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Brexit will have soon cost the UK more than all its payments to the EU over the past 47 years put together
Brexit is set to have cost the UK more than £200 billion in lost economic growth by the end of this year – a figure that almost eclipses the total amount the UK has paid toward the European Union budget over the past 47 years.
According to research by Bloomberg Economics, the cost of the UK’s vote to leave has already reached £130 billion, with a further £70 billion likely to be added by the end of 2020.
The analysis, by the economist Dan Hanson, found that business uncertainty had caused the UK’s economic growth to lag behind that of other G7 countries since the 2016 vote.
That means the British economy is 3% smaller than it might have been if the UK had not voted to leave the EU.
https://www.businessinsider.nl/brexit-wi...7E5tnMu6vl__Dwc
The government's privatisation agenda means UK will 'never take back control'
As the Brexiteers celebrate leaving the European Union they are yet to realise that their hopes of 'sovereignty' will never truly exist.
The government talk of taking back control from Brussels, but then are quite willing to pass over key strategic sectors to the Chinese. First Huawei are able to bid for the sensitive 5G contract, despite concerns about potential spying, and now the proposed HS2 rail link to Birmingham.
The reckless way that such key assets are sold off is in marked contrast to France, Germany and the USA, who determinedly protect such assets. This raises very serious questions.
ICI was sold to the Netherlands, with patents, research and skills gone. Steel, glass, confectionery, cars have previously gone. National newspapers and media, fiercely protected elsewhere from foreign control, have been taken over by foreign business interests, with ineffective regulation.
Key national airports like Heathrow and Gatwick are now foreign-owned; the British Airport Authority is owned by Spain. Seaports Liverpool, Glasgow and Great Yarmouth are in foreign hands, as is our busiest port, Felixstowe.
At least 71% of the nine English privatised water companies are owned by overseas organisations. Our gas and electrical power companies include the French nationalised EDF and the German E.ON. The UK nuclear industry is run by the French EDF.
The British train companies are state-owned - by foreign countries including German, French, Dutch and Italian companies. Our train fare increases help to keep fares down on their nationalised rail services. Even London buses are owned by the Germans.
With so many of our key strategic sectors owned by our former EU partners, Brexit appears increasingly irrelevant.
The Conservatives are always looking at selling off our public services, resources, assets and infrastructure for profit. So why not privatise Brexit?
We could contract the UK side in the Brexit negotiations with the EU to the experts at the EU, who have the required skills, experience and resources to ensure negotiations are conducted effectively and with good value for money for both the UK and EU.
There's no conflict of interest because that's how all previous privatisations have worked.
That's Brexit sorted and Conservatives can return to claiming money for expenses from parliament and blaming the last Labour government in 2010 for all current political problems.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-sto...DMLXeviATqmjuTU
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The EU will respect British sovereignty, and Britain must respect ours
Access to the single market should be balanced by guarantees on fair competition. That way, we can forge an ambitious future
Now that the UK has “got Brexit done” I hope that, after such political and media passion, we can go back to reason and restore enough trust in our partnership to build an ambitious relationship. Now that the United Kingdom has left the EU, it has to deal with another fully sovereign power: the European Union. Now that the political phase of Brexit is over, our citizens, our businesses deserve a more pragmatic approach.
When we hear Boris Johnson explain with much emphasis how he intends to “take back control”, regain leeway and make UK interests prevail, how should we Europeans respond? Just like British politicians, our responsibility as European public decision-makers is to protect our citizens, who are legitimately concerned about the impact of Brexit. ...
How do we meet the expectations of our citizens and industries? In choosing Brexit, the UK unilaterally decided to withdraw from the single market and from many European Union policies. Again it is your choice, but this choice comes with consequences.
Like any free trade agreement between sovereign partners, our future relationship has to be a balance of rights and obligations. Unfettered access to the single market can only be granted if balanced by a series of guarantees to maintain fair competition. ...
Likewise, we think sustainability is more important than deadlines, and we will be very vigilant about including a sound governance mechanism, to mitigate any potential future violations. We will not lower our level of ambition to meet an artificial deadline. The 10-month deadline is only relevant in terms of the British political agenda. For Europeans, substance is more important than deadlines.
From now on, what we need most is mutual trust. It is a precondition for everything else. To us, an important signal in the coming months will be the implementation of the withdrawal agreement, including citizens’ rights, the Northern Ireland protocol and effective controls in the Irish Sea. We are talking about an international treaty: I have no doubt that the UK will fulfil its commitments. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...n-single-market
"Johnson ist clever, aber er weiß, dass ich mich nicht über den Tisch ziehen lasse"
Vor den neuen Brexit-Gesprächen macht EU-Chefunterhändler Michel Barnier klar, dass die EU ihren Binnenmarkt schützen wird, auch vor den Briten.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/b...00-000169705066
Boris Johnson’s claims on Europe played part in Thatcher downfall, documents suggest
Johnson claims on EU integration that spurred on Thatcher speech ‘not quite right’ archivist says
A contentious claim by Boris Johnson in a newspaper article regarding the European Union may have inadvertently led to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, newly unearthed documents from her time in Downing Street suggest.
Documents released from the close of Thatcher’s years in power show she took note of a story on the European Commission’s then-president Jacques Delors in the Daily Telegraph – written by Mr Johnson during his time as Brussels correspondent ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...h-a9365966.html
Interessante Zufaelle. Spaesschen, die nur Geschichte leistet. :-)
Und noch spassiger -ein Leserkommentar darauf:
FollieImposee 21 hours ago
Guess what Brussels is up to now? They have tricked her Majesty’s government into exiting the EU while making us believe we could retain all the financial perks and benefits, safe food and secure jobs. Now that we have left they let the cat out of the sack: we are set to lose everything, including Scotland and N-Ireland. If we only had journalists like that B Johnson still, this would not have happened. He would have seen through the EU’s vicious plans. The assorted bunch of failed journalists that we call our government these days, is no match for the cunning EU. Don’t they need us more than we need them???
Britischer Humor vom Feinsten.
‘Completely out of touch’: NFU president hits out at reports senior government official said UK doesn’t need farming industry
‘Farms are the backbone of rural Britain,’ says National Farmers’ Union president
The president of the National Farmers’ Union has hit out at “completely out of touch” suggestions from a senior government adviser that the UK does not need its own agricultural sector.
There were reports that Treasury official Dr Tim Leunig claimed the food sector was not “critically important” to the country’s economy – and that agriculture and fisheries “certainly isn’t”.
In leaked emails published in The Mail on Sunday, the economic adviser to the chancellor Rishi Sunak is reported to have said ministers could follow the example of Singapore, which is “rich without having its own agricultural sector”.
The agriculture and fishing sectors combined represent less than 1 per cent of the UK’s economy. But rural and coastal communities voted out in large numbers during the 2016 referendum after the Vote Leave campaign argued that farmers and fishermen would be better off once free of EU rules. ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...obox=1583059608
Looks like a developing case of "Chickens coming home to roost."
"Trade talks, a prediction:
UK - We don't like our deal
EU - Why not?
UK - We only get 95% of what we want
EU - It only gives us 95% too
UK - We want a new deal that gives us 100% of what we want
EU - But that means we only get 90% of what we want
UK - Yes, but we don't care. We hate you.
EU - Bit rude
UK - We elected people to go to your meetings specifically to say we hate you
EU - We noticed
UK - So we want a new deal, and we want the deal in 11 months or we cancel our existing deal
EU - Wait.. what?
UK - We've put it into law: you give us 100% of what we want in 11 months, or we walk away with 0% of what we want
EU - Erm... suits us!
UK - Wait, what?
EU - Perfect, do it. Walk away
UK - No, hold on, wait: you have to negotiate, so Boris can win
EU - Why? Right now you have 95% of perfect and we have 95% of perfect. If we negotiate, you get 100% and we get 90%.
UK - That's right
EU - But if we don't negotiate, we still have 95%... and you have 0%
UK - But... no, you're not meant to say that
EU - And if we don't have a deal, we don't have to put up with you sending people to our meetings to say you hate us
UK - The Daily Mail made us do it and then ran away!
EU - So we'll just sit it out for 11 months
UK - Fine, we'll go and make a great deal with the US
US - Yo suckers
UK - Could we have a trade deal please, sir?
US - Sure thing. We want 100% of everything, plus 51% controlling share in the NHS, and you get, let's see... 60% of what you have now
UK - Not good enough
US - Bye
UK - What?
US - Bye. Talks are over. Bye
UK - But we haven't got a deal!
US - We are 26% of world trade, making deals with EU (20%) and China (17%). We don't need your 1.8%.
UK - But we really need a deal, the EU outsmarted us
US - We know. Some of us can read. Not Trump, obviously, but the rest of us. Try India
UK - Hi India, remember us?
India - Oh fuck, these guys again
UK - We want a trade deal
India - And we want to vastly increase the number of Indians who can live in the UK
UK - We can't do that. Turns out we're, like, properly racist
India - That is brand new information!!
UK - So can we have a deal?
India - Sure. Join the queue
UK - Who's in the queue?
India - USA, China, Brazil, EU, Korea, Canada, Australia... basically everybody. We're kind of a big deal now.
UK - So you'll be ready to negotiate in, what: 11 months?
India - ha ha ha ha ha
UK - What did we say?
India - 11 months? Try 11 years. This shit takes ages, bro
UK - But we had a timetable of 11 months with the EU
India - And how did that work out?
UK - erm...
India - Try China
UK - Can we please have a trade deal?
China - Sorry, who are you?
UK - We're Great Britain
China - Great, you say?
UK - Well... once
China - And what do you want?
UK - A trade deal worthy of our status
China - You've got one
UK - No we haven't
China - Yes you have. With the EU. You don't need to renegotiate your trade deals: you need to reassess your status. Cos you're not a mighty nation, you're a small, wet, heavily indebted island on the edge of a globally important trading bloc... which you left, you goons
UK - So, what do you suggest?
China - You already know
...
EU - Hello again. Here to rejoin?
UK - Yes, on the same terms as before.
EU - Oh, I don't think so. Say goodbye to your rebate, hello to the Euro, and bonjour to the Schengen area. You are so dumb.
UK - We hate you!"
...by Alvin Armstrong
‘The UK has changed. It has become hostile and closed’: EU citizens in Brussels react to Priti Patel's new immigration scheme
Exclusive: Sophie Weisz, a Frenchwoman working in Brussels, thinks she would sail through the new immigration rules, but now doesn't want to
“I used to dream of living in London. It was so exciting, so free,” says Sophie Weisz, a Frenchwoman working in Brussels.
“But not any more. The country has changed: it has become hostile and closed. And this latest plan is just the icing on the cake.”
Ms Weisz, an IT consultant on a generous salary with perfect English, thinks she would sail through the new immigration rules.
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/uk-change...D5-9LFLjgCRZmTE
https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/l...665&oe=5EB7C8C5
No 10 and Department of Health clash over access to EU pandemic warning system in wake of coronavirus
Matt Hancock wanted to retain membership of EWRS as part of EU-UK future relationship deal, but Number 10 said no
Matt Hancock's department wanted to retain membership of the Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) as part of the EU-UK future relationship deal – but Number 10 said no, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
Senior health advisers warned that exiting the EWRS – which has helped coordinate the response to the virus and played a vital role during the bird flu outbreak – would put public health at risk.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...7LkQ2EeV69P-xCc
Brexit could cost the UK up to 30 times more than it will gain back from striking a Trump trade deal
Brexit could cost the UK economy up to 30 times as much as the country hopes to gain back from securing a new trade deal with US President Donald Trump, official figures suggest.
The UK's Department for International Trade on Sunday evening published its objectives for talks with the Trump administration ahead of negotiations scheduled for later this month.
The department's analysis estimated that an independent new trade deal with the US — possible only because of Brexit — would boost the UK economy by as much as £3.4 billion, or up to 0.16%, over the next 10 to 15 years.
However, this figure is dwarfed by estimates of the cost of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal.
A UK government analysis published in November 2018 suggested that a modelled average free-trade agreement along the lines of Johnson's planned deal with the European Union would reduce economic growth by about 4.9% and up to 6.7% over 15 years.
This means the cost of Brexit could be 30 times as big as the projected economic gain of a trade deal with the US.
https://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-w...MFUUw-oMHnjp7uo
Boris Johnson’s threat to walk out of Brexit talks is his Suez Canal moment
Denis MacShane asks whether the prime minister can move from out-and-out anti-Europeanism to something more sensible, calm and less dramatic
Boris Johnson’s reported threat to walk out of Brexit talks with 27 sovereign states unless they surrender to his demands could turn out to be his Suez moment.
Anthony Eden, another old Etonian prime minister, believed in 1956 that the nation and the world would rally around his decision to go to war with Egypt after Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to take the Suez Canal into public ownership.
Johnson appears to believe that the British nation and global public opinion will support his breaking off talks with Europe if Britain is not awarded a special status by June and he opts for a no-deal crash-out instead.
https://www.independent.co.uk/independen...s-a9364711.html
Quite instructive sind, wie so oft, gewisse Leserkommentare dazu:
fordoak 3 days ago
"The American president, Dwight Eisenhower, phoned up Eden, saying: “Anthony, are you mad?”"
With Johnson, no need to ask..
How does that work then?3 days ago
Although there are similarities between the Suez Crisis and Brexit, in the Suez crisis we just had a reminder of our real place in the world post war. With Brexit we will get that lesson again with the addition of a huge and sustained shock to our economy.
All told, it doesn’t look good.
GeorgeHamiltonBelfast4 days ago
Brexit has become a religion
- its most fervent adherents demand ever an harder divorce from Europe, there is no satisfying them, short of mining the channel and shooting EU27 planes out of the sky that come within 12 miles of the UK, and that wouldnt be enough I suspect
what price Brexit?? Its mounting fast!!
- our international reputation for keeping agreements (f*ck the provisions of the WA, f*ck the spirit and letter of the GFA???
- the integrity of the UK (f*ck Scotland, hand NI back to the ROI)???
- our relations with our nearest neighbours (jongoistic demeaning and dismissive insults to our neighbours and their leaders is de riguer)???
- the business community and the economy (f*ck business says Boris)???
- cooperation on security, crime, science, space, technical standards, meteorology etc etc etc, a border between NI & GB (no problem)???
- billions of pounds preparing for a hard Brexit and billions more replicating agencies and programmes that we shared the cost of as a part of the E??
- £39+billion divorce bill??
- nothing is too great to be sacrificed at the altar of the Great God Brexit, peace and blessings upon him/her
laguerre4 days ago
I’m sure the proposition is right, but the Brexiters have left all rationality behind. I don’t see it being easy to pull back now. They’ll go to the limit until there’s a catastrophe.
Sturluson3 days ago
Europhobia is a right wing psychopathology born out of the corrupt world of Anglo Saxon economics in which only the bottom line ever matters.But ironically it’ll bankrupt the country except the Tory donor Brexit financiers who are all off-shored and hedged.Once we turn into a new North Korea in the Atlantic they’ll say they never believed in it and move to the States or Switzerland.
"Kein Business as usual mehr"
Großbritannien und die EU haben zum ersten Mal nach dem Brexit über ihr künftiges Verhältnis verhandelt. Und dabei vor allem Differenzen entdeckt.
... Barnier sagte: "Es geht um die Vorbereitung auf den Wandel, der Wandel wird kommen, mit oder ohne Abkommen. Am 31.12. endet die Übergangsphase, die verlängert werden könnte, scheidet UK aus der Zollunion aus, und dann gibt es kein Business as usual mehr." Die Änderungen, die es durch den Brexit gebe, würden unterschätzt. Es werde Zölle auf alle Waren geben, die rein- oder rausgehen aus Großbritannien....
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/b...81-a1dbd8255776
Boris Johnson’s bluster on Brexit is about to face reality
The prime minister sold the UK a dream with a casual disregard for reality. The EU trade talks will test his bombast
Bad ideas blunt the sharpest minds, and Boris Johnson’s intellect was hardly an instrument of surgical precision before it rubbed up against a hard Brexit. The prime minister is no fool, but his talents are ill-suited to crafting a new relationship with the EU. Johnson’s cleverness is rhetorical; his unique talent is for lifting spirits while lowering expectations. His upbeat bombast is laced with self-deprecation conveyed in his artfully tousled appearance and the elongated ums and ahs that signal improvisation, although the lines are scripted.
The whole act is a wink inviting the audience in on a joke, the butt of which are “doomsters and gloomsters” who try to hold Johnson to his word. He persuades his fans to take their satisfaction purely from the experience of being persuaded. To be seduced by him is to forgive him in advance for underachieving.
The EU is unsusceptible to that charm. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...-eu-trade-talks
Flybe on brink of collapse as coronavirus outbreak takes toll
Covid-19 hits demand for air travel and government stalls over £100m loan
https://www.theguardian.com/business/202...ks-without-help
Update heute:
Collapsed Flybe tells passengers not to travel to airports
UK airline Flybe has gone into administration, putting 2,000 jobs at risk, after a bid for fresh financial support failed.
The Exeter-based carrier said the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on demand for air travel was partly to blame for its collapse.
Its website now advises customers to "not travel to the airport" unless they have arranged an alternative flight.
Flybe boss Mark Anderson said he was "very sorry" for the firm's collapse.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51746564
UK would be 'insane' to let in chlorinated chicken, farmers say
The National Farmers Union (NFU) president, Minette Batters, said allowing these imports would be "morally bankrupt".
At the NFU's annual conference on Tuesday, Ms Batters said: "This isn't just about chlorinated chicken. This is about a wider principle.
"We must not tie the hands of British farmers to the highest rung of the standards ladder while waving through food imports which may not even reach the bottom rung."
She said: "To sign up to a trade deal which results in opening our ports, shelves and fridges to food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane."
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-516265...jauJKzUSOXgSdx0
Boris Johnson refuses to commit to keeping UK in human rights convention
British negotiators in Brexit trade talks have rejected EU demands
Boris Johnson is refusing to sign up to human rights protections in any Brexit trade deal with the EU, opening the door to the UK quitting the European convention.
Speaking in Brussels after the first round of post-Brexit talks, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters that the UK "informs us that they do not wish to commit formally to applying the European Convention on Human Rights".
UK officials confirmed that the UK did not want membership of the European Convention on Human Rights membership written into the trade agreement.
As an EU member the UK could not leave the ECHR because it was a condition of its membership; Theresa May had promised this would remain the case after the UK left, but the change of course by Mr Johnson's administration has raised eyebrows in Brussels and elsewhere.
Opposition politicians decried the move, while Mr Barnier suggested it would limit the scope of any deal that could be struck. Officials say the EU would be reluctant to offering the UK close judicial and police cooperation without human rights safeguards.
If the UK left the European Convention on Human Rights it would be the only country in Europe not signed up to it, other than Belarus, an autoritarian dictatorship. Even Russia is a member has bound by decisions of the Strasbourg ECHR court.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...CRFoU1Upbb86YMk
As a doctor I have to speak out: Johnson has contributed to thousands of deaths
The prime minister’s neglect of the NHS has resulted in too many tragedies. If he were a doctor, he would be struck off
In medicine – unlike politics, where anything seems to go these days – we have situations called “never events”. These are instances that occur when a patient is seriously harmed in spite of all the protocols and protective measures to prevent this happening. “Never events” are such serious, manmade disasters that most clinicians involved in them will bear the burden of such tragic events for the rest of their careers.
Like many junior doctors who have worked in overwhelmed and understaffed A&E departments, I’ve seen things happen as a result of the overstretched conditions that I believe should be classed as “never events”. Since 2016, nearly 5,500 patients have died in England alone as a direct result of having waited too long to be admitted to hospital. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly twice the number of people killed in terror attacks in the UK since 1970. We should be outraged.
Prime Minister, can you please try and imagine for one moment working as an NHS paramedic, doctor or nurse in conditions so overstretched that ambulances have to endure dangerous queues and we see patients die on corridor trolleys as a result? Just stop for a moment – please – and think of the human consequences of your NHS underfunding. The NHS everywhere is desperately underfunded and understaffed – and this is on you and your party of government. Your refusal to correct these systemic problems has created more than 5,000 of these “never events”. Prime Minister, you have failed these patients and your negligence has contributed to their deaths.
You and your party have had nearly a decade to leave the health service in a better state than when you found it. On every objective metric, the Conservative party has failed in that, and we see this in our NHS hospitals every single day. England is short of 40,000 nurses and 10,000 doctors, A&E waiting times are the absolute worst in NHS history, our cancer patients are waiting longer than ever to be seen, you have shut down too many district hospitals, you have left us with too few hospital beds, social care is a mess, mental health care is inaccessible, and you have destroyed our capacity to provide a multitude of services in the community to keep people healthy and out of hospital. And now nearly 5,500 people have died as a direct result of your policies. This is the legacy of the “one nation” Conservative party. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...sFQWbsQE-6K_DY4
UK to withdraw from EU aviation safety regulator, Shapps says
The UK is to withdraw from the European Union aviation safety regulator (EASA) after the Brexit transition period, Grant Shapps has confirmed.
The transport secretary said many of the most senior figures at the organisation headquartered in Cologne, Germany were British and that they would gradually return to the UK throughout this year as regulatory powers reverted to the Civil Aviation Authority.
“As you would expect from an independent nation, we can’t be subject to the rules and laws made by somebody else, so we can’t accept rules from the EU commission and we can’t accept rulings in terms of court cases from the European court of justice or anybody else, any more than the US would,” he told Aviation Week in Washington.
“A lot of the expertise [EASA has] is UK expertise, in fact … A lot of the key leading lights were Brits.”
The aerospace trade body ADS, which represents more than 1,100 UK businesses, said the decision could put high-skilled jobs at risk.
“We have been clear that continued participation in EASA is the best option to maintain the competitiveness of our £36bn aerospace industry and our access to global export markets,” the chief executive, Paul Everitt, said.
He added that British influence in EASA helps raise global aviation standards and fosters collaboration with international partners. “Government had promised it would consider harmonisation where it is in the UK interest and will be led by the evidence on the future of aviation safety regulation,” he said.
“We are disappointed that it has not taken a more ambitious approach. It is essential that it works with us to deliver a regime that does not put jobs at risk in an industry that employs 111,000 people in highly skilled roles across the UK.” ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...afety-regulator
Wenn eine Nation aus 'Nationalismuswahn' in Selbstzerstoerungswahn verfaellt. So sieht das aus.
How America really views Brexit – “a God-given opportunity to steal trade from UK”
After Britain’s EU referendum result in 2016, the money, time and effort that had been put into the campaign to wrench Britain away from the EU had finally paid off. Hundreds of millions of dollars of ‘dark-money’ had poured into shady think tanks, front charities and organisations to push the final million votes over the Leave line. Billionaires, hedge-funds and vulture capitalists sided with climate deniers and corporations in a quest to pillage a nation and tear apart the European project that had been frustrating their profits for decades. SCL, Cambridge Analytica colluded with Facebook using a military perfected system of propaganda to rob a nation. Social media was the heart of this circulatory system where the endgame was nothing more than to stick a money funnel down the throats of an unsuspecting nation.
And as if any more evidence was needed, here is an article from a few months after Britain’s seismic decision by America’s CNBC entitled:
Brexit is a ‘God-given opportunity’ to steal trade from UK
Its first line reads – “Wilbur Ross, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Commerce secretary, has urged other countries to exploit the “God-given opportunity” to steal business from the U.K.”
As Commerce secretary, Ross is among those responsible for negotiating a free trade deal with the UK. There is no speculation that the US seeks to exploit the uncertainty created by Brexit in order to lure business away from London – that’s the endgame. That was why so much money was spent – they want a return on their investment.
“Wilbur Ross’s comments are a stark reminder that the trade deals Britain will agree in future will not depend on goodwill from our partners, but on their own shrewd political and economic calculations. This government has failed to articulate a coherent vision of what kind of economy Brexit Britain will be. This makes us weak and vulnerable in the eyes of others” Barry Gardiner, the Shadow International Trade secretary told The Times back in 2016.
Trump Trade Doctrine
The 79-year-old private equity billionaire has endorsed the “Trump trade doctrine,” which stipulates that any new trade must reduce the U.S. trade deficit, strengthen manufacturing and boost growth. Britain has a trade surplus with the U.S. and therefore, under a trade agreement, it must be reversed to America’s advantage – or there’s no deal.
This doctrine is the most damaging to the UK’s interests when it comes to Brexit. A trade deal with the US has now been widely accepted even by the British government as being worthless. It will generate 0.1 per cent of additional GDP and even then only after 10 to 15 years. In the meantime, America will plunder the NHS, buy up successful British companies to get seated on their boards and use them to buy further assets in a market stressed by a recessionary economy and falling currency. American money will pour into assets, only for them to be stripped and sold for profit. Pharmaceuticals, agriculture, chemicals, technology – you name it, American corporations will use the deregulation festival to impoverish Britain, just as they have done to other countries around the world.
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdo...-trade-from-uk/
Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4595Excellent, if the Brits finally get rid of the ECHR and reestablish the sovereignty of their own Courts of Justice.
Boris Johnson refuses to commit to keeping UK in human rights convention
British negotiators in Brexit trade talks have rejected EU demands
Boris Johnson is refusing to sign up to human rights protections in any Brexit trade deal with the EU, opening the door to the UK quitting the European convention.
Speaking in Brussels after the first round of post-Brexit talks, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters that the UK "informs us that they do not wish to commit formally to applying the European Convention on Human Rights".
UK officials confirmed that the UK did not want membership of the European Convention on Human Rights membership written into the trade agreement.
As an EU member the UK could not leave the ECHR because it was a condition of its membership; Theresa May had promised this would remain the case after the UK left, but the change of course by Mr Johnson's administration has raised eyebrows in Brussels and elsewhere.
Opposition politicians decried the move, while Mr Barnier suggested it would limit the scope of any deal that could be struck. Officials say the EU would be reluctant to offering the UK close judicial and police cooperation without human rights safeguards.
If the UK left the European Convention on Human Rights it would be the only country in Europe not signed up to it, other than Belarus, an autoritarian dictatorship. Even Russia is a member has bound by decisions of the Strasbourg ECHR court.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po...CRFoU1Upbb86YMk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-criminals.html
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