I have just encountered (Brexiter) Professor Richard Werner’s tweet that: Brexit – how bad can it be? Must be worst to leave the EU for a small country entirely dependent on much larger neighbours. So think about the world’s smallest state, the Vatican. Could it survive if it suddenly exited from the EU? Surely not!… Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
Seriously seeking vasselage
If Britain leaves the EU without a trade deal it will be the only country in the world – bar none – to trade solely on WTO terms. Brexiters are often of the view that we are a vassal state of the EU, neatly ignoring that we are one of 28 member states and one… Read more
‘Prime Ministerial’ language is helping to frame the argument
I am appalled that our own British Prime Minister speaks of collaboration with Brussels. And he said this of someone in his very own austerity driven Conservative and Unionist Party. He well knows that this is wartime language. It shows him up for the valueless, lying journalist insinuator that he is. He’d doubtless deny it… Read more
Post Brexit possibilty?
For people like the Labour supporting businessman John Mills, Brexit was mostly about getting the value of the pound down in order to increase exports. ‘This is Money’ reports that His Brexit beliefs stem from his economic outlook. For Mills, Britain has thrown away its industrial manufacturing past and needs to rebuild its status as… Read more
Dominic Raab – still working for the away advantage
These are a couple of comments on a piece written by Dominic Raab (him again) in Canada’s The Globe and Mail: “We realize you are desperately seeking new friends after the Brexit debacle. May we suggest that a chaotic exit from the EU, due entirely to Tory incompetence and greed, may put off rather a… Read more
A ‘Germany Plus’ Brexit
The Guardian has reported that Dominic Raab, who, let us remember, is our Foreign Secretary, is of the opinion that Brexit will bring a huge series of upsides for UK trade. Of all the lies he could tell this has to be the most blatant. For what we do know is that if Brexit has… Read more
Where’s the rest?
I spotted this lovely Twitter post from David Lammy MP in reply to Prime Minister Johnson: You promised the NHS £350 million extra per week. £1.8 billion will only cover about 5 weeks. Where’s the rest? Where indeed? More especially as spending commitments seem to have been coming thick and fast……. Read more
Freeports are Brexitwash
Lizz Truss, in her inordinate wisdom, has announced some freeports which are going to be so marvellous in boosting our Brexit success. They are, as Barry Gardiner has already suggested, just a way of moving around employment. But did we know that the EU already permits them? There is a list here of all the… Read more
Even if ‘no deal’ were desirable it is tactical idiocy
The former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Rona Ambrose, has neatly revealed why Johnson’s ‘No Deal’ Brexit plan is fundamentally flawed. She rightly points out that there is no point in Canada negotiating with the UK, because if the UK does not intend to impose any tariffs when it leaves what is the… Read more
Is No Deal is vastly Under Priced and will the Johnson Government Ditch the Backstop?
Introduction The Johnson premiership has begun. The tortuously negotiated Withdrawal Agreement (WA) is hated by the new government. There are contradictory signals, and it is unsure what changes could be made to make the WA acceptable to HMG. We seem to have moved from a time limit on the Backstop to no Backstop. Even if… Read more