How on earth can Trump possibly say that Greenlanders want to become Americans? That’s a load of Trumpian BS! One can but despise Trump for this. He has always been despised by decent people. If he continues down this road, not only will Trump be despised, but Americans and America itself will be despised too. Trump will turn the USA into a pariah state. – © Mark Alexander
Showing posts with label European Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European Union. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Danish Leader Feeling the Heat Following Trump's Repeated Greenland Threats | DW News
How on earth can Trump possibly say that Greenlanders want to become Americans? That’s a load of Trumpian BS! One can but despise Trump for this. He has always been despised by decent people. If he continues down this road, not only will Trump be despised, but Americans and America itself will be despised too. Trump will turn the USA into a pariah state. – © Mark Alexander
Saturday, January 25, 2025
‘Move Closer to Europe – Not Trump’ Voters Tell Starmer in Major UK Poll
THE OBSERVER: Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK
Keir Starmer is under growing pressure to forge closer economic links with Europe five years on from Brexit, as a major new poll shows voters clearly favour prioritising more trade with the EU over the US.
The MRP survey of almost 15,000 people by YouGov for the Best for Britain thinktank shows more people in every constituency in England, Scotland and Wales back closer arrangements with the EU rather than more transatlantic trade with Washington. MRP polls use large data samples to estimate opinion at a local level
Even in Nigel Farage’s seat of Clacton, more people think the UK is better off trading more with its neighbours on the continent than with the US under the Reform UK leader’s ally Donald Tump. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Saturday, January 25, 2025
This, of course, is music to my ears! The UK needs to get back as close to the EU as possible, and as quickly as possible. Fact is, we should have never left the European Union in the first place. But for that self-serving, avaricious clown, otherwise known as Nigel Farage, we wouldn’t have done. The UK needs to pull out all the stops to get ever closer with the EU asap, and eventually, hopefully, rejoin the European Union. – © Mark Alexander
Keir Starmer is under growing pressure to forge closer economic links with Europe five years on from Brexit, as a major new poll shows voters clearly favour prioritising more trade with the EU over the US.
The MRP survey of almost 15,000 people by YouGov for the Best for Britain thinktank shows more people in every constituency in England, Scotland and Wales back closer arrangements with the EU rather than more transatlantic trade with Washington. MRP polls use large data samples to estimate opinion at a local level
Even in Nigel Farage’s seat of Clacton, more people think the UK is better off trading more with its neighbours on the continent than with the US under the Reform UK leader’s ally Donald Tump. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Saturday, January 25, 2025
This, of course, is music to my ears! The UK needs to get back as close to the EU as possible, and as quickly as possible. Fact is, we should have never left the European Union in the first place. But for that self-serving, avaricious clown, otherwise known as Nigel Farage, we wouldn’t have done. The UK needs to pull out all the stops to get ever closer with the EU asap, and eventually, hopefully, rejoin the European Union. – © Mark Alexander
Thursday, January 16, 2025
European Union Moving Right? | ARTE.tv Documentary
Jan 13, 2025 | Far-right parties are on the rise in Europe, both in the European elections and in national elections. In the European Parliament, they have never had so many MEPs and they are making themselves heard, particularly on migration policy. But how much influence do they really have?
European Union Moving Right? | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until 01/11/2025
European Union Moving Right? | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until 01/11/2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
UK Should Seek New Customs Union with EU, Lib Dems to Say
THE GUARDIAN: Leader Ed Davey to call for talks to begin immediately, urging ministers to be ‘far more positive, far more ambitious’
The Liberal Democrats are to call for the government to seek a formal customs union with the EU to boost growth and insulate the UK from the impacts of a Trump presidency, a move that will place new pressure on Keir Starmer over Europe.
The changed Lib Dem stance – the party’s election manifesto argued only for closer links with Europe – will be made by its leader, Ed Davey, in a speech in London on Thursday.
Calling for talks to begin immediately on a customs union, with a target of 2030 for it to come into force, Davey says ministers should be “far more positive, far more ambitious” rather than “tinkering around the edges of the botched [Brexit] deal the Conservatives signed four years ago”. The Liberal Democrats are to call for the government to seek a formal customs union with the EU to boost growth and insulate the UK from the impacts of a Trump presidency, a move that will place new pressure on Keir Starmer over Europe.
The changed Lib Dem stance – the party’s election manifesto argued only for closer links with Europe – will be made by its leader, Ed Davey, in a speech in London on Thursday. Calling for talks to begin immediately on a customs union, with a target of 2030 for it to come into force, Davey says ministers should be “far more positive, far more ambitious” rather than “tinkering around the edges of the botched [Brexit] deal the Conservatives signed four years ago”. » | Peter Walker, Senior political correspondent | Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Liberal Democrats are to call for the government to seek a formal customs union with the EU to boost growth and insulate the UK from the impacts of a Trump presidency, a move that will place new pressure on Keir Starmer over Europe.
The changed Lib Dem stance – the party’s election manifesto argued only for closer links with Europe – will be made by its leader, Ed Davey, in a speech in London on Thursday.
Calling for talks to begin immediately on a customs union, with a target of 2030 for it to come into force, Davey says ministers should be “far more positive, far more ambitious” rather than “tinkering around the edges of the botched [Brexit] deal the Conservatives signed four years ago”. The Liberal Democrats are to call for the government to seek a formal customs union with the EU to boost growth and insulate the UK from the impacts of a Trump presidency, a move that will place new pressure on Keir Starmer over Europe.
The changed Lib Dem stance – the party’s election manifesto argued only for closer links with Europe – will be made by its leader, Ed Davey, in a speech in London on Thursday. Calling for talks to begin immediately on a customs union, with a target of 2030 for it to come into force, Davey says ministers should be “far more positive, far more ambitious” rather than “tinkering around the edges of the botched [Brexit] deal the Conservatives signed four years ago”. » | Peter Walker, Senior political correspondent | Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Is Poland at the Helm of European Security? | ARTE.tv Documentary
Jan 15, 2025 | On 1st January 2025, Poland took over the Council of the European Union presidency. European security is its top priority. With its aggressive war against Ukraine, Russia once again represents a threat for Poland and for Europe. The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has made it clear that Europe shouldn't rely on its own forces and try to defend itself without America.
Is Poland at the helm of European security? | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until 30/12/2025
Is Poland at the helm of European security? | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until 30/12/2025
Monday, January 13, 2025
I Am a Committed European
MARK ALEXANDER: I should like to take this opportunity to remind my visitors that I am a totally committed European. I am NOT an American. And nor do I want to be one. The Americans have screwed me over once in my life — BIG TIME — so they will never get another chance to do so. Their despicable behaviour has turned me, a one-time lover of America, into an America-sceptic. Americans talk the talk, but fail miserably to walk the walk.
I have lots of experience of what life is like in America. I have spent lots of time there. Life there is not in accordance with our European way of life. Please be wise enough to refrain from holding the American way of life in such high regard. The European way of life is far, far better, far more cultured, and far healthier, too. Let Americans enjoy their corrupt ways; we can enjoy something better, something healthier, something altogether more cultured and altogether different.
© Mark Alexander
All Rights Reserved
I have lots of experience of what life is like in America. I have spent lots of time there. Life there is not in accordance with our European way of life. Please be wise enough to refrain from holding the American way of life in such high regard. The European way of life is far, far better, far more cultured, and far healthier, too. Let Americans enjoy their corrupt ways; we can enjoy something better, something healthier, something altogether more cultured and altogether different.
© Mark Alexander
All Rights Reserved
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
France Warns Donald Trump against Threatening EU ‘Sovereign Borders’
THE GUARDIAN: Foreign minister hits out after US president-elect refuses to rule out military action to take control of Greenland
France has warned Donald Trump against threatening the “sovereign borders” of the European Union after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark.
The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, told France Inter radio: “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders.”
He added that while he did not believe the US “would invade” Greenland “we have entered an era that is seeing the return of the law of the strongest”. » | Kim Willsher in Paris, Miranda Bryant and agencies | Wednesday, January 8, 2025
France has warned Donald Trump against threatening the “sovereign borders” of the European Union after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark.
The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, told France Inter radio: “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders.”
He added that while he did not believe the US “would invade” Greenland “we have entered an era that is seeing the return of the law of the strongest”. » | Kim Willsher in Paris, Miranda Bryant and agencies | Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Jon Danzig: Why We Joined the EU
Jan 1, 2025 | [The EU] was never ‘just about trade’.
𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗨, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗪𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡
It was 52 years ago – on 1 January 1973 – that Britain joined the European Community.
My (Jon Danzig’s) video explains why we joined – and why we might join again, for the same reasons. It was never just about trade. The EEC/EU was started first and foremost to create lasting peace between its members, following the most devastating war the world had ever known.
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Knowledge is surely our best defence, and attack, against the mistake of Brexit. Happy New Year! – @JonDanzig
𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗨, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗪𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡
It was 52 years ago – on 1 January 1973 – that Britain joined the European Community.
My (Jon Danzig’s) video explains why we joined – and why we might join again, for the same reasons. It was never just about trade. The EEC/EU was started first and foremost to create lasting peace between its members, following the most devastating war the world had ever known.
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Knowledge is surely our best defence, and attack, against the mistake of Brexit. Happy New Year! – @JonDanzig
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Peter Stefanovic: Johnson Now Travels World Telling Anyone Who Will Listen “Brexit Saved Lives” - Hold onto Your Seats
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?
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
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
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
Sunday, November 17, 2024
The Observer View on Trade Relations: Closer Ties with EU Is the Lever for Economic Growth
THE OBSERVER: Amid sluggish UK productivity and global insecurity, pulling closer to Europe is diplomatically and economically vital
Achieving the fastest sustainable growth in the G7 was the Labour party’s highest-profile pledge going into the general election last July. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that boosting growth is “at the heart of everything she does”. But there was concerning news last week with new figures showing the economy grew by just 0.1% in the three months to the end of September, falling significantly short of expectations.
Some business leaders have linked this anaemic growth to uncertainty in the run-up to last month’s budget. But it will largely still be a product of factors outside the new chancellor’s control, including the decisions of the last Conservative government.
It is nevertheless disturbing news for Labour as well as for the country. The Resolution Foundation forecasts disposable household income per person is forecast to rise by just 0.5% a year on average over the course of this parliament. The results of the US election sound an important alarm bell about the extent to which voters are willing to punish incumbent centre-left governments for failing to deliver noticeable increases in living standards. » | Observer editorial | Saturday, November 16, 2024
Achieving the fastest sustainable growth in the G7 was the Labour party’s highest-profile pledge going into the general election last July. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that boosting growth is “at the heart of everything she does”. But there was concerning news last week with new figures showing the economy grew by just 0.1% in the three months to the end of September, falling significantly short of expectations.
Some business leaders have linked this anaemic growth to uncertainty in the run-up to last month’s budget. But it will largely still be a product of factors outside the new chancellor’s control, including the decisions of the last Conservative government.
It is nevertheless disturbing news for Labour as well as for the country. The Resolution Foundation forecasts disposable household income per person is forecast to rise by just 0.5% a year on average over the course of this parliament. The results of the US election sound an important alarm bell about the extent to which voters are willing to punish incumbent centre-left governments for failing to deliver noticeable increases in living standards. » | Observer editorial | Saturday, November 16, 2024
UK Must Choose between EU and Trump, Trade Experts Warn
THE OBSERVER: Pascal Lamy, former head of the WTO, says Britain will have to take sides if new US administration slaps hefty tariffs on imports, as fears grow over possible trade war
The former head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said that the UK should side with the European Union over trade and economic policies rather than a Donald Trump-led US, as fears grow over a possible global trade war.
Pascal Lamy, who was head of the WTO from 2005 to 2013, said it was clear that the UK’s interests lay in staying close to the EU on trade, rather than allying with Trump, not least because it does three times more trade with Europe than the US.
His comments came after a key Trump supporter, Stephen Moore, said on Friday that the UK should reject the EU’s “socialist model” if it wanted to have any realistic chance of doing a free trade deal with the US under Trump and, as a result, avoid the 20% tariffs on exports that the president-elect has promised.
In an interview with the Observer, Lamy said: “It’s an old question with a new relevance given Brexit and given Trump. In my view the UK is a European country. Its socio- economic model is much closer to the EU social model and not the very hard, brutal version of capitalism of Trump and [Elon] Musk. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Saturday, November 16, 2024
I've already made my choice. FA! – © Mark Alexander
The former head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said that the UK should side with the European Union over trade and economic policies rather than a Donald Trump-led US, as fears grow over a possible global trade war.
Pascal Lamy, who was head of the WTO from 2005 to 2013, said it was clear that the UK’s interests lay in staying close to the EU on trade, rather than allying with Trump, not least because it does three times more trade with Europe than the US.
His comments came after a key Trump supporter, Stephen Moore, said on Friday that the UK should reject the EU’s “socialist model” if it wanted to have any realistic chance of doing a free trade deal with the US under Trump and, as a result, avoid the 20% tariffs on exports that the president-elect has promised.
In an interview with the Observer, Lamy said: “It’s an old question with a new relevance given Brexit and given Trump. In my view the UK is a European country. Its socio- economic model is much closer to the EU social model and not the very hard, brutal version of capitalism of Trump and [Elon] Musk. » | Toby Helm, Political editor | Saturday, November 16, 2024
I've already made my choice. FA! – © Mark Alexander
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Trump Will Force UK Choose between ‘Socialist’ Europe and the Free-market US | Senior Trump advisor
Nov 16, 2024 | “We have a smaller government where our taxes are generally lower than those in Europe, and that has worked well for the US, and I think it would work well for Britain.”
Labour must choose a free market American model and ‘socialist’ Europe if they want a trade deal with Trump, especially after Rachel Reeve’s “crazy” budget, says Stephen Moore, senior economics advisor to president-elect Trump.
Say NO to that SHITSHOW! All good things come from Europe, not America. – © Mark Alexander
Labour must choose a free market American model and ‘socialist’ Europe if they want a trade deal with Trump, especially after Rachel Reeve’s “crazy” budget, says Stephen Moore, senior economics advisor to president-elect Trump.
Say NO to that SHITSHOW! All good things come from Europe, not America. – © 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.
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.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Michael Lambert: How Brexit Is Destroying the UK Economy
Oct 26, 2024 | Brexit has been a catastrophic disaster for the UK economy. Every day we see stories in the media about the many problems that Brexit is causing.
The government recently invited the CEOs of various multi-national companies to London to discuss possible investment in the UK. With so much of our infrastructure and so many of our businesses already foreign owned, the benefit for more multi-nationals controlling more of our economy is questionable.
Barriers to trade since the UK left the EU are causing serious and long-lasting damage to our economy and yet the Labour government under Kier Starmer insists that they will be not ever return to the EU and that instead they intend to "tear down barriers to trade", barriers which they have no authority over and cannot tear down.
Keir Starmer continues to refuse to consider agreeing to the EU's offer to allow UK students to take part in limited one- or two-year exchanges with EU students, thereby denying our youth an outstanding opportunity.
If we are ever to return to the EU, it will require a substantial majority of the country to be in favour. Sadly, there are still many people who are stupid enough to argue that Brexit was a good idea and that we are better off out of the EU.
Two commenters to my last video are examples of the extreme stupidity of such people.
The government recently invited the CEOs of various multi-national companies to London to discuss possible investment in the UK. With so much of our infrastructure and so many of our businesses already foreign owned, the benefit for more multi-nationals controlling more of our economy is questionable.
Barriers to trade since the UK left the EU are causing serious and long-lasting damage to our economy and yet the Labour government under Kier Starmer insists that they will be not ever return to the EU and that instead they intend to "tear down barriers to trade", barriers which they have no authority over and cannot tear down.
Keir Starmer continues to refuse to consider agreeing to the EU's offer to allow UK students to take part in limited one- or two-year exchanges with EU students, thereby denying our youth an outstanding opportunity.
If we are ever to return to the EU, it will require a substantial majority of the country to be in favour. Sadly, there are still many people who are stupid enough to argue that Brexit was a good idea and that we are better off out of the EU.
Two commenters to my last video are examples of the extreme stupidity of such people.
Friday, October 11, 2024
Talks on UK Rejoining EU Could Start in 10 Years’ Time, Says Peter Mandelson
THE GUARDIAN: Labour peer says in meantime it is essential to try to reduce damage of Brexit deal struck by Boris Johnson
Peter Mandelson has suggested the UK could start talks on rejoining the EU in 10 years’ time, much earlier than Keir Starmer believes.
Lord Mandelson told an audience in Edinburgh the “truth is that [reversing Brexit] could be a conversation which starts in 10 years’ time”, but only if EU member states were willing to consider it.
He said that in the meantime it was essential for the UK’s productivity and growth to reduce the damaging impact of the Brexit deal struck by Boris Johnson “as best we possibly can”.
Mandelson’s remarks, at a lecture for the thinktank Reform Scotland, are in contrast to the prime minister’s prediction before the general election that the UK would not rejoin the EU, or the single market or customs union, in his lifetime. » | Severin Carrell, Scotland editor | Friday, October 11, 2024
Peter Mandelson has suggested the UK could start talks on rejoining the EU in 10 years’ time, much earlier than Keir Starmer believes.
Lord Mandelson told an audience in Edinburgh the “truth is that [reversing Brexit] could be a conversation which starts in 10 years’ time”, but only if EU member states were willing to consider it.
He said that in the meantime it was essential for the UK’s productivity and growth to reduce the damaging impact of the Brexit deal struck by Boris Johnson “as best we possibly can”.
Mandelson’s remarks, at a lecture for the thinktank Reform Scotland, are in contrast to the prime minister’s prediction before the general election that the UK would not rejoin the EU, or the single market or customs union, in his lifetime. » | Severin Carrell, Scotland editor | Friday, October 11, 2024
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