on equal, beneficial terms, is advantageous. Prostrating ourselves on their alter is not.
June 17, 2026
The Remainers/Rejoiners are not listening, Lord Redwood, because they don’t give a fig about your economic arguments. There are two groups. One likes to mix with foreign colleagues as a boost to their ego and to take advantage of the generous EU expenses. The other is far more dangerous. For this group the attaction of the EU is that it is a supra-national government and thus joining would be a step to fulfilling their aim of replacing sovereign nation states with a global socialist order. Any arguments they put forward on economic grounds are at worst mere propaganda and at best incidental. The EU itself has proceeded since its foundation incrementally by stealth and deceit because its leaders have always known it is undemocratic. Remainers/Rejoiners cannot be expected to be truthful about their reasons.
June 17, 2026
Sir john, from your vantage point in the HoL I hope you and your colleagues will be asking stridently how the government will ensure that a future government which remains true to the mandate from the people to Leave the EU will be able to reverse their capitulation to Brussels. (Under the principle that no government remains tied to the laws of its predecessor.)
I suspect the EU will try to impose swingeing penalty payments for leaving the arrangement as part of the new treaty obligations. This must be forcibly resisted,
June 17, 2026
Am left wondering what has brought about this anti EU outburst as it reads like some change is imminent something has caused alarm that must be coming from happenings at the G7. There is no doubt change is in the air the great US superpower is in decline and can’t be relied upon anymore so Europe is on the march – it has to to defend itself both economically and militarily – the EU is growing / expanding and now the UK Government is left with this dilemma on how to fit in and what to do? We cannot change our geographic location and there’s little point in appealing to the people’s sense on anything as it was the people who brought us here – the people don’t always know best.
June 17, 2026
The EU is a parasite.
Its endless red tape worm thrives on draining Britain’s resources and gives us back virtually nothing but a bureaucratic pain in the guts.
June 17, 2026
Anybody that imagines the UK being tied up closely to the EU will make us a world power with a thriving economy has no imagination. In fact, based on past experience, we will have the total opposite of these things. Our national power will be consumed and made a part of the EU while our economy which is well on it’s way southward will crash and burn as EU rules bite and we are forced to pay heavily for membership of a dying entity that has lost the will to do anything but survive a little longer.
Why is this government keeping everything so quiet? If this so-called re-set is going to be so good for us they should be shouting about it, telling us in detail how life and economics will be improved – but it seems they won’t, and so they keep quiet.
Why does this feel like so much more treachery from our PM who has already overstayed his welcome.
June 17, 2026
The ruling class take us for fools on Europe. It is not going to end well.
So, now we know there were at least a quarter of a million white children gang raped, and its still going on. We know that Keir Starmer as Director of Public Prosecution refused to charge 13,000 gang rapists.
And they think the solution is to stop free speech on the internet, so we cannot discuss this. And that a few video games at night time are the problem our kids face, and not massed gang rape.
The whole ruling class are a joke.
June 17, 2026
Part of the ‘Plan’ massive cost to democracy and everyone’s pocket opened up to feed the ego of a corrupt Parliament. Lets not forget it might appear to be an idea from ‘one’ man but he has the support of the majority in Parliament and of course as announced today with “British taxpayers will subsidise French energy bills under Starmer’s EU deal ” the French
June 17, 2026
I think we are having the surplus French nuclear produced electricity at very low cost, but sold to us at premium prices.
June 17, 2026
@Mickey Taking
Electricity rates in $/KWH
UK 0.404
France 0.276
According to today’s media Starmer is about to sign the UK up to subsidising the French Tax Payer with our excess capacity energy capacity that come from our taxpayer NetZero funded resources.
Yet the UK Citizen has to pay over the odds to keep prices high rather than the producers receiving the market rate and the UK consumer pay a fair market price
June 17, 2026
I see at PMQs that every MP is wearing a large white rose …..maybe because they’re on TV and fear the backlash. I don’t agree with any wearing of, the promotion, adverting or supporting of any organisation or campaign
Reply Jo Cox memorial
June 17, 2026
It is the inability to face facts and make wise decisions that appals me about this, and the previous Government.
Why do we have MPs who don’t believe in the UK? Why are they so keen to handicap the UK with Net Zero and this mad determination to rejoin the EU? Why do MPs and the media constantly lie about the economic effects of Brexit?
At what point does their conduct become treason?
Please make clear constantly, in the HOL, that no deal should be done with the EU without a referendum!
June 17, 2026
“EU Re set will set us back and cost a lot”
Of course, that’s the reason for this re-set for socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. Paying the EU to increase our existing £100bn/year trading deficit with the EU is a perfect way to achieve this. And it also leads to increasing immigration and energy costs. For the Marxist Fabians in Parliament, the Civil Service and the judiciary what’s not to like?
June 17, 2026
The Attorney General Hermer, has taken to the Media today – “Brexit has done “damage” to Britain’s standing in the world”
Blocking Brexit has damaged the UK.
June 17, 2026
Not to forget the people of the UK never at anytime voted to join the EU, it was choice made by Parliament. It wasn’t in any manifesto and no mandate was sort.
We now have the great Law Brains of 2TK and Hermer that are anti the Nation State, that hate the UK and its people with a passion, will set that the president has been set. As the Countries rulers they can take the UK into the EU State without any further consultation or consideration.
June 17, 2026
This “Country” the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland exists only in name and Charles
is a useful figurehead to mask reality.
Simple:Scotland wants to be back in the EU and remove Westminster shackles.Wales is a”wait for me”too.
The sectarian divide in Ulster has no long-term solution.The catholics want re-unification with Dublin and
voted accordingly in the referendum.What is left?England.Many local authorities have banned the ENGLISH
flag.And FIFA have tried the same insult But not the Saltire(a cunning alternative to what it was called
when I was a lad)
June 18, 2026
= believe-it. Yet more multiposting of rent-a-bot opinions under different IDs, attempting to give the impression of multiple pro-EU posters. You never work out why you are so transparently easy to spot. Who pays you, as a matter of interest?
June 17, 2026
Excellent article from Catherine McBride on the BBC’s biased reporting on Brexit and the Government’s EU re-set. Apparently the BBC argues it does not breach its impartiality rules by promoting Brexit as wholly disadvantageous because they now consider this opinion to be “settled science” like their belief that we have a climate crisis!
https://catherinemcbride.substack.com/p/not-settled-science
June 17, 2026
the new series of Clarksons Farm on TV is doing a great job of taking the mickey out of the labour government. they deserve a medal.
June 17, 2026
Looking at the proposed laws on internet access and encryption it is clear that nobody in the government would pass a Computer Science GCSE, they have absolutely no clue at all what they are going on about, or the real world impact of what they are saying they are going to do.
It is embarrassing really that this country looks so stupid to the outside world.