To cover posts relating to Brexit
According to the EU the Brexit negotiations are not going well, or indeed at all. According to the UK government the negotiations are progressing. The difference in interpretation is at least in part cosmetic. In any negotiation conducted in public, as this one is, both sides will use their public comments as part of their … More The Windmills of Your Mind
Brexit Means Brexit Logically this is circular and therefore meaningless. Colloquially the Prime Minister surely means that staying in the Single Market and Customs Union with our judges subject to overrule by the ECJ is not Brexit and so is not what her government will accept. However, it seems from recent dribbles of gossip that … More Un-Sound Bites
Access to the Single Market Economics is not a science, however it is logical. For example, if we leave the EU and French politicians (who have said they would want to punish us) successfully lobby for Britain to be expelled from the Single Market (SM) and make us face WTO rules, average tariff barriers of … More Market Rules
Commentary on Brexit focuses mainly on the attractions of independence and on the risks that are inherent in separating the country from a 44-year ‘engagement’ (the ‘pull’ of exit). In this post we ask why so little attention is being paid to the ‘push’, the reasons that the EU offers such an insecure future to … More Pull and Push
It is of course possible that Brexit will turn out to be a disaster for Britain, and it could be if we don’t take suitable action. We believe that Britain will cope, in part because of our history and experience and in part because the EU is itself failing, perhaps terminally. Some doubters claim that … More Service Advantage
Brexit negotiations have begun at last. Ninety-eight British negotiators showed up for the Battle of Brussels, ready to go and smiling for the cameras – or were most of them extras hired from Pinewood Studios? We simply don’t know how ready the Government is. It seems likely that we’re in for months of pointless argument. … More Interregnum
Vince Cable was chosen, unopposed, as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats and promised to continue his party’s policy of denying us the Brexit we voted for. “The people didn’t vote to be poorer”, he said in his acceptance speech, repeating the lie given last year by Philip Hammond and echoed by George Osborne. We … More Brief Lies
Remainers are pleased with their often-repeated slogan that “the people didn’t vote to be poorer.” But they did. Or at least they voted to leave the EU despite being given an official Government warning in a pre-Referendum mailshot that the economy would suffer an immediate shock, jobs would be lost and families would be permanently … More For Richer or Poorer?
On Wednesday 12 July Michel Barnier, chief negotiator for the EU, gave a press briefing. We highlight in this post a few points where he wishes us to believe that the EU’s fixed position is based on law or logic in order to cover decisions that are in fact more or less arbitrary choices. As … More A Tangled Web
A collection of five short, independent pieces on various topics. Distributed Culpability In his blog EUReferendum.com Dr Richard North has a series of posts examining the relevance of EU standards to the cause of the disastrous fire at Grenfell Tower in London on June 15. He has been able to trace back the origin of … More Shorties-10
This EU Won't Work 