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What economists will never understand about Brexit

posted by Ian R Thorpe, 29 October, 2016

Reproduced (with permission) from Pate North's Politics Blog


On my reading list this week is "Accountable to no-one" by Simon Jenkins. He argues that despite conservative propaganda the 1980s and early 1990s saw a great increase in the centralization of power. Despite privatisation, deregulation and devolution, the government asserted its control over schools, universities, the courts, local government, and the NHS. The book describes the situation, and asks what this means for democracy. I suspect it will be one of those books I skim read because this is exactly what's at the heart of Brexit.

I'm only just old enough to have a memory of how it all started but we have seen a gradual shifting of the state into private hands. We are told this is "free markets" when what it actually is is outsourcing. Now it must be said that I am no socialist. I don't really care who owns what too much so long as we get what we pay for. But we don't. Outsourcing is supposed to save money so we get more efficient public services so that we can either be taxed less or enjoy a greater variety of public services, spending the money some other way.

Except this is not happening. We are paying more in council tax for fewer and seemingly worse services over which we have no control. Take for example the picture above. Most people have ordinary wheelie bins outside their homes. A dear friend of mine, though has that contraption bolted to the ground outside her house. It stinks, it has become a dumping ground and it doesn't solve the problem it was designed to address. It just makes the street's problem her problem. It was put their without her consent, councillors cannot remove it and nobody is accountable for it routinely looking like a slum.

There was a time when the name of the district sanitation official was written on the side of the bin lorry. Not so now where you may ring the council to speak to some educationally subnormal drone who might enter your complaint onto a database somewhere only for it to be passed around and ignored if it even sees the light of day. And I can't think of any example which so perfectly encapsulates why Brits are so pissed off.

So what's this got to do with Brexit? Simples. Everything. During the Blair era we saw the continuance of this drift toward the corporatisation of government and we saw the quangofication of social enterprises and charities. What isn't regulated by the EU is then funded by the EU. It makes services dance to the EU agenda and if they want the grants to keep flowing, they must answer to the EU, not the public.

If I wind the clock back to about 1998, I remember working as a database developer in a disability charity. In a short time I saw it close its high street charity shop (formerly a major source of funding). I saw it close its doors to community activity to become primarily a fundraising and grant chasing organisation. Any actual community work directly for disabled people went on the back burner. And by taking over some of the statistics gathering functions of social services it become a quasi-corporate enterprise with full time staff, most of whom performed administrative functions. I have watched the same happen to dozens of charities ever since.

And just recently I took a drive out with dad to our favourite walking spot. We have been going there since I was very young. Spurn Point at the mouth of the Humber. The land is owned by an EU funded quango. It has executives on handsome salaries but as yet there is no funding to repair the road washed away by a tidal surge. Incidentally, it's the road that connects the one full time RNLI station to the mainland.

And then there's things like childcare. It used to happen on a community basis. Playgroups and cubs groups were commonplace. But then everybody suddenly become a criminal or suspected paedophile and everybody had to go on a database at their own expense. We saw the professionalisation of childminding which then meant registration, certification and real world adult wages. Soon after childcare become an industry and it ruled young mums out of taking part time work. If you work, you need expensive childcare. The response to this was another bureaucratic voucher system consuming vastly more money.

This gradual appropriation and regulation of just about every facet of life has destroyed the voluntary ethos and in so doing has destroyed communities and made people entirely dependent on mechanisms of the state. Our welfare policy is an extension of this. The nationalisation of poor people.

There are visible cosmetic consequences to this too. The park where I grew up now has expensive reinforced fences around the disused tennis courts, the park furniture is dilapidated, the pond is now a green swamp, and the local primary school has a fourteen foot high fence around it with razor wire round the gutters. Meanwhile, should you attempt to clean up litter form the park you get a fly tipping fine.

This really says something. It says that money is spent for the purposes of disposing of money (after all budgets have to be spend), there is no consultation as to what people want it spending on, and those things people value are neglected in favour of those political agendas imposed from elsewhere. The fences also tell you something. Government mistrusts the people. The permanence and robustness of the security fences also tell us that the state is more interested in fencing things off than maintaining when sporadic acts of vandalism occur. That may mean savings for the council but it makes for a less hospitable park. It looks like Guantanamo Bay.

They tell us this is for our protection. We can no longer have open spaces because things are supposedly more dangerous for children than they were when I grew up and people are less trustworthy. To a point, this is true when you are importing perverts and men who view women as property from the back hills of Pakistan. But hey, that's all cultural enrichment. Now look at our police force. They are rude, indifferent and dressed like paramilitaries. They are just footsoldiers of a massive occupation force serving vast areas and have no connection to the locality.

Meanwhile we have council executives taking away salaries that far outstrip most salaries you see outside of the private sector. Golden hellos and revolving doors have been a permanent feature of local politics for as long as I can remember. I have observed this phenomenon for many years. Insult after insult while nothing is done about it. The backdrop to this in Northern towns is long disused mills rotting into the ground. They're not repurposed for industry nor are they converted to residential use. What matters to us rots.

The problem is, on paper, on the spreadsheets of accountants and economists everywhere is that this all makes sense. The highly paid HR wonks insists councils need CEOs and the headcounts conform to this or that model - and the balance sheets show that KPIs are met and SLAs upheld.

This was tolerated for the time just before the financial crash. We had just enough cheap chinese imports and access to cheap money not to mind the government pissing money away. Now though, the party is over. The mentality hasn't changed, the habits have not changed. Government is rearranged not to better serve the public but to make it more convenient for those who work within it. It is remote, soulless, impersonal and inept at handling anything out of the ordinary.

A good system is measured not by how it handles the baseload of its work. A good system is measure by how well it copes with crisis and discrepancy. What we find when there are complaints is that the system closes ranks and puts you into the "fuck off loop" where your problem stays your problem at your expense. We have a total absence of functioning democracy. We have voting rituals but that does not affect anything in any meaningful way.

Over the last three decades we have engineered a bureaucratised cage for ourselves where government no longer serves us. We feel it on the local level but it is part of a mindset exemplified by the EU. It is a system that believes government works better with less public intervention. It is part of a ruling paradigm in governance.

Whether or not Brexit fixes this I really can't say. But as a gesture and a line in the sand, it is a big one and it does turn a corner. This technocracy is all very well in the creation of a sanitised single market where we can rely on the system to bring us ever cheaper high quality goods that we can buy with confidence, but there comes a point where everything is done of our protection whether we want protection or not. From the food we eat to the health choices we make. Contrast our supermarkets with those in the USA or mainland Europe. Everything is in cellophane under fluorescent lighting and everything has a barcode.

At this point you might well be thinking this is a litany of complaints from a Mr Angry, but all of these issues are in some way connected to a prevailing mindset in governance. The notion that people are there to be managed and coerced rather than governed. It is the idea that people are superfluous to governance and it goes to great lengths to exclude particpation. We no longer own it, we are not in control of it yet we are forced to obey it and forced to pay for it even when it does things we hate.

And when you look at things like the Waste Framework Directive or the Water Framework Directive or any number of binding constraints on government we see our hands tied in ways we can innovate in policy. Attempting to change local policy is futile because it is EU policy. It is completely unresponsive. Where the delineation between local government obstinacy and EU incompetence is I can't say, but all too often the EU is their excuse. They won't challenge the system because they don't want to.

Meanwhile objections to this are written off and scorned as a rejection of modernity by stupid people who don't know what is good for them. And it's telling that is a very London attitude. London is a wealthy city and in terms of public services and facilities, for the most part, what London wants, London gets. London is constantly reinvented as it grows. All the while, Liverpool becomes our own Detroit and regeneration is just when the developers come to town to make cosmetic changes for a hefty reward.

So when the great and the good tell us not to slaughter their favourite milk cow, the machine that underpins the status quo you can see why folks would vote to leave. An election isn't going to change anything but if anything can then it's Brexit. There is no undoing globalisation and there is no bringing the mines and shipyards back but nowhere does it say we have to tolerate being treated like cattle and be told what to do by London and Brussels.

For a long time power has been draining away from the people. More so in Scotland where we have recently seen the amalgamation of Scottish police forces and the Named Person scheme. Down here in England we may be alarmed by Scottish illiberalism but we are not that far behind. We have already amalgamated our police forces to cover similarly vast regions and we fine parents for taking their children on holiday. We can now break a dozen laws just by leaving the house.

Everything is touched by it. Every waterfront in the country is now plagued by identikit yuppie flats, turning industrial waterways into "urban marinas", every high street is the same, and everything that makes anywhere distinct is given over to corporatism. Brexit is not a rejection of modernity. It's as rejection of homogenisation. Brits are saying enough is enough. We want our country back from the mechanised system of government and the parasitic corporates who thrive off it and we want to be treated with respect. We want the right to say no to our government.

Culturally, there is something deeply sick in Britain. Brexit is a matter of the soul. It doesn't register on any balance sheet and all the statistics show that everything is better but there's a massive gulf between what the metrics show and how we feel about the world around us. There is a feeling that nothing is sacred and we are not in control. If it takes an act of political vandalism to put things back on track then that is how it must be. All the cheap goods in the world cannot compensate for the intolerable lack of democracy.

Posted by Pete North on 17-07-08

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Is The UK Foolish To Leave The EU

This question, worded slightly differently, comes up innumerable times in comment or Q & A threads on websites. Here's a near pefect answer from a fellow warrior for liberty and opponent of Euronaziism, Barney Lane:

Is Brexit a foolish idea? Brexit means Britain is in the EU but is now leaving it. Which part is foolish, the being in part or the leaving part?

Discussion on this subject would be considerably more productive if more people understood some of the basics surrounding it, such as what the EU is and how it works[1], and how trade works both within and outside of the EU.[2] [3] My objective is to think and write about the EU and Brexit from my own perspective, based on experience, facts and reasoned analysis. Now, people have differing views on the success of this endeavour. For example, I’ve been regularly accused on Quora (particularly by one individual) of being paid by BrexitCentral and one interlocutor recently suggested my account might be a parody. Clearly one man’s foolishness is another man’s wisdom.

Sadly, many of the discussions surrounding Brexit have been a hive of misinformation. Even more sadly, those perpetrating the misinformation have included people elected and ought to respect. Prior to the 2016 referendum, Anna Soubry, MP for Broxtowe, said on Any Questions, UK exports to the EU would “fall to almost absolutely zero”, in the event of Britain’s departure from the EU. Furthermore, prior to the referendum, the Treasury warned us that:

“a vote to leave would represent an immediate and profound shock to our economy. That shock would push our economy into a recession and lead to an increase in unemployment of around 500,000” [4]

George Osborne, then the Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared the report “ serious and sober assessment of the economic facts”.

Now, if you really believed those things and there’s no reason to doubt that previously uncommitted people might have been somewhat influenced by them, it’s hardly surprising that “Brexit is a foolish idea” has been doing the rounds. One might hope that with time, some of these more barmy ideas might have started to lose their sting. But sadly, the misinformation campaign about what life outside the EU might imply, has stepped up a gear.

To make an informed assessment, you really need some kind of idea of what the EU is and what it aspires to be. The EU’s founding father and first president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, Jean Monnet, said in his first address to the new assembly, that the delegates there present were “taking part in the first government of Europe”.

The debate at the time was around inter-governmentalism versus supranationalism. The former refers to coordination between sovereign states, while the latter is a higher authority that sits above the state. Following various meetings with governmental heads, a statement was issued to the press about what the new Community would set out to achieve. It included the following text:

The withdrawal of a state which has committed itself to the Community should be possible only if all the others agree to such withdrawal and to the conditions in which it takes place. The rule in itself sums up the fundamental transformation which the French proposal seeks to achieve. Over and above coal and steel, it is laying the foundations of a European federation. In a federation, no State can secede by its own unilateral decision. Similarly, there can be no Community except among nations which commit themselves to it with no limit and no looking back.

Clearly, Monnet was committed to the supranational route. Britain on the other hand, was profoundly sceptical and distanced itself from the negotiations.

Incidentally, Monnet’s statement “The withdrawal of a state which has committed itself to the Community should be possible only if all the others agree to such withdrawal and to the conditions in which it takes place”, has an eerie echo in the text of Article 50, the formal mechanism by which a member leaves the EU.

In response, the British government sent the following note to the French government:

It remains the view of His Majesty’s Government that to subscribe to the terms of the draft communiqué would involve entering into an advance commitment to pool iron and steel resources and to set up an authority, with certain supreme powers, before there had been a full opportunity of considering how these important and far-reaching proposals would work in practice. His Majesty’s government are most anxious that these proposals should be discussed and pursued but they feel unable to associate themselves with a communiqué, which appears to take decisions prior to, rather than as a result of, intergovernmental discussions

This was precisely the response Monnet had expected. On the basis of Britain’s past record and commitment to intergovernmentalism, he had anticipated that they would oppose the supranational element which was the very core of his plan. He thus deliberately engineered Britain’s exclusion by making joining the talks conditional on accepting the supranational principle as non-negotiable.

On the basis that it never accepted the principle of supranationalism, as opposed to intergovernmentalism, Britain was excluded from the talks.

There was one dissenter at the time, who believed we were indeed foolish not to have joined the talks. One Ted Heath, who said that by standing aside “we may be taking a very great risk with our economy in the coming years — a very great risk indeed”.

Heath’s words are a clue to what was on his mind in the early 1970s. It was all about the economy. By that time, the organisation we joined had (via the Treaty of Rome) become the European Economic Community. It had proceeded profoundly beyond its initial scope, but its commitment to federalism and supranationalism remained at the very heart of it.

Heath clearly believed that joining the EEC was an economic necessity. He was so convinced of this that his government sought to hide the Community’s commitment to federalism, supranationalism and “ever closer union”. This was uncovered in 2003 under the “30 year rule”, in the form of a secret official document FCO 30/1048 [5], which explained that joining the EEC did indeed compromise sovereignty (except on the most narrow, technical definition of the word) and to an extent that if known by voters, would so be so profoundly toxic that pursuing membership would be politically suicidal. The government therefore set the agenda for public discussion, focusing only on economic benefits, while keeping the political aspects hidden from view.

Now, much of the above comes from the book “The Great Deception”, by Christopher Booker and Richard North, published in 2005. The authors argued on the basis of their findings that the march towards a federal Europe was part and parcel of the Community’s founding principles and is very much alive today. They also argued that Britain joined the Community on the basis of a deception, (hence the title) and that its eventual departure was inevitable, the only debate being about when and how.

On the basis of the above, I quite agree Brexit is foolish, but the foolish bit was joining in the first place.

But while the politics of the union may be toxic, the economics are great, right? Not so fast. A close read of this, this, this and this suggests there is at least substantial room for doubt.

Ok we shouldn’t have joined but now we have, it’s foolish to leave, isn’t it? I and others have argued for example, here, here, here, here and here, that this isn’t necessarily so. Brexit certainly has costs. No denying that. However, the question is whether the benefits outweigh the costs. I’d say the reversal hollowing out of our legal and political institutions, which we never wanted in the first place, is a pretty big one.

Who knows, maybe years to come we’ll be asking why our grandchildren are more proud of Britain and less cynical about its leaders than we used to be. Footnotes

[1] Barney Lane's answer to As a person who formerly was against Brexit, what or who convinced you to be in favor of leaving the European Union?

[2] Barney Lane's answer to Do educated people like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg really believe that the UK can do economically better by leaving of one of the biggest single markets in the world?

[3] Barney Lane's answer to Where is the physical bottleneck that will supposedly cause delays at Dover post-Brexit? Why would physical inspection of no more than 2% of incoming vehicles (WTO limit) delay the other 98%?

[4] https://assets.publishing.servic...

[5] https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.c...


No-deal Brexit ferry company owns no ships and has never run Channel service

Concerns raised over Seaborne Freight, which won a £13.8m contract to operate a Ramsgate to Ostend route

It seem from a report in today's Guardian that Project Fear, the effort by pro-EU politicians, media pundits and business people to derail Brexit is collaborating with Project Profiteer to make sure whether we go for 'no deal,' Theresa May's deal or no Brexit, british taxpayers get shafted by the money grabbing global corporations.

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Ramsgate Ferry Port - not many ships or lorries around, maybe its only used by ghost companies ( Picture: http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/ ) One of the companies contracted by the government's Ministry of Brexit Panic to run ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit does not currently own any ships, has never operated a ferry service or shipping line and is not planning to do so until close to the UK’s scheduled departure date from the European Union, it has emerged. Concerns have been raised about Seaborne Freight, which despite it's not being in a position to provide any service was awarded a £13.8m contract to operate freight ferries from Ramsgate to the Belgian port of Ostend if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, after a councillor for the Kent town queried whether it would be possible to set up the new service by the scheduled Brexit date. There are grounds for looking closely into this company and who benefits from its profits. It would not surprise us if Prime Minister Theresa May and Chancellor Phil (spreadsheet) Hammond are among the main shareholders. Amid all the Project Fear panic about 'no deal' nobody is asking why we will need more ships. There will not be any significant increase in cross channel trade after Brexit, in fact the Remainers would like us to believe trade will cease completely. The seaborne contract is one of three agreements worth a total of £107.7m signed by the government without a tendering process (how dodgy is that?) to help ease “severe congestion” at Dover by securing extra lorry capacity.

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Ramsgate Ferry Port - not many ships or lorries around, maybe its only used by ghost companies ( Picture: http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/ )

One of the companies contracted by the government's Ministry of Brexit Panic to run ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit does not currently own any ships, has never operated a ferry service or shipping line and is not planning to do so until close to the UK’s scheduled departure date from the European Union, it has emerged.

Concerns have been raised about Seaborne Freight, which despite it's not being in a position to provide any service was awarded a £13.8m contract to operate freight ferries from Ramsgate to the Belgian port of Ostend if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, after a councillor for the Kent town queried whether it would be possible to set up the new service by the scheduled Brexit date.

There are grounds for looking closely into this company and who benefits from its profits. It would not surprise us if Prime Minister Theresa May and Chancellor Phil (spreadsheet) Hammond are among the main shareholders. Amid all the Project Fear panic about 'no deal' nobody is asking why we will need more ships. There will not be any significant increase in cross channel trade after Brexit, in fact the Remainers would like us to believe trade will cease completely.

The seaborne contract is one of three agreements worth a total of £107.7m signed by the government without a tendering process (how dodgy is that?) to help ease “severe congestion” at Dover by securing extra lorry capacity.

Seaborne has published plans to operate freight ferries from Ramsgate from late March, beginning with two ships and increasing to four by the end of the summer. Without any ships this is oing to be quite difficult as some people have noted.

Paul Messenger, a Conservative county councillor for Ramsgate, questioned whether the government had run proper checks on the firm's financial stability, management experience, and fitness to fulfill the contract, telling the BBC: “It has no ships and no trading history so how can due diligence be done? Why choose a company that never moved a single truck in their entire history and give them £14m? I don’t understand the logic of that.”

Seaborne was established two years ago and has been in negotiations about running freight ferries between Ramsgate and Ostend, but no services are currently running. Narrow berths in the port mean there are few suitable commercial vessels available.

There are two options here. Either the whole thing is a typical civil service fuck up or somebody has trousered £13.8 million of taxpayers money without ever intending to do anything to earn it.

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The backbench amendment was tabled by former minister Sir Hugo Swire, backbench MPs Richard Graham and Bob Neill on Thursday night, only hours after the Prime Minister indicated parliament would choose between entering the backstop or prolonging the transition period after exit day.

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If there is a People's Vote on Brexit, will you vote differently to how you voted in the original referendum, and why?

The headline is a question posed on the 'Answers' website Quora. I do not answer questions on Brexit any more because of the vitriolic attacks launched by Remainers or anybody who puts forward a gogent argument making the case for britain's leaving the EU. It isn't the attacks themselves that made me quit, but that when Brexit suporters answer the emotive, fact free rants of remainers, which never contain any links to documented evidence supporting their case and we call them out on their easily exposed lies, they complain to the site moderators and try to get us thrown off the site.

There is no way of having a reasonable discussion with people who first cally ou a Nazi because you disagree with them, and then resort to Nazi tactics to silence opposing views when the lies and disinformation they spread is challenged. I will acknowledge that Leave supporters in mainsteam media and the political establishment have also been economical with the truth on many occasions, but I have not seen any leave supporter try to silence opposing views.

Here is a brilliant answer to the above question from a former Remain supporter who believed the lies of Remain campaingners but has had his mind changed by the authoritarian intransigence of the EU in negotiations with the government.

If there is a People's Vote on Brexit, will you vote differently to how you voted in the original referendum, and why?

Neal Owen

Answered Sep 20 · Upvoted by Tony Jackson, lives in The United Kingdom (1981-present) and Leigh Jones, lives in The United Kingdom (1982-present)

I voted to Remain.

I listened carefully to the campaigns and thought they were all dreadful. I knew little about the EU, how it works or how it affects us. I was concerned about mass immigration, was highly skeptical about claims on buses, did not know which way to vote right up to the final day, and in the end voted to Remain because I was concerned about my children’s future and was worried about the forecast economic doom if we Left. If ‘Project Fear’ existed then it worked on me.

The Brexit victory came as a bit of a shock. I really believed my decision was academic as we would Remain anyway, I just wanted to participate. But I can’t say I was particularly disappointed. I became interested. I read Quora, got involved in the debates. The first thing I noticed was that a lot of Remainers used insults to try and win points. Racist. Little Englander. Xenophobe. Head-in-the-sand, etc… Now in general anyone who resorts to insult in a debate doesn’t know any decent, logical arguments for their position, so I became suspicious. And looked deeper.

Much of what I heard from the Remain camp didn’t pass the common sense test.

I heard people worried about not being able to go on holiday to Europe, read how the boss of Airbus wouldn’t be able to visit his factories, how aircraft wouldn’t fly, how driving licences wouldn’t be recognised. It seemed to me that it must be nonsense because I fly off to non EU countries and drive around them on my UK driving licence, and people fly to the EU from around the world and drive around. Sure it would take some treaties or whatever to be signed by those in power but of course they will be. There is absolutely no reason why not, and incredibly strong reasons why they should be. Sheer common sense dictates normal life will continue.

Then I read about queues at Dover as every lorry will have to be checked and thought that doesn’t make sense either. Goods coming in and out of the EU are very rarely checked at the border, they never have been, why should it change? I read how we won’t be able to buy food and medicine and I thought if the EU won’t sell us stuff we can just buy them elsewhere. It’s a big old world. I grew up eating apples from South Africa and lamb and butter from New Zealand, which is at the opposite end of the world. Even now almost everything I buy seems to be made in the Far East. How hard can world trade actually be? I read how we are a tiny off shore island destined to become like Albania that everybody will push around, then read up a few facts about the size, economic power and political influence the UK still has on the world stage. We ain’t no Albania. That’s for sure.

And of course, month after month went by and the promised economic crisis failed to appear. Like a religious doomsday prophet the end of the world was on Tuesday the 15th. Then the 19th, then next 15th…

Then I observed the EU negotiating tactics. “We have to settle the Irish border question before we talk about trade.” But surely the Irish border question cannot be settled until we know what the trade deal is?
“Non”.
“We have to settle how much the UK will pay us before we talk about what benefits the UK will get from us.” But surely you discuss the price alongside the product? “Non”.

I read up about the EU, how it is run, how hard it is to influence - meaning it was in practice not very democratic at all. How the books don’t balance. How they say one thing and do another. How there is to be no cherry picking while every EU country but two have bespoke deals. About what their ultimate aim is. How a foreign court has so much power over us. I looked into how much money was going into the pockets of the rich, how much land value is determined by tariffs and the CAP, how the EU is set up as a capitalist organisation, where the talk is of a socialist paradise but the rich somehow always get richer. I found out how many EU countries have significant problems, and the rise of anti EU feeling across the EU. How it took decades to reach any trade deals. About the protectionism. The more I read, the less inviting the ship looked, and the bigger the icebergs loomed.

Then I noticed how TM went about negotiations. “We have to have a deal with you otherwise we are stuffed. Will you be nice?” WHAT! I’m no high flyer but I know the first rule of negotiation is to have an alternative. It’s like trying to get a good deal on a car while your wife is telling the salesman that we’re going to buy the car anyway.

All this time I read posts from the likes of Barney Lane and Adrian Patterson, who presented fact and informed opinion on key issues around economics, world trade and Ireland. I read posts from the likes of Anthony Pateman who live on the other end of the spectrum and how his life is affected. They were polite and honestly presented.

I was persuaded by politeness, rational argument and common sense. I am now a staunch Brexiteer and would most definitely change my vote to Leave.

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‘Olly’ Robbins, the top bureaucrat to whom Theresa May has delegated most of her Prime Ministerial negotiating powers on Brexit, is being head - hunted by a number of major investment banking corporation, for a role in their organisations after the EU negotiations are complete.

The unelected civil servant has openlt expressed admiration for the tyrannous bureaucracies of the Soviet Union, noting that the autocratic Communist leaders transformed Russia “from a backward peasant autocracy, despised by the West, into a technological giant at whom the world cowered in fear for half a century”. Obviously Olly hasn't read any histories of the Soviet era.

Such sentiments have helped to fuel a widespread belief among Leave-supporting politicians that Robbins, like all senior civil servants a rabid Remainer, would rather Britain would not leave the European Union at all and become a vassal state of the EUSSR. He has been the driving force pushing the Prime Minister towards a soft ‘Brexit In Name Only’ in which the UK will remain subject to the EU’s institutions and regulations in many respects and continue to pay £billions into the EU while not enjoying the few benefits of membership.

However, his theoretically neutral position has now been further compromised by the news that he is being headhunted by investment bankers willing to pay him a million pounds a year to advise them on strategy post Brexit. There is a clear conflict of interest and he should be fired from his civil service post.

Many of the biggest banking corporations, including Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup poured big money into the Remain campaign, and there are concerns that the prospect of a salary many times larger than Robbins could expect to earn even at the very top of the Civil Service could impact his decision-making in the EU negotiations.

“Olly has his exit strategy,” a source remarked to the Sunday Times. “Every man and his dog in the City wants him.”

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Brexit has terrified 'Brussels bubble' - German insider

German Political Journalist Tanit Koch

The EU elite "lost faith in their own appeal and abilities" following the Brexit referendum vote and the surge in support for nationalist parties. The knee jerk response of the Brussels bubble was to try (and fail) to punish Britain for defing Brussels in the same way as they had punished small nations like Greece, Portugal and Ireland, which in their perception was the only way to prevent the EU breaking apart.

Top bureaucrats in Brussels are terrified at the prospect of the European Union breaking apart, according to a European expert. The fragility of the EU bloc since the financial crisis of 2008 is behind the punishment tactics and intransigence of negogiator Michel Barnier and other EU leaders.

Tanit Koch, now of the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity" (TCEI) who previously worked as editor of German magazine Bild, said that the Brexit referendum result shocked the Brussels leadership, who did not have a clue how to respond. Her comments come less than two weeks before the major EU summit this month, at which the direction of Brexit and the future of the EU could be decided.

Koch told BBC's The World This Weekend: "In the last two years, within Europe, especially within the Brussels bubble, they have lost faith in their own appeals and their own abilities.

"They are desperate for the European Union not to implode or break apart.

"It is not so much about punishing Britain as many in this country suggest.

"It is an honest fear that if a precedent is set, that someone who leaves gets a better deal, others will follow suit."

Koch also revealed the extent to which EU federalisation dogma has taken hold among the top rank in the business world across Europe. She spoke of a recent meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and prominent German business leaders on Brexit. When Mrs Merkel insisted that the sngle market would not be compromised, raising the prospect of a no deal, the business leaders cheered.

She claimed that support of the "EU's holy grail" meant more to the German CEOs than the huge expected hit to their businesses. The Daily Stirrer finds this a little far fetched as we know from our own sources that many German firms have lobbied for Merkel to support a reasonable deal for Britain.

Despite the apparent deadlock in recent months, a change of tone has emerged in the last week among EU leaders, after long months of them insisting none of their conditions was negotiable. Yesterday, European Council President Donald Tusk said he was confident that the EU and UK would secure a deal by the end of the year.

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In answer to the question “Why Does Britain Want To Leave The European Union” posed in a comment thread (in one of our other locations) a reader gave this explicit answer which is worth sharing as widely as possible. Why does the United Kingdom want to leave the European Union? David Reardon, M.A. International Relations …

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The latest banking crisis in Italy risks focusing scrutiny on the leadership of both the Bank of Italy and Italy’s financial markets regulator Consob. The decision to give the central bank’s current Chairman Ignazio Visco a fresh six-year mandate despite his having presided over one of the worst banking crises in living memory ...

Why does the United Kingdom want to leave the European Union?
I worked for the European Commission, the administrative branch of the EU governing bureaucracy for several years, though I was not an official but an external consultant. On the way to my office in the Batement Jean Monnet in Luxembourg City every morning I would pass a large plaque, The words etched on it described the vision of Monnet, Coudenhove - Kalergi, Robert Schuman, Paul - Henri Spaak and others, of a Europe in which there were no French people, no Germans, Italians, Dutch, Belgians and eventually, as the community expanded, no Britons, Spaniards Portuguese, Greeks, Austrians, Swedes etc., only Europeans,

Brussels Foreign Affairs Chief Mogherini Still Wants Turkey to Join EU

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said in Malta on Friday that accession talks with Turkey have not been halted, following a Turkish referendum that gave President Erdogan dictatorial powers. Despite this rejection of the democratic principle all EU members are in theory expected to uphold, Mogherini still wants the predominently Islamic middle easter nation, to join.

EU Claims Britain Wants Benefits Of Membership Without Obligations

Manfred Weber criticised Britain’s apparent desire to still do business with the European Union while not being a member of the bloc. He also claimed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was attempting to “provoke” Brussels with his recent choice of words while speaking in India.

However, an angry Neil railed against the MEP and asked was he not concerned about the rise of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen, with the Netherlands and France both facing general elections this year.

Manfred Weber criticised Britain’s apparent desire to still do business with the European Union while not being a member of the bloc.He also claimed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was attempting to “provoke” Brussels with his recent choice of words while speaking in India.

However, an angry Neil railed against the MEP and asked was he not concerned about the rise of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen, with the Netherlands and France both facing general elections this year. Quitaly? Will Italy follow Britain out of the EU?
With a referendum in Italy, ostensibly on constitutional reforms but perceived as a referendum on the leadership of the ruling elite, looming in November and the anti - globalisation, pro sovereignty Five Star Party growing in popularity all the time. Should the constitutional changes be voted down, and the against campaign is showing a comfortable lead in opinion polls at the moment, it will put a Quitaly in-out referendum, similar to the so called Brexit vote that kick off the process of Britain leaving the European Union, at the top of the agenda.

'Special place in hell' for Brexiteers, says Donald Tusk
Though he is despised in his own country for the way he sold out to the EU, former Polish leader Donald Tusk, now EU Council President, released an astounding attack on Theresa May as she toured Northern Ireland. His comments were condemned by the unionist DUP party, which wants to nix the only thing the EU and UK agree on. Daily Stirrer

'Have you learned NOTHING from Brexit?' Brilliant moment Andrew Neil SKEWERS German MEP

Threat Of Major Scandal Prompted Early Election Move – UKIP
Leaders of the (UKIP) have made astonishing claim that Prime Minister Teresa May’s calling an early General Election was done to pre-empt a series of by-elections that could be called following alleged electoral fraud. Accusing the Conservative government of “putting party before country”, UKIP appeared to suggest the scandal and ensuing disqualification of MPs could rob the government of its slender majority.

Nigel Farage Swipes Back At Irrational, Screeching, Crazy Clinton
US Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton launched a hysterical, irrational attack, filled with half truths and blatant lies, against the most prominent figure in the campaign to get Britain out of the EU (Brexit), UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, during a speech at a rally today. Mrs Clinton, responding to Farage's address to a large and enthusiastic audience at a Donald Trump rally, may have been rattled at the prospect of having such a hihly effective campaigner in the rival camp ...

Rebellion Against EU Authoritarianism Escalates As 8th Member Nation Threatens Referendum
Brussels went too far, they crossed the line in moving from an economic union to a political pan - European political empire. In the end it was a race as to which member state would quit first, Britain, Natherlands, Denmark or Italy. In the event it is Britain.

Is Brexit A Harbinger Of Doom For The 'Experts' The Brexit vote, the decision by a democratic majority in Britain to leave the European Union has sent shockwaves around the world. Not only does the EU now face a tsunami of departures, the usurpation of democracy by 'experts' ( technocrats ) has been challenged and exposed as a sham.

BREXIT vs. GREXIT – The Truth About The European Union And How It Treats Members
Unless the testicularly deficient politicians stand up for their nations he only thing that will halt the European Union's push beyond Europe's geographical borders to incorporate Asian, middle eastern and north African nations is war. Power is addictive and the bean counters of Brussels have ambitions far beyond Europe.

The Hypocrisy and Snobbery Of The Remain Campaign And The Antidote
When I had to defriend a Facebook contact because she was arguing in favour of the EU, it was not simply because I support Brexit that I had become pissed of with her, it was the snobbish and condescending way she dismissed supporters of LEAVE and their case. People are entitled to their opinion on the European Union, but they should check the 'facts' they post in support of their arguments.

The Labour Case For Brexit by Kate Hoey M.P.
After my short intro is a savage indictment by Brexit supporting Labour MP Kate Hoey of the way the Labour Party has abandoned the working class and is now trying to betray the party's proud heritage and its roots in the industrial areas by taking Britain into an undemocratic, corporate controlled, capitalist friendly, elite dominated globalist control freak project.

Dutch Referendum This Week Shows why We Should Leave The EU.
Few of you were aware probably that there is an EU referendum vote in The Netherlands this week. As usual with anything negative about the EU barely a word has been printed in the topic in mainstream media and the silence from our notionally unbiased national broadcaster The Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been deafening.

French, Belgians, Dutch, Italians Follow Britain in Euroskepticism
Europeans want us British to lead them out of Europe. Don't be fooled by project fear, the European Union (aka the Euronazi Federal Superstate) is falling apart. There will not be chaos if we leave, there will be chaos if we stay.

Head Of European Institute: Brexit ‘Better’ For Everyone
Brexit would be the best result of Britain’s in / out referendum for both Britain and the EU i a Belgian professor who heads up the European Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE) has said.

Johnson’s article lines up his reasons why Britain must exit on June 23rd. It’s time to be brave
OK, I know a lot of you think Boris is most accurately described by a word many people find offensive, but he’s put together a very good argument here on why we must leave the EU. Published in part here under ‘fair use’ terms and conditions, in the public interest ...

Cameron’s EU Package: Not A Deal But A Few Turns In The Spin Machine As we and almost everybody else predicted, David Cameron's deal to improve Britain's relationship with the EU is worthless. It changes nmothing, and can be vetoed once we have voted to stay in.

Cameron Plays Deal Or No Deal In Europe
David Cameron, who was apparently up all night trying to make other European leaders understand why his country needs a better deal in order to poersuade the prople it is a good idea stay in the EU. Unless Cameron gets what will enable him to sell the idea of surrendering national sovereignty to a Federal European Superstate ruled by a committee of unelected bureaucrats in to the British public he will not campaign for the UK to remain in the bloc

EU Refuses to Block Eurozone Integration to Reach Agreement With UK
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said at the E?U summit on British membership terms that the European Union wants to reach an agreement with the United Kingdom, but it is not prepared to compromise the banking union (financial integration) or the further integration of monetary union (UK being forced to abandon the pound join the Euro?) to achieve this goal.

Cameron's EU Deal Worthless. It Can Be Vetoed In European Parliament? Opinion polls show Britain is evenly divided on the question of whether to leave or remain in the EU, though it has been suggested up to 10 million other voters, many of them women, have yet to make a decision. How they cast their vote will shape the future of the world’s fifth largest economy and the EU itself. But what is really at stake is more important than economics ...

Obama's intervention in UK politics triggers angry backlash Angry Britons have launched a petition calling for U.S. President Barack Obama to be prevented from speaking in the UK parliament on Britain's forthcoming referendum on European Union (EU) membership.

NATO Rhetoric About Russian Threat is 'Absurd'
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E U To Push TTIP Trade Deal Before Obama Leaves Office
TTIP, the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership is being promoted bt the US government and the EU Commission as a free trade deal that will create thousands of jobs and bring economic benefits to partners. It's critics however claim it is a blatant attempt to shift power from national governments to corporate business.

EU Officials Say Europe Is "Going Down The Drain Common sense could not slow the charge of politically correct globalist politiciand towards merging the 28 member states of the European Union into a single federal entity, but their attempt to destroy democracy by flooding the continent with illiterate third world peasants has finally awoken the spirits of Europe's ancient nations.

EU Report Reveals Continent Being Changed By Migration While political leaders and the mass media constantly preach of the economic benefits and cultural enrichment that sping from mass immigration,EU Report Reveals Continent Being Changed By Migration just a few days ago we reported a study that found the economic benefits are a myth and today a report published by the EUs in house statistical bureau reveals immigrants have an adverse effect socially and culturally.

Major blow for Brexit campaign as US rules out UK-only trade deal?
Michael Froman, the US Trade Representative, said America is “not in the market” for trade deals with individual states and would only consider free trade agreements with blocs of nations. "I think it's absolutely clear that Britain has a greater voice at the trade table being part of the EU, being part of a larger economic entity," Mr Froman told Reuters.

Adolf Hitler, His Part In Our Downfall

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A thirty five thousand word book on the authoroitarian, undemocratic, bureaucratic dictatorship that is the European Union. Following the outburst of left wing hate politics following Boris Johnson's reminder that the EU has its roots in Hitler's Naziism, which as any intelligent person is aware is both true and very well documented. My blog colleagues and I decided to assemble this collection of our articles (with some long extracts quoted from public domain and creative commons sources) to help people misled by the REMAIN campaign into thinking the arguments are solely economic.

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