I read in the press that the government may be planning a sell out to get a “ reset” to our relationship with the EU.
The government must not give our fish away at the end of transition next year.We need to take back full control of our waters, cut back the permitted catch to repair stocks, and mainly grant quota to UK vessels and to some foreign vessels willing to land ,process and sell the fish in the UK.
The government must not open our borders to any younger person wishing to come here and call it a Youth Opportunities policy. It would be more mass migration of the kind a majority of voters oppose.
The government must not align our emissions trading with the EU scheme, meaning higher energy taxes we do not control. It should scrap the carbon taxes and end the idea of a big tariff hike called the carbon border mechanism.
The government must not align us more with EU rules and regulations . It should not out our farms back under CAP type rules which undermined home market share of temperate foods when we were in the EU.
April 18, 2025
Good morning and Happy Easter.
As we move closer to something the EU want, mainly our fish, so we are offered a stick in the shape of a carrot. Or at least that is how our Remainer / Rejoiner government and HoC will play it. Suddenly, those MP’s in Reform and Sir Rupert Lowe have become very important. I sincerely hope that they raise themselves to the task and fight off any attempt to creep back in under the EU.
April 18, 2025
I think we’re approaching a ‘..dear Kier….’ moment with the EU. Tories did it, so why wouldn’t Keith; at least he doesn’t hide his intent.
How much more money……?
April 18, 2025
2TK will do all of these things because he’s a rampant Europhile. He cares nothing for the wellbeing of Britain only some vague higher authority.
I wonder what he’s been offered by his buddies in the WEF.
When we finally manage to get rid of these treacherous bar stewards we must have a thorough investigation into the sleaze and corruption with long jail sentences for the perpetrators.
April 18, 2025
With the huge majority gifted to Starmer by the serial betrayals of Cameron, May, Boris and Sunak (who even idiotically gifted it to him 6 months early there is little that can be sone to stop this even more appalling government.
So are brilliant legal system and our learned judges, after very many years and many 40+ page judgements have finally decided that women and women and men are men. How much did all this lunacy cost. Not that it is over we will have the ECHR still to come. Kemi is rather a fan of the ECHR.
Asked about women in sport Kemi said it would be all right in Chess. Well probably not really if she look at the huge difference between men and women in Chess and similar sports also in precision sports like darts and snooker. Women, perhaps, have more sense than to dedicate themselves so completely to such games, less obsessive on average perhaps?
April 18, 2025
Unfortunately, Starmer is in charge for the next 4 years and the civil service is here permanently. They will ignore the Brexit vote and we will get Brentry by stealth.
April 18, 2025
Far too much conformity to what suits the EU has restricted our country’s ability to do what it needs and acted against our interests, and far too much still does. We voted to LEAVE the EU’s control over us. Anti-democratic Keir Starmer attempted to disregard the Leave decision, and repeatedly did all he could to reverse it, before eventually realising his failure in opposition to common sense and giving up.
He has bungled attempting to be a worthy PM, after gaining office owing to a lethargic election vote turnout. We should do little more with the EU than sell what they pay adequately to buy from us and buy what they sell of value.
The so-called ‘Youth Opportunities’ policy has been described as an asylum seeker exchange, incentive allowing people who entered our land illegally to admit family members for each one that France accepts back. That increases the attraction for others to enter illegally and must be opposed as yet another Labour backward policy.
April 18, 2025
The “Brexit reset lead” in the EU Parliament warns Starmer that he must not follow the US on regulation of AI:
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/eu-brexit-reset-chief-starmer-must-stop-cosying-up-trump-tech-3648316?ITO=newsnow
Given that real per capita disposable income in the US has grown twice as quickly as in the EU since 2000:
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2025/02/01/being-single-market-minister-persuaded-me-we-had-to-leave-the-eu/#comment-1496697
Reeves should be pushing Starmer towards the US not the EU, but Miliband would push back for the EU.
April 18, 2025
This Government is trying to revert us back to EU (second class) membership in spite of the Referendum wishes expressed by the Electorate. Just another dictatorship move from its leaders.
April 18, 2025
The Government must not …. but probably will, because it isn’t governing in the interests of the UK any more than the last one (2010-2024) was.
Johnson’s deal and Sunak’s Windsor Treachery, plus the failure to do anything serious to take advantage of the limited freedom we got from the EU, has left Two-Tier in a perfect position to reverse Brexit without actually taking us back into the Single Market. We are being pushed into Associate Membership.
I look forward to Badenough pledging to reverse any sell-out Two-Tier carries out and “promising” that the Not-a-Conservative-Party will, at last, ensure that we properly LEAVE the EU if she becomes Prime Minister.
Not that I’ll believe her.
April 18, 2025
Why have I no idea what Mrs Badenoch thinks about this? It is time we heard a lot more from her.
April 18, 2025
At least Starmer starting to get caught chasing Reform’s polling. All the time he caves in to old Uniparty ideas like this his polling slumps. He’s realised this and starting to ditch the surrounding sillies, just as he ditched Corbyn. Starmer might indeed be ideologically wedded to the EU, but he’s even more going to look after his own skin. Farage MP is having more effect on him than hundreds of Uniparty MP s.
April 18, 2025
So how are we going to stop the government doing any of these things?
April 18, 2025
No doubt, to get this alleged reset Starmer will have to give the EU something. Something important! He simply cannot be trusted to make a deal that benefits the UK.
It was clear all along that he wanted to surrender our sovereignty to the EU – the worst kept secret of the election campaign. So what can the average man or woman do about all of this treachery – what democratic means have we of stopping this. MPs still ignore us when we write in and the election is too far away.
Because Labour have a big majority in Parliament they think they can do what they want, and are doing it – all without consent or permission. This defines this government as treacherous well beyond ROGUE.
Interesting that Starmer should use a globalist term to describe this surrender – the man has never done anything worthwhile for the UK and it is so frustrating that he has so much power to follow his dogmatic leanings.
His internationalist qualifications and interests mean he will betray this country at every turn.
April 18, 2025
At some stage we’re going to have to decide which way to go – however right now Trumps America has lost its way and is leaning more to a trade deal with Putins Russia hence the rush to get Greelnand and Canada under its umbrella, it seems that both are land chunks standing in the way of the grand plan for a geographic and political Union. It’s possible that Putin himself sold the idea to Trump at some stage because I don’t think Trump has the wherewithal to dream up something so diabolical himself: reference Krasnov. But whatever the plan is we would be daft to tie ourselves to the US at this uncertain time.
April 18, 2025
While I agree with the general direction of your arguement, you need to rethink one area.
There is no logical point in EU boats being forced to land their catch at UK ports. The boat may be catching species that are of no interest to the UK market. Why land it in Brixham to put it on a truck bound for Paris or Madrid. Rigorously inspect it for legality at sea by all means. Because the UK market largely ignores fish, we lack a distribution or retail setup for it. If you want octopus in the UK you buy it online unless you live on the coast and know a frienly fisherman.
We owe the EU nothing. An excess of their goods into the UK over our goods to the EU is a bargaining point for us to use if the need arises. If 2tk makes the wrong political decisions he will pay at the ballot box.
April 18, 2025
They’re our fish whether we want to eat them or export them. There are certainly distribution problems with
blinkered chippies and supermarkets but I can buy both shark (huss) and skate at my local chippie which is Chinese owned and an independent supermarket also foreign owned near me has a chest freezer full off a large variety of marine species.
The government could do far more to encourage the consumption of what is the healthiest source of first class protein but unfortunately they are too busy saving the Planet and meddling in Ukraine whilst the population gets fatter on American fast food.
April 18, 2025
I should think you give an accurate list of all the things the Government are certain to want to do. Our only hope of stopping them is Mr Trump.
April 18, 2025
I would not oppose a reciprocal one year visa scheme such as Australia and New Zealand have with us where under 30s can stay for one year and work. I would restrict this to countries that our youth are most likely to want to work in rather than offering it to all European countries.
If that is not possible (and if the EU wants something it is always possible) then don’t do it.
April 18, 2025
Sir John
I agree with you on that. But, the PM has put his team of highly taxpayer funded Remainers/Rejoiners on duty to negotiate the opposite of your, mine and everyone else’s wishes. Unfortunately the HoC has shown it is in agreement with rejoining regardless to the cost to the people and the nation.
It was always the plan since the vote to simply leave, its why Kemi and the Conservative Government of the time retained EU Laws, refused the UK independence and its own legislators
April 18, 2025
Perhaps “the government may be planning a sell out to get a “ reset” to our relationship with the EU” but Starmer and pals are quite likely to sell out without any reset, whatever a reset may be.
Let us keep in mind a reset is not needed since the last government never delivered Brexit nor wanted to.
April 18, 2025
The government will most likely do all of those things, especially aligning with the EU’s protectionist carbon and agriculture policies. As was entirely predictable at the time of the election should Labour be able to squeeze through the split centre right.
April 18, 2025
A recent post on social media states that the UK is about to sign (on 19 May) a defence pact with the EU.
It is suggested this will be a European Army in all but name and the UK will be part of it.
Is this true ?
April 18, 2025
If anyone is interested, there is a petition about the proposed defence pact with the EU.
With our host’s permission.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/717489
April 18, 2025
I have to say that I was alarmed to see, yesterday, a picture of Mrs Von der Layon beaming happliy next to Sir Keir Starmer. The last time I saw this level of happiness in the lady was when she had bamboozled Rishi Sunak over the Windsor betrayal
I fear for the future of Brexit
April 18, 2025
I absolutely agree! We should give nothing to the EU and assert our sovereignty and independence at every opportunity. But the people elected a rabid Remainer who fought tooth and nail against a democratic vote.
In fact, most MPs voted Remain, and most still want to be in the EU.
So the PM and Labour will happily give way to any EU demand and once again do exactly the opposite of what the people want. But that is in part because this and the previous government, and the MSM, have done nothing to sell the benefits of Brexit. Right now, with some vision and action, we could do a trade deal with the USA. But the PM will fail to do so, because he would rather be hitched to a declining economy.
The PM and his Ministers are pigmies, when we need giants!
April 18, 2025
Agreed on every point. Now, which ones are official Opposition policy? I’ll try to find out.
April 18, 2025
My pharmacist was blaming Brexit for a shortage of particular medicines. I suspect there might be some bungling by the UK’s regulatory authorities, but I fail to understand why British company A cannot freely enter into purchase agreements with EU company B to import any approved drug into the UK. What stops such trading?
Reply We have tariff free trade with the EU. Of course we can import. It is mainly US and UK companies developing the key drugs. Novo has developed a slimming drug which has been in short supply generally, but competitors and alternatives now available.
April 18, 2025
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9997/
“Supply chains for medicines are long and complex and shortages can be caused by multiple factors. These include manufacturing or distribution problems and increased demand for medicines. Commentators have also drawn attention to the effects of wider geopolitical factors, including the conflict in Ukraine, the covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.”
April 18, 2025
You can forget about a Britain back in the EU – no european in their right mind would want that kind of trouble back again.
however some other arrangement will have to be made to facilitate UK trade and defence and without America – the US can’t be relied opon anymore- at this time Trump is prepared to walk away from the Ukraine peace talks which was something he promised to sort in 24 hrs but he didn’t – he can’t be relied on for anything.
April 18, 2025
Surprising you believed it would be done in 24 hours! It is important only to look at the direction of Trump’s comments. The EU knows that the UK establishment doesn’t like the country very much and will be a soft touch.
April 18, 2025
Our Sheriff of Nottingham PM and his comrades in the Civil Service will tell us that in return for giving away our fish we will receive from the EU free membership of their Youth Opportunities Scheme, free membership of their Emissions Trading Scheme, free membership of their CBAM Scheme and their CAP Scheme plus full unlimited use of the ECJ.
What’s not to like?
April 18, 2025
I have no confidence in our civil service to negotiate on our behalf or the politicians that front them.
April 18, 2025
Our Sheriff of Nottingham PM and his comrades in the Civil Service will tell us that in return for giving away our fish we will receive from the EU free membership of their Youth Opportunities Scheme, free membership of their Emissions Trading Scheme, free membership of their CBAM Scheme and their CAP Scheme plus full unlimited use of the ECJ.
What’s not to like?
April 18, 2025
Agree all points but how do we stop them?
April 18, 2025
This is a rather weird article in both Irish and English:
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/04/18/brexit-doesnt-explain-the-uks-sluggish-performance-being-a-large-former-empire-may-be-the-reason/
“Brexit doesn’t explain the UK’s sluggish performance. Being a large former empire may be the reason… ”
For some reason he does not explore our sluggish performance further back than 2016, when it started in 2008.
Thinking that the UK can be bunched in with Germany, France and Italy he speculates:
“Perhaps their exceptionalist mentality or superiority complex (we had an empire … so we don’t need to learn from ex-colonies such as the Irish Republic or Poland) is driving these countries downwards?”
While I might speculate that the more industrial a country was the harder it will be hit by deindustrialisation.
At least he is right that our low economic growth since 2008 cannot be put down to Brexit, that is a red herring.
April 18, 2025
Yes, absolutely, but what notice are this government going to take of anyone
April 18, 2025
The eurofanatic Independent hopes Starmer will be forced to make a deal with the EU rather than with the US:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-trump-trade-deal-brexit-reset-b2735768.html
“Starmer will not be able to have his cake and eat it with a Trump trade deal and a Brexit reset”
And here we have the same kind of false argument as we heard about the Irish land border:
“If the UK decides as part of a deal to allow in products not accepted for EU market, that makes a food safety/SPS/veterinary deal with EU more difficult – EU would need to know those products could not enter its territory. That would be almost impossible to do.”
Because if we passed a strong law imposing controls on the goods that we allowed to be exported to the EU, mandating that they must always conform to all EU requirements, the EU would just say that they could not trust us and they would still have to thoroughly check everything that came in from us, so instead the controls they needed would have to be on all goods imported into the UK whether or not they were ‘at risk’ of moving on
to the EU, and those checks would have to be conducted at designated UK points of entry by UK officials with EU officials standing behind them – just as happens now at Northern Ireland points of entry.