The pro EU parties who want us to join the Customs Union do not seem to understand what a Customs Union does. The EU one would put up UK prices, harm UK business competitiveness and undermine our flourishing trade with the rest of the world .
If we joined we would need to put tariffs back on a wide range of goods from non EU. We took many tariffs off when we left. We took all tariffs off goods we cannot make or grow for ourselves. Why pay more for them with no home industry to try to protect? We got rid of tariffs on imports needed by UK business as raw materials and components. Tariffs on those raise UK business costs and make our finished goods dearer.It would be self harm to reverse our tariff removals.
If we joined we could no longer negotiate our own Free Trade deals with the rest of the world. We might have to tear up our successful and important trade deals with the Trans Pacific Partnership, with India, Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean countries and others. This would damage trade and relations with important and growing markets.
We would lose our right to speak and vote as a full member of the World Trade Organisation which regulates world trade, as the EU handles that brief and would make us follow their tariff decisions.
The purpose of the high EU tariffs is to protect farms and factories on the continent offering product that would not be competitive without a high tariff on the global competitors. The UK is primarily an importer of goods and food from the EU, not an exporter to them. It is not in the UK interest to have these suppliers protected by high tariffs and charging high prices.
The UK mainly sells services which are not subject to tariffs in most places . The UK needs to be able to sign good trade deals with strong clauses on services. The EU did not help us with that when we were members.
October 6, 2026
The EU did not help us with that when we were members.
All the bloody EU wanted from us was our money to give to there poor and failed economy nothing more nothing less, French President Charles de Gaulle didn’t want us to be members to the dreaded EU we should have taken that as a omen
October 6, 2026
Unrestricted trade with the world’s biggest transnational market, cooperation on tackling climate change, migration and security, a seat at the table with enough clout to address China and the US on equal terms, freedom for our kids to live in 27 different countries … yeah nothing
October 6, 2026
We already have tariff free access to the EU market… And we keep all tariffs from other countries imports rather than pass 80% across to Brussels…
October 6, 2026
@Ron Dane, Trade is and was restricted with the EU and it is only permitted on the terms of the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. It isn’t and is never likely to be the Worlds biggest, largest or whatever market – the World already is the largest market under simple WTO terms. With no one telling us how the Country must be run internally.
No one is on equal terms with China they dictate the terms and the EU obliges. China is the EU’s biggest supplier and they(China) dictate the terms. Being part of the EU didn’t help anyone China isn’t interested.
The USA trading terms are simple; they are just reciprocal, without them dictating how a country should be run internally. The USA is also the UK’s largest single trading country and without them ordering the UK Government how to act.
BAE Systems is the largest foreign defence supplier to the USA with the USA accounting for 40% of the company’s turnover, they are treated equally as with USA Companies – do you want to throw that away?
Rolls Royce the aero space company produces more of their products in the USA than anywhere else in the world.
It would be a reasonable bet that the US Defence Dept spends more money with UK Industry than our own Government does.
Your kids can travel, visit, without tradition visas to 180 countries. The EU wants the UK to let their waifs and strays to permanently settle in the UK, get full unemployment benefit and so on. They also want the UK taxpayer to pay for all university tuition of EU Nationals. On leaving the EU the UK taxpayer had to pickup the £5.8billion bill for educating EU students last time around.
Even now the EU owns all the fish and control stocks in UK waters, ensuring the cripple what’s left of the UK fishing fleet. The list goes on and every time it’s a loss to the UK, by manipulation and subterfuge. As a member the UK had no voice no say, nothing on that front would change
The EU is a one-way street always in their favour.
October 6, 2026
Ha ha very funny, freedom for our kids to work in 27 countries???? You mean freedom for millions from the EU to come to the UK, we already have over 700,000 EU nationals on the dole in the UK today. How many young UK people can speak foreign languages and are working in the EU,???? most young people go to English speaking countries.
October 6, 2026
Ron
We losķe money in trading with the EU nations.
The EU nations do not have Environment policies as strict as our Net Zero.
Migration in the EU is uncontrolled.
And you can still live in EU nations.
Yeah…nothing.
October 6, 2026
So you disagree with the single market, Mrs Thatcher’s greatest achievement? In the days when Conservatives wanted to promote trade rather than put barriers in its way
October 6, 2026
The SMMT reports that 350,536 new cars were registered in the UK in September
A record 99,201 (28.3% market share) battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were registered in the UK during the crucial plate-change month of September 2026, marking a significant 36.3% increase compared to the same period last year.
Out of a total 350,536 vehicles, 185,321 electrified power train models represented 52.9% of the total UK car market for the month.
EV sales across the EU also reached record volumes so far in 2026, with 1.64 million sold in the January-to-August period – up 45% year-on-year. EVs made up 22% of the market during this period, six points higher than the same period last year
Model choice was up 50% in a single year as carmakers expanded their line-ups to meet EU emissions targets. The best performer was Volkswagen, which rolled out a number of new affordable EVs, such as the all-electric Polo.
European carmakers dominated the EV offering with nearly 60% of available models, adding 16 in the first half of 2026. Chinese carmakers held 21% and added 11 models.
There can be no doubt that the massive global price gouging by the global fossil fuel cartel (particularly diesel) is driving (no pun intended 🙂 increasing numbers of vehicle buyers to EV’s. ICE cars and with them refinery output are now rapidly on the way out and we can all look forward to breathing clean air in our towns and cities sooner
Reply It is government policy imposing huge taxes on oil, petrol and diesel and the collapse of the UK refineries from dear energy that is driving this change, with lots of angry consumers as a result. What comes next is tax on using EV s to make up for lost fossil fuel tax. Tax is 86 p on a £2 litre of diesel. How much tax will they need from an EV?
October 6, 2026
Whatever tax they levy on EVs will be irrelevant when there is no electricity to be had at any price.
Mrs Gold will go orchard shopping on a noisy, dirty, old diesel bus … along with the rest of the world.
October 6, 2026
The main costs of EV is the high depreciation, the short lived battery, higher insurance costs, shorter tyre life due to higher weight (the heavy battery) so more tyre particulate emissions. Also to charge it cheaply you need a place to park it at home which can also cost a fortune in many city regions. The 3p a mile charge also starting in April next year & this will have to rise to about 8p to be compatible to petrol and diesel.
Plus they have range issues, dangerous fire issues, are slow to “refill”, expensive to recycle and they do not even save any CO2 (not that CO2 is an problem)
Otherwise they are great.
October 6, 2026
@LL Your forget the High Taxpayer contribution forcibly made on those that can’t afford new Cars. Along with the High BIK that is also funded by the Taxpayer. Welcome to the TwoTier UK, those that can pay their own way are funded by those that cant
October 7, 2026
+1 – BIK – Benefit in kind taxes. Something I assume that is not paid by Ministers for Chequers, Dorneywood, Admiralty House or for the various Bishops Palaces nor even on for the Lords Daily cash Allowances. Or for travel to and from Parliament.. It is for travel to and from work for normal workers. Two tier justice and two tier tax laws.
October 6, 2026
So KEMI (the engineer) thinks she can build a missile defence system to be called (The Britannia Shield) for £10bn (£1bn PA for ten years) and yet it cost taxpayers under the Tories about £10bn to build 10 miles of a pointless railway track not used or even remotely finished as yet.
Was this a joke or is she and her potty advisors actually serious?
October 6, 2026
Building the Iron Dome is no joke and GREAT just to be clear (but I think you agree).
And you are right on the issue of cost.
I mean the whole HS2 is like something from Monty Python.
If it was Monopoly money, I would be laughing. But it’s real tax payers’ money. I feel sick to think we can have leaders who can ‘spaff’ money up the wall like that. For 100 miles of track. And now extended to 30 years or whatever. And slower speed than first planned. Unbelievable.
October 7, 2026
When all the political parties agree on something it is a sure sign the policy is mad perhaps driven by vested interests, consultancy fees or even blatant fraud, HS2, Net Zero, the climate change Act, the two joke Aircraft Carriers, open borders to low skilled and often criminal migrants, the war of motorists, landlords, employers, the self employed, Blair’s idiotic wars, excessive taxes & IHT, nearly all the excessive red tape, making tax digital, HIP packs…
October 6, 2026
When we join the Custom Union we will have to impose bigger tariffs on Chinese cars as well as taking VATof school fees.
There is about a 90% chance of power cuts this winter with that percentage increasing annually over the next few years. All these owners of EVs will be crying when their smart meter cuts them off.
October 6, 2026
Power cuts due to grid instability are indeed quite likely and perhaps no diesel for the back up generators too.
Yes joining the EU Customs Union would be a disaster as JR points out so Burnham will probably try to. He is wrong on every issue.
October 6, 2026
Wind today o ly generating 1.9gw or 4.9% of demand. 19% of our electricity being imported at £163 mwh. Looks like a long cold winter.
October 6, 2026
The cynic in me says they already have this covered using the ‘Russian attacks’ we are being told we are under, such as cyber etc. as the cloak to hide behind.
I’m not suggesting Russia doesn’t do such things, but I’m quite sure we do too.
However, I think Russia has its hands pretty full at the moment and it’s a bit of a convenient excuse for our woeful politicians and various quango heads.
October 6, 2026
Yes Russia is currently taking Kiev itself.
Wonder where Zelensky will go …
October 6, 2026
Lynn,
Putin has blood on his hands.
But there is hope of redemption for everyone if they turn to The King of Kings like Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky’s brilliant Crime and Punishment.
Love, Ed x
October 6, 2026
Well SG, the Alfa outside on the drive is still looking lovely and although I don’t do high annual mileage, I was very pleased with the 48.6mpg I managed drivng to Llandundo (250 miles) a week or so ago. Of course, once there the mpg dropped like a stone. Strangely my car doesn’t seem to take kindly to creeping around at 20mph.
I’ve watched a very interesting video about a study of BYD cars by a Japanese consultancy recently. They concluded that the cars were excellently engineered but that the key design goal was to minimise construction costs. Apparently BYD make everything themselves, including many of the semi-conductors used in the car. A single highly integrated ‘central’ controller, sealed in an aluminium casting replaced upto five large electronic modules in the typical European EV. The battery pack is the main chassis component. They concluded that BYD had a margin of 9-11% on their EVS because of this manufacturing focus (European EVs struggle to make 1-2% apparently). So they are relatively inexpensive to make (and purchase). However, they also wondered about the cost of replacement parts (given BYD will be the only source of them) given the very high level of integration. They stated outright that even minor bumps would likey result in a write off (the battery is the major chassis component) and that the batteries were “the worst kind to recycle”.
So I wonder what the market value of an 8-10 year old BYD will be when we eventually get there. Maybe EVs will be regarded as the ultimate consumable. Drive it till it breaks and then just get a new one?
October 6, 2026
Reply to JR’s Reply: EV soon to be charged 3p/mile but I doubt that it will stay that low for very long. As we all know, once a law has been passed and the cost in this case to the EV driver has been set, it is the easiest thing in the world for it to be raised to a new level time after time.
October 6, 2026
The best performer was VW, really, so why are they making 100,000 workers redundant over the next couple of years, and plan even more after 2030.
Afraid the Chinese are going to wipe the floor with the European car industry given the price comparisons.
European Countries cannot it would seem be able to compete on their manufacturing cost, due in part to high electricity pricing and general overheads.
October 7, 2026
@Berkshire Alan
Both VW and the Chinese are introducing more and more complex AI controlled robots to build their cars. Both are shedding labour as the robots will work 24/7 all year round and do not need a salary, tea/coffee breaks, lunch breaks, maternity/paternity leave, sick pay etc etc
A revolution in manufacturing is coming, on a par with the industrial revolution. Britain, of course will be left behind as the right want to continue with ICE cars and would prefer if EV’s just went away. Like our windfarms harvesting free energy.
October 7, 2026
Agree with you regards investing with robots, I went around the Mini Factory at Cowley last year, which was full of them, but that is not going to stop the demise of the Mini Production in the UK, at the time they were waiting on a decision from BMW for the location of the EV mini production, which now seems to have been lost.
October 6, 2026
Neither the EU nor our UK parties have helped us with anything..We voted mainly to stop illegal migration and modify legal immigration.The Tories didn’t help at all.We are in a dire state of affairs.
If we voted for our own laws we should pass those laws which serve the UK people.
October 6, 2026
Interesting video on Facebook showing a Spanish registered plane arriving at Liverpool from Dublin full of migrants before being loaded with Albanians being deported.
Again coaches waiting on the tarmac to whisk away the incomers.
Not only are we being invaded by sea, it appears the government is complicit in Importing them by air.
October 6, 2026
@Ian Wragg – the Conservative answer is an ‘Iron Dome’, the established political elite is making itself look sillier by the day. And it is only the Taxpayer that is footing the bill
October 6, 2026
Badenoch will propose today that the Conservatives will build a “£10bn missile shield” to protect our critical military bases and installations.
The UK has a long and sorry history of trying to build expensive military equipment like this. By the time the specification has been agreed by the defence procurement branch of the MoD, it will already be obsolete. Regardless, the committee responsible will press on to prevent their budget being returned to the Treasury.
By the time a tender has been produced requesting a response from industry, drone/missile designs will have moved on. Nevertheless, a contract will be signed. Not with BAE, however – Lockheed Martin, or Northrop Grumman or another foreign firm. Possibly German. But definately not Ukrainian, the world leaders in this tech
Once the inevitable design delays have been overcome – possibly three years later – and tooling has been bought and manufacturing has commenced – they will make design changes in the light of new defence intelligence on ballistic missile warfare. This will introduce yet more delays
On past experience, Badenoch’s missile defence shield will come in years late, over budget (maybe £25 bn) and will be completely ineffective.
Regardless, those Latin speaking civil serpents responsible for yet another British defence procurement disaster will have moved on to the Treasury, where they will be promoted to a higher grade with a bigger pension. The MoD does not do accountability.
Reply So you favour doing nothing?
October 6, 2026
I’m in favour of not needlessly making enemies.
We need a modern, maybe lazer shield, sheltering much more than our military facilities. Something that can be swung to cover a vast area – and perhaps it should be in space, protecting the whole of Britain by moving just a few minutes from the ‘launch site’.
The weapon also needs to be capable of aiming at individuals and protecting OUR people on the streets – see the problems the 75 million persian hostages are suffering because they are unarmed and incapable of being protected, even by the mighty Trump USA.
We need to have our old Allies, Russia and the USA in a tight and mutually beneficial treaty and keep space secure.
We need to deploy the VERY BEST British brains and stop making newspaper announcements! I include Musk of course, in the group of British genius to be set free to come up with proposals.
Defence strategy is not for sharing.
October 6, 2026
Laser.
October 6, 2026
Hopefully she will have the sense immediately to reverse Labour’s pandering to the antisemites and reverse the shameful sanctions on our democratic ally Israel, and perhaps the Israelis (and Americans) will allow us to buy iron dome from them. Drones from Ukraine (who should also be asked to assist with training) and we should get far more bang for our buck than any traditional defence procurement programme. The nomination of Sir Dominic Cummings as permanent secretary at the MoD would also help.
October 6, 2026
“Badenoch will propose today that the Conservatives will build a “£10bn missile shield” to protect our critical military bases and installations.”
Perhaps we should get help on the design from Israel – but given the appalling policies of Ed Miliband and Burnham towards Israel would they even assist. DEFENCE procurement in the UK has been a disaster for many years – those two absurd aircraft carriers that do not work for example (one kept for spares).
October 6, 2026
Well said, Lord Redwood.
So Sakara, you favour doing nothing, digging head in sand, hoping problem will go away.
What if there’s a good chance you’re wrong. They do build something effective. And that can be updated. And that has benefits in jobs, the economy and UK technical innovation in general.
October 6, 2026
The EU is a Gang.
They demand money for ‘protection’ just as Al Capone did.
They demand loyalty with the chance to ‘join the gang’ from lowly state politicians, who aspire to join the big girls and boys quaffing Champagne morning, noon and night.
The people of Europe are an irritant, so The Gang decided to replace them – to ‘rub their noses in diversity’.
The gang like wielding power. They are oblivious of consequences because they, collectively, are incapable of sequential thought.
They say ‘all politicians think … Europe should unite as a single POWERFUL force … so we can crush our enemies … defeat Russia’. Or ‘All scientists think YOU (but not Gates and family) should have the Covid jabs’. Their unity convinces them.
But when the mass of people unite and say ‘leave the EU’ or ‘we don’t want to go to war with Russia’, or ‘we don’t want to buy EVs’ or ‘we don’t want aliens immigrating to Britain (this was the case from Windrush on) it’s dismissed.
This Gang is comprised of very stupid, uninterested, dangerous and destructive people.
October 6, 2026
@JR – reply
Speaking as a taxpayer I think we should buy a proven system off the shelf from a supplier who will build us a manufacturing facilty here in the UK. The Army wanted to buy the best selling Korean K9 tracked self-propelled gun to replace the British SP90. The Koreans offered to build a factory here to make them. We chose an 8 X 8 Boxer variant which will quikly get stuck in winter weather, targeted and destroyed. It is already delayed and over budget
October 6, 2026
Anyone who has manufactured something knows how to turn it off.
October 6, 2026
You’re making some valid points regarding costs, length of time to get anything done etc.
The problem doesn’t just reside in the MOD, it’s across the board.
Too many people with big pay-outs that haven’t a clue what they are talking about in all areas, leaves us in a total mess.
Too many people employed who don’t have a clue, but hey! they tick a box and that’s a good thing……allegedly
October 6, 2026
The Iron Dome is different. It’s a bigger project than one specific type of weapon. And benefits for jobs, the economy and high tech industry here in the UK in general. But, sure, we still have to be ruthless in keeping costs down etc.
It’s also something we don’t want to be reliant on foreign powers for – for defence reasons!
We need to be 100% in control of it. Including updates to improve the technology and keep up with what enemy powers are up to.
Similar to our nuclear subs and weapons (even though private enterprise obviously plays a role).
October 7, 2026
@Ed M
The much vaunted Israeli Iron Dome system repeatedly failed during the recent Trump/Netanyahu war on the Ayatollahs. By launching large numbers of decoy drones in waves, Iron Dome missiles were rapidly expended following which IRGC launched ballistic missiles against military and intelligence facilities inside Israel. Including their Dimona nuclear facility. Also struck were Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beit Shemesh (where a single strike on 1 March killed nine civilians), Petah Tikva, Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak, and Bat Yam.
October 7, 2026
I don’t deny this. Your point is valid but not conclusive we shouldn’t build an Iron Dome.
There are pros and cons but the pros outweigh the cons I believe. (And we learn from the mistakes of others).
Pros. Better to try (you might succeed a bit or thoroughly) than not (you’re 100% vulnerable – no argument). Spin-offs to the economy, jobs, high tech industry in general.
October 6, 2026
Sadly much of our defence expenditure seems to be very poor value for money, with extensive delays and poor performance.
I simply cannot believe we will get any sort of comprehensive defence shield for £10 billion, good grief a simple 100 mile railway, is going to cost 10 times that with a now estimated build time of 30 years.
October 6, 2026
Mick has it right we’re not wanted in EU Europe – we’re just too much trouble – better instead to try a Customs Union with Trumps America – this is what the ERG crowd promised.
October 6, 2026
We can easily have a zero tarriffs agreement with Trump’s USA. That is a ‘Union’.
October 6, 2026
The EU is all about control, creating their protectionin to wall with nonsensical rules and regulations so they dont have to engage with the nasty World outside thier borders. Previously the woul create this protection with tariffs but under WTO terms that would have signalled to the World they are a piraih state.
Of course any integration with those that think like that means you have to hand over ‘rule’ with no say. It was reported yesterday in the media that since the UK left the EU’s full control they(the EU) have implemented 24,000 new rules and controls that so far we dont obey.
Society, business is looking to be released from State control not to be shackled to the mind set of the unelected unacceptable few.
October 6, 2026
The Question never asked, why is it the EU’s major trading partners China, the USA, even Russia all immersed in more trade with the EU than the UK, never ever have to hand over control of thier countries inner workings to this rogue Empire, than is required by them from the UK?
October 6, 2026
Stop asking tricky questions.
October 6, 2026
A question never asked because no EU member hands over control of anything. The EU is controlled by its members, and helps them to cooperate
October 7, 2026
@Wally – you know you are of course wrong. The EU has full control of the UK Fishing fleet inside ‘UK’ territorial waters and the UK is not even a member. UK Government and UK Fishermen have no say in when they can put to sea and what they can catch. As Lord Redwood has said elsewhere the EU is threatening, yes threatening the UK unless it puts up the tariffs on Chinese cars. That is the EU controlling ordering what can happen inside the UK regardless of what the UK Government and the UK People want. To just trade with the EU the UK must take and as it turns out and the UK Taxpayer must pay for EU Citizens to get a University education in the UK. Yet the Chinese, the Russians and the USA Taxpayers don’t. There are many more examples….
October 6, 2026
EU deficit with China: €1 BILLION PER DAY.
October 7, 2026
UK exports to China £32.3 bn, UK imports from China £74.9 bn, balance £42.7 bn so deficit is £117 m per day.
Total GDP of EU27 $21.24 tn
Total GDP of UK $4 tn (data.worldbank.org)
Proportion of deficit with China EU27 1/21.24 = 0.047 ie 4.7%
Proportion of deficit with China UK 0.117/4 = 0.029 ie 2.9%
Those are the proper numbers to discuss, not Lynn’s, which by itself, I’m afraid, ‘don’t say a thing’ (credit Mick Harvey).
October 7, 2026
@hefner – and when did Lynn mention the UK?
October 8, 2026
She didn’t. That’s my point. To put the EU deficit in perspective one has to compare with other countries, the UK for example. That’s a very basic thing to do when one starts using a bit of statistics to further an argument. Don’t you think so?
October 7, 2026
An apology to Lynn is in order hefner
Or is it a run away moment from you yet again.
October 7, 2026
Sam as a knight in shining armour … I would think Lynn is more than able to comment on my post without you suddenly waking up from your slumber.
Don’t you ever feel ridiculous?
October 6, 2026
People need to remember the effect of agricultural tariffs. For example, we used to be self-sufficient in milk. Then the EU introduced milk quotas putting many of our dairy farms out of business. We have some of the best grazing land in the world yet we import dairy products. The net zero lobby will tell you we should not increase the dairy herd size because of methane emissions. They do not understand that ruminants are essential for soil health. Meanwhile they wail about the depletion of our soils.
October 6, 2026
As you effectively sum up, the only beneficiary of any agreement is to the EU themselves, it would just confirm what the said with ‘May’s’ horrendous Withdrawal Agreement that the UK is the EU’s colony now.
As now the only agreement that could achieve mutual respect and reciprocal trade would be WTO terms. Parliament were traitors then and now. The UK Parliament is just to lazy to be expected to work and manage so farm everything that is thier responsibility out
October 6, 2026
Another reason we should tell Burnham where he can park his EU surrender.
They tell us we will be better off in, but produce no verifiable data that shows any benefit for us being incorporated into a decaying union – It’s all about socialist ideology again!
October 6, 2026
Tories are coming up with Iron Dome Defence or whatever called. GREAT.
But like I was saying on this site, years ago (when Ukraine war started and with Putin’s threat of hypersonic missiles and drones), we should have been focusing on this (£10 Billion) and other things instead of the madness of HS2 (£100 Billion).
£ 1 0 0 B I l l I o n (eye-watering amount of money for what – for a quicker train to Birmingham)
And why did it take the Ukraine war to get Tories thinking about this?
Surely our military have known about such a threat for years?
(I’m focused on the Tories here because I’m a Tory – and no point focusing on Labour about things like this because they are useless).
October 6, 2026
Even the thought of rejoining the EU, or the customs union, means our Government is not putting the UK first. Any surrender of our sovereignty is treason. Yet, instead of hanging their heads in shame, too many MPs, members of the HoL, and the establishment want to take us back into a dying EU.
Where is the vision for the UK? Where is the belief in the people? Where is the desire to grow the UK economy?
Where is the determination to reduce government spending? Where is the desire to reduce taxes? Where is the will to reduce taxes and encourage people to work? Our new PM has the right name, because he will Burn the UK economy completely, assisted by his ignorant Cabinet and MPs!
October 6, 2026
I see someone banging on about the ‘6-8% drop in GDP because of Brexit’ line again yesterday.
That is pure speculation cited as fact if I am not mistaken? Been covered here before I think…
October 6, 2026
Can the EU protect the UK From itself, from the war going on inside it?
Ask yourself, who is organising the invading undocumented combatant age men? Who is inviting and assisting them embellishing them rewarding them, at the UK Taxpayers expense?
Then reflect in the News an accident at a Russia research facility that has picked up were Wuhu had arrived, caused instant death. What ‘Iron Dome’ will protect any facility against a toy bought down the road or from Amazon (other outlets are available) and loaded with a Russian flask or even Chinese flask?
It is the UK State, the UK Parliament its Government that has facilitated the destruction of the UK, no other ‘actors’ are needed. No ‘ Iron Dome’ can protect against stupidity, incompetence and ideological terrorism from with-in.
The question becomes who will destroy the UK First, The EU, the Blob, the Political Elite, the UK Parliament its Government?
The UK and its people are just someone else’s side show for their ‘free’ entertainment
October 6, 2026
Thank you for the run down it’s very helpful to be reminded and from an experienced and trusted source.
Who’d have thought we’d have to fight this fight again??
EU membership is being sold to the young and gullible as the answer to everything and the old codgers who voted Brexit destroyed their future…..if only they knew the costs and not just financial.
It ties in very well with the excellent reminder of facts/figures to counter Burnham’s pitch to the young naive and communist/socialist crowd that all was well in the 1970’s and he’s going to whisk us back there.
Some great music during the 1970’s and very little immigration, and English towns looked like English towns.
Will he revive that bit???
October 6, 2026
Since Trump is ‘joking’ about letting Iran take out LA and San Diego, we’d better hurry up with Iron Dome.
October 6, 2026
The EU also monitors blogs like this and from their reading of JR’S we can be pretty sure there is no way they’ll ever countenance a UK return again – not in any shape or form.
October 6, 2026
Use of diesel on the civil engineering work for the lower Thames crossing is banned. Special electric heavy machinery is having to be bought. National Highways has decided that the massive cost premium is worth it. I assume their senior staff are still getting paid massively.
Where is the oversight of such waste in our system?
October 6, 2026
in an ideal world we would be in deep discussion with USA,Canada,Australia,NZealand,India,Pakistan,SriLanka
SAfrica and other Africa Commonwealth members.They offer much that we need we offer much that they need.Apologies to our other friends that I have overlooked.A simple question posed to EU “back in at all costs”
adherents “Give me one outstanding reason why?” reamains unanswered.Evidently John of Kent is lost for
words(or arguable case)
October 6, 2026
We have no Merchant Navy left anymore no British Shipping companies with suitable capacity for the long haul – in the event of the outbreak of worldwide hostilities we would be very much on our own. It’s a question of bi-lateral relationships now with regional geography in mind and all about security and defence
October 6, 2026
We must not join the EU’s Custom Union, it will cost a fortune and will severely restrict us exporting and importing from the wider world. Yet again we will become a rule taker. This is madness. Rather than pontificating over this issue I want to see our Prime Minister concentrate on stopping the conflict in Ukraine by using diplomacy to negotiate a ceasefire and settlement. I want the same energy used to reach a settlement with Iran. Furthermore, I want illegal migrants arrested and detained securely and returned to France. I want us out of the ECHR and associated legislation currently frustrating robust action. The recent spectacle in Gosport where the state used legislation to restrict freedom of movement of local citizens was outrageous. How much longer is this illegal migration problem going to last? This is a National Emergency.
October 6, 2026
Yes this is a national emergency. Apparently two people who had been on the boat were m*rdered en route. So was anyone arrested on ‘being rescued’?
October 7, 2026
They are also going for the banks by disallowing higher investment without higher tax and less security. That will filter to BOf E. Law and medicine has been taken over, immigration and taking the Micky out of taxpayers pockets to pay for illegals is an act of treachery
I really believe that collective consciousness is influencing and manipulating politicians to self destruct.
October 6, 2026
Regarding the staggering amount of money of HS2 to Birmingham, I’m currently reading Emma by Jane Austen whose writes about Birmingham, ‘
‘They came from Birmingham, which is not a place to promise much, you know, Mr. Weston. One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound..’
– Well, not much has changed in 200 years (that doesn’t take away from the people of Birmingham being great and having a good sense of humour). I think Jane would think it utter madness to spend £8 million in their money on faster transport from London to Birmingham.
October 6, 2026
The building of Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s brilliant London sewers cost 2/3 of what HS2 is costing in today’s money. And this is the UK when it was economically the most important in the world.
The London sewers profoundly changed / improved London. Getting rid of disease, stink (including affecting Parliament), allowing for leisure on the river, and just vastly more civilised overall as well as creating new embankments and making possible vital transport routes. And has lasted years.
Building London’s sewers was entirely justified. HS2 – not.