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Tag Archives: Britain Stronger In Europe
The Delusion That Bankrupted A Nation
Pieter Boel Large Vanitas Still-Life 1663 Oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.
Image: Wikipedia
The latest economic facts about Brexit:
Mark Carney. Governor of the Bank of England, “told MPs yesterday that UK households were £900 per year worse off than they would have been based on forecasts from May 2016 – just before the Brexit vote. As the Bank of England governor put it, “that’s a lot of money”. And that’s before we’ve even left the EU.
The vote to leave the EU has [caused] the value of the pound to tumble and inflation to rise from 0.5% to 2.5%.
But worse economic disruption could be yet to come if May’s hard-Brexit plans wrench us out of the EU’s single market, with which we do half our trade.” Open Britain.
Is this really the Will of the British People?
DON’T BE AFRAID TO WAKE UP.
STOP BREXIT MADNESS
His name is Will, he belongs to the people, because he is dependent on kind, rational people to look after him,
and if you care about him, and other dogs, and other animals,
and people less fortunate than you, even people you don’t like, if you care about the next generations,
if you care about their future,
and their environment, and their education,
and their access to social justice and culture, regardless of income, race and creed,
if you care about your country, the rolling green and the salty tides, the shopping and the chilling,
the ancient castle reflected in the water-lily filled moat and the modern National Health Service,
if you care about advancing technology to cure diseases and mend our broken planet,
if you care about human rights and taxation only with representation,
and your affordable glass of wine under the summer sun,
if you care about standards of excellence, equality of opportunity, and self-fulfillment in a hostile world,
if you care about the precious stone set in a silver sea –
STOP BREXIT.
Hope, and fight
THE PEOPLE’S VOTE ON BREXIT AND THE BREXIT DEAL
Brexit is not a done deal. It is not delivering on what most voters wanted.
It is a fraud.
The people of Britain can stop it.
They are fatalistic, but not bewitched.
They have the power to stop the desultory decline of their nation and start afresh.
OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE PEOPLE’S VOTE,
IN CAMDEN, LONDON ON 15 APRIL on video
and as reported in THE GUARDIAN
This post reaches a small number of people, but some of you are Europeans, and I want you to know how much our shared European destiny, heritage and culture are still valued in Britain. Don’t be misled by Brexit, or by our third rate Government and our cowardly MPs, so many of whom are misrepresenting their electorates.
Our true national identity is best expressed through a European Union.
We are stronger united with Europe.
Don’t give up on a Prodigal Nation, please.
Allegorical painting of Elizabeth I with Time and Death, painted probably after 1620, when dissatisfaction with the absolutist regime of the Stuarts was intensifying.
The unresolved tensions resulted in civil war and the first trial and execution for treason of a reigning monarch, Charles I, in 1649.
Still indubitably England’s greatest female ruler, an adept politician
and European diplomatist, peacemaker and maker of her own image,
the Virgin Queen, married to her people, Gloriana herself,
the personification of Great Britain,
Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 – 1603), is portrayed posthumously
with a load of trouble on her mind,
and Time and Death lurking on either side of her.
[Image: Wikipedia]
Single Trading Nation at Sea
“The tectonic plates of the world economy are shifting. With an independent trade policy, Britain can put itself in a strong position to benefit, opening up access to fast-growing markets across the world.” Liam Fox, in The Financial Times, 11 November, 2017
The imperial British vision of free trading Ships at Spithead 1797
Image source: Wikipedia
“The very day that the U.K. leaves the European Union, it also leaves all the trade agreements that [the EU has] with third countries.”
Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, in interview with Politico,
12 December, 2017
EU takes over global trade stage: Europe overtakes a Trump-led US as the world’s crucial setter of trade rules and standards.
The international trading system created by the U.S. after the Second World War has a new leader — the European Union. (Politico)
Japan issued a shattering warning to the UK about trading in the aftermath of Brexit, which, along with other good advice has been ignored
or suppressed by the British Government.
In particular, Japan’s Foreign Ministry advised that without EU-like economic and immigration systems in the UK, Japanese businesses would have to relocate.
