Various briefings hint at a big sell out to the EU in the forthcoming reset.
There is suggestion we will surrender most of our fish for years ahead for no good reason.
There is a wish to bind us into more rules and regulations. This is said to be necessary to help trade in items like food. We already import far too much from the EU and all the time we were in the EU we faced a large trade deficit with the EU forcing out our farmers. Bad idea to volunteer for more of that. We lost a lot if market share with beef bans, too small a milk quota and grabts to grub up our orchards.
There is the idea of bringing back freedom of movement for younger people, calling it a Youth Mobility scheme. That would mean more large taxpayer bills to help these young people meet high housing and living costs.
We must try to stop this.
April 25, 2025
Good morning.
The continuation of what went before. Nothing more than.
To think that generations of her service men gave their lives so that they would not be controlled by some foreign Prince.
April 25, 2025
2TK has always wanted us back in the EU
One wonders what he’s been offered in return
What information do they have which makes him behave like such a (foolish way. ed)
Reform and the Tories must make it clear that any legislation detrimental to us will be repealed immediately.
April 25, 2025
Foolish way? Pure evil surely?
So Ed Miliband claims his circa 78%(?) taxes on drilling for UK gas and oil and bans on fracking and mining and coal does not affect the price we pay for energy (as that is set internationally) and the reason for high UK energy prices is we are too dependent on Gas. So is Ed a blatant liar or a complete and utter idiot.
Why then is energy in the UK 3 to 5 times the price that it is in the US? Not it seems they want to seed the skies to cut out the sun and thus further devalue all the solar cells they have installed – great plan Ed!
April 25, 2025
@Lifelogic +1
Ed Miliband like the rest of his cohort they cant hear anything other than their own egos.
Let no one forget this is an on going project to wipe the need for the UK off the map. What is missed it also means we don’t need this Parliament as we are ruled by the unelected unaccountable elsewhere and that appears to be the only plan.
April 25, 2025
Reform will have credibility in saying this. Tories not so much.
April 25, 2025
Quite. (inaccurate sentence left out dd) Keith’s new department for ‘Getting in Bed with the EU’ seems to be the only one working at 100%.
The rest of the World is now making noises about the UK’s precarious finances, if Reeves and entourage come back with anything from their visit to the US it must be hoped it is an understanding we have VERY limited extra borrowing capacity, consequently we cannot afford to the fantasy projects of Keith, Milibrain and the other spendthrifts in his cabinet.
April 25, 2025
No spheres Sir Keir and his band of merry tax and spendthrifts subscribe to modern money theory where you can’t run out of a fiat currency (but you can devalue it massively). They will just print baby print.
April 25, 2025
Reply Please save yourself and me time by not submitting posts that will obviously fail moderation. If you have points to make about topics here please use moderate language without prejudicial adjectives to describe those you disagree with or blame for problems.
April 25, 2025
Why do we need to import more young people? Have we run out of them? Increasing immigration from these already sky high levels will hinder economic growth via wage compression and even lower labour productivity. It’s our youth who will pay the heaviest price in their salaries, job opportunities and future prospects.
If this government wants GDP growth rates at 1990’s levels some things would include: increasing domestic incomes (via lower personal taxes and reducing immigration levels); increasing private sector capital investment (via lower corporation and income taxes); much more public sector efficiency (to fund the tax reductions); increasing labour productivity (via substantially less immigration); deregulation (so businesses can function more efficiently and start-ups can start much quicker). We also need to facilitate growth in our Manufacturing sector and get rid of the Net Zero 2050 albatross too.
April 25, 2025
Paul
That all requires common-sense, people with some commercial intelligence, and financial experience.
Unfortunately that rules out anyone in the present cabinet.
I fear 4 more years of this present lot and we get into a state where it will be almost impossible to turn around.
April 25, 2025
I blame Sunak, Boris, May, Cameron for gifting Labour their huge majority by blatant betrayals. Sunak even went six months early!
April 25, 2025
@Lifelogic – they should never be allowed to forget their treacherous actions, they inherited the Blair/Brown wrecking ball, they had the option to change things yet instead chose to compound and accelerate the rate of decline. Being generous seemingly it came about out of ineptitude, inexperience and the need for wanton destruction – the override was personal self-esteem over service
April 25, 2025
Labour’s solution to poor productivity is more people rather than better process.
Fix the benefits system if we want more workers.
April 25, 2025
of young people
April 25, 2025
Various briefings hint at a big step forward in our relations with the EU in the forthcoming reset.
There is suggestion we will exchange trade in fish for improved access to the world’s biggest and best single market for the good reason of mutual benefit.
There is a wish to accept more rules and regulations. This is necessary to help trade in items like food. Already we import a lot from the EU, improving price, quality and choice for British consumers. Good idea to volunteer for more of that.
There is the idea of bringing back freedom of movement for younger people, calling it a Youth Mobility scheme. That would mean more freedom for young British people.
We must try to encourage this.
April 25, 2025
There is one upside to Labour’s intended betrayal.
It will be destroyed as a political force as comprehensively as the Not-a-Conservative-Party was at the last election.
April 25, 2025
I have a bridge I would like to sell you
April 25, 2025
I would have thought there were already adequate pathways for young people to live abroad if they want to. Many EU young people will likely jump at the chance to come to the UK and improve their English. I doubt it will be reciprocated though, as UK young people have been abandoning European language learning in their droves. There really is very little interest from young people in this country about the continent.
April 25, 2025
+1
April 25, 2025
@Scallion – we endured 40 years of EU duplicity and it was all geared to others taking what we had and creating barriers to trade from the UK.
There was and never has been any mutual benefit to only being able to trade inside a protected market place created by the EU.
EU food trading was the EU weaponising trade to undermine the UK’s ability to feed itself, as it does with the rest of the World.
The EU always took fish from UK waters, yet created barriers to the UK to sell our fish to them.
You as a Citizen of the EU have no say, your so-called MEP has no say. Your MEP could not create, amend or repeal laws. The People are den8ed direct representation in the laws, rules and regulations handed down to them. The EU is run exclusively by unelected unaccountable bureaucrats under Neoplatonic rule that is at odds with the democratic free World
April 25, 2025
what an absolute load of nonsense the important decisions in the EU are done in the council, which are done by the 27 elected leaders of democratically elected not something which is at odds with the democratic free world.
All decisions have to subsequently be accepted by a majority of national parliaments.
Reply Member states can move amendments. They are often overridden in a majority vote. Member states Parliaments have to accept EU laws and regulations. What most made me pro Brexit was my experience as the UK ‘s Single market Minister.
April 25, 2025
It sounds like your failure to win arguments when you were a Minister has really scarred you. I am sorry you feel so hurt
April 25, 2025
Oh Sir John won the arguments – but not the votes. Irrational people cannot be swayed by argument.
April 25, 2025
@Bill Brown – I was reminded that the UK MEP Claire Fox (words left out ed) stating should couldn’t understand why there was a EU Elected Parliament at all, they could discus the Laws being handed to them but had to approve them – so democracy was denied.
In a similar vein Danniel Hanna in an item he wrote for the DT noted that some people had asked why he wasn’t campaigning, his response was he didn’t have to he was appointed as the local MEP for South Easy England. The system doesn’t allow for the electorate to remove those underperforming or they don’t like – you have to get the whole Party List removed to remove one person.
That isn’t Democracy that most of us relate to, Government by the People for the People, not the same orders manipulation, selection by the unelected unaccountable.
April 26, 2025
Simply false. MEPs can and do reject laws. And Hanna(n) was not appointed, he was voted in, like all MEPs
April 25, 2025
There was mutual benefit to being able to trade inside a market place created by the EU.
EU food trading was the EU facilitating the UK’s ability to feed itself, as it does with the rest of the World.
The EU always took fish from UK waters to the benefit of the UK’s export trade, and was also a lucrative place for the UK to sell our fish to them.
I as a Citizen of the EU had a vote for my MEP, who creates each and every EU law. The EU is run exclusively by elected politicians in the Council and the Parliament, the envy of the democratic free World
Reply The EU CAP did big damage to our own agriculture and made us more dependent on imports. The European Parliament has to negotiate laws with the unelected Commission and the Council.
April 25, 2025
@Scallion – From the EU Website – the EU is composed of Commissioners from 27 EU countries. Together, these 27 members of the College are appointed as the Commission’s political leadership for a 5-year term. The President of the Commission assigns responsibilities for specific policy areas to each Commissioner. Appointed is not elected,
The UK Fishing fleet had to give up the number of boats they had, the fleet was forcible decreased by 54% and boat size was limited. While the EU grew their fleets and the size of the ships. The fish taken were not exports to the EU just fish taken. All the while the UK fleets were and still are restricted and capped with quotas while the EU is plundering and are still plundering breading grounds during the breeding season.
April 26, 2025
The Commission does not make EU laws. The elected Council and Parliament make EU laws.
Reply How little you understand. The Commission proposes and drafts the laws.
April 25, 2025
Your MEP or Government (member of the Council) can’t even propose laws. Only the Commission (the Bureaucratic Dictatorship – lie, China’s) can propose laws and they are deemed to have been approved unless voted down by a majority of all MEPs – not just those in the House on that day.
April 25, 2025
Yes I remember all the varieties of apples, for example, we once had ‘imported’ from Kent and Worcestershire mostly. Now down to 3 or 4 tasteless OP washed cotton wool – the dull gray uniformity that emanates from the EU.
Young and old British people are running for the exit, but they are going to the Dominions and USA. Jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire is always a bad idea if you intend to survive.
However the NAZI EU in in its death throes – let’s hope they don’t take us down with them.
The WEF no longer receives USD 80 million pa from USAID so they have nothing but a fascade now. And everywhere angry Europeans are isolating their elitists who stole their countries.
April 25, 2025
The “Dominions”?? What?
April 25, 2025
Oh you don’t know what the Dominions are: they share our Monarch as their own. So Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa was a Dominion before its fall.
I always think of the USA as being in the Dominion category, as it was only their overthrow of German George which changed that position.
April 25, 2025
a hint that ‘things will only get better’, eh? Some of us have reliable memories.
April 25, 2025
The sellout continues. It’s very frustrating for many, including me.
I do wonder though, how many Brits are exercised by this and how many (see @Scallion comment, above) welcome it? Our BBC-watching middle class is exposed daily to globalist propaganda. Until the “Youth mobility scheme” adversely impacts them, they are going to approve of it. Their kids probably won’t work in sectors or at jobs where this new competition depresses wages and opportunities, and they are unlikely to be fishermen, either.
We need a highly effective populist politician, with an effective Party, to get enough people motivated to fight back. I can only see Farage as a possible saviour, but a significant chunk of the population hate him (Farage Derangement Syndrome) and his Party appears to be in a muddle. Kemi doesn’t grab anyone, her Party is loathed. Still, there are 4 more years of Labour destruction, so a lot can change.
April 25, 2025
How do we stop it?
April 25, 2025
Can’t be stopped with this opposition ….parliament is lost for another four years
April 25, 2025
The only thing I’ve seen mentioned that UK would get in return for these sell outs is some sort of defence and security pact which would give us the chance to bid for EU-funded defence projects. I can guess how successful UK bidders would be in those projects (compared with the French). The fishing issue is particularly annoying – plainly the EU is very concerned about it so it would be a good lever to use against them in other negotiations but Starmer seems set on giving away that advantage up front (just as the EU want). Also the youth mobility scheme will disproportionately favour the EU who will send lots of low-wage East European workers here which will not be balanced by the few middle-class students the UK will send there.
April 25, 2025
How must “we” try to stop it Mr Redwood?
WE voted to LEAVE the EU. Against all the odds, WE forced, and then won, a Referendum to LEAVE the EU. The Not-a-Conservative-Government promised to respect the result of the Referendum and to implement it. But it didn’t. It had the required majority, but REFUSED to do what it had promised.
We didn’t LEAVE the EU. We were signed up to what is effectively a form of Associate Membership, which Sunak then weakened with the Windsor Treachery. The “deal” specifically required future negotiations of such policy areas as fishing …thus setting us up for Two-Tier’s negotiated “closer re-alignment.”
Having failed to stop Brexit entirely, the Establishment’s intention has always been to gradually overturn it. The Westminster Uni-Party will never do what it was instructed by the voters.
etc ed
April 25, 2025
@Donna +1
Well said Donna, us minions just pay the bills…..
April 25, 2025
I agree with your words and assessment
April 25, 2025
And we are genuinely running out of time.
April 25, 2025
I am amazed at the coverage that Farage and his Reform limited company are getting in the media. Clearly following Trump’s lead, he makes numerous outrageous statements – never mind how accurate – which are then reported.
Tuesday he was on BBC R4, shouting down the interviewer, hectoring her about how net zero is going to bankrupt us and how nothing we can do is going to ameliorate the global heating crisis. Of course, Farage wants the BBC broken up because of his perceived “bias”
For the record, net zero HAS NOT caused the collapse of the British steel industry. The output from the proposed Whitehaven coal mine WOULD HAVE HAD FAR TO HIGH A SULPHUR CONTENT to be of use to either Scunthorpe or Port Talbot; the coal WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO EXPENSIVE TO EXPORT.
Yesterday Farage was demonstrating his complete lack of knowledge of medical matters. Apparently, doctors – who do know what they are talking about – are diagnosing too many children with ADHD and Autism for his liking. What an ignorant man.
April 25, 2025
They’re getting the coverage in the Media because they are the Party which is leading the polls; which is attracting new members at the rate of at least 1000 a week and which is leading the news Agenda across multiple topics.
You’re welcome 🙂
April 25, 2025
Do energy costs have no bearing on the loss of mass employment industries. Nice to know. I disagree with Farage, doctors are accurately diagnosing a huge increase in autism. What is the cause? Seems only the white over-vaccinated world is suffering this side effect. You should listen to Robert Kennedy Jnr on the subject.
I wholly disagree with you when you assert that ‘Doctors know what they are talking about’. Being related to a number of members of that profession, I can assure you that they have a remarkably blinkered perspective, trusting each other without question. Mad! They actually injected themselves and everyone they loved with the MRNA treatment that Pfizer has admitted is unsafe.
April 25, 2025
Net zero will bankrupt us SG
And it will have very little effect on global average temperatures.
The BBC should be sold off.
But Reform’s rapid and growing popularity is plainly having a severe effect on you.
April 25, 2025
If Putin, the war criminal has made “pretty big concessions” I must have missed them. Maybe Trump could enlighten us. Meanwhile, Putin has launched yet another bombing campaign against Ukraine civilians, killing dozens. Who is playing who here?
April 25, 2025
@SK. When Russia was attacked by US-guided missiles fired from Ukraine, President Putin didn’t retaliate on the US. That was a “pretty big concession”. Clearly Putin doesn’t want to escalate. I can’t imagine the US being so restrained if Russians were directing missile attacks on the US, from a country the US had invaded in part (and it has invaded or formented coups in a lot of countries).
April 25, 2025
Russia has not made concessions, except that it now accepts Zelensky can participate in peace negotiations despite his questionable status after his term of office expired last May. Otherwise Russia’s terms are as set out last year by President Putin. You probably wouldn’t know about that, SG, because you don’t follow events, only the made-up ‘news’ in Western media.
In any case, you’ll discover one day that the war has ended, when Kiev has had to accept Russia’s terms. You’ll see the ‘support-Ukraine-as long-as-it takes’ propaganda suddenly vanish from all the synchronised media, clean away as if it had never been. That will be when Donald Trump’s patience has run out, and Europe’s money has run out. So, not quite yet, but I think it will happen soon.
And then the story will be all about China…
April 25, 2025
Trump has said that Russias concession is that ‘they will NOT demand/conquer the whole of Ukraine’.
Witkoff it seems has a brain and is getting some facts from the very confident Putin whose army (he says) is poised now to ‘finish off the Ukrainian armed forces’. I believe him, so do Ukrainian soldiers.
Russia is hitting the foreign forces in Ukraine, in hotels etc. He has been sparing them – well he did attack and hit the British forces in Odessa hard when they were targeting Crimea using the Storm Shadows.
April 25, 2025
I agree with the blog. I don’t usually comment when I agree with the blog but this issue is important for Britain and I strongly agree.
April 25, 2025
I can not fathom what is in closer ties to the EU for us. We have already sold ourselves out with the Windsor agreement and with the current tariffs discussion we should be using this to distance ourselves from the EU rather than get closer.
We do not need freedom of movement for kids. A reciprocal visa scheme such as we have with Australia and New Zealand for under 30s is sufficient and means they have to pay their own costs.
Leaving the EU has not had a huge effect on our exports, when will these adherents to the EU realise that isolation is power?
April 25, 2025
Why does the government want young people to be mobile?
April 25, 2025
The way you talk about fish – anyone would think that our fish are sailing along the deep with a stamp ‘made in UK’ – fish are only OK if you can catch them if you can process them and if you have a market
April 25, 2025
They are sailing along in our waters. Therefore they are our fish. The EU attacked our fishing industry by giving them less quota than is financially viable. Thus they were forced to sell their quota and beach their boats while British taxes renewed the continental fleets so that ‘they can compete with us’ as Kenneth Clark QC said at the Despatch box.
April 25, 2025
“We must try to stop this.”
How do we do this?
Talking common sense doesn’t work.
Giving facts doesn’t work.
Writing to our MP doesn’t work.
This Government has its agenda, and nothing will derail it.
April 25, 2025
Yes, it seems that way.
April 25, 2025
@Christine +1
They have cotton-wool and other things in their ears, the can only hear their self-esteem and egos that keeps saying fighting the people is the way to go, if you work with the people and the Nation it will flourish and that is not on the WEF Marxist/Socialist agenda
April 25, 2025
The briefing is that the fish have to be surrendered so our defence industry has the opportunity to bid for European defence contracts. Note that word “opportunity”. There is no commitment to award any contracts and if our experience when in the EU is anything to go by, none will be awarded.
April 25, 2025
@J+M – on offer is a loan system only. It doesn’t mean much when it is France that supplies all the steel for our Defence Industry, steel production is banned in the UK. UK tanks are maintained and refurbished by the Germans. Lots was made of a missile called ‘Storm Shadow’ being sent to the Ukraine it was made and owned by the French. The French supply the electronic warfare equipment that is much needed for us to defend ourselves. The list is endless, the UK is hostage when it comes to taking care of itself to foreign political whims.
So the defence dream with the EU is meaningless.
It doesn’t have to be that way the UK people are more than capable and have the drive, the ability and capability to be resilient and self-reliant. It is just that we have a Parliament that will fight the Country, suppress the Nation and refuse to work with it and for it. We have a Parliament that wants its foreign unelected unaccountable masters issuing orders, so they can go back to sleep and free-load
April 25, 2025
Starmer’s ambitions are not a reset with the EU it is more a realignment. He wants to ensure the UK is controlled entirely by EU policy. He is even prepared to place our armed forced at the disposal of an EU amalgamated defence force.
Our fishing industry is being constrained to ensure its take from the national waters of the UK is as low as possible at the end of 2026 which is the monitoring year that will set our allowed take from our own waters there after under EU trade rules.
If you think Miliband is bad and he is then remember Starmer is worse…. he gave Miliband the role of destroyer of national security (or removal of domestic energy security to use the Labour party terminology). Not content with that fateful appointment Starmer then decided David Lammy was the ideal person to remove the last vestiges of national prestige from the International world stage.
Starmer wants us back under the yoke of the EU as fast as he can achieve it. Why? Because he knows he has barely four years to get it in place before he is ejected from office never to return.
By that time he wants his sinecure in the EU firmly lined up, thanks to his duplicitous activities as UK sovereignty destroyer in chief . I can imagine he sees himself as EU Legal Affairs Commissioner ensuring all countries conform to the ever more draconian laws dreamt up in Brussels.
What a mess.
April 25, 2025
The youth mobility scheme might be a good thing if limited to a short time
We could then have au pairs again
Child care costs are so high now and an au pair living in as one of the family is a win/win
I had au pairs for years and as a single parent I really enjoyed them and vice versa
We did lots of sightseeing together with my son etc
April 25, 2025
So you support overturning the result of the largest Democratic vote the country has ever held; surrendering our Sovereignty to a Foreign Court and accepting the Rule of Foreign Bureaucrats in order to be able to leave your children with a young foreign import?
Ummmm…..
April 25, 2025
@BF. I hate to think of the red tape and costs of employing someone as an au pair nowadays. You’d have to pay minimum wage, NI, strict hours, Sundays off, employer’s liability insurance, risk assessments etc etc. A friendly, economic, flexible and mutually rewarding experience is surely a thing of the past?
April 26, 2025
Barbara F: That sounds all warm and fluffy, but having no wish to offend, and to be serious, that would perhaps indeed be a good thing for some, as it always was. But there are principles & much else involved here too and a degree of naivety, not least from our politicians if this is just seen at face value. I am still at a loss, well, not really if I’m being honest, why the EU has been really pushing on this so called ‘scheme’ very hard and continues to do so. ( They’ve even mooted calling it something different as opposed to the Y M S. Yes, perhaps more warmth & fluffiness again to make us feel more receptive ) It’s been made clear in press reports we won’t get much of what’s being asked for next month on May 19th, if anything, without the UK’s agreement on this free movement scheme for ‘youth’, specified as 18 yr to 30 yr olds. Why is this ? Also at 30, I did not consider myself a youth, don’t know about you. The effective administration and oversight of the scheme would need care, the will and expertise and an ability to carefully control. What could possibly go wrong. How about those schemes we need to get our young folk here supported and on the move to foster the best outcomes for all those already left behind. One is tempted to call this a scam without the detail, awaited with bated breath.
April 25, 2025
The refusal of Parliament to allow the Nation and the People to leave, left the door open for full integration. The forcing of Laws, Rules & Regulations from unelected unaccountable bureaucrats was always Two Tier Kiers dream of the perfect Marxist/Socialist State.
What is suggested is a UK Parliament has just been a traitorous crowd of free-loaders, that hate everything about freedoms, democracy, the People and the Nation they take our money and kick us in the teeth
April 25, 2025
We have a PM who consistently works against the best interests of the British people – but did we expect anything different from an international lawyer who is more interested in keeping a forlorn war going at great expense and so many deaths than doing his best for the people who gave him power?
It appears that most labour MPs are pro-EU, so writing to your MP to say you have no faith in the PM’s moves to get us taken over by the EU once more will at best see a bland letter of denial.
Parliament is the only power base that could make the PM change his tune, but would he even if forced to do so by an unlikely parliament revolt? No we can forget parliament – for the last few decades they have shown exactly how they feel about democracy and supporting the causes we all care about.
Treachery barely describes their indifference.
The MSM simply tall us what the PM wants us to hear, so there is no independent voice there.
Yes, we are, by a majority, offended by and in opposition to any steps to bring more of the EU to our shores, but stopping the PM would require a very bloody revolution.
April 25, 2025
Brace yourself. I understand Glaswegians are particularly peeved.
April 25, 2025
We appear to giving the UK away – and for what – more immigrants. No doubt they will be eligible for benefits! A home in either Canada, New Zealand or Australia appears to be the only answer.
April 25, 2025
Too late really. 128,000 people left NZ where Arden caused all time high suicide rates. Australia not much better and Canada considerably worse – their Parliament actually gave a standing ovation to a veteran 3rd Reich Soldier for ‘fighting the Russians (and Canadians)’.
Trump is the last hope.
April 25, 2025
ARIA: The UK government’s secretive agency masquerading as a beacon of scientific progress.
Yet another far too expensive quango that is clearly not working for the benefit of the British people!
April 25, 2025
Did we have a secret referendum that I’m unaware off ….did ‘remain’ win a new vote ! ….the direction of travel feels undemocratic
April 25, 2025
From the Media today, the softening up! “Rachel Reeves said Britain’s trading relationship with the EU is more important than its alignment with the US”
The two main take-ways how would she know? And, Trade with the World is safer and more beneficial not only the the UK but the World. The EU is a closed protected market, that creates barriers to their controlled States being part of the World
April 25, 2025
Ms Reeves said: “One way in which the world has changed has been the rise in the last 25 years of China as an economy.
“And that has created huge benefits in terms of cheaper goods, more innovation and more opportunities to trade. But it has also brought many challenges.”
April 25, 2025
@Ian B. “Trading relationship” with the EU is a MSM misnomer. “Abusive relationships” are the only ones on offer from the EU to its “partners”.
April 25, 2025
“surrender most of our fish” will France surrender their ‘grapes’?
April 25, 2025
France therefore the EU has on its own (even without other EU States)has the World’s largest Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). Yet that is not enough they also want to control the UK’s assets and 2TK our PM wants to give it away to them as appeasement. He seems to think if he gives away the UK others will thank him personally for it – he forgets, he doesn’t realise, he is a minnow on the World stage that is forcing decline and poverty on those that pay and empower him. Why would anyone of any consequence care?
April 25, 2025
Oh France has surrendered but not to us.
April 25, 2025
The Youth Mobility Scheme is to bring over to the UK the EU’s small boat illegal immigrants and for Civil Servants to be able to permanently work onine from the South of France or Italy. We don’t need a “better” trading relationship with the EU when we have already a £100bn/year trading deficit. No, the reason is to assist with our drive to Net Zero by further de-industrialisation and the importation of electricity, goods and particularly food as this is one of the sectors which is the most difficult to decarbonise. Forget about increased choice in food as the Net Zero Strategy is to restrict choice as well as of course impoverish. We cannot stop this sabotaging of the UK until the next GE if it not canceled in the meantime. EU membership is to cancel democracy.etc ed
April 25, 2025
The trading relationship has always been decided by the EU, it is they who choose ‘better’ or worse.
We should continue to develop trading relationships elsewhere.
April 25, 2025
In the CCC’s 7th Carbon Budget (p125) is written:
“Farmers and land managers need support to diversify land use into woodland creation, peatland restoration, energy crops, and renewable energy.”
There is no mention of food production as food is expected to be imported from the EU thus reducing our CO2 emissions.
April 25, 2025
But this comes as no surprise at all, and the leaks/briefings have almost certainly been transmitted to enable a slightly better result to be trumpeted as a ‘Victory’!
You suggest we should stop it; tell us what we can do?
April 25, 2025
How to stop this?
Until the next GE, if this is not cancelled in the meantime, do not buy an ev, do not fit a heat pump and under no circumstances have a smart meter fitted until it becomes mandatory.
April 25, 2025
Sort of off topic. Why are our MPs not furious at the £151 billion deficit in the last financial year? We should surrender nothing to the EU and focus on putting our house in order. It seems our MPs and the Government have become addicted to debt. Like all addicts, they will eventually run out of money to fund their addiction, but on a far greater scale than a drug or alcohol addict.
The difference is that the UK and its people will suffer the consequences, not the individuals who have caused the
problem. The PM, Chancellor and Miliband don’t have a brain between them. Everything they are doing is against the UK and its people. The competition for the worst PM of the last 25 years was crowded: Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Truss and Sunak. But the competition is now over, Starmer wins by a mile!
April 25, 2025
Whilst in the EU we also had grants to scrap our trawlers so our fish could be stolen by French trawlers armed with Spanish quotas. After we left the EU why did the dimwitted Arts graduates in the Environment Department not suggest to government to fund our trawlermen to purchase new boats and equipment? Why did they allow foreign trawlermen to purchase British trawling businesses to obtain their quotas? Why did they not advise the government that the quota system was an absurdity because fishermen cannot always predict where they would catch a particular species but nevertheless made it illegal to catch and illegal to discard other species?
We do not expect MPs to understand the first thing about their briefs because they mostly come either via the thieving bankster industry or the trade union movement. Without a complete clearout of the liblabcon and of the civil service which gets away with deciding policy whilst politicians spend their time on more important issues to them such as mitigating the global warming hoax, defining what a woman is and seeing how far they can go in provoking Russia before they get a response because the location of the Ukrainian border with Russia defined by Lenin and Khrushchev is more sacrosanct to them than our own borders and our own national economic interests.
April 25, 2025
SIr John,
It is important for Britain and our young generation that we have a free exchange of educated people between the EU and the UK.
This option has been excluded since leaving the EU, so I am afraid I cannot agree with your conclusion on the exchange.
Reply Nothing stops exchange. We now have a much better scheme which only spends money onUK students who can choose anywhere in the world, not just Europe, to apply for university support. The EU scheme meant the bulk of our money went on bringing non UK students here, limiting opportunities for our students who often wanted to go to USA, Australia etc.
April 25, 2025
My husband was born in 1948. After graduating he went to Mainz to lecture at their University. Long before the EU stripped him of his British citizenship and passport.
He still draws a German pension. The EU improved nothing at all. Ruined all.
April 25, 2025
The only positive is because of Brexit we know who’s to blame for a “sell-out” and hence can be removed at the next GE. If we were members of the EU all the items lsted, and worse, would be coming to us automatically with no discussion or negotiation.
April 25, 2025
We always knew that no foreigner did anything to us/ it was always those who represent us in our own Parliament who destroyed us.
April 25, 2025
The proposed youth exchange scheme, or whatever its correct name is, will be totally one sided. 1) hardly any young Brit’s have a basic knowledge of a foreign language, and for those who do, it is usually French or German. Mainly French because the German grammar is so much more difficult than French.
2) what is the ratio of the British and EU populations? Could it be about 1/10?
3) The Erasmus scheme that was in operation for about 15 to 20 years (?) was overwhelmingly in one direction: to the UK.
I predict the ratio of the take-up will be around 50 to 1,
Also the EU is never to be trusted. It is, in my opinion and I am a great believer in friendship with European peoples, a protective and vindictive organisation that has never forgiven us for leaving and ever seeking to punish us. Consider the proposed to form a United European group to stand up against Putin. We are the best fighting force in Europe and it would be greatly to Europe’ s advantage to have on their side. But what concessions do we ask: nothing. But what does the eu ask: futher and greater access to our fishing.
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Finally, it looks as though it is the EU that is pushing this scheme and I expect that they will demand some form of compensation for it to go ahead.