Remainers predictions “wicked and trashy”, the Lords votes to make the poor poorer, Brexit Import substitution is making the UK richer, Business is optimistic, Remainers are unpopular in Brussels, our Electoral law is implemented by biased Remainers, one Transition rule for Brussels another for Britain, UK Fishermen betrayed again, EU Charter of Human Rights has been a disaster – so the Lords vote for it, and a mighty future for Britain and the Commonwealth.
MORE GOOD NEWS FOR BREXIT BRITAIN
The UK budget deficit at £42bn is still far too high of course given the May tendency to socialist spending but nevertheless it is at its lowest since 2007 and CURRENT Government spending is actually in small surplus for the first time since 2002 at £112m.
Tax receipts are at record levels, showing the general health of the British economy and unemployment is till at a 43 year low. Oh dear! What a disaster!
UK inflation has fallen to 2.5% while wages are rising faster than that so living standards are rising again. The Pound is rising against the US Dollar making our purchase of so many commodities and raw materials cheaper in Pound terms.
Vauxhall has announced that it will invest £100m to build a new van at the firm’s Luton factory and is also expected to create more roles as the plant’s capacity increases to 100,000 a year, from the 59,000 vans currently built there.
The CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, had warned during the 2016 referendum that banks would abandon London in favour of continental cities like Frankfurt but has just admitted he had got it wrong and was surprised to find there had not been “more of a dramatic effect” since the vote to Leave. “We are building a big building [in London] for more than £1bn. We are going to keep that building – the math works,”
IMPORT SUBSTITUTION
“The Maths works” in many ways – one of them being the end to an artificially high Pound. As we leave the EU the pound has fallen, our exports are rising and as the cost of imports rise IMPORT SUBSTITUTION creates more jobs and wealth for British consumers and producers. For example:
French champagne imports have fallen by 11% and the Fullers pub group says it is selling 50% more English champagne – production of which rose from 3m bottles in 2016 to 4m in 2017.
UK supermarkets are increasingly looking to local and regional produce. Morrisons has seen a rise of 50% in its sale of local produce in its supermarkets and two thirds of its sales are now UK sourced. The Co-op has stopped importing fresh meat and NIM’s vegetable and fruit crisp company is moving production from Hungary to the UK. And Hungary is not even in the Euro where the scope for removing production from the high priced eurozone back to Britain is even greater.
UK factories are investing more than at any time since 2014 and the services sector is also more confident than at any time since 2016. Of 40,000 tweets by 25,000 UK firms and businessmen in February and March 21% were positive and only 4% negative.
REMAINERS UNPOPULAR – BUREAUCRATS RULE
The lying, project fear Remainers continue in the press, the Lords and the Commons their attempts to reverse the democratic will of the British people. They continue to use terms which are misunderstood by the people – single market (they think it means free trade) , customs union (they think it means low costs), soft Brexit (which means no Brexit), “second referendum” (which means you got it wrong, vote again) and many others – even as their antics before and after the 2016 referendum are daily exposed as “wicked politics and trashy economics” as one of the UK’s leading economists Professor Tim Congdon has shown.
George Osborne, one of the most disastrous Chancellors of the Exchequer for generations, was one of the fear mongers of the referendum campaign. He predicted house prices would collapse, wages would fall, the economy and employment would decline – but in fact the exact opposite happened and Tim Congdon has worked out that the difference between Osborne’s predictions and the reality amounted to £100bn. And that is the kind of human disaster we put in charge of theTreasury!
News reaches me from an Irish friend in academic life that his senior Irish civil servant friend “close to official thinking” tells him that
“the continental Member States are getting fed up with the Irish Government and the European Commission, along with British Remainers, attempting to use the border to scupper Brexit. The Continentals just want the thing sorted.”
Of course you will not read this in newspapers because while the unelected EU negotiator Barnier never stops open threats to Britain and never ceases to erect barriers to a free trade agreement, the elected Governments of the EU, who have most to lose, are bullied by EU bureaucrats into keeping quiet to “preserve a united front against the British”
It has emerged that all the former Cabinet Secretaries (ie the most senior Civil Servant) in the Lords voted for the UK to stay in the Customs Union – which means of course staying in the EU but without any influence on the rate of import tariffs. It would prevent the UK negotiating trade deals with other countries and give the EU permanent power to distort UK trade. There is a petition demanding a referendum on the abolition of the Lords which has rapidly grown to 100,000 signatures!
Bureaucrats love the EU. There is no limit to the administrative, tax, trade and tariff complexities which can engage them – all ideal for career advancement! Another form of bureaucrat rules our lives in the world of Government created Quangos. A critical one is the Electoral Commission which controls all our elections and referenda.
The Sunday Telegraph revealed bigoted pro Remain statements by 4 of the 10 members of that Commission. Chairman Sir John Holmes speaking a few months before he was nominated said he “regretted the result of the referendum and complained about “the panoply of Eurosceptic nonsense about the EU”. Just the kind of bureaucrat you want presiding over our votes!
ONE RULE FOR BRUSSELS ONE RULE FOR BRITAIN
While the UK has agreed to abandon all influence on Brexit day in March 2019, including having no more MEPs, no more decision making power and losing EU offices in London, the EU has demanded and got continuing payments from the UK and obedience to EU control and is seeking to exclude Britain from funding and joint programmes – like the Galileo space project.
Another example is the European Investment Fund – a partnership between the European Investment Bank and private investors. It has massively reduced investment in the UK by 90% between 2016 and 2018 from 708m Euros to 61m Euros even though the UK has continued its shareholding in the bank and of course is still paying billions in EU budget contributions. The Bank comment:
“It is the case that due diligence in them now needs to be more thorough”
Note the word “now”. In other words they are saying Brexit means they will not support the UK in the same way, even though we are still in the EU. We should take a similar line with our payments to the EU! We need to examine EU budget fraud before we pay any contributions in the next three years!
FISHERMEN BETRAYED – AGAIN
One of the Civil Servants’ recent “successes” has been the negotiation of a “transition deal” with the EU which includes a fine betrayal of British fishermen (just as they did with the help of Prime Minister Heath and Europe Minister Rippon in 1972).
Fishing for Leave spokesman Alan Hastings said: “Fishermen are sickened and enraged that our Government has capitulated to obeying all EU law after Brexit” describing the transition agreement as a “death sentence for what’s left of the British fishing industry”.
Fishermen said the EU will be free to enforce and impose detrimental rules on us to cull what’s left of the UK fleet. And even though the transition deal will last only 2 extra years nevertheless in that time the UK will have no influence over fisheries decisions and untold damage could be caused to fishing stocks.
Fishermen fear that under international law, UNCLOS Article 62.2 says if a nation no longer has the capacity to catch its own resources it might end up surrendering them to its neighbours.
Article 62
Utilization of the living resources
1. The coastal State shall promote the objective of optimum utilization of the living resources in the exclusive economic zone without prejudice to article 61.
2. The coastal State shall determine its capacity to harvest the living resources of the exclusive economic zone. Where the coastal State does not have the capacity to harvest the entire allowable catch, it shall, through agreements or other arrangements and pursuant to the terms, conditions, laws and regulations referred to in paragraph 4, give other States access to the surplus of the allowable catch, having particular regard to the provisions of articles 69 and 70, especially in relation to the developing States mentioned therein.
So the EU, whose massive subsidies to their fishermen have driven our fishermen out of business and their theft for over 40 years of our fishing grounds, could end up taking even what is left!
THE EU’S EUROPEAN CHARTER OF HUMAN DISASTERS
The Labour Peer Lord Howarth of Newport speaking in the Lords summed up his revulsion at the spineless Remainers seeking to reverse Brexit:
“Have we, as parliamentarians, entirely lost confidence in the institution that we have the honour to serve and of which our country was once so proud? (my emphasis). As we debate Brexit it sometimes appears that for many Remainers almost anything is preferable to resuming full responsibility for our own decisions in our own parliamentary democracy.”
While Baroness Deech exposed the farce of the Remainers seeking to impose
permanently on the British people the “European Charter on Human Rights” when we have seen that Charter fail to uphold those rights over the years.
She rightly pointed to massive ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia (mainly of course of Serbs by Bosnia, Kosovo and Croatia – the latter an EU member) and the arrest in Spain of democratically elected politicians in Catalonia.
We could also add that there is not a single parliament in the EU since all the national parliaments are now powerless and the EU Parliament is little more than a talking shop. So much for “human rights”.
A MIGHTY FUTURE FOR BRITAIN AND THE COMMONWEALTH
When we entered the EEC as it then was on 1st January 1973 we betrayed and abandoned the trading interests of the British Commonwealth. Brexit gives us the opportunity to re-establish those personal, commercial, political and trading links with what are now the 53 member states of the Commonwealth.
As Liam Halligan reminds us in an excellent article in the Sunday Telegraph those 53 countries span 5 continents, 18% of global trade (the EU has only 16% and falling), one third of the world’s population, the second biggest economy in Asia (India) and the biggest in Africa (Nigeria). As I pointed out in a recent article, add the USA and Ireland and the new 56 nation block of historically linked nations will account for 34% of world trade.
And of course, as predominantly developing economies, they are ideal trading partners for an advanced industrial economy like Britain’s – rather than the market of our biggest competitors in the EU! As we have shifted our exports more towards the rest of the world 2017 saw UK exports rise by 10%.
No wonder Canada has said Brexit means the UK will get a ‘better or larger’ trade deal after Brexit and a Bundesbank board member admits London will remain Europe’s main financial hub after Brexit.
Of course, the UK will flourish and that is why the EU negotiators don’t want sensible terms for Brexit. Like the Remainers they want a disastrous Brexit “pour encourager les autres”.
