Starmer had a choice. Either embrace the go-getting ambition of the United States or partner with the stifling bureaucracy of the EU superstate.
After a moment’s thought he rushed into the arms of the failing German/ French axis and away from the booming, job-creating, commercially successful world of America.
That decision will damage the United Kingdom for decades to come and give us an immediate problem with President Trump who will treat us like the rest of Europe as the enemy and impose a huge tariff on us, costing £20billion which we simply don’t possess.
That hole will be filled by yet more tax rises, a Starmer speciality.
Keir Starmer is cosying up to Europe rather than America, says Kelvin MacKenzie
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This is a disaster. But Starmer has already proved he is good at creating home-made disasters. Thanks to some good journalistic work by the Mail on Sunday we now know the grim truth that Starmer is putting together a team of more than 100-strong civil servant team to run a ‘’surrender squad’’ from inside the Cabinet Office which will handle upcoming negotiations with Brussels.
The EU has already made it clear what it wants from these discussions.
- An acceptance of EU laws on food exports and that to be put into UK legislation.
- Our government would have to abide by rulings from the European Court of Justice.
- The continued right for European nations to fish in British waters beyond 2026.
- Freedom of movement for young people ( 18-30 year-olds) to live and work in the UK with free healthcare and subsidised education.
- To stop Reform from scrapping the agreement there will be a five year no-exit clause.
In return the EU would scrap much of the red tape surrounding trade between us and the EU. In reality we would be back inside the EU.
What is clear is that Labour are desperate to back into the European club and is prepared to pay any price to do deal a deal.
Let’s be honest, Brexit has not been a success. Our politicians were not prepared to look across the Atlantic to find new markets and the Europeans, led by France, were determined to punish the UK for leaving.
All this will be coming at us very quickly. Starmer goes to Europe in February to agree a security deal and the ‘’surrender’’ summit to be done and dusted by the Spring.
We had a vote to exit Europe I would hope that we would be given another vote to rejoin it. That won’t happen. Starmer doesn’t want democracy getting in the way of his ideas.
My main fear is how Trump sees Britain rejoining. I have a horrible feeling he will view it as an act of treachery by Starmer and take two separate actions. The first is that he will say to us and Europe that he is no longer willing to subsidise our defence.
We will have to up our spending on defence from 2.3% to 3%. We won’t have that kind of money so our taxes will have to go up up. Plus he will impose trade tariffs on us (and Europe) and as I have said before that will mean a gap in our revenues which will be met by more taxes.
The effect is that our people will be a lot poorer. The good news is that this will hurry Starmer from office. The bad news is that the EU deal will be almost impossible to unravel meaning we will have to live with it even if Reform are in power.
Why couldn’t Starmer have tried ass hard to do a deal with Trump as he has done with Brussels?
The truth is that he doesn’t like capitalism. He likes Leftism which is why he embraces the EU.
I’m afraid that over the next five years the UK is going to become less wealthy. The only people to prosper will be train drivers who I see are now being offered £600 for one Sunday shift ahead over Christmas.
So the money will always be available for state workers but none for the rest of us. I don’t remember that in the Labour manifesto do you?
