5 January 2022The EU is committed to federalism, I'm stating the obvious, but what isn't always appreciated is that this flows from what are really, American ideas of international liberalism.After the war, European countries were strongly encouraged to join up, NATO was created, along with a host of international institutions - the UN, World Bank, IMF, WTO-GATT.Once the USA was free to pursue its ideals of human rights and democracy after the cold war, we got Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya We also have America breaking its...
Showing posts with label #Brexit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Brexit. Show all posts
Wednesday, 5 January 2022
Monday, 20 December 2021
DO COUNTRIES BREAK THEIR TREATIES?
20 December 2021
Ref the WA and NIP.It is not really fair to say that the UK is breaking a
treaty which it had itself only just signed. There are many reasons why
countries break treaties, but let's just look at some historical
precedents.
The treaty of Versailles was drafted by the UK and
signed by Germany without Russia even being present. Both Germany and
Russia were flat on their backs. Some say...
Sunday, 14 November 2021
ZEMMOUR ON BREXIT AS APPLIED TO FRANCE
14 November 2021Frexit is not possible.Asked about the Macron administration’s apparent desire to “punish”
the UK over Brexit and, as his prime minister recently put it, to “show
there is more damage to leaving the Union than staying in it”, he was
scathing.
“That is the criminal mistake of the French government and European
Commission. The British, inventors of modern democracy, left because
they could no longer take being tyrannised...
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
END THIS EU INTERFERENCE
10 November 2021Look, you cannot have an outside entity imposing a customs border
down the middle of a sovereign state. Neither can you have an outside
entity assuming the powers of a supreme Court over a sovereign state.It
was agreed to to avoid a hard border between UK and EU and a potential
return of "the troubles" (those in the South of the island objecting to
those in the North remaining attached to Britain).Agreed to, but only...
Monday, 8 November 2021
BREXIT TRADE WARS
The key point is the threat of war. Not real war of course, but a trade war. So what would this look like?The
EU has previous as it triggered article 16 over its sense in January
that the UK was smuggling vaccine supplies out of its AZ factories in
Belgium. What shocked many of us was that the measures in the Brexit
protocol designed to protect peace in Northern Ireland were here being
repurposed in a completely different theatre of war.If (when) the
UK uses art. 16, it is very likely the EU will announce plans to
suspend the trade...
Sunday, 24 October 2021
NORTHERN IRELAND PROTOCOL
"The way forward is for the UK and EU to cooperate in measures to curb
the flow of non compliant goods in either direction across the Irish
land border, while leaving each side free to make and follow its own
laws and rules within its own territory."That says nothing.The answer is a digital border, where it should be, and the technology is here ready to deploy. The
EU is The Single Market, which is the so-called "four freedoms", broken
out into a cascade of deeply trivial rules (300 in the case of the
NIP), policed by the EU's own court. That's...
THE CASE FOR THE NATION STATE
From Poland's perspective, the case against an EU federal Europe is the case for the primacy of the nation state.But
from the EU point of view, this is an existential threat. It is quite
unlike Gernany's objection from its constitutional court.
The EU
is built on the Single Market. From these so-called "four freedoms" flow
all the rules that so annoy lovers of freedom for their own
parliaments. These rules are judged...
Monday, 18 October 2021
NO MORE PATIENCE FOR THE EU
18 October 2021The EU is a dangerous and wayward power. It has no vision of
its future. It has no idea of the balance of power in the world. It
treats its enemies, like China and Russia as friends ; and it treats
its friends, the UK and the United States, as enemies. It shows no
respect to its peoples, instead it seeks to discipline them (the Greeks, the
Poles, the Hungarians.) It serves only German industry and French
vanity. It exists as a vortex of power, draining member states of their skilled and competent, becoming ever more self-centred...
Friday, 8 October 2021
"SPILLOVER" - EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AT WORK
8 October 2021The EU would be fine if it stuck to matters of ISO trade standards. The EEC was OK wasn't it?It
has well overstepped the mark with its claim to sovereignty over nation
states. If it could restrain itself to a trade body such as the IEEE
that would be fine.Instead, this creeping federalism, where it
bribes trade bodies into accepting its constitution by offering
subsidies, offering control through the ECJ, and in return...
Monday, 4 October 2021
THE KINGDOM'S RENAISSANCE HAS BEGUN
In his speech this week, Lord Frost will seek to defend the Government's
record since Brexit, highlighting new free trade deals, the points-based
immigration system and plans to overhaul data laws and repeal reams of
retained EU law that no longer works for the UK.
‘The British renaissance has begun’
Outlining the Government's desire to bring about a “British
renaissance”, he will go on to state: “All history, all experience,...
Saturday, 4 September 2021
NOTES ON THE WITHAWAL AGREEMENT
Parliament was held to ransom by the Remainers, aided and abetted by
Speaker Bercow, when they passed the Benn law that prohibited leaving
the EU without a withdrawal agreement.The only way to get the EU to agree to a withdrawal agreement was to include the NI protocol dreamed up by Mrs May.Only now that we have left the EU, and as a sovereign country, are we able to negotiate changes to the WA or revert to WTO rules.At that time Boris did not have an 80 majority in Parliament. And
once the WA was signed we were bound by international...
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
THE EU IS ON THE ROPES
At the national levels, most reasonable people wait patiently to be
vaccinated, but the EU and its net of national officials is driven by
spite.Thus, decisions are made and reversed, and there is much argument and muddle.This
is the third muddle in as many months - they closed the border within
Ireland, they ruled the vaccine unsuitable for the over-65s, now they
say it causes thrombosis. Each time, emotion is overcome and facts...
Sunday, 7 March 2021
EU PUNISHMENT IS SELF DESTRUCTIVE
EU PUNISHMENT IS SELF DESTRUCTIVEJust take a look at EU comments over the last five years. They say what they believe and we Should believe what they say. Fundamentally UK failure is the stated aim and that was before the vaccine row which has obviously angered some EU elements to their very core.The UK must raise its game by a considerable amount. More research, better patent laws, better education, better strategic...
