Posted on 07/08/2024 3:03:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset relations at home and abroad.
During a visit Sunday to Edinburgh, that he billed as an “immediate reset” with the regional governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Starmer said he would also seek to improve the U.K.'s “botched” trade deal with the European Union.
“I do think that we can get a much better deal than the botched deal that (former Prime Minister) Boris Johnson saddled the U.K. with,” he said in reference to the pact negotiated after Brexit. […]
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Sunday on Sky News that the U.K. should look for ways to improve trade with the EU and that removing some trade barriers was sensible.
But he said the Labour government was not open to the free movement of people that was required as a member of the union. …
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Seems like the EU would respond with some extra ‘fee’, you might get a better deal. The the EU would say....just to sit and meet for two days...they’d want you to pay for their time involved in talking.
The EU’s cash cow is back in the barn.
UK taxpayers, prepare to be milked to death.
Britain is now in the trans Pacific trade partnership. It’s members combined are already economically bigger than the EU and growing fast. We are the only European country in it. Europe will barely be relevent economically within a couple of decades and will have little to offer the UK by comparison. A future government is not going to tolerate any lopsided trade partnership with that moribund trading bloc when it accounts for an increasingly smaller proportion of the UK’s trade.
Free trade will kill the west. Along with unbridled 3rd world immigration. A nation must mine, manufacture and grow things or die.
The Brits voted for this. They are self-loathing nitwits. Byebye suckers.
I suspect fraud. Millions of votes for Reform UK and only four seats?
EUSSR propaganda. Never mind YouGov push “polls”.
The Red Tories were always anti-“Brexit”. Theresa May was installed to sabotage leaving the EU. Instead of abiding by the treaty rules for withdrawal that favor only the EU and never the departing “member state” (the infamous Article 50), the UK should have invoked “rebus sic stantibus” and exposed the EU treaties for what they are, and how they are automatically invalid.
Your suspicion is unfounded. The first past the post electoral system often results in such anomalies. What counts is the vote in each individual constituency, not your total vote across the country. It’s perfectly possible for a party to come second in every constituency, with many millions of votes, but thus fail to win a single parliamentary seat.
Britain isn’t an island blessed with an abundance of natural resources (apart from lithium and tungsten which for which mines are being created).
Britain relies on countries not raising tariffs against the goods and services it generates.
America could in theory drop a bamboo curtain around itself and become self sufficient without trading with outsiders but that is not an option for Britain.
Farage gave the Tories a clear run in 2019 and they governed like Diet Labour.
It isn’t just the Tories his vote has been eating into, its also been eating into the Labour vote.
When this Labour government fails, as it inevitably will, a much slicker, better prepared, better funded and more professional Reform party will be waiting to take Labour seats in 2029.
The USA also has “first past the post” and no such “anomalies” happen(ed) until fraud occurred.
Why defend Labour’s pyrrhic pseudovictory at all?
In the typical general election each seat is contested by six or seven candidates. So given that fact it's easy to see how the "Reform" Party got a noteworthy percentage of the national vote but only won four seats. Just think back to Ross Perot...20% of the popular vote,and not a single EV.
Also keep in mind that Britain is now something like 15% moslem and that percentage is rising each year because of the immigration laws and because the moslems already there are breeding like rabbits,at a far greater pace than the rest of the population. And who do you think these moslems vote for? It ain't the Tories...or Reform.
I wonder if the day will ever come when real Englishmen,Scots,Welshmen and Ulstermen will start to say "hey,maybe Enoch Powell was on to something".
The muslim population of the uk is 6.5%, up from 5% in 2011. It’s not growing quite as quickly as some people assume.
And Labour cant rely on the Muslim vote as much as they used to. Many of them hate Labour for not being violently anti Israeli enough and they are very socially conservative and have been alienated by the extreme wokery of Labour. The Tories actually managed to gain a heavily Muslim constituency in Leicester because the vote was split between Labour and pro gaza independents. And asylum seekers cannot vote, you have to prove that you are a British, Commonwealth or Irish citizen legally resident in order to be registered on the electoral role, and since your average dinghy rider throws out their passports and ID cards to make it hard for them to be deported they cannot register to vote.
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