European Union, yes, yet another post about the European Union and then I will try to leave it alone for a week, it will be hard, I keep reading that we are on the back foot, isolated and that Cameron’s use of the veto at the European Union Summit last week was a defeat but from where I sit David Cameron has never been in a stronger position, let us hope he does not throw it away as he did after the AV referendum!
So let us look at David Cameron’s position on the subject of the European Union, he has united support throughout his party, his Lib Dem coalition partners cannot block anything he wants to do because to cause a defeat for the coalition would trigger a general election in which the Lib Dem’s would be wiped out and Labour are in dire need of a new leader which they won’t get!
David Cameron has it on a plate but will he use his position wisely or fritter it away as he did after the AV referendum, we will have to wait and see but the outcome will define his premiership!
Phil Baker - Editor
We are now being told daily that the UK is isolated within the European Union and on the back foot, are we, the answer is a resounding NO, we are in exactly the same position we were in before Cameron used the veto but it is a fact that since the introduction of the Euro Europe and the single market has been slipping away slowly away from the UK, although the politicians won’t admit it.
European Union is not just a 2 speed Union but a multi-speed union and the UK is not on any of the speeds because 2 speed or multi-speed imply that every country will eventually arrive at the same destination
Told by our politicians that our place at the table controlling the single market is vital for our future prosperity we are all frightened to say no to the European Union, it is true to say the European Union cannot cope with a no answer, then we hear about the European Union being a 2 speed union insinuating that the UK is in the slower group! The truth is that the European Union is not just a 2 speed Union but a multi-speed union and the UK is not on any of the speeds because 2 speed or multi-speed imply that every country will eventually arrive at the same destination of a United States of Europe with full fiscal and political union and the UK is definitely not aiming for that destination. Bureaucracy while not effecting trade within the single market, makes the single market uncompetitive with the rest of the world, so how can we prepare for what is an inevitable outcome and do we need to be frightened as a nation?
We are now being told daily that the UK is isolated within the European Union and on the back foot, are we, the answer is a resounding NO, we are in exactly the same position we were in before Cameron used the veto
Firstly the Lib Dem’s, Labour and the Europhiles on the Conservative side tell us that if we lose our membership and influence over the single market we will lose thousands of jobs and £billions in inward investment, well, it is inevitable that we will lose our current membership of and influence over the single market as the European Union develops into the United States of Europe, which is the only way the Euro can survive but if we prepare for the inevitable we will actually
vastly increase job opportunities and investment, think about it! Further reading
We need to start preparing now for leaving the European Union after the next general election, in fact it must be in the Conservative manifesto, but will we lose jobs and investment, put very simply NO. Our trade deficit with the European Union stood at £46.6billion in 2010 so there is no way the European Union would stop trading with us, they just could not afford to so our current trade would carry on but with our preparations for leaving the European Union it is highly likely this trade would increase and eat into the deficit, read on to find out why!
It is inconceivable that Cameron’s view of how the European Union will develop will actually happen, other than if there is a complete separation between the Euro-Zone and the non-Euro-Zone and that would still require the UK to take specific action but the Germans and the French will not give up easily, there are too many ego’s, reputations and national pride resting on the Euro and the European Union!
We need the rich to get a lot richer creating businesses and jobs and they will drag the rest of us up, it is not the gap between rich and poor which is too important it is how much richer the relative poor have become!
The action we need to take
First of all we need to put together a ‘Life outside the European Union’ committee, probably chaired by David Davis, to look at how we replace all the European Union bureaucracy/legislation, some will just disappear and some such as the Human Rights Act could be replaced by our own Bill of Rights.
Second we need to put together a taxation regime which is good for business, we must make the UK THE PLACE in the World to do business, the place where the entrepreneurs want to set up business, yes I know some will get very rich but this whole business of narrowing the gap between rich and poor is rubbish, particularly in the current climate. We need to make the UK the destination to set up a business, we need the rich to get a lot richer creating businesses and jobs and they will drag the rest of us up, it is not the gap between rich and poor which is too important it is how much richer the relative poor have become!
Our simple aim is to make the UK the most competitive place in the world to do business which in itself will make us far more attractive for the Single European Market to do business with us and we can reduce the trade deficit substantially, we will also probably force the Single European Market to become more competitive and in doing so save it from the disaster of protectionism!
And Thirdly we need a major effort to re-engage with the rest of the world and once again become one of the worlds biggest exporters and richest countries, is all this possible, put simply YES, it will be a bit of a revolution and require courage and nerve, only the Conservative party can achieve this for obvious reasons but the end result would be a world powerhouse from which everyone in the UK would benefit.
You see, the answer is YES
- YES we can achieve what is outlined above
- YES we can be the next Silicone Valley, just as we are the world leaders in Formula 1 racing
- YES we can build the next Concorde
- YES we can build the replacement to the Harrier Jump Jet
- YES we can be the worlds centre for innovation, a power house of the future
- YES we can do all this without the European Union, we can’t do it with the EU
The foundations are already there within the UK, we just need to give them a shake and wake them up, it is though a certainty that the European Union really only gives us 2 choices, to disappear into the depths of the German dominated Euro-Zone and become a region of the European Union or become the most exciting and vibrant country in the world, the middle muddle safe option David Cameron wants is fast slipping away.
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But how will we pay for all this, easy, it is all self funding and revenues to the exchequer will be at record levels and on top of that we have over £20 billion saved from our European Union journey which will tide us over this very difficult period world-wide but in essence lets just set our country FREE!
Further reading
Britain’s net contribution to the EU budget has risen by 74 per cent in one year
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