Posted on 10/04/2026 4:30:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Rejoining would be a disaster. We’re ready to stop him, with your help
Andy Burnham wants to talk about rejoining the European Union. After 11 weeks in the job he’s given up on his devolution agenda and landed back in the Left-wing safe space of centralising power again in Brussels.
His cynical political calculation is obvious, especially after the raid on pensions he signalled at the Labour conference last week. He’s trading older, white working class voters for younger, city-dwelling left-wing activist-types.
He desperately wants to beat Zack Polanski and his Green Party in the Holborn by-election this week, and carry that momentum through to a general election which I believe he’ll have to call early next year.
Why else would his Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and his Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood have caved in to the ‘free Palestine’ mob in the past week, especially straight after the RAF Fairford incident?
It is pure political posturing from a man who who just three months ago told Makerfield voters he would not “re-run” Brexit arguments.
Well, as someone who spent two decades in the European Parliament, no one knows this issue like I do. And if Burnham now wants to re-hash the big issues of sovereignty, independence, and EU contributions, I say bring it on.
Rejoining the European project would cost Britain anywhere up to £40 billion a year when you consider the new proposed EU budgets and projected inflation between now and 2028. Think about that. When we voted to leave in 2016, we were paying £19 billion, and we had a rebate!
But there’d be no rebate this time. Only more free movement of people, more demands for Britain to throw in our defensive lot for a Europe-wide military project, and it is highly likely they’d demand we join the Euro, too. Even just implementing that would cost up to £60 billion. There’s no way this country could afford to pay such a price. We just don’t have the money.
Even if we did, if Burnham took us crawling back to Brussels the EU would use every bit of leverage to force us to fund their increasingly unstable economies.
Reentering the Single Market would mean accepting EU diktats that strangle small businesses and crush domestic innovation. We would likely immediately lose the right to set our own tax rates, control our own energy policies, or sign any more trade deals.
Brexit is just a slogan. They hardly have it.
The United Caliphate is united. Jihadists control that inbred group of royal subjects. The sooner they submit the better so we can wall them off from the west.
Yerp is toast.
Socialist pols rruinn the country, while the culture is being destroyed by unchecked Muslim immigration.
Alahwahoo Bitterbar !
You want fish and chips?
Go to New Zealand.
What was the point of brexit if they are where they are now?
My thoughts as well. Brexit without borders is pointless, really. As a nation, either live free or die. There is no fence-sitting.
That's a pretty arrogant goal for a pissant that wasn't even elected by the people of Britain.
You're right. The Brits should just roll over and die. Why pretend anybody can do anything?
With the huge majority that the Maoists currently have I don’t see how Farage can stop them.
They are being punished for Brexit.
Other countries in the EU are getting the message.
They behave like they're already dead.
I watched Nigel Farage for years while he was pushing for it serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Today he seems to have almost stood down and gone silent and I have to wonder why that is?
Farage has one thing going for him - he play acts being a “man of the people” brilliantly.
He took the EU salary as an MEP for years, and trousered the expenses, while doing no work there at all.
While campaigning for Brexit, several leading Brexiteers were strenuously hedging their bets - putting their businesses and wealth funds inside the Eurozone, having second homes on the Continent, applying for dual citizenship.
They’d banked on two things happening:
1. Anything they’d put into the Eurozone would be “safe” if we Brexited and it all went pear-shaped.
2. If we had to de-regulate (the planned “bonfire of regulations”) then they’d be able to slash their costs of doing stuff in Britain, while seeing a massive reduction in legal and regulatory risk.
He’s gone silent largely because the harder things got after Brexit, the harder the impact has gotten on everyday folks. And it’s been one whammy after another, from Theresa May and team going for the extreme Brexit nobody’d ever asked for, to Liz Truss’ first budget spooking the market. COVID. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Glib answers from the sidelines were his bread and butter, but now he’s faced with circumstances where our negotiating clout is down the toilet, nothing substantially positive has materialised in years, and the irony is, we’re now turning the rampant immigration problem around but thanks to the LABOUR government doing stuff around digital identity that UKIP, Reform and the Tories all opposed tooth and nail.
If Labour were to get a grip of the Small Boats problem, then it would largely prove that Farage was a guy who could list all the problems, but never had any solutions.
He’s keeping schtum because he is an opportunist, and at the moment he has no opportunity to pitch.
What was the point of brexit if they are where they are now?
The EU member states all answer to Brussels in financial matters, England does not unless they choose to. That said, the EU has been in negotiations for a bail out loan from the IMF, simply put- they are broke and teetering on default.
I do fully expect the EU to start breaking up, fiscally responsible member states are forced to bail out the dead beat nations like Greece, Italy, etc. Tic, Toc, ....
Thank you MalPearce. Good information. Interesting insight which most of us will never get in the USA.
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