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

Friday, February 23, 2024

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Jon Danzig: A Vote for Brexit Was a Vote for Putin

Putin’s fingerprints are all over Brexit. There’s been suspicions of this for some time, but the evidence is now compelling and urgently needs proper investigation.

Motive is the key incentive for any crime. There have never been any benefits for Britain doing Brexit. Not even one. Any apparent motive for leaving the EU was based on a pack of astonishing, outrageous lies.

But the benefits to Russia from Brexit are both clear and enormous.

For almost two decades, Putin has harboured antagonism over the loss of the Soviet empire, to be successfully replaced by the enlargement of the EU, encroaching on what he considered to be Russian territory.

In 2005 he declared: “the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster”

Putin has used covert techniques to destabilise the European Union in his imperial goal to create a new Russian empire, starting with his invasions of Ukraine.

A win for ‘Leave’ was all part of that agenda.

𝗔 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲.

The lies that led to Brexit, in part fuelled and funded by Putin, were compelling, convincing, and used the powerful techniques of psychological warfare.

All of us were misled. But now Britain and Britons must decide where we stand and which side we support.

Our political elite allowed our country to become a stooge for Putin’s nefarious intentions, with absolutely no benefits to us.

But the reality is that it’s the EU we should be supporting, not Putin. The EU stands for what Britain and Britons really stand for and have always stood for.

We must support the EU project and start our journey – however long it takes – to rejoining our true family in Europe.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻, 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨. – © Jon Danzig


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Sunday, February 18, 2024

Kent Farmer Destroys Rees-Mogg’s Brexit Celebrations | #shorts

Jacob Rees-Mogg can’t defend his STUPID decision to DRAG this country OUT of the EU. What a dork Jacob Rees-Mogg is! A pukka accent a wise and clever man DOES NOT make!

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Michael Lambert: Rishi's Recession and Chaos - All Part of the Plan?

Feb 17, 2024 | Last week Rishi Sunak repeatedly claimed that the UK had turned the corner and that his unspecified plan was working. It was also announced that the UK had been in recession during the last two quarters of 2023.

Sunak's previous employer, Goldman Sachs, published a damning report blaming Brexit for much of the UK's current economic problems.

Social services, the NHS, schools, the Courts, prisons and the military are all desperately in need of further funding and better management. At the same time businesses continue to suffer.

In two by elections at Wellingborough and at Kingsword, the Tories were trounced whilst Reform UK gained 11% in one and 13% of the votes in the other, showing themselves to be a serious threat to the Conservatives at the general election especially if Nigel Farage returns as leader.


Sunday, February 11, 2024

OMG! Richard Tice Loses His Rag on TalkTV

Feb 11, 2024 | This morning, the leader of the Reform (Brexit) Party was so infuriated by @BylineTV reporter, Caolan Robertson, he called and raged to try and protect Brexit. He didn’t show any empathy towards South Wales and the workers who have lost their jobs thanks to Brexit!


The discussion was about this documentary. | Richard Tice is big chums with Nigel Farage. That tells you all you need to know! Richard Tice hasn’t lost his job because of Brexit; on the contrary, he’s profiting from it. Fact is, Brexit was the dumbest idea ever for this country. In centuries past, these people would have been displayed on the public square with their heads in stocks! – © Mark Alexander

Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Brexit Wipes Out UK’s Biggest Steelworks. Decimates Wales. Media Covered It Up.

Feb 7, 2024 | Why is the Port Talbot steelworks really closing its blast furnaces at the cost of 3000 jobs? Is it because of net zero green policies, like the right wing media says? Byline TV's Caolan Robertson went to Port Talbot and spoke to locals, steelworkers, economists and politicians to expose the truth about the end of British steel.


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This video shows perfectly and succinctly why Brexit was such a stupid idea. The electorate has been duped by ruthless, right-wing ideologues – the likes of Farage, Boris Johnson and even our current prime minister. These are all people who cannot be trusted.

Brexit was never a patriotic move – quite the opposite. The people who pushed the idea of Brexit did so to line their own pockets.

I hope that you, my visitors and followers, can now see why I have been banging on for so long about the ridiculousness and stupidity of Brexit. Brexit was a hare-brained idea from the very start.

What Brexit has done to Port Talbot is heart-breaking. But I am sure it is not alone. There must be many communities up and down the UK which are suffering because of the lies of the politicians and the false dreams they peddled. Fie on them all! – © Mark Alexander

John Major: Brexit Is a Colossal Mistake

Feb 7, 2024 | This 4-minute video has already been viewed over a million times


John Major is one of the last of the great, sensible Tories. I would still be voting Tory if the Party was still made up of respectable and decent men like John Major. – © Mark Alexander

Saturday, February 03, 2024

Michael Lambert: The UK Has No Future Outside the EU

Feb 3, 2024 | It is now four years since the UK finally left the EU. The period since Brexit under an incompetent and corrupt Conservative government has brought economic decline, social division and poverty to millions. Every week brings more economic bad news. Under Rishi sunak, the Tories are deeply divided and the prime minister has resorted to regularly lying in order to defend his lamentable record of incompetence.

Labour will inherit an economy in severe difficulty and decline and, even though it is widely accepted that Brexit is responsible for many of our problems, Keir Starmer has repeatedly insisted that under his leadership, the UK will never seek to rejoin the Single Market, the Customs Union of the European Union or agree to freedom of movement, or attempt to return to membership of the EU. Britain, however, has no future outside the EU and seems destined to continually decline.


Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Watch in Disbelief as Government Health Minister Tells Sky Viewers about the Benefits of Brexit

Jan 31, 2024


Andrea Leadsom must surely be mentally challenged! How these people rise to these positions when they are so ill-informed is beyond my comprehension. She should be in her kitchen baking cookies for her husband rather than taking tough economic decision for the nation. Just imagine! That woman once wanted to become prime minister! She threw her hat into the ring during a leadership challenge. Phew! What a thought! – © Mark Alexander

UK minister: Brexit checks ‘price you pay for being a sovereign state again’: Andrea Leadsom says businesses experiencing ‘some friction’ should ‘adapt’ to changes in trade rules »

Brexit: Vier Jahre nach dem EU-Austritt des Vereinigten Königreichs

Jan 31, 2024 | „Die Entscheidung von 1975 zum Eintritt in den Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum ist durch das Referendum revidiert worden. Das britische Volk hat gesprochen, und die Antwort heißt: Wir sind raus.“ Nach langen Verhandlungen mit der EU erfolgte dann am 31. Januar 2020 auch offiziell der Austritt des Vereinigten Königreichs aus der Staatengemeinschaft. Auslandskorrespondentin Annette Dittert spricht im tagesschau-Interview über die Zeit nach dem Brexit.


IN ENGLISH:

Four years on, there's no sign of the Brexit dividend: City Comment: The rest of the world still does not know what to make of an “independent” Britain… and is largely giving it the swerve »

Ken Clarke: Anti-Brexit Hero

Jan 31, 2024 | From 31 January to 1 February 2017, MPs debated the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill on whether to trigger Brexit - the Article 50 notice.

Brexit Killing Off British Industry, Claims French Prime Minister

THE TELEGRAPH: Tata Steel will close its remaining two blast furnaces at UK’s largest steelworks by the end of the year

Gabriel Attal says Britain leaving the EU is behind the forthcoming closure of the last blast furnaces in the country | CREDIT: Michel Euler/AP

Brexit is killing off British industry, France’s prime minister claimed in parliament on Tuesday.

Gabriel Attal said Britain leaving the EU was behind the closure of the “last blast furnaces” in Britain.

Earlier this month, Tata Steel confirmed that it would close the remaining two blast furnaces at the UK’s largest steelworks by the end of the year.

The plan will trigger the loss of up to 2,800 jobs at the Port Talbot site in South Wales.

France will go the same way and see its industry decline if it gives into the “sirens” of Marine Le Pen’s hard-Right National Rally (RN), Mr Attal added in comments he said would “pain” those who voted Leave in the 2016 referendum. » | Henry Samuel in Paris | Tuesday, January 30, 2024 [£]

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Boris Johnson Has 'Dented' the Conservative Party | Dominic Grieve

Jan 30, 2024 | "I feel that time is probably up." The Conservative Party will "lose very badly at the next election" after delivering an "extraordinarily bad government" with "charlatan" Boris Johnson says Dominic Grieve.


BoJo was/is a clown and a buffoon. He has caused this nation untold damage. Dominic Grieve is one of the few decent Conservatives left. – © Mark Alexander

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Truth To Power: 2024 Brexit Costs: Steel, Food, Medicines & Money

Jan 27, 2024

Michael Lambert: Food Shortages and Business Bankruptcies in Post-Brexit Britain

Jan 27, 2024 | As we hear about the return of rickets and scurvy and children having to wear overcoats and gloves in school because of the cold.

There is more bad news for the UK following Brexit. From 1st February, the UK will have to begin imposing import controls on goods arriving in the UK from the European Union . These have previously been delayed five times since 2021. These controls will result in shortages and price increases. EU suppliers will be less likely to want to send goods to the UK if this involves uncertain delays. They are also likely to increase prices to cover the increased delays. Gaps on the supermarket shelves are likely to become normal.

More than 500,000 businesses are said to be in financial difficulty and at least 57,000 are expected to close in the coming weeks.

The highest taxes ever, increased cost of living, and energy price increases have all contributed to a reduction in spending.


Sunday, January 21, 2024

Brexit Cost the UK the Only Good Thing Margaret Thatcher Ever Did

GUARDIAN EUROPE: Now that the UK has been taken out of trade zone, we are left only with the damage she wreaked on the British polity

GUARDIAN EUROPE: Now that the UK has been taken out of trade zone, we are left only with the damage she wreaked on the British polity

Both chancellor Jeremy Hunt and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves went to the annual Davos World Economic Forum last week proclaiming that Britain was “open to business”.

These mundane statements of the obvious reminded me of the character in one of Michael Frayn’s ¬novels who had an open mind – “open at the front and open at the back”.

For that is what Brexit has achieved. We spent almost 45 years opening our markets to what is now known as the European Union, adding the considerable benefit of membership of the single market – not least thanks to Margaret Thatcher and Jacques Delors. From the abandonment of monetarism onwards, the emphasis of British economic policy was on attracting overseas investment.

But in one fell swoop – thanks to a wholly unnecessary referendum, founded, alas, on ignorance, prejudice and lies – the Cameron government opened the back door. The single market was designed, from the UK’s point of view, to boost trade with and investment from the EU, but the exit was opened and Britain has suffered.

We are now experiencing the consequence of the bad influence that Thatcherite political economy had on our polity, and the rejection of the good. That is to say: so many of the ills that now so manifestly beset the nation result from the Thatcherite obsession with “¬rolling back the frontiers of the state”, while the economic performance of that same state is now impeded by the rejection of her greatest beneficial contribution to the country – namely membership of the single market. » | William Keegan | Opinion | Sunday, January 21, 2024

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Defending Brexit Is Now Indefensible

Jan14, 2024


Read about the report here.

The treacherous cabal at the top sold the electorate a bill of goods! We all know who these swindlers are; they are well-known to ALL of us. They did this, of course, to line their own pockets, the future and prosperity of the nation be damned. These people pretend to be patriots, but in reality, they are nothing of the sort. Alas, they managed to hoodwink enough people to vote for that silly, stupid Brexit – a scheme thought-up by people who understand little or nothing about economics, international trade, or geopolitics. But unfortunately, the people in the cabal did understand manipulation: how to manipulate public opinion.

Brexit MUST BE REVERSED as soon as possible; moreover, we need to dump the pound and adopt the euro.

This country needs prosperity not impoverishment; it needs wealth not poverty! Furthermore, the country needs prosperity for ALL, not just for the PRIVILEGED FEW. Let us take our bitter lemons and make out of them sweet lemonade! Let us turn our misfortune into great good fortune. Let us turn this into an opportunity to make this country, once and for all, a TRUE DEMOCRACY! – © Mark Alexander

Saturday, January 13, 2024

How Brexit Became Prime Suspect in the Death of the Stock Market

THE TELEGRAPH: Clues point to Britain’s 2016 vote as City suffers brutal losing streak

Just before 8am on Tuesday morning, around a dozen top bankers trudged into Number 11 Downing Street to solve a pressing problem.

The London stock market, a beacon of Britain’s standing in the world, is rapidly losing its status as a global centre for raising new capital.

Companies that once jetted into Heathrow to tap London’s vast pools of money are slowly fleeing to the US or into the arms of private equity buyers. Even those who are already listed here are starting to flee.

The London stock market just endured its quietest year since 2010, according to EY, while investors have continued to remove billions from UK equity funds.

At £2.3 trillion, Apple is now worth more than the entire British stock market.



What is behind the slump? Figures in the City point the finger of blame at the Brexit vote and the political instability in Westminster that followed. » | Michael Bow and Adam Mawardi | Saturday, January 13, 2024

What have I been saying all along? Brexit was, is, and will forever remain a disaster for the British economy. Nobody with just an elementary understanding of economics would be for Brexit. There are many reasons why Brexit is a disaster for the economy and for us Brits, but one of the main economic reasons is that the European Union is the largest single market in the world. Known as The Single Market, it is a market of approximately 450million consumers. And we, as a nation, have walked away from it! One needs just a modicum of intelligence and an elementary understanding of econpmics to figure out that such a move makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The British electorate were lied to and led down the garden path. Brexit will lead to no good place; it will impoverish the nation. Indeed, it is already doing so. It will also lead to lower standards.

This country needs to reverse Brexit as soon as possible. And please allow me to make one more very important suggestion. It is as follows: We need to dump the pound sterling in favour of the euro. Ever since the turn of the last century, the pound has lost in value in relation to other world currencies. In fact, the pound has approximately halved in value each and every decade in the twentieth century! Therefore, we need to adopt the euro. The euro is the currency of the future. We need to be part of it. – © Mark Alexander

Peter Oborne: ‘I Can’t Forgive Myself’ for Voting for Brexit, but Britain Will Rejoin EU

Jan 13, 2024 | Peter Oborne joins Hugo Rifkind to talk about everything from Brexit, the upcoming general election, and the war in Gaza.

Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Britiain Needs Free Trade with the EU!

Jan 8, 2024 | Loss of subsidies, free trade and EU labour continues to bash British farming and food/drink industry.


The Tories MUST BE kicked out of office asap. And this country MUST RETURN to the Single Market. Our food standards MUST BE kept high. The Tories cannot be trusted any longer. Even after this short time, our food standards are lower. We should never have left the European Union in the first place. The whole exercise was a nonsense, a HUGE mistake; and a very expensive mistake at that! Ultimately, we MUST RETURN to the European Union as FULL MEMBERS of the Union. Without opt-outs. Further, we should ditch the pound and adopt the euro. – © Mark Alexander