Moving closer to the EU will damage growth more, not boost it

The government’s policy of ever closer relations with the EU will damage our slow and stuttering growth more.

It means sending more money to the EU which in turn means putting up taxes further. It is Labour’s massive tax rises to date that have slowed growth, destroyed jobs, slashed vacancies and put up unemployment. Why do more of the same?

It means adopting the higher carbon taxes under the EU emissions scheme, putting up the costs of energy. Far from helping abate the cost of living crisis they talk about, it will make it worse.

It means adopting a version  of the EU  carbon border  tax or tariff, designed to make things we import from outside the EU dearer if they have used fossil fuel energy in their production and transport. That might invite retaliatory damaging tariffs from the US and others.

It means accepting more young migrants from the EU keeping wages lower and taking job opportunities our young people need.

Far from boosting our exports it is more likely to boost our imports and displace imports from non EU. This will not increase our GDP and will help push up the cost of living.

73 Comments

  1. Ian Wragg
    December 28, 2025

    It will be interstellar to see what happens to cars. We are the only country not applying tariffs to Chinese cars but this won’t be possible if we rejoin the Customs Union. Also the ban on ICE vehicles from 2030 won’t be allowed. Perhaps the idea of joining is to give a smokescreen for ditching these things under the pretext of compliance.
    Reform have said they will cancel all these agreements so Brussels must see Starmergeddon is a dead man walking, so perhaps they won’t be so keen to let us in after taking our money.
    We really are being taken for fools by this pile of excrement in Westminster. The stables really need a good clean and disinfectant.

    1. Peter Gardner
      December 28, 2025

      More likely if Reform looks like winning in 2029 (if there is to be a general election then, which is by no means guaranteed) is Starmer’s Gang and the EU urgently formalising at the 11th hour, a treaty of compliance with a raft of EU future regulations. Indeed, if they start and progress negotiations then they would also have an excuse to delay the general election in order to conclude and ratify “a historic” reset of relations to end uncertainty and to provide for future stabillity enabling long term investment planning for businesses and other such falsehhoods.

    2. beresford
      December 28, 2025

      Perhaps Labour will cancel the next General Election.

      1. Donna
        December 28, 2025

        Looking increasingly likely. It will be blamed on the Big Bad Putin.

      2. Lifelogic
        December 28, 2025

        I certainly would not is that past the dire serial liar Sir 2 Tier Kier.

  2. Mick
    December 28, 2025

    We are a self governing country the sooner these politicians get that into there thick heads the better, we’ve tried being apart of the dreaded EU and looked what happened to our heavy and car industries, we will not be pushed around again like a lap poodle so if people don’t want to be part of a country run by its citizens then bugger off and live in your beloved EU bye bye you’ll not be missed

    1. Lifelogic
      December 28, 2025

      Well the people perhaps will not be pushed around that easily but this government who have a huge majority (thanks to Sunak and the dire net zero Con-socialists) and three+ more years or more if he continues to cancel elections!

    2. Donna
      December 28, 2025

      No, we are not self-governing. The Establishment has ensured that we remain semi-attached and we are significantly still under the control of the EU (and ECHR).

    3. Peter Gardner
      December 28, 2025

      Starmer’s Gang are not thick. They don’t want Britain to be a self-governing country. They want it governed by the EU, because it is the closst they can get to their global socialist order.

      1. Mark B
        December 28, 2025

        +1

  3. Lifelogic
    December 28, 2025

    Exactly, but it is surely rather clear that virtually everything Labour is doing is anti-growth, anti-jobs, anti-business, anti-feee speech, anti Britain, anti-democratic, anti-Semitic. Either Reeves, 2Tier, Lammy, Mamood, Miliband, Phillipson… are extremely dim and totally deluded or they do actually want to kill growth and damage the UK at every turn or both. No other explanations are there?

    1. Lifelogic
      December 28, 2025

      Look at the dire list of replacement for 2 Tier – Streeting, Rayner, Burnham, Mamood, Miliband, Cooper-Balls, Powell, Healey, Lammy, Phillipson… god help us!

      Cannot see Streeting (the favourite) myself, not sufficiently mad for most members, plus he will struggle to even be an MP after the next election! He had a majority of 528 in the 2024 general election!

  4. Peter
    December 28, 2025

    The government don’t care.

    They will do it anyway, with encouragement from the Liberal Democrats.

  5. agricola
    December 28, 2025

    Yet again Labour demonstrates its contempt for democracy. Cancelation of local elections, and now the drive back into the EU, contemptable.

    I cannot see Kemi reversing it because her parliamentry party will not let her. Judge them historically from the traitorous May till they lost power.

    We must await the election in 2029 if not canceled. Could be earlier if the money lenders call a halt. Sooner the better. The damage Labour have inflicted in 18 months will be as nothing if they are allowed a further three and a half years.

  6. Lifelogic
    December 28, 2025

    See the Dr John Campbell Video “anger at excess deaths” with excess death figure from Japan broken down by MRNA vaccinations and not vaccinated deaths with dates of deaths after the vaccination date. Hugely damning but even more damning is the appalling refusal to reveal the anonymised UK figures which surely confirms that the UK figures are similarly damning – why else would they want to hide them?

    The truth is coming out like it or not – the sooner the UK blob admits it and see if anything can be done for those not dead and just injured the better! How long do they think they can hide this vast Covid Vaccine negligence? Will it be like the blood contamination delay, Hillsborough, Thalidomide, the Post Office… 20 plus years?

    1. Donna
      December 28, 2025

      “Hugely damning but even more damning is the appalling refusal to reveal the anonymised UK figures which surely confirms that the UK figures are similarly damning”

      What’s that old phrase ….. oh yes “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.”

      They have a great deal to fear.

      1. Lifelogic
        December 28, 2025

        They surely know just how appalling the vaccines were, if this were not the case they would release the figure to show how much good they did. They have done appalling net harm in death and injuries and furthermore have hugely damaged public confidence in net good vaccines!

  7. Mark B
    December 28, 2025

    Good morning.

    The EU is Socialism. These moves are ideological and do not reflect what the British people want. We in 2016 voted for BREXIT and yet, without a vote / mandate we are moving to ever closer union with the EU.

    Those that complain about BREXIT are anti-democratic. They do not respect the will of the people and, in time, should those who wish looser ties with the EU take power we should not consider the views of Remainers.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      December 28, 2025

      Oh the EU have moved on from socialism.

  8. Bloke
    December 28, 2025

    European nations are places full of good people but the EU is a condition we must avoid to prevent further contamination of our own poor financial health.

  9. Rod Evans
    December 28, 2025

    We must conclude the Labour Party’s insistence we reengage fully with the EU is a policy based on destruction of Western industrial strength and nothing else. All of the EU efforts this far have been focused on blunting Western power, in the case of energy policy, literally.
    The end result will be an impoverished Europe unable to defend its own territory and unable to prevent the ongoing invasion of migrants moving in or armed enemies from taking control of previously sovereign well run secure countries.
    Marxism and Islamisation are not benign changes to our national wellbeing.

  10. Donna
    December 28, 2025

    The EU is a political project, not an economic one. Those pushing the political project in the UK don’t care about the economic effects here and they never have. It is all about creating a European Superstate and “having a seat at the table.”

    The EU Zealots in the Establishment had almost succeeded in their decades-long mission to destroy our ability to function as an independent country when we voted to LEAVE. They refused to do that and instead shackled us in a semi-detached status which was then undermined with the Windsor Treachery. We are now semi-attached and Two-Tier is steadily re-attaching shackles, one-by-one.

    The Establishment EU Zealots will completely destroy our economic viability, if necessary, in order to get us back in. They want us incapable of functioning as an independent, Sovereign nation and if that means beggaring the British people, then so be it.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      December 28, 2025

      But it’s the economics that is destroying the EU.
      They are now in the same position as most of Africa, and in a worse state than Greece.
      They cannot recover, ever. The Eurozone is finished.

      1. Donna
        December 28, 2025

        When all else fails, they declare a war. That’s why we’re hearing the jungle drums beating …..

        1. Lynn Atkinson
          December 28, 2025

          What are they going to fight with? Words?

  11. Peter Gardner
    December 28, 2025

    Labour has a magic money tree, don’t you know! It has probably already drafted another of those Labour notes to leave for the next government, “There’s no money left … …” and is probably rolling around laughing in anticipation. The Fabian riddled Gang of Starmer does not know how to build a country, only how to destroy one in order to create its global socialist order.

    1. Christine
      December 28, 2025

      They do have a magic money tree, it’s called the Bank of England printing press. Our savings are worth less and less every year. Get your money into assets before it’s worthless.

  12. Sakara Gold
    December 28, 2025

    The fossil fuel cartel is clutching at straws; it’s business model is rapidly collapsing under the relentless development of global renewable energy, which surged in 2025. Solar PV and wind contributed ~90% of new power generation capacity. Particularly in China, where they are building huge HVDC transmission systems to send vast amounts of renewable juice from the Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hebei, Shandong, Gansu deserts to the major population centres of Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, and Guangzhou, Schen, Wuhan, Tianjin, Xi’an, and Hangzhou

    Why is this? Renewable energy is enjoying economies of scale which make installation and generation extremely cheap. Far cheaper than building new nuclear, CCGT, coal or oil based generation

    The right-wing populist politicians and their media mouthpieces continue to fight the fossil fuel cartel’s rear-guard action for them. Today we read that, despite substantial renewable electricity exports to the EU in 2025 and improvements in grid capacity, “wasted electricity, aka curtailment” is costing British bill payers £15/year. Or 4p a day.

    Wow. I had no idea it was so much. Transmission losses via our obsolete LVAC pylon system – built to send coal-generated juice around the country – were estimated in 2024 at 8.75% of total non-renewable generation.

    Reply Dream on. Electricity only supplies 20% of world energy and that 20% still includes a lot of coal/oil/gas fired plant

    1. Sakara Gold
      December 28, 2025

      @ Sir John, reply

      I do not know who is doing your renewables research for you, but:

      Electricity generation from renewables is expected to increase 60% – from 9,900 TWh in 2024 to 16,200 TWh in 2030. In fact, renewables are expected to surpass coal at the end of 2025 (or by mid-2026 at the latest, depending on hydropower availability) to become the largest source of electricity generation globally. Solar PV alone accounts for over half of this increase, followed by wind (30%). The share of renewables in global electricity generation is projected to rise from 32% in 2024 to 43% by 2030, while the share of variable renewable energy sources set to almost double to 27%. Over 2025-2030, renewables are expected to meet over 90% of global electricity demand growth.

      Source: iea.org

      Reply I do my own research. Electricity is only 20 % of world energy so even when renewables get to half of world electricity they will only be 10% of energy. Most Brits drive ICE cars and have gas boilers. Electricity is just for lights and domestic appliances for. most people.

      1. MBJ
        December 28, 2025

        Renewables will take over but alas not in our lifetime.Our children and grandchildren will not be belittled by coal and oil suppliers threatening to turn off supplies whilst flexing their muscles in the centre of vulgar opulence for the few.

      2. Lifelogic
        December 28, 2025

        Currently wind and solar provide about 15% of electricity worldwide so 3% of total human energy demand. If you then allow for the backup needed (rendering gas, coal, wood generation far less efficient and the far greater complexity/cost of the grid required you can reduce this to circa 2% – they often do not even save CO2 if that bothers you,

        In short renewables are still virtually irrelevant! Cut all subsidies and let them compete where they can I am not against them in a fair unrigged market!

      3. Lynn Atkinson
        December 28, 2025

        Funnily enough Rodney, my husband, specialised in energy when he was a merchant banker. He forecast oil prices pretty accurately.
        He still has an interest and his analysis aligns with Lord Redwood’s.

    2. IanT
      December 28, 2025

      Here is a suggestion SG. Watch this video:
      “Are solar panels & heat pumps worth installing? Here’s what I’ve learnt” (from ‘Harry’s Farm’ on YT

      Then explain to me why I would want (or could afford) to install renewables when:
      a) I am not a millionaire farm owner (and exotic car collector)
      b) I don’t have an outdoor swimming pool to heat in the summer
      c) I have not just built a new, very well insulated house with underfloor heating and
      c) I don’t have a spare nearby field (or my own digger) to install a ground source heat pump to heat it with?

      Because if Harry can’t make it work, then I’m pretty sure us poor paysans are not going to either.

      Regards,

      IanT
      BTW etc ed

      1. Lifelogic
        December 28, 2025

        Exactly plus building that are not occupied most of the time need heating systems that can raise the temp. quickly not ones that need to be left on like most heat pump systems!

      2. Harry MacMillion
        December 29, 2025

        @Iant +99

    3. miami.mode
      December 28, 2025

      At 10.35 the total of wind and solar is 13% of electricity i.e. less than 10% of Britain’s energy needs.

      Reply Electricity is only 20% of our energy so renewables today are 3% of our needs

      1. Lifelogic
        December 28, 2025

        A bit more in summer perhaps 4% or 6% but almost irrelevant!

    4. Original Richard
      December 28, 2025

      SG:

      Whilst it is true that China has built a lot of renewables, probably to convince the useful idiots in the West to transition from fossil fuels to renewables as well as sell all the infrastructure, the Wikipedia 2024 data is solar 8.3%, wind 9.9%, fossil fuels 63%, hydropower 14% and nuclear at 4.5%. Furthermore China has recently increased its coal plant building to a 9 year high. I don’t see this changing much as they have just declared their UN NDC to be “7-10% by 2035 while “striving to do better””. The UK’s NDC for 2035 is 81% for comparison. China has built 100GW/year of coal for years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 and in the pipeline plans exist for a further 370GW. More importantly, however, it is not the pipeline installed capacities which need to be compared between the various fuels but the amount of additional energy each fuel type pipeline plan will produce and using Grok’s figures I calculate the following: Coal 175 PWhrs, Nuclear 56 PWhrs, Solar 14 PWhrs, wind (almost all onshore as offshore too expensive) 24 PWhrs. PWhrs = 1000 TWhrs. So China is concentrating on coal, followed by nuclear. They wouldn’t be doing this if renewables were cheaper and more reliable would they?

  13. MPC
    December 28, 2025

    Starmer will ensure that closer alignment comes with extremely high financial penalties for any withdrawal by a future government, thereby ensuring no such thing. The legal text of a say 10 year alignment with EU energy market rules will make provision for a fine of £50-£100 bn for amendment or withdrawal. The agreement will be presented as ‘the best of both worlds’ by Mr Miliband – freedom to develop renewable energy at home and ‘all the benefits we used to enjoy in terms of full access to continental energy via the inter connectors’. This approach will be repeated across all sectors where alignment will apply. Then the clamour for fully rejoining the EU from the mainstream media will become unstoppable and presented as merely a natural and logical development. Even though rejoining will mean the Euro as our currency and an annual membership fee of say £25 bn with no rebate. In future, anyone arguing for a Brexit would be subject to severe ridicule: ‘we tried all that before and look how bad it all turned out’.

  14. IanT
    December 28, 2025

    I’ve always thought the Titanic anology a ggod one. We should have never have boarded the SS.EU in the first place but having done so, we had the good sense to man a lifeboat and start rowing away. The lifeboat is small and cold, whilst back on the ship the lights are still on and we can hear the orchestra still playing. Starmer is busy turning our boat and wants to row back to apparent safety.
    Unfortunately, the Titanic is badly holed and sinking fast. Others still on board have noticed and soon there will be panic and a rush for the remaining lifeboats.
    Best we keep rowing away before the EU goes down and sucks us all down with it. It’s every man for themselves now – and time to realise that…

    1. Christine
      December 28, 2025

      Well put.

  15. Mick
    December 28, 2025

    Off Topic
    The Prime Minister said: ‘I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief.’
    Plus all these liebour lefties luvvies who also back him back onto our shores they must be as thick as the liebour politicians in Westminster but you could back your bottom dollar they wouldn’t want him living next door , get into the real world and not some scripted lines Muppets

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      December 28, 2025

      Pity Sunak and Truss ‘did all they could to get him released’, and of course, gave him British citizenship.
      He said ‘the British are dogs’.
      Islam does not allow dogs, all in the U.K. will have to be slaughtered starting with the Hounds and ending with….?

      1. Christine
        December 28, 2025

        There are several Tory MPs on the letter asking for his release. What is wrong with these people? Have they not read his posts?

    2. Donna
      December 28, 2025

      He was given British citizenship by Priti Patel.

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        December 28, 2025

        The Tories and Starmer now claim they knew nothing of his politics.
        Maybe they should not be so free with British passports do you think?

  16. Harry MacMillion
    December 28, 2025

    Far from boosting our exports it is more likely to boost our imports and displace imports from non EU. This will not increase our GDP and will help push up the cost of living.

    I fear this is the intention, not just to make us subservient to the EU but also to drain what money we have.

    During our time in the EU as well as when we left, the EU treated us like a cash cow, aided and abetted by our own politicians, who had decided that whatever the EU wanted they could have.

    The treacherous guile with which Starmer is forever positioning us closer to the EU is I’m sure driven by Blair policies, because they have no logic and very little support from the people of the UK, and Blair is still looking for a big EU job.

    What will he indulge his fantasies in next – Perhaps a war that we can never win?

    1. Christine
      December 28, 2025

      Our last and only hope is an elected Reform government that will enact a great reset, but I fear the Globalists will try and derail their success via any means.

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        December 28, 2025

        I’m afraid Farage will fail. He just can’t wait for facts, he wants to be a ‘prophet’ whether it’s the result of the Brexit vote, which he conceded before a vote was counted, or the result of the cricket.
        Reform need to get rid of Farage and lure Lowe and Habib and Redwood etc.
        Else they will bring nothing but a dead cat bounce, at best.

        1. Lynn Atkinson
          December 28, 2025

          We want men who get facts, analyse them, assess the options and take sober decisions.
          Powell is hailed as a prophet, but in fact he had thought it all out. Years of thinking. He told me I should think 75% of my time. He did not get divine intervention and answers without effort.
          Farage is not prepared to work and sweat thinking, even if he could.
          If I thought there was 10% chance of him saving us, I would shut up. But there is no chance. We need better people and we have them!

    2. Lifelogic
      December 28, 2025

      LIke Tony Bliar?

  17. Ian B
    December 28, 2025

    The big Question is why all those Countries outside of the EU that trade with the EU. China, India, the USA etc, the majority of the World do not have to pay the EU upfront, have to have their Laws and rules dictated by the EU?
    Why is the World expanding growing and still able to fund a tomorrow for its self and its people. Some 90% of the World is growing, the 90% of the World that is still Sovereign with thier own responsible Parliament and Government.

    Is it because they are stand alone Sovereign Countries some of them are even Democracies that look after their own and their own people and don’t take orders from foreign unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats?

    As the EU negotiating team stated at the time of the WA, the UK is now our colony. The traitorous UK Parliament has done its upmost to ensure that remains the situation. In their lazy freeloading way they have never accepted the responsibility as a Parliament or a Government preferring to off loading everything and anything to others – they don’t even have the culpability of a Local Council, it is always someone else’s fault.

    1. Mark B
      December 28, 2025

      In their lazy freeloading way they have never accepted the responsibility as a Parliament or a Government preferring to off loading everything and anything to others . . .

      100% Correct.

      If TTK and others want to be rules from Brussels then they should just say so, resign on mass, shutdown Parliament and sack the entire Civil Service. For what need of them do we have ?

      1. Ian B
        December 28, 2025

        @Mark B – as inferred in your last paragraph the honest thing to do. But, we have an ever increasing corrupt and dishonest Parliament that are contriving to trash democracy because to them Democracy ‘sucks’

  18. Berkshire Alan.
    December 28, 2025

    We tried the EU for more than 40 years, it and our own politicians failed us during that period.
    Our own Politicians stopped a complete break, hence we are now stuck with trying a range of in out shake it all about policies which will get us nowhere.
    We could and should be in control of our own destiny, but sadly our politicians in charge do not have a clue !

  19. William Smith
    December 28, 2025

    What this is about is destroying our Borders, destroying our country as they (Politicians) have destroyed European Countries. The Fabian’s Rule so it’s going to get worse, a lot worse.

  20. miami.mode
    December 28, 2025

    Never forget the Greek financial crisis. Socialists are quite happy to let a nation suffer in order to preserve “the project”.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      December 28, 2025

      A mere detail.
      There is now the Euro Crisis which we all knew would come.
      It is impossible to control and has moved past the point of recovery.
      That means Germany is finished.
      The U.K. hangs on by the skin of its teeth because we held onto Sterling.

  21. Sakara Gold
    December 28, 2025

    The UK has signed a £52 million joint contract with Germany to acquire a single example (for testing) of the 8X8 wheeled RCH 155 mobile artillery system.

    Under the direction of SoS Ben Wallace, the UK transferred a total of 68 AS90 SPG units to Ukraine, some of which were operationally ready, with others used as donor units for spare parts. As of July 2025, the Oryx blog recorded Ukrainian losses at 19 units (13 destroyed and 6 damaged)

    British tracked AS90 systems operational in Ukraine have been praised for their high rate of fire (three rounds in under 10 seconds), rapid deployment, quick retreat capabilities, and an autonomous gun-laying system that allows for rapid action.

    Buying the proposed RCH 155 mobile artillery system is a mistake. The Army doesn’t like it’s winter wet ground capability (lack of off road tracks) it is top heavy and lacks armour. It’s hard to do 100km/hour off road in winter, it will quickly get stuck in muddy conditions, targeted and destroyed

    The Army was interested in the Korean K9 Thunder tracked and armoured SPG. More than 600 units of the K9 artillery system have been sold to nations around the world – including Poland. The Koreans offered to build a factory here to make them at a cost of about $8million per unit. The selection of RCH 155 was reportedly a direct decision by the Prime Minister Sunak, circumventing the standard army trials process that was also considering competitors – like the South Korean K9 Thunder.

    Sunak knew absolutely nothing about military matters whatsoever, apparently he was talked into it over a long lunch with German Chancellor Scholtz.

    Reply Another example of contributions here seeking to blame a past Conservative government for decisions made by the current government. Labour Ministers signed an Agreement to collaborate with Germany on defence procurement in October 2024. They announced this collaboration for mobile artillery in December 2025. PMs do not agree big contracts over lunch. They all have to go through an elaborate civil service controlled procurement process. Why make things up like this? Why should I believe anything else you write when you send me fiction?

    1. IanT
      December 29, 2025

      The Poles seem to have been very shrewd in choosing the Korean K2 ‘Black Panther’ over the German Leopard 288. The Germans could not deliver 288s quickly (3 years) and the basic Leopard cost a lot more than the K2 (which also came with training, technical support, ammunition and spares).The K2 seems to be a very capable armoured vehicle that is lighter (with composite armour) and faster than the Leopard and has an ‘autoloader’ gun that can fire up to 15 rounds per minute – twice that of the Leopards (manually loaded) gun.

      The Koreans also signed a deal that allows the Poles to build 50 K2s a year (in Poland) and export them if they wish but more importantly manufacture spare parts for their K22 ‘fleet’. They got blueprints, software source, tooling detail, everything needed to be self-sufficient. The first ten Korean-built K2 tanks were delivered within 16 weeks of the first order being placed. The Poles plan have nearly 1,800 tanks – more than the rest of Europe.

      The Poles are in a hurry. They still remember the old Soviet Union and have no desire to join the new version. We should also recognise the urgency of the current situation and start thinking outside the MoDs usual wooden box. Tanks are not UKs first priority but Air & Sea defences should be. The Public need to start getting very concerned about their lack of security and maybe the idiots currently in charge should also understand that their urban voters are likely to be the first ones to take a hit if things ‘warm up’.

      Wake up Westminster. Get real, stop the Bull S*** and get your national priorites right – and quickly!

  22. Keith from Leeds
    December 28, 2025

    Democracy requires losers’ consent to survive. Starmer and his dim Cabinet never accepted the result of the 2016 EU referendum, or the result of the 2019 General Election, both of which supported leaving the EU. We have a
    Remainer Government, House of Lords, Civil Service and Establishment who have never given losers’ consent.
    They are determined to tie us into the EU in every way possible, at any price! Even if that means destroying the UK economy in the process. All the Remainers want is to make it impossible for the UK to be a prosperous, successful, independent nation. The word Traitors comes to mind, and there must be a day of reckoning for them all.

    1. Mark B
      December 28, 2025

      Also the EU Parliament elections where the BREXIT Party stormed it.

      Quite right. At every opportunity we, the little people, have expressed our view to have the same relationship with the EU as most other countries have with it. ie Very little.

  23. Bill Brown
    December 28, 2025

    Sir John,

    It is of course unfortunate that 3/3 of British business disagrees with you as so does the TUC, about wanting to entre the EU open market again.

    But I suppose it is too late for you to change your opinion on the negative consequences of Brexit

    Happy New year

    Reply You are wrong about UK business. They do not want EU tariffs reimposed on their non EU imports, nor do they want to lose the better market access from our trade deals. They would hate the higher taxes needed to pay for membership of the EU.

  24. iain gill
    December 28, 2025

    Personally I think Europe is a secondary issue now.

    Given that more jobs in the economy are being given to Indian and Nigerian nationals than are being given to UK nationals we need a referendum on stopping immigration completely from India (and Pakistan) and Nigeria.

    Then we need to move onto the parts of society that have proven track record of gang rape, assault, terrorism, and start treating them accordingly, stop the appeasement, stand up for what is good and true.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      December 28, 2025

      Yes, this is the crisis.
      We are faced with the question of whether we want to survive or not, again.
      Brexit was the first time of asking and the answer and solution was easy (too hard for Johnson-the-Destroyer of course).
      This time we are going have to follow through hard and fast, the politicians will not do it.

      1. iain gill
        December 28, 2025

        yes we have many hundreds of terrorist sleeper cells, and the state seems to be importing many more of them on purpose. this is all going to get nasty one way or another. I don’t think the complacency or attitude of the ruling classes is acceptable. one of the many things where there is a complete democratic deficit.

        we need to batten down the hatches, sort out our ruling classes, and stop being so naïve.

      2. Donna
        December 29, 2025

        And that’s why I support Reform. Because (whether you like Farage or not) they are the only potential means of achieving it.

        I do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

        1. iain gill
          December 29, 2025

          sadly Nigel wants to keep the floodgates from India open, he is also refusing point blank to remove British passports from people already given them no matter what the circumstances.

          Reform may be the least worst option, but there are a long way off what we need.

  25. Sidney Ingleby
    December 28, 2025

    Sir John:why do you put up with SGs total rubbish contributions.I know this site is a broad church but he/she
    should be de-frocked.The trade figures for 2024:Commonwealth(56 countries 30+% world population)
    balance +£16b+ Trade non-EU balance +£79.567b.Trade EU balance -£94.623

  26. glen cullen
    December 28, 2025

    Did anybody see a christian christmas celebration this year ….in fear of litigation and offence; my high street, church, local council & the BBC have all appeared to ignore the christmas festivity ….we’ve lost our soul

  27. Fran
    December 28, 2025

    Awful to be still reading this anti-EU rubbish – as if we had choices aplenty

    1. Berkshire Alan.
      December 29, 2025

      So your solution to us purchasing, selling, making new taxes/rules/regulations and laws is what exactly. ?
      Leave it all for the EU to decide. ?
      We tried that experiment for 40 years, do you think it was a big success.

  28. Original Richard
    December 28, 2025

    Just as high, wasteful spending is used to justify high taxation so moving closer to the EU and accepting a worse destructive and expensive rule taking relationship with no representation is a device to further impoverish us. Socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor and remember that the Chancellor is a Fabian and the PM was a senior member until he decided to become an MP.

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