Michael Lambert: The Incompetence, Dishonesty & Failure of the Sunak Government

Jul 22, 2023 | The current British government under prime minister Rishi Sunak must be the worst ever. 70% of the cabinet are politicians who opposed Brexit and yet agreed to support it in order to get elected.

The Home Secretary Suella Braverman continues to be obsessed with sending desperate asylum seekers to Rwanda whilst her lapdog junior minister Robert Jenrick does his best to make child asylum seekers as unwelcome as possible.

Kemi Badenoch the part-time trade and industry secretary extols the benefits of her deal with the CPTPP which will add £1.8 billion to the UK's GDP in ten years’ time.

Theresa Coffey the minister in charge of the environment claims waters around the UK are the cleanest they have ever been despite more than 300,000 discharges of sewage into rivers and seas in the past year.

Rishi Sunak is weak and has no ideas other than to parrot his five priorities, none of which he is likely to achieve.

TATA have been encouraged to open a battery plant in Somerset in exchange for a grant said to be around £500 million of taxpayers' money.

Brexit Drowning in the Pacific?

Apr 5, 2023 | In this new Federal Trust video, Brendan Donnelly and John Stevens review the British decision to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership or CPTPP. They believe that this decision will bring at best minimal benefits to the UK and some disadvantages. Its importance is being overstated by the British government simply as a distraction from the unfolding difficulties of Brexit.

SPEAKERS:

Brendan Donnelly is the Director of the Federal Trust and a former Conservative MEP.

John Stevens is the Chairman of the Federal Trust and a former Conservative MEP.

ABOUT THE FEDERAL TRUST:

The Federal Trust is a research institute studying regional, national, European and global levels of government. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain’s place in it. The Federal Trust has no allegiance to any political party. It is registered as a charity for the purposes of education and research.

Hold on to Your Seats as Jacob Rees-Mogg Can’t Contain His Excitement at New Post Brexit Trade Deal

Jacob Rees-Mogg is such an ill-informed, silly man! Clearly, he has spent far too much time with nanny. He needs to get out a bit more. – Mark Alexander

‘Take Back Control’? With This Pacific Trade Deal, Brexit Britain Has Just Signed It Away

THE GUARDIAN: Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, for no real economic benefit?

Last night, the government announced that Britain has joined a trade deal so contentious that it united Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in opposition to US membership.

While hardcore Brexiters would like to pretend this is the ultimate payoff of our decision to leave the EU and write our own rules, the reality is somewhat different. In signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Britain has ditched environmental standards, signed up to terms that will undermine British farmers, and left us open to being sued by multinational corporations in secretive courts. And all for no real economic benefit. » | Nick Dearden | Friday, March 31, 2023