The hopeless self serving Establishment of the 1970 s , 1990 s and 2000 s accepted mediocrity, excessive bureaucracy, endless humiliations for the UK and ever growing bills as they sheltered in the closing vice of EU power. They lied to us all, telling us we were just joining a common market, that it would boost growth and leave our sovereignty untouched. Whenever the EU inflicted more damage we were told the EU needed more power over us amidst denials that the EU had caused any harm. Many senior politicians, civil servants, judges, executives in large multinational corporations took comfort in the EU making our rules, telling us what to do and sending us bills.
Instead in the EEC/EU our growth rate halved, membership wrecked once flourishing industries, took our fish and our money, and forced thousands of new laws upon us.
It started badly in the 1970s. Whilst much of the economic damage was done by a Labour government overspending, over borrowing and ending up with an IMF recovery plan, the 1970 s also saw mass redundancies and many factory closures. Removing all tariffs protecting UK industry in a hurry on joining accelerated closures. We lurched into permanent heavy trade deficit in goods with the EU as they took advantage of our weakness. Car output halved, steel and shipbuilding slumped.
In the 1980 s the UK rebuilt, attracting big overseas investment in automotive and entering a telecoms and City revolution , but the EEC continued to damage agriculture through its Common Policy and its fishing quotas,whilst preparing an avalanche of new laws for the so called single market.
John Major took the UK into the deeply damaging European Exchange Rate Mechanism against my advice. This gave us boom/ bust,leading to the nasty recession in 1992. This predictably led to the Conservatives being thrown out of office for 13 years and badly set back the UK economy. Too many people lost their homes faced with unaffordable mortgages and too many businesses went bust.The EEC never apologised and refused to help us when the markets tore the stupid scheme apart.
The EU used the outbreak of BSE to ban UK beef exports for an over the top 10 years. They harmed dairy farmers with insufficient quota , forcing us to import milk products. We lost big market share in meat and dairy. They paid us some of our money back to grub up our orchards to shift us over to importing French and Spanish fruit. Subsidised gas and greenhouses in the Netherlands replaced some of our market gardens.
This century the EU turned to demolishing our coal, oil and gas industries in the name of net zero. UK Ministers were willing to accept this and imposed penal bans, rules and taxes on fossil fuels to make the UK an importer.These were great strengths of the UK economy in the fast growing 1980s.
The UK became enmeshed in thousands of new laws. Most of them were needless for trade. All you needed for a common market was the simple rule that something sold of merchandisable quality in one country could be offered for sale in the others. (The cassis de Dijon judgement). Instead the single market was used as an excuse for a massive EU power grab.
Voters got more and more fed up that changing governments could not change so many bad laws and taxes. We voted to get our freedom back.That led the Establishment to seek to thwart our will. They like being locked up in the EU prison. They accepted crazily high bills to stay in , helping burden voters with unrealistic levels of tax. We had to watch the lower taxed advanced countries of the world growing faster and prospering more as the EU fell further and further behind the US.
I am proud of the voters voting to leave. We were right that the EU and its single market did us harm. Tomorrow as we celebrate 10 years from the vote I will set out our gains so far. There is so much more we can now do, now we have our freedoms.
June 22, 2026
Good morning.
I am not going to blame the EEC/EU for looking after, mainly, French and German interests, because that was what it was set up to do. Germany and France realised that fighting over who gets to dominate mainland Europe, with the UK trying to deny each that dubious honour, was damaging. So they embarked on the European Coal and Steel Community. A why coal and steel ? Because that is what you need to power industry and make weapons. Eventually via the Treaty of Rome is became the EEC. People thought it was about trade but, in the text of the aforementioned treaty was the commitment to, “Ever closer UNION”. Essentially and Federal Superstate.
We were told we were joining a “Common Market” and that things would be cheaper. We were lied to and joined without a referendum. A narrow vote in Parliament was all that was needed.
The Glorious Referendum of 2016, no matter how bastardised BREXIT became, was a great moment in history that will be long remembered and cherished. It was, and still is, the ONLY time a member said no to the EU. We were not a good fit and we knew it. We left the Stupid Club after 10 years and our idiots want us back.
General De Gaul was right for once, when on our membership, he said “No!” And no to Re-joining too.
June 22, 2026
De Gaule was indeed right and let’s hope that leaders of the EU realise that. They must know that liebour are a busted flush and an incoming government will repeal anything agreed. That is if course not including Badenough who refused to remove EU legislation from the statute book. Why anyone would think things would be different under an incoming Tory government led by her.
Yes we should be proud but alas we are ruled by traitors who don’t agree.
June 22, 2026
Charles de Gaulle stating ‘Non’ was opining in our favour. Unfortunately, too many idiots thought he was denying us something that was worth having, and persisted in attempting to join, resulting in so many bad years of being under the cosh.
Heath was the main culprit. The woman posing as a reporter who threw red ink over his silver suit as he ascended the steps to sign our commitment was Polish, but she was acting in the interests of the UK in trying to prevent us being entrapped for so long.
June 22, 2026
@Mark B – I agree 100% to what you said. A sleight caveat, The Irish Republic said ‘NO’ the EU ordered them to go back and vote again until they got the ‘right’ result – ordered, they the EU couldn’t accept no being loved. Iceland bailed out early and Norway as with Switzerland have a sort of arms length approach.
. He will have carried out his ‘masters’ orders
That great legal mind Kier Starmer, know that the precedent has been set the UK can go into the EU without approval of the People. His legacy? on 22 July 2026 his Great Reset will take place. As the UK parliament hates Democracy, fights Democracy in conjunction with all the recent spurious claims that Brexit has damaged the UK emanating from the same cabal – you get to get a feeling on what 2TK sees as his Legacy the final trashing of the UK
June 22, 2026
An excellent post, Mark B.
June 22, 2026
Thank you, and thank you to all that are kind enough to comment on my posts whether you agree with me or not.
June 22, 2026
Confirmation of what you say, Mark, in our services being excluded from the single market. The whole protection racket has always struck me as a project for the losers to win the peace, for the Greater Germany to be established.
June 22, 2026
We never fully left. Annoyance rather than pride is my true feeling.
Started off with the dreadful Theresa May and Robbins.Then it got progressively worse.
June 22, 2026
@Peter – each and everyone we have empowered and paid have sort to do the opposite of the promises. They are so adrift in there own capabilities for the job at hand that they blame there failure on others, they seek refuge by desiring to be someone, not the electorate, else’s puppet
June 22, 2026
I think the Tory Party needs to offer far more of a positive vision IN GENERAL why being Tory is great. Instead of so many people focusing on how cr-p Labour are. We all know that. It’s not rocket science to know that Labour are cr-p. What is more like rocket science is to present a vision of the Tory Party that the average voter can understand and relate to and WARM to. What I’m coming across is a lot of depression and cynicism and negativity. People need to CHEER UP. And integrate that into a positive and exciting vision of what the Tories want to achieve for our great nation. And our great nation does potentially have a GREAT future. I don’t care if people accuse me of being a Biscuit (as someone called me the other day here). I’m an optimist (and lots and lots of amazing things have happened to me because I am optimistic – if I were a pessimist then these things would not have happened) and a realist!
From Chocolate Digestives Biscuit Man.
Reply Try reading the Alternative Kings Speech and Kemi’s speech to the City last week. Full ofpositives and optimism.
June 22, 2026
Thank you sir, will have a look
I’m convinced the Tory Party and our country has potentially a GREAT future!
But I personally know a lot of Tory voters (friends, family and neighbours), now turning to the more right-wing parties, who are just so pessimistic about our country’s future and glugging down wine when we have this conversation instead of being more upbeat and positive.
June 23, 2026
Perhaps it should be shorter. Using a bold heading and repeating it below in its explanation is wasteful on words, such as:
“Over 200 people living in asylum hotels were
charged with criminal offences last year. It
was reported that at least 200 people living in
asylum seeker hotels have been charged with
criminal offences in 2025.”
June 23, 2026
The ‘Alternative King’s Speech’ may sound like something from Monty Python with an imagined Alternative King saying and doing strange things. #
However, on reading it, one finds it does present sensible ways forward with good reasoning in support.
June 22, 2026
The Elephant in the Room
Lord John Redwood sets out a good case again. I never doubted Brexit was the best decision taken by Britain in the modern age. What John failed to mention is Boris Johnson is a starter, not a finisher. Yes he got Brexit done in name but failed to follow through. Add this to the large numbers of cross party MPs who were against leaving the EU and you can see why Brexit was not unleashed. Given the cross party position in favour of joining the EU despite the strong arguments by John and others leads me to believe their motive for doing so is for selfish long term career aspirations (ask the Kinnocks who gained a career for life and two state pensions to boot). Most MPs realise their tenure as an MP in the UK is far from guaranteed. They view their long term prospects for continuing their career in some form as either an MEP or some plum job in the EU. Starmer, will have realised long ago his tenure as PM would not last and this is why he is hell bent and in a hurry to take Britain back in by hook or by crook and smooching up to the EU at any cost ( allegation left out ed)
June 22, 2026
waiting to see what random extremist totalitarian policies are going to be dumped on us by the next prime minister…
June 22, 2026
Yet in the face of what you write Lord JR. We are constantly bombarded with Rejoiners marching in the streets, on our TV’s, in all media. Telling us how worse off we are since leaving.
I look forward to your list of Brexit wins.
June 22, 2026
Even Beethoven’s Choral (the EU anthem) playing as a backdrop to the Starmer resignation just now. It used to be a nice symphony until the EU ruined it. Why paid for that and who turned a blind eye to it was it approved by the polices or Starmer’s minions?
June 22, 2026
LL,
Just watched Starmer’s speech. The usual guff. Some people are feeling sorry for him now. Not me.
On a bus a few weeks ago two men were discussing Makerfield. One said ‘When Starmer appears on telly, before he even opens his mouth, I just want to punch him in the face.’ His pal agreed.
In Kingston Sainsbury’s this morning, one of their staff was berating Starmer with a customer for all the damage he has done to the country.
Starmer will still be hanging around for a long time. Burnham will not be any better though.
June 22, 2026
Sir Keir Starmer who was allowed to appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs (November 2020). His eight musical choices included the Pastoral Symphony No. 6 (Fifth Movement) EU anthem by Ludwig van Beethoven – A favorite of his father’s it seems. I quite liked it too when young – until the EU rather wrecked it. So perhaps he wanted the background pro EU music.
June 22, 2026
Yes, quite!! That was irritating beyond belief
June 22, 2026
But but but, you got your lovely Brexit – and didn’t know what to do with it. You unwrapped it and turned it over and over and discovered it had no politically acceptable use. Your expensive newspaper campaign had sold the UK a pup.
No good blaming Johnson or May for ‘lacking guts’. The bottom line is – it was a daft idea from the start. A toy that broke when first rolled across No10’s carpet.
Personally I was glad our UK Parliament was hamstrung by the EU. The EU did a better job, more professional, more brains. Left to its own devices our Parliament is – as we see today – a feeble, disorganised rabble engaged in self-serving in-fighting. That is all it is good for.
Today we may gain some amusement if Starmer throws in the towel. Much newsprint and many pixels to be wasted. I very much doubt Burnham will turn out much different. Same for Badenoch and we can forget the rest – mere money wasters. The system stays the same.
We never have figured out how to run a post-industrial country. An airy wave of the hand – ‘the market will provide’ – is all that is on offer and the market won’t provide.
Reply What nasty drivel. We are saving large sums of money, have signed trade deals with TPP and India, have avoided huge debts being built up by EU and anti business laws they have pushed through.Many more wins to come.
June 22, 2026
Exactly right Jim! We have ten years of proof that Brexit has failed. Brexiters never had a plan, they are the dog that ran after the bus but had no clue what to do when they caught it
June 22, 2026
Jim
But at least we can vote to try and correct our own leaders failures every 5 years, something not possible in the EU !
Remember the Greek savings snatch ?
June 23, 2026
We had elections every 5 years, often less, when we were in the EU. Every EU member has regular elections. Honestly, you Brexiters have lost touch with reality
Reply Yes we had elections but new governments could not change EU laws and taxes which grew and grew.
June 22, 2026
It is a pleasure many savour, that gesture to show we still have all our fingers for the longbow!
June 22, 2026
Jim: “Left to its own devices our Parliament is – as we see today – a feeble, disorganised rabble engaged in self-serving in-fighting. That is all it is good for.”
Perhaps. But then this is how democracy works. It has to be chaotic and divisive to work. Arguments need to be made and tested by all sides before a final decision is made unless you want to live in a country like North Korea where there is no argument or dissent or freedom of thought and to which the EU is heading. The reason for Brexit was to ensure that the voters of the UK could elect and REMOVE those who make their laws and policies.
June 22, 2026
‘Why we should be proud to have voted Leave’ if only we had we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today. If only we had an honourable Parliament and Government that was not ‘afraid’ of being asked to manage, take charge and govern.
Parliament and the Establishment still fight the people over the notion we want them to take charge; they still defer and send money to the unelected unaccountable in a foreign land. Parliament and its Government every day blame their ineptitude, inability and inexperience on the fact it is they that are asked to run things and they don’t know were to start
June 22, 2026
minor point of information: Margaret Thatcher was PM when we joined the ERM
June 22, 2026
Major was Chancellor and persuaded her against her better judgement.
June 24, 2026
Forced her under threat of his resignation.
June 22, 2026
I have never had a moments regret at leavingthe EU, except that we should have done so completely and started over with a clean sheet.
June 22, 2026
Yesterday the Mayor of London took to the airwaves/media/tv to suggest his failures are solely down to the mass self-harm of Brexit. He went on to say the economy has suffered and receded only as a result of Brexit self harm and things will improve once we are back under foreign control. Is that because he is clueless about the responsibilities of his job?
No counter argument was offered – no one else was asked. The media has bought into the hype. These individuals there failures to govern, to do what they are paid to do all look to find ‘blame’ elsewhere.
It is reasonable to surmise that 2TK has his troops rallying around to soften the country up for when he embeds the UK inside the EU at his up and coming meeting next month – his legacy.
June 22, 2026
I was too young in 1975 to vote but the argument for leave put by Enoch Powell, Peter Shaw and Richard Body had convinced me leave was the way to go as the EU was even then undemocratic.
Prominent public figures and politicians who campaigned to leave were then mainly on the left they included:Tony Benn: Industry Secretary, who spearheaded the anti-EEC campaign.Barbara Castle: Health Secretary, who was a leading figure on the political left arguing against membership.Michael Foot: Future Labour Leader, who staunchly opposed remaining in the European bloc.Enoch Powell: Rebel Conservative MP, who supported withdrawal alongside prominent left-wing figures.Peter Shore: Trade Secretary, who publicly campaigned against EEC integration. Neil Kinnock: Rising left-wing Labour politician who actively opposed membership. I assume the Kinocks are now enjoying their huge EU pensions.
Will Starmer get some EU funded or charity job shortly, in return for Erasmus, the fishing “deal” and the millions for the French Police to push the boats out etc. !
Reply I spoke and voted against the EEC as a young Conservative County Councillor.
June 22, 2026
Congratulations on ten years of Brexit and long may it last!
Although . . . when I set out to count the countries which followed Britain’s great example, I didn’t get very far. Even the most populist parties in the 27 remaining countries seem to have changed with regard to exiting the EU.
So let’s look outside the EU. Are there many countries, apart from Putin’s Russia, which consider Britain’s Brexit a smart move? Please enlighten me.
June 22, 2026
Punishment beatings seem to work, Peter.
June 22, 2026
“As an economic power, the European Union (EU) is not what is once was. Its share of the global economy has shrunk from 26% in 1980 to just 15% in 2022 and is predicted to fall further still”
I didn’t vote to leave the EU for economic reasons Peter – but why would we want to chain ourselves to a “Trade” organisation that is so clearly failing?
We have enough problems with our 400+ Quangos, a politicised Judicary and left biased mass media (not to mention a bunch of incompetant, unqualifies politicians) without further burdening ourselves with another layer of clunkers in Brussels. We may be governed by Idiots currently but they are our Idiots and not ones imposed on us by some unaccountable organisation on the other side of the channel in Brussels.
Here in UK we were very fortunate to keep the Pound (which has been much abused & devalued by our political classes) but which still gives us much potential fiscal independance. How many EU Member States would still be in the EU today if they were not locked into the EU by the Euro I wonder?
June 22, 2026
@IAN T:
In 1986, the British Pound (GBP) was valued between 3.50 and 3.65 NLG, depending on market fluctuations. In 2026 that would be 2,55 NLG ( €1.15). So when my British wife and me returned from Africa in the late seventies we were smart not to continue the English savings account we had. It is of course the case that the Dutch GDP (or euro area GDP) didn’t grow as much as the US or Chinese GDP during the last 20 years and that the share of the global economy has shrunk and will continue to shrink, but there are more aspects to wealth and well being than just the absolute GDP’s of countries. To me it is a good thing that the very populous Asian and African countries increase there economies.
The Netherlands doesn’t feel “locked” in the euro or into the EU. In the euro we have more power (inside the ECB) than we had in the guilder period and we voluntary became one of the founder members of the EU. Maybe in future new cooperation structures will grow with countries like Canada and the UK (and others), just wait and see.
June 23, 2026
Oh, I understand currency devaluation very well Peter. I was living in Germany in 1967 and getting paid in Sterling. I’m fairly confident we are heading the same way at the moment. When Governments run their credit cards up to the max (and beyond) by spending money they don’t have, then devaluing that debt is much easier than making cut-backs or growing you way out. As I stated my objections to the EU are not economic but about who is making the decisions (and whether we can change that person).
If the EU was merely a ‘Trade’ agreement then fine, it’s a simply a matter of negotiation. However, as you know very well, the EU is clearly far more than a simple trading relationship (it is political union) and I have no wish to walk down that path again.
As I’ve said, we have our own fools to live with (we are about to get another) and quite enough of our own troubles without needing to dwell on Europe’s too.
June 24, 2026
BUT WE STILL HAVE STERLING PETER. That’s the point. Those countries which surrendered their currency are in dire straights.
The £ IS Britain, the Euro would have abolished the £.
June 22, 2026
+1
June 22, 2026
The remaining inmates of the prison camp have looked at the high barbed wire, the withdrawal of favours, concessions all gone, that illicit cigarette costs you a session in the showers…..The camp watchtowers have a queue waiting to man the weapons, and new ones are constantly being thought out and produced.
Why would they? time for bravery has long since gone.
June 22, 2026
“We were lied to and joined without a referendum. A narrow vote in Parliament was all that was needed.”
That Heath was able to sell the UK down the river without even asking the citizens was an appalling failure of our. System of “democracy”..
We have be lied to every since by nearly all parties on the EU, on Climate Alarmism, on the benefits of mass low skilled immigration, on the ideal size of the state, on taxes, on the dire NHS, on energy, on excessive red tape, on the mad Covid measure Boris took, on the (neither safe nor effective) Covid “Vaccines” on Covid origins, on two tier justice and policing, on economic policy…
June 22, 2026
Robert Tombs today in the Telegraph:-
I have no Brexit regrets, and nor should you
No, the past 10 years haven’t been all for nothing. When confronted with the facts, I doubt voters would want to rejoin the EU
June 22, 2026
‘Non, je ne regrette rien ’. E. Piaf (and the French Foreign Legion).
June 22, 2026
Given the EU anthem that Starmer chose? or had resigned to I note that:-
Beethoven changed the desiccation for his Third Symphony (“Eroica”). He originally titled it “Bonaparte” to honor Napoleon Bonaparte’s republican ideals. However, when Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France in 1804, Beethoven flew into a rage, scratched out the dedication with such violence that he tore through the manuscript, and rededicated it “to the memory of a great man”. I wonder what he would have made of the EU today? I am a “love Europe despise the EU” person myself. Surely anyone who loves Europe should be?
June 22, 2026
Steve Bray the Remain fanatic is still hanging around Westminster. He played the music on his ghetto blaster. Police did not prevent him doing so, under breach of the peace or similar reasons.
June 23, 2026
Starmer’s voice during his resignation speech was magnified too. Why should one citizen’s sounds be blocked in favour of the other?
June 22, 2026
He didn’t tell anyone about the fish he’d given away. Not the Cabinet. Not Parliament. Not the public? Did he tell the Queen?
June 22, 2026
More ideological nuance – but the polls are indicating a swing back to Europe
June 22, 2026
evidence?
June 22, 2026
Thank God Starmer has gone. The dope still seems to think he has achieved something in his two years. He has actually done vast harm. He has achieved nothing beyond pathetic class warfare and spite, two tier justice, open doors to illegal low skilled and often criminal immigrants, rip off intermittent renewable energy, vast tax increases, economic doom loop vandalism, endless lies, increasing crime, good riddance to disingenuous two Tier Kier… but he did give us (well forced us to pay for) school breakfast clubs!
He even claimed defence, the economy, stopping the small boats, renters rights as his achievements – what a truly deluded moron he is.
June 22, 2026
I assume the clapping after his resignation speech was in relief that he is finally going.
June 22, 2026
The UK became enmeshed in thousands of new laws. Usually gold plated by the UK’s blob, a vast parasitic job creation scheme.
June 22, 2026
At long last TwoTierKier has just sort of ‘read the room’, but has left us with a mess that isn’t the much-needed General Election
In a well-rehearsed lawyer style speech, he said much about nothing, a few innuendos of what might possible happen down the line but nothing honest, what some of us(me) would suggest is just a bunch of lies. He has wreaked the Nation where he could and his indecision has left a mess elsewhere.
His lasting legacy which in hope someone else will change as soon as possible he has surrendered much to the EU but done nothing. Unfortunately, those that aspire to rule in the next phase appear to want to trash democracy and the UK in the same tone.
June 22, 2026
He finally realised he was being hoisted onto the gangplank, and plenty of hands would push him along it.
June 22, 2026
“The hopeless self serving Establishment of the 1970 s , 1990 s and 2000 s accepted mediocrity, excessive bureaucracy, endless humiliations for the UK and ever growing bills as they sheltered in the closing vice of EU power.”
Why were all our parties in favour of EU membership? Could it be because they were all socialists and socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor? EU membership made sure of continuous impoverishment as were net contributors to the EU budget and our industry and agriculture was forced to close or was subsidised by the EU to move abroad, even to non-EU countries, ensuring we had a massive, £100bn/year, trading deficit with the EU. We were lucky to have a very brief respite when Mrs. Thatcher was PM. We managed to extricate ourselves from this socialist (communist?) construct through a referendum, the only way possible. Net Zero is the new EU membership. The false climate crisis was invented by the socialists and they would not have created it if its “solution” Net Zero was not sabotaging our energy and thereby causing de-industrialisation, impoverishment and national insecurity. The only way out of this socialist trap is to demand a referendum on Net Zero.
June 22, 2026
I can still remember as dawn broke on that day the wave of emotion which swept over me: above all, gratitude and admiration for my fellow countrymen and women for quietly coming out all over the country and standing up to the mass brainwashing and intimidation. It was a feeling I had never experienced before.
June 22, 2026
Totally agreewith you we need to make our own decisions good or bad.
June 22, 2026
It’s no good blaming the EU we have to take responsibility for our own actions – other European countries have their problems too but just get on with it – some inside the EU and some outside
June 22, 2026
I do feel proud to have voted leave
June 22, 2026
Labour’s flagging “reset” of UK relations with the EU will add almost nothing to economic growth, MPs have warned.
The Government’s supposedly ambitious post-Brexit reset would expand the economy no more than 0.5pc by 2040, the House of Commons’ business and trade committee said in a report on Monday.
Liam Byrne, the committee chairman, a former Labour minister, said there was now “a yawning gap” between the Government’s claims about the reset and what it was actually delivering.
Wow, surprised, and how much did it cost the UK Taxpayer?
June 22, 2026
With the departure of Keir Starmer there are noises about Labour breaking manifesto promises. If they do so, can we rely on the HoL to hold up legislation that doesn’t have an election mandate? Would the Labour Party be wise to hold a general election on a new manifesto?
June 22, 2026
We have spent 10 years fighting the traitors within instead of embracing the benefits of Brexit. We should have left with no deal and become a second Singapore. I’ve never regretted voting to leave.
June 22, 2026
310 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 21st June 2026 …
June 22, 2026
I was part of a little local campaign for Leave (apart from Labour activists there was even less of a local campaign for Remain in Bury; millions might have signed a petition to remain after the country voted to leave but almost none of those millions could be bothered to get up off their backside and campaign during the actual referendum!.) I am still glad to have campaigned to leave but am very disappointed the then government chose not to remove most of the thousands of EU regulations as Jacob Rees-Mogg and I think all true Brexiters wanted to do
June 23, 2026
Jacob Rees Mogg spent a year as the Brexit minister! He didn’t change anything because changing things makes trade harder and costs Britain money. Brexit never ever made sense and still doesn’t
Reply Untrue. The UK removed many EU tariffs on imports, negotiated new trade deals and started removing EU taxes and laws, though not enough were repealed.
June 22, 2026
Hi sir john
We need you to speak up in the house of Lords to stop us having anything to do with the EU
Thank you
June 22, 2026
UK and EEC/EU
The United Kingdom was unique as whereas other members had international links NOT ONE had
The Commonwealth:possibly the most important grouping of nations after the United Nations.
Our trade in goods and services with our Commonwealth cousins brings a large surplus.
Our trade with the rest of the world excluding EU States is in surplus.
Our trade with the EU is in heavy deficit(this is before the huge deficit we incur on”social” etc
obligations we are still signed into).I voted to leave and have never regretted one moment.
Despite Con/Lab/Lib/LibDem/upper chamber dotards(mine host excepted) collusion to
ensure we never really left
June 22, 2026
No! I’ve changed my mind it was a big mistake, a ten year wasted opportunity, i hope this Burnham chap is going to get a grip and lead us back, it’s time now to think of the following generations.
June 23, 2026
Sir JR’s charge sheet is absolutely accurate, and what always astonishes me is that the europhiles are perfectly aware of the abuse the UK suffered between 1973 and 2020 while part of the EEC/EU, and yet are convinced we should go back for even more of a beating. In fact they seem slyly gleeful about the EU’s open and unswerving hostility towards Britain since the 2016 referendum vote, and seem to think it proves their remainer case.
I can only assume that (as well being financially innumerate) Remainers must have have a strong and self-hating masochistic streak.
June 23, 2026
I remember that day so well. The feelings of hope in the future were glorious! What came next was an eye-opener as Parliament and the Establishment proved themselves hell-bent on denying the people’s democratic wishes. They could not face governing a Britain without the Eu establishment’s orders facilitating their decisions. Yes, there have been a few wins, but too many losses which still bind the country from truly flourishing. As for the Windsor Framework! Words fail me!
I cannot help wondering, Sir whether the government rejoining, in part or in full, could be deemed a gross betrayal of the people? Surely 17.5 million people will protest loudly?