Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2025

Brexit Blues: 5 Years after Leaving the EU | ARTE.tv Documentary

Feb 17, 2025 | How do the British view Brexit, five years after leaving the European Union? From farmers to politicians to ordinary citizens, the range of opinion reveals the divisions caused by this major political event.

Brexit Blues: 5 Years after Leaving the EU | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until 01/05/2025


Saturday, February 08, 2025

Michael Lambert: Why Would Any Young People Stay in the UK? UK Politics after Brexit

Feb 8, 2025 | This week I am in Thailand visiting my son and his girlfriend who moved here 18 months ago and will not be returning to the UK. Thailand is a much poorer country than the UK. Both countries have similar populations of around 70 million but Thailand’s GDP per capita is only one seventh of that of the UK. Bankok, the capital of Thailand, is however is a very dynamic and bustling metropolis of 9 million. The quality of life for anyone with a reasonable income is very good indeed as I hope to show in a later video.

Given the deteriorating state of the UK economy, it is not at all surprising that so many young people, especially those with qualifications, are leaving the UK. London is now the 8th most expensive city of 226 cities surveyed by Mercer. High taxes, the cost-of-living, property prices and stagnant wages are all reasons to seek alternative places to live and work. It is hardly surprising that 30% of people surveyed by YouGov said that they were actively considering emigrating from the UK


Saturday, February 01, 2025

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Michael Lambert: How Farage and Brexit Wrecked the British Economy

Jan 25, 2025 | Nigel Farage is a conman. He is only interested in his own fame and making money. For twenty years he was a member of the European parliament during which time he complained and argued incessantly for the UK to leave the EU ich resulted in the disastrous Brexit which has caused so much harm to the UK economy and reputation.

Nigel Farage is now an MP and yet he earns more than £1 million per year from outside activities and claims that he received more than £2 million in expenses over a ten-year period whilst he was an MEP.

He recently told reporters in America that he could be the next UK prime minister.

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer attended the World Economic Forum in Davos this week accompanied by Johnathan Reynolds the UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade where they were both interviewed by Bloomberg . The interview was a disaster in which Reynolds demonstrated his lack of understanding of his job or how to create any growth in the UK economy.

It is difficult to see how Keir Starmer and Reeves can survive given the constant flow of bad economic news. One person who might be able to save the situation is the First Secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones.


Friday, January 17, 2025

Kemi Badenoch's Big Brexit Speech Yesterday

Jan 17, 2025


Kemi Badenoch is a bloody disaster for the Conservative Party. She has zero chance of reversing the party’s fortunes. In a short time, Badenoch will be nothing but a footnote in the history books.

The problem with Brexit is not that it has been badly executed, though it is true that it has been badly executed. The main problem with Brexit is that its execution should never have been tried from the start. There is no way that Brexit could have worked, regardless of how it was executed. No country can decouple itself from the greatest customs union in the world, which is on its doorstep, and expect to be able to thrive. This is economics 101!

Only a dimwit would have suggested a Brexit referendum. Cameron, put a referendum forward, and he was just that: a dimwit.

Kemi Badenoch need not bash herself on the head with Brexit being badly executed. Fact is that its execution should never have been tried in the first place.

We are led by dimwits! – © Mark Alexxander

Saturday, January 04, 2025

How One Speech Toppled Thatcher and Directly Led to Brexit 26 Years Later

Jan 3, 2025 | “It created a fault line in the Tory Party and British politics which led directly to Brexit.”

Ed Vaizey is joined by playwright Jonathan Maitland to dissect how Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech in 1990 changed the course of British politics.



WIKIPEDIA: Geoffrey Howe »

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Why Poland Will Overtake British Economy by 2030

Dec 17, 2024


Brexit was the stupidest, stupidest, stupidest decision that Britons have taken since World War II. Only a fool would have advocated that the UK exit the European Union, and we all know who that fool was! Unfortunately, there were many Britons who were ill-informed enough to follow him. Nobody with any understanding of economics could have voted to leave the largest, most successful customs union and single market in the whole world, more especially when that single market is right next door, on our doorstep. There will be a special place in Hell reserved for the loudmouth who pushed for this ridiculous outcome. Especially for a country such as ours which is anyway in steep decline. Now, not only have we lost an empire, but we have lost our influence and greatest economic opportunity that was not only open to us but to which we belonged. Would that clowns joined circuses instead of entering politics! – © Mark Alexander

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Peter Stefanovic: Johnson Now Travels World Telling Anyone Who Will Listen “Brexit Saved Lives” - Hold onto Your Seats

Dec 19, 2024


If a man looks like a clown, coifs his hair like a clown, and talks like a clown, then by golly, he must be a clown! – © Mark Alexander

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Rob Groves: Could This Be the End of Brexit as We Know It?

Dec 14, 2024 | Donald Trump’s re-election is already having a massive impact all over the world, and post-Brexit Britain faces a moment of reckoning when Napoleon Bona-spur’s America First philosophy is implemented by way of trade tariffs and foreign policy. And within the UK, the Brexit tide had already turned, just weeks after that fateful advisory referendum in 2016. But now, the public mood has shifted even FURTHER, with a clear majority now wanting European freedom of movement back, now they’ve seen Brexit do the exact OPPOSITE of what it said on the tin, by INCREASING immigration into the UK.

The Labour government is struggling to put forward a coherent policy on Brexit, and questions about rejoining the EU loom, even coming from previously pro-Brexit voices. Can it be that the UK is ready to attempt to end its self-imposed cultural exile and to try to undo the trade sanctions 52% of its electorate voted to impose on themselves?


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

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Majority of Brexit Voters ‘Would Accept Free Movement’ to Access Single Market

THE GUARDIAN: Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’

A majority of Britons who voted to leave the EU would now accept a return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market, according to a cross-Europe study that also found a reciprocal desire in member states for closer links with the UK.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s election as US president had “fundamentally changed the context” of EU-UK relations, the report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) thinktank said.

“There is a remarkable consensus on both sides of the Channel that the time is ripe for a reassessment of EU-UK relations,” it concluded, with closer relations being the most popular option in every country surveyed – and public opinion on the question well ahead of government stances. » | Peter Walker and Jon Henley | Thursday, December 12, 2024

We should never have left the EU in the first place. But for that troublemaker, Farage, and Cameron’s stupidity in calling for a referendum to appease the Eurosceptics in his party, we wouldn’t have left the Community. Leaving it was a duff move.

Sir Keir Starmer should do all within his power to get us back into the Community where we, as Europeans, belong. And with dispatch! Re-joining the Single Market would be a great first step to undo the damage already done. That will help ensure high food standards for this country, before the Americans under Trump’s leadership come with their hormone-injected meats, chlorinated chicken, and GMO foods.

The results of this polling is encouraging. Now, we must act. – © Mark Alexander

Saturday, December 07, 2024

Michael Lambert: Making Brexit Work with Mission Led Milestones and Other Nonsense

Dec 7, 2024 | Keir Starmer this week announced six new milestones to go with his 'Mission led' government. He made no mention of the economy or how he expects to pay for the missions.

Also discussed in a tongue-in-cheek manner pointing out how businesses are suffering and how the UK economy is suffering from new post Brexit regulations.

UK immigration has reached over 800,000 partly because of the shortage of workers following Brexit.

The UK government continues to blame Covid, the Ukraine, and the EU for their own failings.


Friday, November 29, 2024

Angela Merkel ‘Tormented’ by Brexit Vote and Saw It as ‘Humiliation’ for EU

THE GUARDIAN: Former German chancellor’s book tells how she tried to help David Cameron win over Britain’s Eurosceptics

Angela Merkel has said she was “tormented” over the result of the Brexit referendum and viewed it as a “humiliation, a disgrace” for the EU that Britain was leaving.

In her autobiography, Freedom, due to be published on Tuesday, the former German chancellor says she was dismayed by the notion that she might have done more to help the then British prime minister, David Cameron, who was keen for the UK to stay in the EU, but that ultimately, she concluded, he only had himself to blame. » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Sunday, November 24, 2024

Angela Merkel expresses ‘huge concern’ at Elon Musk’s US government role: Former German chancellor says politics should govern the social balance between powerful and ordinary citizens »

‘We miss her so much’: fans welcome Angela Merkel’s return to stage: Events in Berlin to promote former chancellor’s autobiography remind people of when ‘everything was more or less OK’ »

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Was die Briten WIRKLICH über den Brexit denken

Oct 17, 2024 | In dieser Serie von öffentlichen Interviews in England machen wir Straßeninterviews mit Menschen und in diesem Video haben wir gefragt, ob sie lieber in der EU geblieben wären.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

The Rejoin EU Party: Rejoin EU Talks Brexit Is Running Out of Friends

Nov 24, 2024 | In this new video, Brendan Donnelly argues that political and economic pressures will force the Labour government to abandon its present defensive and self-destructive attitude towards the European Union. There is nothing to be gained and much to be lost through such negativity. Our goal is for the U.K. to return to the EU.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Michael Lambert: Brexit & Trump - Voters Choose Decline & Chaos

Nov 16, 2024 | The British economy continues to suffer from the effects of Brexit and Donald Trump is to be the next president of the United States.

Last week, a treasury minister, Rachel Reeves the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Governor of the Bank of England, all referred to the negative effects of Brexit.

The OBR calculated that Brexit will have cost the UK economy 15% of trade intensity [* see below] and 4% of GDP and yet the government continues to talk of growth as being the answer to the UK's economic problems. But where is this growth going to come from?

Donald Trump is to be the new POTUS and it is hoped that he will favour the UK with tariff exemptions or a trade deal**. This seems unlikely. My prediction is that Trump is unlikely to last a full term. He is impulsive, dishonest and will be almost totally unrestrained during his second term. I also expect that he will soon fall out with Elon Musk who, no doubt, feels that he 'bought' the presidency for Trump



* Trade intensity means the ratio between the total value of exports to third countries plus the value of imports from third countries and the total market size for the Union (annual domestic turnover of Union companies plus total imports from third countries) as per Eurostat statistics, Source: Law Insider.

** I disagree with Michael Lambert in this matter. Tariff exemptions, yes; I am all in favour of any tariff exemptions we can get. However, any trade deals with the USA will mean the UK relinquishing its sovereignty. Any deals with Trump will be to America’s advantage. This will not be a level playing field. Do we REALLY want the USA to buy up our hospitals? Do we really want the USA to privatise our NHS? Do we REALLY want chlorinated chicken on our supper plates, or hormone-injected beef? Do we REALLY want a plethora of GMO products on our dinner plates?

Further, any trade deals with the USA will put the UK in a seriously disadvantaged position; they will also push us further apart from the European Union, where we belong. The further the UK and the EU drift apart, the more difficult it will be to rejoin. Moreover, the longer we have been outside the European Union, the clearer it should be becoming to all, even the most Eurosceptics amongst us, that Brexit was a ridiculous experiment in self-harm right from the start. No-one with an iota of understanding of economics and international trade would ever have been in favour of wrenching this country apart from such a successful political and economic union. Cameron, BoJo, and Farage have a great deal to answer for. They have impoverished this nation, they have stunted its economic growth, they have made the European continent more vulnerable to invasion, and they have endangered the peace of our continent. Not forgetting, of course, that the European community was conceived to bring peace after the horrendous wars and suffering in the twentieth century.

The re-election of Trump has made the UK's re-entry into the European Union more urgent than it has been for a long time. It is to the UK's advantage, and the EU's, that Brexit be seen as a huge mistake, damaging both sides. For this reason, we British need to reconsider our membership of this political and economic bloc, and our European brethren and sistren need to find it in them to forgive and move on. Let us deny Putin the pleasure of a weakened Europe. Let us begin working together again. In earnest. — © Mark Alexander

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Trump Wants to 'Aggressively' Spread Brexit throughout Europe | Yanis Varoufakis

Nov 13, 2024 | “He has an agenda…He wants to make Brexit spread all over the European continent.”

Trump will apply “aggressive actions” to the European Union as he sees it as “a clear present danger to the United States”, says former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.