(Part I was published here yesterday)
The Ultra Remainers also claim being in the EU single market and customs union protects British jobs. When reminded of the Southampton (inside the EU) Ford van factory that closed and relocated to Turkey (outside the EU), ironically with an EU loan, they go quiet. Add Cadbury, HP Sauce, and all the other companies who have relocated, and we can see how the EU indeed protected British jobs. When reminded of the negative impact membership has had on the UK fishing industry, and those communities, they claim ‘sharing a resource shows solidarity’ – tell that to the fishermen. The default answer for business or job loses for a Remainer is ‘Costs’ or ‘Globalisation’, odd though that France and Germany have both managed to hang onto their industries despite EU membership, unlike the UK.
The Ultra Remainers cannot provide five good reasons to remain in the EU, actually, make that one good reason to remain in the EU. The ‘clever’ Remainers will try and scrape together a few reasons. For example, they claim the EU has brought ‘peace to Europe’, they never mention the contribution of NATO, the nuclear deterrent or the fact that the US taxpayer has been bankrolling European defence from before the EU even existed. They also claim the EU provides cheaper phone tariffs, that’s good, that will save some money when I call home from outside the EU. I think the UK would save even more by stopping our direct contribution to their coffers. They also claim the EU protects employment rights, what they forget is the UK had most of these rights prior to joining anyway…!
Remainers are not risk-takers, better to keep things as they are, too much to lose, eh? Their favourite pastime is developing Project Fear. The only thing they offer is fear – fear – fear if we leave and they never have anything positive to say about the UK.
Many Remainers tend to have a financial or vested interest in remaining in the EU; however, they claim that they are just being altruistic by supporting the EU. For example, they can be employed in the EU green industry, EU lobby groups, Trade Unions, EU Big Business, EU funded Higher Education, EU funded media, EU funded Arts, EU funded medicines sector, EU funded NGO’s, EU funded charity sector, EU funded research sector, EU subsidised farming industry – in fact, any sector that takes a taxpayer-funded EU subsidy in order to remain financially viable.
Ultra Remainers claim we can’t leave the EU because of the contributions we receive; however they cannot grasp that the subsidy they receive originally came from the UK taxpayer to begin with. A good analogy is: you hand a friend twenty pounds, they keep ten pounds and hand you ten pounds back, telling you that it came from them and how to spend it. In reality, the EU is just a middleman cash re-distributer, essentially Communism on a macro scale. Following the money trail is difficult for a Remainer, that requires actual research, and anyway, it’s not good to bite the hand that feeds you.
The Ultra Remainers claim they are a ‘champion of democracy’ yet do their best to undermine it to suit their own ends. They claim to ‘respect the result of the referendum’ but want to overturn it and have a 2nd referendum before actually fulfilling the result of first. They claim to be the ‘defenders of Parliament’, yet have destroyed UK constitutional precedent at every opportunity and made a mockery of the world’s greatest Parliament. They shout ‘’coup, and taking to the streets, yet do not realise they are taking the UK down the route of actual, real, political violence.
The EU and Ultra Remainers have an army of virtue-signalling celebrities and multi-millionaires supporting them, demanding we remain in the EU. Ironically, despite demanding we (i.e. you and I), remain in the EU, many of these people don’t actually live in the EU themselves. They prefer to live on remote private islands, in Caribbean tax havens or in walled gated estates in Hollywood protected by 24/7 security and thirty-foot walls.
The Ultra Remainers despise the UK, its history, British values and anything patriotic. Their allegiance is to a hostile foreign power. They consider themselves ‘European’ first and British when it suits. To an Ultra Remainer, the EU is more akin to a religion or cult, demanding unswerving loyalty.
Brexit endgame is close. If the UK does not fully leave the EU on 31st October 2019, the elite will never let us leave. If we don’t leave, or there is an extension, the UK is heading for a major political crisis, one not witnessed since the English Civil War, and one that will make the Suez Crisis seem like a picnic.
You have the first fact wrong, for every pound they take take we get 2 pence back, then they keep all the tarrifs on our goods sold to none eu countries, then VAT which we are forced to apply to most goods they take and give us 6% handling fee which does not cover the cost.If we don’t leave we ca save money on westminster as it will not be needed. Then in case a eu person reads this do they know that there MEP’s get 1 minute to debate a law they are told to pass by unelected commisioners and their bully boys
John Lock’s article is fundamentally correct. Those who last night took over Parliament are not opposed to leaving without a deal. They are opposed to leaving the EU. I watched the debate and ALL the arguments put forward by the opposition were rehashed scare arguments that have already been refuted. Boris is a brave man. He probably does want to leave NO DEAL and he is right to do so. How can anyone who has seen what the EU did with May think that the EU would let us leave in any sense under their Article 50 mechanism? The fixed term Parliament act is also an abomination introduced (wasn’t it?) by the coalition with libdems. Also a Remainer pact. Someone suggested Boris should instigate a vote of no confidence in himself. Even that might not work since none of those opposing him in Parliament have an ounce of integrity and having told him over and over yesterday that they have no confidence in him they will quite happily now say they have.
Why don’t you grow up! Most of these companies are American or have been bought by them Freedom will be so much better as a vassal stage under the USA.
Spencer,
I am grown up, as most Leavers are, and they have behaved like adults with dignity since the vote in 2016.
I can’t say the same for the Remainer’s who have been behaving like spoiled, petulant brats in a children’s nursery for the last 3+ years, throwing their teddies out of the cot because the vote ‘went the wrong way’.
My point still stands though, being an EU member in the Single Market provides no protection to UK companies. In fact, the EU FINANCIALLY ASSISTED the Ford plants relocation to OUTSIDE the EU! Have a look a Jaguar too….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6581089/Jaguar-Land-Rover-moved-2-350-jobs-Slovakia-help-110m-EU-sweetener.html
“Slovakia offered the firm £110million in state aid to move its operation overseas in a deal that is allowed by the EU, meaning as a member state Britain could not object.”
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10020273.fords-80m-eu-loan-to-boost-turkey-factory-and-close-southamptons-swaythling-plant/
“And now we have learnt that a cheap £80m EU loan to ramp up production of Transit vans in Turkey was also signed off just months before Ford’s devastating Southampton announcement. The loan from the European Union’s bank, owned by Britain and fellow member states, was agreed in June as part of a billion dollar investment plan – about £600m…”
So much for EU Membership….
Based on May’s EU ‘Deal’, the only vassal state would be the UK, and that would be to the Franco-German Empire, not the Americans.
Yours,
John Locke
I had my say yesterday on this and have very little to add to that.
Politics generally is all about ducking and diving, but I hope that Boris understands that Brexit requires a rather straight forward approach now, after three long years of waiting, and apparent failure of our Parliament and Democracy !
Get Brexit done without the encumbrance of a deal, and when that is established, and only then, put back our Market to the EU and its members, but then upon WTO terms. Should the EU talk of a deal with Brexit, but respecting our wishes for total separation, then so well and good, but I don’t think they are capable of that !
The Remain folk remind me of the minority of workers at the time of steam power, bringing in an increase of productivity, so quickly taken up by other Nations. This minority saw change as their enemy, when in fact it was to the benefit of this Nation, but they were sure that they were right to break the machines of the future and delay productivity.
Remaining in the EU would be to miss the opportunities of World Trade, but more than that, these folk are scared of the term, – Change. – It can only mean Failure to them. ….. They really are wet blankets to the rest of us !
Its odd that Gina Miller is not concerned with being undercut by cheaper and younger E Euro girls.
I nearly said prostitutes but that was a mistake cos I am too old to know anything about the sex biz
Interesting and perceptive read – thank you.
The Road To Somewhere David Goodhart is a compelling crique of the elite based politics outlined above.
He explains there exists in our society a very real schism of two groups Somewheres vs Anywheres
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Somewhere-Populist-Revolt-Politics/dp/1849047995
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but this reminds me of the fatally flawed situation regarding the Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921. If you’ve seen the film ‘Michael Collins’ you will get the gist of it.
Instead of getting the full independence that Ireland fought for, its leaders, including the charismatic and popular Collins (read BoJo) sold out to the British with a treaty that essentially granted dominion status and led to a bloody civil war and 70 odd years of bloodshed thereafter.
IF BoJo does not FOR ANY REASON, deliver a full , final Brexit on Oct 31st, then the societal fractures already obvious will foment and IMHO lead to bloodshed both here and even more probably, in NI.
No sane person wants bloodshed, but conflict is easier to prevent than to stop.
TODAY BoJo has to sack his rebels and publicly humiliate them. He needs to call Labour’s bluff and seek an election. He has to deal , holding his nose, with Farage and essentially pay him off so that in the event of an election ( the rebels and Labour want a referendum, not an election) he gets the majority he needs to govern without restriction.
HOWEVER. IF he has a powerful majority, he automatically has the power to bring in WA Mk 2. The BRINO option.
Is that what will happen? If so, expect civil war. It’s that serious. If he does deliver full Brexit, expect big trouble and violence from the enraged left.
This is like a messy divorce. No one will come out of it unscathed. There will be blood on the streets, possibly even this week. Let’s hope that sense prevails but I doubt it.
There is no real poverty, extreme inflation, oppression, hunger or extreme unemployment on the streets which is the usual trigger for insurrection.
Tense times yes, but for now we may be able to take out our revenge against the political elites via the ballot box.
We will be free.
If we can’t VOTE ourselves into freedom it won’t be pretty.
But free we will be.
Indeed, Michael, indeed.
Never mind the damage done to relatively stable UK politics and political system if Brexit is cancelled, the prospect of subjugation
to a fast forming Brussels dictatorship is a terrifying future for Britain. Remain willfully refuses to see the bottom line and where Brussels authoritarianism is heading.
A German dominated Brussels empire (Macron and Merkel admitted to an imperial vision last December, it’s going well beyond federal now) will not end well well for the peoples of Europe. History teaches that all empires fall and concentration of power leads to the abuse of power. The EU is no different, yet more bloody struggle to liberate the continent will lie ahead unless this madness is stopped. It’s depressing to witness repeated patterns of behaviour in Europe with each generation. The EU is failing to heed the lessons of history. Brexit is not about trade, deals or the economy, but freedom, sovereignty, self-determination and democratic accountability. It’s beyond belief how Remain is deaf to these essential principles and relaxed about incipient totalitarianism across the Channel. Forget GDP when the fundamental question is, as the late Tony Benn emphasised, who governs and where does power lie. Britain can no longer serve two masters, it tried and failed for over 40 years. The choice now is between Brussels or London, but no longer both. There’s no return to the status quo.
Don’t want to admit it but I agree with your last sentence. It may have a moody, reluctant start but once underway it will be like a wild fire. We were free. We thought we were free. Then we are told we are not free. Our hearts will drop and then anger will fill the vacuum.