Saturday, December 14, 2024

Michael Lambert: The Ongoing Madness of Brexit, with New Barriers to Trade with the EU

Dec 14, 2024 | Nowadays in the UK the police are often called to investigate minor incidents such as responding to online social media posts, silent protest, people holding signs which a very small minority might find offensive.

In the meantime. crime is increasing throughout the UK especially shoplifting and mobile phone snatching. The police say they are too busy to investigate.

Kerr Starmer has been in Saudi Arabia this week asking the Saudis to invest in the UK. They will not do so unless they see a real potential profit and all the world knows that the UK economy is in trouble.

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, this week attended a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels. Having made it clear yet again that the UK does not wish to rejoin the Customs Union, the Single Market, or the EU, and will not agree to free movement even for students and young people. She sought better trading terms for the UK.

At the same time the EU has now introduced GSPR terms which will make it necessary for all goods exported to the EU or Northern Ireland to be tested in the EU and for every exporter to employ an approved agent with the EU to check that every consignment conforms with EU standards.

The EU signed a free trade agreement with MERCASUR, a group including Brazil, Argentina and others comprising 700 million consumers. Had the UK remained in the EU it would have benefited from this important deal.

In the meantime, the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, admitted on national television that Brexit has been a failure. Boris Johnson is also believed to have admitted to close associates that he deeply regrets Brexit.

Finally, Nigel Forage who, above all others, persuaded the British public to vote to leave the EU and who persuaded the farmers to vote ‘leave’ is now their champion appearing at their protests in Whitehall.



Begging the Saudis to invest in the UK will come at a very high price. Is Starmer so naïve that he doesn’t realise this? Saudi investment in the UK will accelerate the Islamisation of the country. Yes, of course they will want to profit from their investments in a business sense. But the Saudis will expect to profit from their investments politically and religiously, as well. Saudi Arabia, as we all know, is the home of Islam, and the Saudi king is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. (Please click here.) There is no way that the Saudi royal family will not want to further the cause of Islam in the UK in return for their generosity.

We Brits are compounding our problems, day after day after day. – © Mark Alexander