The government is wilfully wrong in saying we lost 4% or 8% of GDP through Brexit. The graphs and charts of our GDP versus France, Germany and Italy show that is nonsense. The government is hopelessly misled in thinking its growth strategy will spring into life if we re set with the EU.
How will paying even more for energy once in the EU carbon trading and emissions scheme help? It is ultra dear energy that is deindustrialising us at pace.
How will imposing a carbon border tax on imports from non EU help? That makes business inputs dearer and squeezes consumer spending power.
How will adopting more EU rules make us more prosperous? Their rules add costs and impose bans and limitations on business activity.
How does bringing in lots of low paid and no paid young people to the UK boost per head incomes?
How does paying ten times as much for student support to help EU students much more than UK ones help us? Why stop supporting UK students to go to non EU universities?
How does giving away so much of our fish for so many years do anything but damage to our coastal communities and fishing grounds?
If aligning with EU laws makes you richer why is Northern Ireland worse off than GB, as NI does align?
Why did the UK growth rate plunge in the Uk’s first twenty years in the EEC, and fall further when we joined the single market in 1992?
Given how stretched our budgets are, why will paying more money to the EU help? Won’t that put up taxes or put up borrowings more, with higher interest rates as a result?
How does seeking more EU trade help GDP, when we run a large deficit with the EU and imports subtract from GDP? We run a surplus on non EU trade which is growing faster.
The EU re set could undermine or prevent our trade deals with the TPP, US and other large overseas economies. Why risk it?
People voted for UK MPs to decide our laws and run our government, answerable to the UK voters. Making us accept EU laws we cannot change or influence undermines democracy.
May 3, 2026
Exactly.
“People voted for UK MPs to decide our laws and run our government, answerable to the UK voters. Making us accept EU laws we cannot change or influence undermines democracy.”
The EU is hugely anti-democratic but then almost everything Blair and Brown did was anti-democratic and the Tories for 14 years undid non of it and even built on it. See the David Starkey videos on this.
May 3, 2026
The BBC had a long interview with the John ERM Major on Friday. In the full interview version he says he would never have joined the EURO and only joined the ERM to fight inflation and was about to come out before it we were force out. He then whitters on about how poor his mother was and blames this on inflation. He also needless to say pushes the usual climate alarmist lies about the polar ice and extreme weather events and his garden daffodils.
Then he complains that he did not get the credit for for this ERM fighting of inflation! You can tackle inflation far more effectively than by joining the recessionary ERM fiasco. Does he really think anyone will believe any of this patent drivel. His moronic ERM fiasco cost billions, repossessed thousands of houses, closed vast numbers of businesses, cause many suicides and broke many marriages… But then it was Thatcher who appointed such a dope the Chancellor and allowed him to join the ERM against wiser advice from JR and her economic advisor.
Needless to say the three guests on Newsnight (not the full interview) all thought Major was largely right! An absurdly soft interview too.
Reply Yes, it was shadowing the ERM, DM that created the inflation he complains about!
May 3, 2026
The ERM pushed mortgage interest rates up to 17%+ (and thus pushed up rents too) and destroy many businesses and jobs not sure how this would have help people like his ever so poor mother very much.
ERM Economic and Social Impact:-
High Interest Rates: In a desperate attempt to stay in the ERM, the government raised interest rates from 10% to 12%, and then to 15% in one day, adding massive pressure to businesses and homeowners.
Recession and Job Loss: By September 1992, unemployment was at 10%, with over 36,000 bankruptcies and 25,000 company liquidations occurring in the first nine months.
Housing Crisis: The crisis saw over 68,000 property repossessions and 205,000 instances of mortgage arrears.
But John Major complains he did not get the political “credit”!
May 3, 2026
Indeed but surely Major joined with the clear intention of joining the EURO (which he now denies and suggest he joined just to “reduce” inflation).
May 3, 2026
Following the US “Secretary for War” Hegseth’s failure to bomb the Ayatollahs into submission, Trump has – predictably – tried to shift the blame to Europe and NATO for their “horrible failure” to support his war
The truth is that the IRGC managed to successfully strike at least 17 U.S. military installations and bases across seven countries in the region, causing serious damage and many American (non-fatal) casualties. They achieved this using precision targeting information provided by the Russians
Hegseth blustered and refused to answer questions from Senators last week, about why he has not supplied Ukraine with paid for Patriot air defence missiles and other military aid. It cannot be a coincidence that, emboldened, Putin last week ordered a massive daylight drone assault involving hundreds of Shaheds on Ukraine cities. Hegseth also refused to explain why the $15bn of Senate approved funds have not yet been delivered to Kyiv “we will get back to you on that one”
Following yet another 90 minute “very good” telecon with the war criminal Putin, the Donald apparently agreed with Putin that Ukraine has been militarily defeated (it has not) and has, as ordered, begun to dismantle the American NATO presence in Europe by withdrawing the first tranche of 5000 US troops from Germany
Trump’s real-estate envoys Witkopf and Kushner have undertaken jollies to Moscow no less than seven times. Insultingly, they have refused to visit Zelensky in Kyiv even once. It’s long past time we discover where Trump’s loyalties really lie.
May 3, 2026
People voted for UK MPs to decide our laws and run our government, answerable to the UK voters. Making us accept EU laws we cannot change or influence undermines democracy.
Hopefully it’s not going to happen, after this coming Thursday liebour will be obliterated from our town halls up and down the country which will trigger the squeaming twitching liebour Mps to get rid of Starmer, and his response will be if you want me out I’ll call a General Election , so be it so we can send all these manifesto deniers home to find proper jobs and let the big boys/girls run the country
May 3, 2026
It has nothing to do with common sense and everything to do with ideology. Westminster in general together with the civil Serpents were aghast at the vote to leave the EU. For ten years the uniparty has done all it can to thwart our leaving.
Day by day they realign us with EU rules the latest being tumble dryers.
We get preferential tariffs from our second largest trading partner but Starmrr is willing to sacrifice that to remain part of his beloved EU.
Trump is correct in describing it as a protectionist cartel and we should have no part of it.
May 3, 2026
“Eu re set will damage our growth”. What growth is that? UK GDP per capita has experienced virtually no growth since Brown’s 2008 banking crash. Probably negative for most people in real terms now with inflation, higher taxes, much higher interest rates and rents and public serices getting worse & worse each year.
May 3, 2026
A question that is never asked is why did Starmer give fishing rights away forv12 years when the EU never even asked for it.