“Labour seems to think the British economic renaissance is going to be rebuilt on minor changes to a food and drink trade that amounts to 2-3 per cent of our exports, yet if it really believed this, why is it killing family farms and making them erect solar panels instead?”
– David Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator in the former Tory government, writing about the sellout deal that UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer agreed with the EU at the weekend. The deal effectively puts the UK back into the EU Single Market on farming and food; it also gives a number of concessions that, even if they don’t completely reverse the UK’s independence from the EU, make a number of steps in that direction. This is one of those cases where the devil is in the detail. Like Lord (David) Frost, I want the UK to go for mutual recognition of trade standards, which is what sovereign nation states, such as New Zealand, already do without fuss. Apparently, this is outside the mental universe of Brussels negotiators and the UK government.
The reference in the quote above is to the policy of the current Labour government to impose inheritance tax on family-run farms, a measure that will force a number of these farmers’ families to sell up, possibly selling out to energy companies instead.
From where I stand, it seems pretty clear that Starmer wants to reverse Brexit, even if it falls short of formal re-entry into the EU.
Representatives versus “moral leaders.”
Give me representatives every time.
Yes the final parts of British independence are being surrendered – but then independence was (it is now clear) never really on offer, only “Brexit” – a made up word that does not mean anything. Like most people I thought I was voting for independence in 2016 – but it turns out that I was not. I did wonder why the word “Brexit” was being used rather than independence – but with the squalid betrayals by Mrs May, Alexander “Boris” Johnson, and now Sir Keir Starmer (all of whom are just obeying officials and “experts”) it is clear why the meaningless word “Brexit” was used rather than independence.
Ben Habib (who stood for Parliament, twice, a few miles down the road from me) did try to explain that the “deal” with the European Union was not independence – but Mr Johnson and Mr Nigel Farage (yes him to) would not listen – even when told that by keeping Northern Ireland in the E.U. (violating Mr Johnson’s promises – supposedly his promises had to be violated in order to “keep the Belfast Agreement” with the IRA terrorists) the whole of the United Kingdom would, in effect, be tied to E.U. regulations. And now what little autonomy we had gained is gone.
We should also not forget the World Health Organisation whose “World Health Assembly” is happening right now – some nations, such as the United States and Argentina are leaving the WTO – but the United Kingdom is not, and will agree to whatever totalitarian madness is proposed.
It is unfortunate, but it is unclear what we can do to gain independence. The British political class (including Mr Johnson and Mr Farage) will never stick to NO – they will always seek a “deal” an “agreement”, and that is fatal – it plays into the hands of the officials and the “experts”. Once you concede that the independence of your country is a matter of “negotiations” – you have already lost.
A double betrayal – to the European Union and to the World Health Organisation.
As for farming – yes it is clear that the policy of the British government (following international suggestions) is to get rid of family farms. Other governments are following similar policies – although perhaps Britain is the most extreme case.
Food is to come from factories – as Mr William “Bill” Gates has explained. What remains of rural areas will be “rewilded” (Mr Johnson was very keen on that) – and important people will be able to visit these areas.
Most ordinary people will live in small apartments in “15 minute cities” – they will not have cars (as the electrical grid can not sustain millions of electric cars – assuming the electrical grid can be maintained at all), and they (we) will live off a basic income – which will be electronic and have to be spent on certain things in a certain amount of time. Even what entertainment people can have will be decided for them – so that corporations such as Disney and the BBC will no longer have to worry about the “reactionary” public. Entertainment will be full of “positive messages” to make sure people have the “correct” opinions.
The institutions (government and corporate) have explained all these matters repeatedly – they are NOT engaged in a conspiracy, as everything is out in the open. It is not their fault if people do not take their totalitarian plans seriously – they have not been hidden, it has all been open-and-above-board.
The most grimly amusing thing is that so called “Greens” are helping bring this totally unnatural future society into being – it is about as far from a natural existence as it is possible to be, but they do not see that.
“Will it work?”
Of course NOT – the new system will collapse into terrible horror (including starvation) in places like Britain, but there we are.