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

Michael Lambert: Humanity's Survival at Stake: The 3 Greatest Threats We Face Today

Nov 9, 2024 | The world faces three massive threats, two of which are relatively new and the one of which is a feature of human nature.

Artificial intelligence is the first. In the past 40 years, information technology has transformed our lives and continues to do so. More and more of our lives are now governed by IT. It seems inevitable that very soon machines will become conscious which could have massive implications for humans.

Greed is the second great threat we face. More and more of the world's wealth is now concentrated in the hands of very few rich individuals and corporations whilst millions struggle to survive.

Finally global warming or climate change threatens to make much of our planet uninhabitable. 2024 has been the warmest year ever and we are constantly witnessing various freak weather events. The ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, and rising temperatures make many parts of the world no longer habitable.

Further, increasing mass migration seems inevitable. Urgent action is necessary and yet there seems little enthusiasm for the extreme measures needed to prevent catastrophe.


This must be the week for doses of misery! We had the first dose earlier in the week with the re-election of Trump. Now this! Before the week is over, there will surely be a third dose! All good things, and bad, usually come in batches of three! Thanks for the reality check, Mr Lambert. 😀 – © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: Going for Growth but No Mention of Small Business

Nov 2, 2024 | After almost four months, the results of the Conservative Party leadership elections are about to be announced. Either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch will be the new leader. Jenrick has spent much of the campaign warning that foreign terrorists and murderers are walking our streets; Badenoch has been largely unseen.

Rachel Reeves presented her first budget which included raising £40 billion, much of it by increasing employers' National Insurance contributions. There was notably no mention of help for small businesses in the budget despite much talk of 'Going for Growth' which seems to depend upon foreign firms investing in the UK.

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.

Michael Lambert: Gothenburg, Sweden Shows How Far the UK Has Fallen behind since Brexit

Oct 19, 2024 | This week, I have visited Gothenburg in Sweden to make another video showing how the quality of life in cities within the EU compares with that of cities in the UK following Brexit. Gothenburg (Göteborg) is the second city of Sweden with a population of around 600,000. It is a clean, well-run city with nice streets and plenty of parks. I saw no empty shops, charity shops, pound shops, betting shops, graffiti or litter. The city was busy, with of plenty of people out shopping.

The food in the supermarket, especially fresh fruit, was outstanding. Prices in restaurants were reasonably and the food was amazing.

Sweden is a progressive country where university education is free, healthcare is inexpensive or free and where parents of new babies can share up to 18 months maternity/paternity leave on 90% of normal pay.

Recently Sweden has become known for violent crime, but this is almost exclusively within immigrant communities and relates to drug gangs who now operate in Sweden.

Michael Lambert: The British Economy Is Damaged beyond Repair for These Three Reasons

Oct 12, 2024 | This week I visited Gothenburg in Sweden and was shocked by how much better the quality of life is there.

It reminded me again of just how bad the economic situation in the UK has become since Brexit and for three different reasons. The UK economy has passed the point of no return.

We are now destined to decline indefinitely thanks to three reasons. First Brexit has severely damaged the UK economy whereby it is now almost impossible for small- and medium-sized business to trade with the EU because of post Brexit restrictions. This has cost the UK economy £40 billion in lost taxes annually.

The new Labour government under Keir Starmer has made it clear that, whilst they would like to improve relations (reset) with the EU, there will be no return to the Single Market, Customs Union or Freedom of Movement.

The UK property market where houses have become unaffordable for most people has resulted in so much money being sucked out of the economy that people have much less disposable income and that the economy has suffered accordingly, with many pubs, restaurants and shops being forced to close.

Finally the sale to foreigners of many of our major companies and vital utilities and infrastructure has weakened our economy since profits from these enterprises are being sent to foreign shareholders who have very little interest in anything other than a return on their investments.


Politicians today are clueless! They can’t run and manage the country anymore: they make a dog’s dinner of it. Yet politicians of old ran and managed a huge empire! Politicians of yore must have been a hell of a lot smarter than those who are in control today. Politicians today can’t run this small country let alone empire. – © Mark Alexander

Farage & Johnson Are to Blame for the Post-Brexit Mess We Are In

Oct 5, 2024 | The UK economy has been badly damaged by Brexit. However, the Conservative government made matters very much worse once Boris Johnson became prime minister. Johnson was not a serious politician and during his premiership dishonesty, corruption and incompetence became the norm.

The Covid19 pandemic brought an urgent need for PPE which, instead of being supplied through normal channels was supplied by companies recommended by friends of Tory politicians, leading to widespread supply of faulty or useless PPE. In the meantime, companies which had never supplied PPE before made fortunes.

Last week, the Conservative Party Conference took place in Birmingham. Liz Truss, despite being the shortest-serving and least-successful prime minister ever was present at the event.

Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly all made speeches in their bids to become party leader. Jenrick and Cleverly are likely to be the two candidates to be subject to an election amongst Tory Party members.

In this video, I also discuss Priti Patel and Nadhim Zahawi. Patel because she received money for her failed leadership election bid from someone closely connected with someone for whom she helped obtain PPE contracts, and Zahawi because he claimed expenses in order to heat his stables and because of a £5 million penalty he paid HMRC in respect of capital gains tax which he claims he forgot to declare.

Finally I remind viewers how it was Nigel Farage who was principally responsible for Brexit, and it was Boris Johnson who presided over corruption, dishonesty and incompetence which has led the UK to being in the dire situation we now.


The United Kingdom must by now be one of the most corrupt countries in the Western world! – © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: Brexit Has Broken the British Economy and There Is Plenty More Bad News

Sep 21, 2024 | This week, there have been many stories in the media concerning the negative aspects of Brexit. They point out how difficult trade between the UK and the EU has become.

According to Cambridge Econometrics Brexit has already cost the UK more than £140 billion and is likely to cost us £331 billion by the middle of the next decade.

Most sectors of the economy appear to be suffering, but especially agriculture. Import controls on food coming into the UK have been delayed yet again whilst the meat industry struggles with new post Brexit controls.

Many pesticides which were previously prohibited under EU law are now acceptable in the UK, including some which are considered 'highly hazardous'.

The government seems to be relying upon growth to solve our economic problems despite the difficulty of achieving such growth.

Michael Lambert: How Farage and Others Deliberately Provoke Racial Tensions for Political Gain

Aug 10, 2024

Naturally, I was equally appalled by the violence and the dreadful rioting, but my opinions on the causes of the violence depart from Michael Lambert’s quite markedly.

Starmer’s conclusion that it was caused by “far-right thuggery” is but a part of the problem. If he sets his sights on trying to solve this problem by treating that as the only cause of the problem, I believe he will be greatly mistaken, and will fail. The causes of these violent protests go far, far deeper than that!

Farage, as much as I dislike the man, especially because he brought us Brexit, is right about the growth of Islam in this country.

I wrote a book more than twenty years ago about the dangers of the growth of Islam in this country. Although I wrote the book way over twenty years ago, I warned everyone I could at that time, pre-Internet, about the growth of Islam in this country coming up to about forty years ago! My experience of working in the Middle East alerted me to the dangers of Islam way back then. But in those days nobody wanted to know about the dangers that lay ahead, people were unaware of the dangers of Islam to the Western way of life. Generally, they knew nothing about Islam in those days, either. The fact of the matter is this: Islamic values and Western values are totally and utterly immiscible.

In my opinion, the growth of Islam in this country played no small part in causing those heinous riots. Add to that, we must remember that we have had nearly fifteen years of austerity under the Conservatives. People with few means have been hurting – and hurting badly, too.

Then there is the ever-widening gap in this country between the haves and have-nots. That certainly hasn’t helped the situation one little bit. And the more the gap will widen, the greater the danger of disturbances will get. A huge wealth gap between the rich and the poor is not conducive to societal cohesion.

The working-class people who rioted probably also had in their minds that so much money can be found to pay millions to house immigrants in hotels, yet the working class’s needs have been largely ignored.

I could write far, far more on this, but I shall leave it at that for now. I should add, however, that I am appalled and troubled by Starmer’s reactions to these riots. There is talk of his shutting up the people, especially online — with possible jail sentences for transgressors — and further, I have read that that there is a possible Islamophobia bill in the pipeline, too. If he passes such a stupid a bill, it will be the beginning of the end for this country. Censorship has always traditionally been the modus operandi of left-wing governments. Starmer’s left-wing government is clearly no exception to the rule. The UK is starting to resemble East Germany. It seems that Starmer is establishing his very own STASI! It is said that they have started keeping tabs on everybody now. Starmer was, after all, a public prosecutor. This development gives me a sense of foreboding about the direction this country is going under this authoritarian government. So just living in this country now makes me feel very uneasy. © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: Demoralised Tories Seek Sixth Leader in Eight Years

Aug 3, 2024 | In this video I discuss the six contestants who are hoping to become leader of the Conservative Party. In November, one of them will be elected by the conservative Party membership to take over from Rishi Sunak. The favourite to win is Kemi Badenoch, followed by Robert Jenrick. I explain in the video how Badenoch, like Priti Patel, another candidate, is a bully who intimidates her staff whilst Jenrick has a questionable history.

Michael Lambert: Beware of Leaders Like Trump. They Are Only in It for Themselves

Jul 20, 2024 | It seems almost beyond belief that despite having been impeached twice when formerly president, despite his many legal battles, despite his conviction as a felon, despite his company's fine of $450 million for fraud and his perpetual lying, Donald Trump is favourite to be the next president of the United States.

His followers seem to ignore anything negative about him as though they were part of a cult. This is bad for democracy and a danger to the whole world.

Nigel Farage, the newly elected MP for Clacton, has been attending the Republican Party Conference saying he is there to support his 'friend' Donald Trump. In the UK Farage, like Trump is constantly in the news being a charismatic and powerful speaker who is over-represented in the media with his party's five parliamentary seats.

Boris Johnson, like Trump and Farage, is insincere and dishonest and only interested in his own position. Having been seen by the British electorate as a cheat by partying when the rest of the country was in lockdown, Johnson now finds himself unpopular and with no remaining political future.

Michael Lambert: Surely the Biggest Waste of Money in UK History

Jul 13, 2024 | The new Labour government have said that they will pursue those who are believed to have supplied inferior or unusable PPE. This will be difficult. There is no case to answer where suppliers overcharged and those who supplied unsuitable or unusable PPE may well have moved their profits offshore and liquidated their companies.

The former government's Test and Trace under the management of Dido Harding was a catastrophic waste of public money. £35 billion pounds was budgeted although only £28 billion was actually spent. This compares to £18.3 billion for the entire Cross Rail project, at the time the biggest construction project in Europe involving 60 miles of new track, 25 of them in two tunnels under London, new stations, signalling and 30 new trains.

Test and Trace was a failure and the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee questioned if it had been of any benefit at all. Thousands of consultants were employed at an average of £1,100 per day each for many months.

Test and Trace was surely the biggest waste ever of public money in the UK.

Michael Lambert: Starmer & Labour Face an Impossible Challenge in Trying to Clear Up the Mess Left by the Tories

Jul 7, 2024 | Last week saw the general election in which Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives were beaten by the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.

Under the First Past The Post system, Labour won 411 seats with just 34% of votes cast and with a turnout of just 60%.

The government now faces an almost impossible set of challenges. Starmer says he will re-negotiate our deal with the EU, will do away with 'red tape' hindering trade with the EU and that he will finance the many areas that are starved of cash by growing the economy. He has also stated recently that the UK will never return to EU membership in his lifetime.

Michael Lambert: Let Us Never Forget the Damage These Tories Have Done to This Country

Jul 3, 2024 | Over the past eight years since 2016 the UK economy and society have been severely damaged and may never fully recover following the madness of Brexit.

Incompetence, dishonesty, and corruption have all featured in a series of governments under five different prime ministers. Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage bear the greatest responsibility for the extreme damage which the UK has suffered. A series of incompetent and often self-serving politicians have caused the UK economy to decline and for the country to have become a worldwide laughing stock.

Those responsible should never be forgotten or forgiven including Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, and many others.

Michael Lambert: The Tories Have Wrecked the UK in Pursuit of Brexit

Jun 29, 2024 | The past eight years of Conservative government have been disastrous for the UK. Since 2016 and the #referendum vote to leave the EU, five prime ministers have struggled to run the country, wasting billions through incompetence and dishonesty often blaming failure on Covid19 and Vladimir Putin.

Nigel Farage as an MEP spent years arguing for Britain's withdrawal from the EU and Boris Johnson as prime minister agreed to a very hard Brexit.

Eight years after the referendum, the UK economy is in a very bad state and is rapidly deteriorating. Nurses, doctors, teachers, police officers, and others, are leaving their jobs and many are emigrating. Nothing seems to work, and Brexit has cost the UK more than £100 billion in lost trade and £40 billion in lost taxes.

Gone from being a well-respected medium-sized nation with a reasonable and stable economy, the UK is now an economic disaster and a worldwide laughing stock.

Next week Keir Starmer and the Labour party are widely expected to be elected with a large majority.

Michal Lambert: CLACTON - Charity Shops, Mobility Scooters and Lost Hope

Jun 22, 2024 | This week I visited Clacton-on-Sea, the town which voted 73.04% in favour of Brexit and where Nigel Farage is standing in the coming general election.

Clacton is a small seaside town of 50,000 population. The town centre is shabby and neglected. The people in Clacton appear to be poor and deprived. It is evident that many people are overweight, no doubt because of poor diet, and many are dependent upon mobility scooters.

There are eleven charity shops in the town centre. There are homeless people in the town who clearly need help.

Clacton voted overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit and yet it seems clear that they have suffered from its consequences. Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, is standing for Parliament and could well be elected on 4th July as the MP for Clacton. It is very doubtful how keen he will be to devote time and attention the poor citizens of Clacton, though.


About Clacton… As you said, it’s not Bel Air or Knightsbridge. Nor, as a seaside town, is it Nice! The descriptors that immediately come to mind are depressing, sad, shabby, and, in parts, tacky. Clearly, the town has seen its best days.

But in fairness to Clacton, it is surely not alone. So many towns up and down the country look sad these days. Shopfronts right and left are so often boarded up. Brexit has taken its toll, of course; but so has the Internet with online shopping. When visiting a town outside of London or the home counties, salubriousness is not to be expected anymore, and if it is found, one must be surprised. – © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: Starmer Stubbornly Sticks to Disastrous Brexit

Jun 15, 2024 | The Labour Party manifesto was launched this week. Much of it concerned economic growth which will be essential if damaged and neglected public services are to be fixed.

Keir Starmer claims that growth can be achieved whilst ignoring the major reason for our economic troubles which is Brexit He claims he will be able to improve our deal with the EU despite having been told repeatedly that this will not be possible.

Starmer has made it clear that beyond certain funded changes other reforms will only be possible if funded by growth. Outside the EU, the UK will find it almost impossible to grow.


This is an excellent synopsis of the parlous state of the UK economy and its outlook for economic growth under Keir Starmer's leadership. I agree with Mr Lambert's viewpoints TOTALLY. The Conservative Party in recent years has been a disaster for this country; now, the Labour Party is promising to be equally disastrous in so many ways. How can our economy hope to grow after locking ourselves out of the BIGGEST single market in the world, which is right on our doorstep?

When we were in the EU, this country was doing rather well. Have these politicians never heard of the old saying — 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!? Whilst in the European Union, there was truly nothing to fix!

Nigel Farage really has been the architect of this country's downfall. The man is a bigoted, loudmouthed, troublemaker. History is not going to be kind to that man. Unfortunately we have to live through the nightmare the clown has created. One can but despair. This country's future is bleak indeed.

At no other time in my life have I ever felt DISENFRANCHISED. Now, I do. TOTALLY. There is no decent political party to vote for. I had pinned my hopes on the Liberal Democrats, but Ed Davey hasn't had the courage to promise the country that he would try and take us back into the EU. That is a great disappointment to me, and probably to many other Remainers as well. In fact, in my opinion, he has lost his best chance of elevating his party ahead of the Tories, because I believe that such a move might well have catapulted the LibDems to a powerful position. He would have had nothing to lose by such a commitment, and everything to gain. Again, one can but despair.

I cannot vote for any party that is not committed to our return to the EU. So that leaves me without a say in the future of this country. I find it difficult to vote for a party whose policies I disagree with. The whole thing saddens me. – © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: Sunak's Disastrous Election Campaign Continues with Multiple Errors and Mishaps

June 8, 2024 | One of Rishi Sunak's former teachers at Winchester College claimed that Rishi Sunak never believed in Brexit and that he supported it in order to advance his own career.

Since announcing the General Election 2024 just over two weeks ago, Sunak has been involved in multiple gaffs and mistakes. From his rain-soaked announcement in Downing Street to multiple bad photo opportunities and appearing before the Titanic Museum, things have gone from bad to worse for Sunak.

Yesterday, he left the D-Day ceremonies in France early, where international leaders were present, to return London to be interviewed by ITV for a programme to be broadcast in two weeks’ time. This offended just about everyone and Sunak was forced to make a humiliating public apology.

Michael Lambert: "Polish Economy Soon to Overtake the UK?"

Jun 1, 2024 | “Last week I visited Lodz in Poland, a city with a population of over 600,000. A former centre for the textile industry, it is now a mixed economy. Lódź is a beautiful city with many outstanding buildings and landmarks. The main street Piotrkowska is full of bars and restaurants. The city is very green with many trees and small parks. Manufaktura is a huge new development of shops, restaurants, and cafés.

The economy of Poland seems to be proceeding very well and I found almost everyone to be positive and patriotic. The people met were all extremely friendly and helpful.”


Britain is well on its way to becoming the backwater of Europe. Most EU countries have overtaken us long ago, and those that haven’t yet, soon will. Poland is clearly one of them. Poland seems to be such a delightful country; the UK, by contrast, looks drab and shabby. It is so sad that so many of the British electorate allowed themselves to be led up the garden path by chancers. – © Mark Alexander

Michael Lambert: Desperate Tories Target Foreign Workers to Save 'Red Wall' Votes

Feb 24, 2024 | The British government seems determined to do everything possible to stop foreigners from coming to the UK. Presumably this is in an attempt to pander to the Daily Express and Daily Mail readers who backed Brexit and who favour tougher restrictions on foreigners coming to the UK.

The latest immigration regulations make it all but impossible for any unskilled worker to come to work in the UK. For skilled workers there are considerable hurdles to overcome. In response to higher than expected and record immigration from non-EU countries following Brexit, the government has now announced that, in future, those wishing to work in the UK will not be allowed to bring their dependants. This will almost certainly result in a significant reduction in those coming and will further add to the UK's woes.

There are no longer any legal routes for asylum seekers to come to the UK or to apply for asylum. There are tens of thousands waiting for their applications to be processed. They are being paid around £6 per day for subsistence whilst just one of the firms providing accommodation made a profit of £62 million last year.

Preventing workers from coming to the UK and failing to process asylum applications from those who have arrived from across the Channel, having no other route to the UK, is stupid and inefficient and will only damage the UK economy more.