One of my critics here complains I do not show charts or graphs when setting out economic arguments. I do use numbers from ONS/Treasury/Bank of England/ World Bank/IMF and check the sources carefully. I do collaborate with Facts4eu.org who produce excellent charts which I strongly recommend. Go on to their site to see the UK and EU in great bar charts and graphs. Here is an example reproduced from them showing how the UK economy has outperformed leading EU countries since the referendum.
The economy has grown by 14% in real terms since the Referendum
June 2016 – June 2026
October 9, 2026
The economy has grown by 14% in real terms since the Referendum
June 2016 – June 2026
Yes it as but you can bet your bottom dollar the liebour party will try to take credit for it, I very nearly watched most of the debates in Westminster about Brexit and it was always the same politicians who put up objections to us leaving the dreaded EU including the Speaker of the house, they did every dirty trick in the book to stop us leaving but we the people won so all these politicians who don’t want to live in a free growing economy go live in your beloved Europe bye bye you’ll not be missed
October 9, 2026
Brexit so far means one thing in economic terms and one thing only – new barriers to trade with the EU, our largest export market. Barriers to trade cost, they have no compensating benefit. Therefore whatever our GDP is now, it would be higher without Brexit. Basic trade economics
Reply We have a tariff free Free Trade deal with EU. Which new barriers are you saying our “ friends” in the EU have imposed and which exports have fallen? Declines in energy and petrochem sales are the result of our dear energy policy and bans on oil and gas, not the result of EU action.
October 9, 2026
Great reply, which proves – once again – that Brexiters have not the first clue how international trade works. I suggest you visit Dover and Calais and chat with truck drivers – tell them Brexit has not changed anything, you might get some informative if terse replies. Try also googling “non tariff barriers” (which are not covered at all by our deal with the EU)
Reply So you cannot name an export that has fallen through some new barrier
October 9, 2026
To reply:- exactly.
Imagine the growth if we had had a real Brexit, not suffered from May’s net zero rip off lunacy, had had only brought in limited, quality & skilled immigration, has not had “broken compass” red tape spewing Labour to destroy confidence, had halved the size of the largely parasitic state sector and had not borrowed & wasted (worse than wasted) about 1.6 trillion on mad energy policies and net harm Covid “vaccines” and net harm Covid lockdowns. Also had not abolished the non dom status or put VAT on school fees. If we had had a Government that inspired confidence.
October 9, 2026
More guff in the right-wing press this week alleging “excessive” windfarm curtailment
To eliminate wind power curtailment caused by transmission bottlenecks across the Scotland-England border, the UK is currently investing in ‘The Great Grid Upgrade.’ Managed by NESO and National Grid, this historic overhaul combines major engineering, market, and regulatory initiatives to safely deliver remote renewable energy down to high-demand southern urban centres and industrial centres in the midlands
The physical strategy hinges on building subsea High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) ‘superhighways,’ notably the Eastern Green Links 1–4, which completely bypass onshore bottlenecks by moving juice down the east coast. Onshore, SSEN Transmission is deploying a comprehensive £29 billion investment program to modernise regional substations and construct high-capacity HVDC overhead pylon lines across England and Scotland. This will eliminate transmission losses.
National Grid launched the £9 billion Great Grid Partnership alongside seven major engineering firms to secure vital supply chains. Concurrently, the government is reviewing structural market reforms, including regional zonal pricing, to financially incentivise heavy industries to relocate closer to wind generation sources. However, rapid network deployment faces major friction; the National Audit Office warns that supply chain shortages and severe planning delays directly caused by Reform exploiting the NIMBY faction have left only 16 of the 80 critical transmission projects completed. This is “Tricky Dicky” Tice in action.
Total renewable curtailment across the UK currently exceeds less than 10 TWh annually out of total UK electricity production of about 293.6 TWh. This wasted energy represents approximately ~3.4% of total UK electricity production across all power sources combined, highlighting the urgent economic and environmental necessity of rapidly completing these major infrastructure upgrades. It’s about £15/pa on your average £2000 energy bill, or roughly 4p a day
Reply Glad you recognise huge cost of trying to put in enough grid to handle unreliable dear renewables. Also you see the public do not want pylons everywhere.Dogma before democracy is your approach.
October 9, 2026
SG. And after £billions are spent on grid upgrades, when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine they will be redundant.