Gully Foyle 75 Brexit benefits Available now on Amazon. Foreword by myself.
This is a welcome treasure trove of Brexit benefits which the mainstream media have preferred to ignore or play down. The author sets out how as an independent country we can improve things for ourselves. We can change our laws, cut our taxes, extend our trade deals, take down tariffs, get our seat back on the leading world institutions where the EU displaced us. The 75 benefits are all good. Brexiteers feel let down that successive governments gave away so much in the Withdrawal negotiations and then failed to use many of the freedoms we have now regained. Nonetheless Brexit is still a great victory for the majority against the governing elites. Our Parliament can now use our sovereign powers to make things better. This government’s failure to do so lies behind its collapse in support.
The government’s attempted “re set” is turning out to be a series of embarrassing climbdowns, sacrificing our powers in a way which will make things worse. As the country clamours for fewer migrants, the government takes up the EU demand to give more access for younger people into the UK under a scheme likely to prove even more lopsided than Erasmus. That scheme made UK taxpayers pay for many more EU students coming to the UK than UK students wishing to go to the rest of the EU. A desperate Chancellor argues more younger people coming in from the EU would boost our growth. She should look at growth in income per head, which would be lowered by inviting in yet more people to low pay jobs and no jobs, and their dependents. The OBR should have none of it as a positive when making their forecasts. The EU always did and always will mean more UK costs for taxpayers to meet, slower growth and more regulation.
Remain said that if we left the UK would be marginalised and less powerful in the world. At the time of the vote in 2016 the UK was the third ranked country for soft power in the world. Today we are still in third place after Brexit. More importantly we are still third despite the rise of China to second place because Germany has fallen well behind us into fifth. So the UK outside the EU is ranked more highly than the EU’s largest country, which when we were in the EU was thought more influential than us. That looks like a Brexit win.
Gully Foyle has done a magnificent job showing in detailed accounts just how many things we have already improved, many from avoiding new laws and charges from a power grabbing EU. He puts the wins under seven heads. There are the money savings on our membership fee and lost tax revenues. There is independence to have our own fishing, farming and animal welfare policies. There is more trade through the large extra trade deals we have been able to sign. Our service exports have roared ahead. We can decide on our own laws. We have used more flexibility in financial markets to grow our worldwide business. We can control our own border and have greatly reduced legal migration from the EU. Governments have failed to suspend European human rights law to grip the issue of illegal arrivals though they are free to do that. We have improved our position in defence and our world standing.
The financial wins are large. There is the saving of £12-16 bn a year from our annual subscription, soon to be much increased by the EU as they expand their spending and borrowing.
Many of us want to treat animals well. Out of the EU we have been able to strengthen the law on animal testing. We have banned the export of live animals. We have banned cruel ways of making foie gras and the fur trade. These were not possible in the EU. We want a good environmental policy. Out of the EU we have been able to remove VAT from green products like insulation materials and we can ban the sand eel fishery which is damaging our marine environment.
The UK has left a customs union which made us impose high tariffs on goods we import from non EU sources, imposing large taxes on UK consumers. This was particularly harmful where we could not grow or make the things at home. The UK has signed important new trade deals with the Trans Pacific Partnership and India. We have removed smaller tariffs, tariffs on intermediates needed for our manufacturing, and on goods we cannot produce or grow for ourselves. There are still more tariffs we can and should remove. Why shaft UK consumers as the EU did?
What we need is a government prepared to use our powers to stop the flow of illegal and low pay/no pay migrants, to cut taxes, avoid more carbon taxes and tariffs, get rid of anti business laws and reject EU laws than create dear energy and restrict hi tech investment. All this is now possible, out of the EU.
Everyone interested in the future of our country and the detail of our relationship with the EU should read this book. For too long the mainstream media and the Remain politicians and officials have trotted out false soundbites. Some of these are based on old wrong predictions to suggest Brexit was a bad idea. As this book shows, we already have some good wins and could have so many more if we put our mind to it. To date most of the wins have been avoiding new laws and taxes the EU is imposing on its members. We could have more and bigger wins if we got on with the job of dismantling the bad taxes and laws we were made to adopt.
September 28, 2025
The problem is john 2TK is determined to unravel our Brexit wins. He’s given EU fishing rights for 12 years when they thought three would be good. He’s aligning us with food regulation which impacts our farmers.
Most importantly we are tied to Europe for about 15% of our electricity which now doubt they will use to blackmail us in other areas
There are still too many in Westminster and the civil Serpents who wants us back under the Brussels yoke. Only Reform is committed to leaving.
September 28, 2025
I don’t see Starmer as being any more determined than the conservative governments before him, he just has less shame about riding roughshod over everyone.
The previous governments had ample opportunity and the power and the means to implement the changes John summarises above but they simply chose not to.
September 28, 2025
+1
September 28, 2025
Sir JR (quote)
“We could have more and bigger wins if we got on with the job of dismantling the bad taxes and laws we were made to adopt”
We could indeed, but we have a House of Commons stuffed with’remainiacs’ who just can’t let go.
September 28, 2025
Indeed full of big state, tax to death “remainiacs”, regulate to death, open door to low skilled immigration, net zero zealots, fans of the ECHR…
September 28, 2025
‘ Brexiteers feel let down that successive governments gave away so much in the Withdrawal negotiations and then failed to use many of the freedoms we have now regained.’
The key sentence above.
‘Seventy five benefits’ sounds like :-
‘Never mind, look on the bright side.’
September 28, 2025
The alternative was death.
While we live we can fight back.
October 1, 2025
No, Peter it sounds like there are 75 Brexit benefits the MSM never discuss. People claim there aren’t any!
September 28, 2025
All well and good, but we are not Sovereign. The Establishment and the Uni-Party in Westminster refused to restore it, only permitting Johnson’s weak “deal.” Sunak then weakened Brexit still further and Two-Tier is attempting to make us an Associate Member.
We voted to LEAVE. A country which has LEFT the EU would not have it creating and imposing regulations on us across large swathes of economic activity.
September 28, 2025
Sovereign. A meaningless word beloved of little englanders in denial about the need for mutually acceptable laws and regulation in a globally interconnected world. It’s a word used a lot in America to try and justify living ‘outside’ the laws of the kand.
Unless our island could exist in total isolation, we have to accept other countries requirements.
Have you ever tried exporting to Germany. Meet their exacting quality standards or don’t do business.
De facto ‘external regulation’±
September 28, 2025
So how do we export to, say America, or Latin America or Asia without making ourselves subordinate to THEIR laws and regulations in our own country? Only businesses which are exporting to the EU should have to comply with EU laws.
There is no justification, for example, for us to be bound by the EU’s Environmental Regulations in our own country.
September 28, 2025
Those who export to Germany need to adhere to the German requirements.
Every coffee shop does that every day, the6 have to cater to the requirements of their clients or lose the business. But we don’t make cobblers adhere to the Coffee shops standards, which is what EU law does do.
You don’t understand Sovereignty aka freedom, until you lose it.
September 28, 2025
We are not not-sovereign, to the chagrin of the political class.
We can elect a Parliament which will assert our Sovereignty fully.
To do so we need to SELECT our own candidates freely.
September 28, 2025
+1
September 28, 2025
So Hornsea windfarm owned by Orsted is being guaranteed £200 pet mwh, three times the average price. This is index linked for 20 years. We’re being scammed by Milibrains stupid zealotry.
September 28, 2025
Indeed the policies of the Tories continues made even worse by Zealot Miliband is he just moronic & totally deluded or is it actually rather more sinister than that? Can he really be that ignorant and mad?
September 28, 2025
Kier Starmer BBC1 interview this AM was anyone less suitable to be PM or politician!
He kept saying (questioned about VAT) “The Manifesto Stands” another lie they have already put up NI when they promosed not to – and have hugely increased and over taxed “working people”.
Interesting on his £20k donkey field for his parents he says it was a gift to them and not in trust. So did he buy it in his name or was it a gift to his parents and thus in their name. He was a bit evasive on this point!
October 1, 2025
Wait till they put pay-per-mile on vehicles soon. I think I read 9p per mile is floated. How will foreign vehicles pay for it? Will it be on top of ved and fuel duty and tax? A triple tax. We take more in in those taxes than we spend on our roads. We will pay out a fortune for cycle lanes that cyclists don’t like to use because they’re full of debris so even when in place, they ride in the main traffic. We will narrow previously productive roads to install two-way cycle lanes, allowing the odd bikers to use them.
Then the resolution foundation team were all for lowering the vat threshold to £35,000 that doesn’t put up the underlying rate of vat but collects a lot more vat and forces people into vat registration other than the low-paid sole trader.
The Tories toyed with NI+Tax to make one tax applicable to all (inc the retired), they knew that wouldn’t go down well with their voters, Labour don’t care about retirees, especially those making more than £13,000 pa.
September 28, 2025
James no so Cleverly on BBC 1 claimed that reform’s policy was “you have to reject anything to do with non hydro-carbon energy generation” a blatant lie they just want fair unrigged competition between different sources of energy be they nuclear, oil, gas, wind, hydro, tidal, solar…
Also James the energy is already chemical energy in the hydro-carbons so not energy generation just conversion of this energy to heat and electric energy not “energy generation”.
September 28, 2025
James made very clear that Kemi is fully behind the Net Zero religion but just takes the Sunak position that wend down so well at the last General Election – we will go over the cliff just like Ed Miliband but with a tiny touch on the brakes!
September 28, 2025
Correct.
September 28, 2025
Contrast what Jenrick said to the Bruges Group recently. I don’t think Cleverly is adhering to party policy. There’s a clip of Jenrick answering a question in this tweet.
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1970934261911113857
Incidentally I think NZW are over egging the pudding by claiming that CFD subsidies would be cut. Jenrick refers to “some subsidies”, but CFDs are a protected species. The ONS reports that ROCs cost us £7.7bn in 2024, and they don’t enjoy the same legal protection, so eliminating them would be good, as would eliminating carbon taxes which force up electricity costs through hedging, as well as hitting industries that use coal or gas directly.
Coutinho is due to speak at the party conference about the importance of cheap energy and how to achieve it. I don’t think she would support the Cleverly view at all. She recently wrote about pursuing cheap nuclear and what it would entail.
September 28, 2025
He’s buying his post-Parliamentary career in the Global Quangocracy with OUR money.
September 28, 2025
Sir John, only those with a blinkered almost religious desire to remain in the EU could fail to understand the merit of sovereign independence which leaving the EU returned to us.
As you have said, it is a pity the government has not embraced those obvious advantages and all too often the government of the day has done all in its power to gift the EU authority over UK affairs.
The governments lack of will to secure our borders and prevent the daily ingress of people we do not want, do not need and do not understand why there are here, let alone what their intentions are remains a puzzling situation?
Despite the best effort of the government and its destructive agents to thwart UK influence and capability, the opposite is happening. There are now more Brits than ever around the world in places and positions influencing the activities of their newly chosen home territories. It is a real uplift to meet up with executives schooled here in the UK trained here in the UK in engineering and commerce, who are highly regarded in their newly chosen homelands many in the USA.
We left the EU because we are not minded to be passive rule takers. Our history and our core strength is law making and advancing wealth. The EU is the exact opposite of what is the spirit of British independent mindedness.
Long may our historic culture of freedom and our belief in ongoing wealth creation continue.
September 28, 2025
Hear hear
September 28, 2025
Blinkered? Still to this day a key element informing both sides views.
September 28, 2025
Sounds like sensible stuff but alas we have people like Two Tier Kier in charge who want to rejoin the EU in all but name and who give away our fishing away yet again for many years for nothing. His idea of a good deal is 300 in and 1 out with France, the Chagos lunacy, Net Zero… he is even more dire than Cameron, Theresa May, Boris and Sunak. Kemi is Sunak continues has she evem come out against digital ID cards yet?
Perhaps some more books – 75 reasons why Net Zero does does vast harm to the economy, our defence, out industries and our living standards.
75 reason why it is best not to pay people to be feckless and live off others.
75 ways to stop the BBC talking drivel on Net Zero, Climate Change, Economics, the Net Harm Covid Vaccines…
75 ways to Stop Big Pharma pushing serial net harm Covid “Vaccines” into people who had no need of them even had they been remotely safe and effective.
75 Ways to get more efficient and better directed defence procurement.
75 Ways to prevent vested interests buying government influence.
75 ways to get socialist indoctrination out of school, government, the blob, Quangos, many charities…
75 ways to actually deter and largely prevent criminal activities, 7500 ways to usefully cut red tape, 75 ways to make it more easy hire and fire people (that benefits workers and employers and the economy), 75 ways to stop rigging the education market, the energy market, the housing market, banking, the pensions market, the employment market, the NHS…
75 ways to restrict immigration to high skilled, high earning, wealth people who are a net benefit to the country rather the benefit claiming and people often with criminal intentions.
But the really tricky one is 75 way to get politicians and government, once elected, to do what they promised. Or 75 ways to stop incumbent governments rigging the political system, gerrymandering or being totally corrupt. 75 ways to stop governments trying to leaving as big a mess as possible for the next government.
September 28, 2025
Lifelogic,
If you were writing such a book you would simply pick a handful of reasons and then repeat them until you reached number 75.
September 28, 2025
No I would find far more then cut them down to just the most serious ones!
September 28, 2025
I wonder when the British Establishment is going to admit the truth about the experimental gene therapies they coerced about 80% of the population to take? The Government and MSM howled with fury when Prof Aseem Malhotra dared inform the watching public at the Reform Conference.
“In Italy, nearly 300,000 residents were tracked for 30 months, showing that mRNA shots significantly increased the risk of overall cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, and colorectal cancer.
Now, a second—and far larger—population-based cohort study by Kim et al from South Korea has corroborated and expanded upon those findings. Drawing on a massive sample of more than 8.4 million people, this is one of the most powerful cancer-safety datasets ever analyzed.
The results are striking. After accounting for age, sex, comorbidities, income level, and prior COVID-19 infection, COVID-19 vaccination was linked to significant increases in multiple major cancers, with the signal consistent across all vaccine platforms, both sexes, and age groups:
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-second-massive-population
September 28, 2025
Indeed the figures are dire (live births, cancers, cardio-vascular, morbidity) which I assume is why the Government, NHS, ONS and hiding these figures when broken down by vaccine status. But is will all come out might take 20+ year like Hillsborough, the blood contamination scandal, The many maternity scandals…
September 28, 2025
Ignoring this and other common sense news means that the “mainstream media” is getting less mainstream everyday.
At last, with the demise of the anti-Brexit BBC and other left-wing media, we are seeing plural media emerge.
For example, anyone can set up a YouTube channel free of charge!
September 28, 2025
If Brexit was a success, there would be no need to write a book about it
September 28, 2025
My apologies to the author, I won’t be buying the book. I’m happy with my decision to vote leave and I don’t feel a need for anyone to tell me I was right.
September 28, 2025
No need to apologise Dave – the book is more for those who deny their existence, than it is for those who already know they exist.
September 28, 2025
When untruths are being perpetuated continually, continual refutation is needed.
September 28, 2025
Indeed Gareth, I’ve no need to read it. I’ve always known that being shackled to a (soon to be) corpse makes no sense. I’ve lived and worked in Europe and very much like the people (most especially the Italians) but the sooner they are freed from the curse of Brussels the better. The first and most essential step is for the Euro to collapse of course and (given the way we are all heading) that might not be as far away as many think.
“Anything it takes” won’t work this time around.
September 28, 2025
+1
September 28, 2025
Brexit is NOT a failure to the disappointment of the political class which sabotaged it. As we gain control of the political class, which has declared war on the British people, we will impose the consequences of Brexit and thrive once again, as we did for 800 years, as a Sovereign democracy.
October 1, 2025
What a silly comment.
The MSM reports that there is mostly failure all the time. This book addresses some of those claims. The BBC does articles on the ‘Five key impacts of Brexit five years on’. Where is the ‘Five key gains of Brexit five years on’?
When UK universities recruited students from the rest of the world they didn’t have to provide the tuition fee loans and maintenance loans as they did with EU students, they can also charge much higher fees than UK/EU student fees so why is that success of increased turnover not discussed, is Britain providing their loans too?
If you put in Google what are the successes from Brexit you are presented with a load of negative news headlines from the BBC to the Guardian
September 28, 2025
I think if we’re going to have leftist govt indefinitely into the future, which we will with the centre right forming a circular firing squad, we might be better off at least in the single market. A depressing position but better than the shadow membership with no say and no attempt to take advantage of the freedoms of brexit which is Labour’s very predictable plan.
September 28, 2025
You mean shoot yourself in the head now to prevent a possible killer doing same at some time in the future?
October 3, 2025
Exactly Lynn.
September 28, 2025
Good morning Sir John and All
If only Brexit had happened, instead the UK Parliament gave us a vassal state making the UK a colony of the EU. No Independence, No Democracy, No Freedom of Speech, just the removal of UK assets and resources to the EU and the right to fill their coffers with UK wealth and receive nothing in return.
September 28, 2025
dont sell the india deal as a brexit benefit, it is almost all about printing visas for indian nationals to come here to work, with a little bit about supposedly selling uk financial services in india. few in india will buy financial services from uk companies, they are far too patriotic. meanwhile we are flooding with indian workers. none of this is a brexit benefit. and I am very pro brexit.
September 28, 2025
I didn’t mean to swerve off topic, but amusing, in the msm – doing the rounds ahead of his religious get together. Sir Keir Starmer claimed Reform UK would “tear our country apart” in a blistering attack on Nigel Farage.
And what has Labour and the other Uniparty crews done?
September 28, 2025
According to Two-Tier, a plan to deport foreigners who have no right to be here; who contribute nothing to the country/economy; who will be a leech on British taxpayers all their lives and who we voted NOT to be allowed to come here in the first place, is WAYCIST.
September 28, 2025
But Kier’s blatant two tier justice system is not waycist? I assume have a minister for Women and Equality and women only candidate lists is not sexist and having a back door blasphemy law under the guise of Islamophobia is not “waycist” either?
September 28, 2025
I’ve always thought that the reason parliament liked being in the EU was that it didn’t have to think of ways to improve our country just sit back and be told what to do, and then when it went pear shaped and the voters didn’t like it they’d say oh but it was an EU diktat. Since Margaret Thatcher we haven’t had a government with backbone to put us first against the world. They just sit back and take orders from EU and I’m ashamed to say that even the Tory party didn’t stand up to them. I agree we can go it alone but politicians have got so used to being yes men that they don’t know how. I agree with you we have done some and could do much more, but unfortunately not for the next four years.
September 28, 2025
Change the political personnel. That the power of Democracy. Brexit was the critical battle, we have yet to win the war, a few skirmishes to come.
September 28, 2025
@Joan Sawyers, the freeloaders have refused to be the UK’s Legislators. Rather than making Laws that work for the UK, the person with the responsibility seems to have said ‘rather than think and do my job, let’s just dump EU Law on the UK, rather than do what I’m paid to do’
That’s how the lazy UK Legislators think
September 28, 2025
John,
Thus us like sour grapes far too late and talking about elite groups is a load of nonsense when it comes to Brexit which was a mistake from the beginning.
Reply The sour grapes are yours. “Thus us” is meaningless. I read what Remain and the EU say, which is why I came out for Brexit. You imply you will not read what we say, so you will never understand how much better things can be out of the EU
September 28, 2025
EU as they call it is over, it wont last and will be gone sooner than you than think.
September 28, 2025
If the recent polling results are still the same, and elections are still allowed in the same format, then come the next series of elections the clear advantage of Brexit will become very apparent as the country votes to remove the Uniparty from power.
September 28, 2025
Massive banner on a motorway bridge entering Liverpool says:
STARMER/LABOUR YOUR DONE; NOT WELCOME IN LIVERPOOL.
Wow!
September 28, 2025
well worth watching “This Isn’t Science, It’s Ideology – Kathryn Porter” on youtube on the
TRIGGERnometry channel
September 29, 2025
Yes, very good – particularly in looking at how the civil service and quangos mislead politicians with many politicians simply falling in line because they lack expertise to challenge, while others luxuriate in their ideological beliefs in place of knowledge.
I know she recorded it several weeks ago.
September 29, 2025
+1
September 28, 2025
75 ways we can – but they won’t…so what?
September 28, 2025
895 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 27th September from France… They’ll never use a digital ID