BREXIT – 5 MONTHS ON AND WHAT IS HAPPENING ?

 

On the 23^rd. June 2016 the United Kingdom had a Referendum regarding their continued membership of the EU. The people who wanted us to stay in the single market and allow the free movement of people, while continuing to be controlled by the EU, voted REMAIN and they LOST. The people who wanted immigration restricting and controlling, even if it meant not having direct access to the single market, and control of our own affairs voted LEAVE and they WON with a decisive majority. The Government were given a clear mandate to get on with the task so why are they listening to winging remainers and lobbyists and not just getting on with carrying out the will of the people.

From what I can see very little has been achieved and this has allowed the remoaners and their supporters to regroup and given others a chance to work on what obstacles they can put in the way of a smooth BREXIT.

We hear so much about the importance of the single market to us, with its 500million customers, but after 40 years we have a monthly deficit of nearly £7billion. You would have expected that we would have developed a healthy trading position rather than a dependency. When we joined the Common Market our manufacturing was 20% of GDP and now it is less than 10% of GDP. The National Debt stands at over £1.78trillion which costs us £48 billion a year just to service.

We need to use the opportunity presented to us by BREXIT to increase our manufacturing base, reduce our dependency on imports, regain control of our trade and government budget deficits, stop uncontrolled borrowing and reduce our debt liability and put the UK back on track to true INDEPENDENCE.

 

James Hancock.

 

A Good Common Man

( Because of what happens when “good men do nothing“ Edmund Burke)

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