BREXIT - The PEOPLE voted to Leave the EU.

BREXIT –   The PEOPLE voted to LEAVE the EU.                              

 

The People of the UK voted to LEAVE the European Union, the EU, in a People’s Vote, a referendum held on the 26^th. June 2016. These are mostly patriotic, honest, hard working, tax paying citizens who over the last 50 years have seen their lives, and that of their families, communities and country change while having no say in what was happening. Now they have had their say by voting to LEAVE the EU, and they expect their MPs to respect that decision.

 

THE PEOPLE voted to leave the EU with no deal if that ended up being the only option left on the table. They appreciate that leaving with No Deal is not crashing out, as many of the Fanatical Remain Rebels would have us believe, as much work has been going on behind the scenes to enable a Managed No Deal to happen on WTO terms.  

THE PEOPLE were encouraged that following  a vote by 498 politicians Article 50 was triggered. It gave notice of the countries intention to leave and gave 2 years to negotiate an exit deal. When the UK triggered Article 50 the People thought that once in motion it could not be stopped or extended except by unanimous agreement. While it was expected that the period would be used to make agreements, there is no legal requirement to do so, and at the end of the period the country will leave with or without a deal. They also expected companies and civil servants to use the time to put in place what would be needed to ensure an organised departure. The default position is that we leave on the 29^th. March 2019, any Agreements that could be made that would make our LEAVING easier or smoother would be appreciated but are not necessary. It would appear that we were lied to about that and instead of everybody working for the best deal for the UK, the Fanatical Remainer Rebels, the Pro-EU activists, are using political procedures to frustrate and alter that.

THE PEOPLE know that we are not leaving Europe. If it hadn’t been for the UK and its friends and allies from around the world there wouldn’t be a FREE EUROPE. Too many people spilt their blood and made the ultimate sacrifice to release countries from being controlled and run by Germany for us to turn our back on it. They know that we are leaving the European Union, the EU, and especially the direct control from Brusells, so that we do not become a Province in a German lead Superstate, the United States of Europe.

THE PEOPLE expect the politicians that they elected in 2017, on promises of honouring BREXIT, to carry out their duty and respect the wishes of the electorate.

“When ordinary people do nothing the fanatics take over”. Edmund Burke

 

James Hancock. A Common Man.

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BREXIT - TIME TO END 50 YEARS OF LIES.

BREXIT –   TIME TO END  50  YEARS OF  LIES.                              

 

Since we started the last 50 years of closer association with our European neighbours across the channel we have been involved in one continuous flow of lies. The only truth is that we should never have joined the Common Market, which turned into the European Union, in the first place.

 

It all started in the early nineteen seventies when Ted Heath, the then Prime Minister, lied to Parliament to get them to agree to the UK joining the Common Market, which it did on 1^st. January 1973.

There was a certain amount of unrest in the country over the way that the UK had been taken into the Common Market and in 1975, Harold Wilson, the then Prime Minister, agreed to hold a Referendum on 5^th. June with the simple question to REMAIN or to LEAVE. The result was 67 per cent in favour of REMAIN. Note that there were no protest about the result as the REMAIN campaigners, the then

Pro-European Activists, had got the result that they wanted.

Unfortunately at the time the electorate were not made aware of what had happened and that by voting REMAIN they were agreeing to the UK participating in a process that would change from a Trading Agreement into a Political involvement in a Federal States of Europe with Germany at its head. If they had been made aware of this intention there is a good chance that virtually nobody would have voted to REMAIN. There were a few people who tried to question where this might end up but they were shut down by claims that it was “Purely a Trading Agreement”.

The lies continued as political change moved on and we were told that the UK would remain a Sovereign Nation and benefit from being part of a large, stable and successful International association. There was never any mention of the fact that the UK being involved gave the EU a certain amount of credibility around the world. John Major, the then Prime Minister, actually lied to us when he signed the Maastrict Treaty, which he told us was a “tidying up exercise”, but actually transferred OUR SOVERERGNTY from London to Brussels.

Despite the commitment made to the electorate by David Cameron, the then Prime Minister, after having announced the Referendum that “ This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide “, it is rumoured that he also made a promise to certain politicians and the EU that there was nothing to fear from giving the Ordinary People this vote. There were many lies told in the run up to the referendum in a campaign of Project Fear and Scaremongering which all ended up being unfounded.

 

On the 23^rd. June 2016 the people of the UK voted in a Referendum, a “Peoples Vote”, with a simple choice to REMAIN or to LEAVE, and they voted by a reasonable majority to LEAVE the EU in a clean break with NO ties, a “NO DEAL BREXIT”, to take back OUR Sovereignty, our national INDEPENDENCE and become an Global trading nation once again.

 

Following  a vote by 498 politicians Article 50 was triggered. It gives notice of a countries intention to leave and gives 2 years to negotiate an exit deal. When the UK triggered Article 50 it was thought that once in motion it could not be stopped or extended except by unanimous agreement. While it is expected that the period would be used to make agreements, there is no legal requirement to do so, and at the end of the period the country will leave with or without a deal. It would appear that we were lied to about that and the Fanatical Remainer Rebels are using political procedures to frustrate and alter that.

While over 400 parliamentarians voted to allow the Referendum to go ahead, they totally miscalculated the mood in the country towards the EU, and there is no way that they expected the result that they got. There is no way that certain members of the political elite, Pro-EU Activists, with personal interests in the EU, and career politicians with promises of lucrative career prospects, were going to accept anything other than a REMAIN vote.

There is no way that the British People want to be part of a European Union Superstate. They owe it to the people who made the ultimate sacrifice to secure and maintain our freedom, to break away from what successive Governments have got us into. We joined a trading agreement in good faith, perhaps in retrospect we were a bit naïve to expect something that sounded good to actually be so, but things were very different then, and we are still keen to involved in a Trading Agreement. We are not leaving Europe, we consider ourselves to be an integral part having fought for its freedom as well as our own, we are leaving the EU, and especially the direct control fro Brusells, so that we do not become a Province in a German lead Superstate, the United States of Europe. The EU already has its own flag, anthem, parliament, currency, embassies, executive laws and civil service, and now it is planning, following the signing of an agreement between Germany and France,, to create its own army. History would never forgive us if we voluntarily allowed the British Armed Forces to be controlled by Germany. There was life before the EU and Britain managed to enter unchartered areas and in most cases profit from the experience.

The Ordinary People have been heard but there is no way that they are being listened to, and yet again they are being lied to. The British people do not like being lied to but this time they are annoyed and frustrated because they are facing a revolt by the political elite, against their wishes, and they appear, despite having won the vote, to have NO CONTROL over how it is being handled.

 

MPs are meant to be the servants of the people, not the masters.

 

“When ordinary people do nothing the fanatics take over”. Edmund Burke

 

James Hancock. A Common Man.

 

Ormskirk.                                                                                                     Ref: B90514

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BREXIT - The Arrogance of Fanatical Remain Rebel Politicians.

BREXIT –              THE ARROGANCE OF

FANATICAL REMAIN REBEL POLITICIANS.

 

The European Union Referendum Act 2015 was introduced by Phillip Hammond, the then Foreign Secretary, and on the 28^th. May 2015 it eas passed by 544 votes for and 53 votes against it. On the 14^th. Decenber 2015 it was passed by the House of Lords and on 17^th. December 2015 it got Royal Assent.

David Cameron, the Prime Minister at the time, after extensive negotiations with the EU and member countries thought that he had come up with a package that would be acceptable to the UK people. He arranged for a leaflet to be produced and delivered to every household in the UK. The leaflet titled “ Why The Government Believes That Voting To Remain In the European Union Is The Best Decision For The UK “, stated that:

 “ This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide “.

The referendum, which was a true People’s Vote, was held on 23^rd. June 2016 and was meant to be a non political free vote. Out of the 46,501,241 people eligible to vote only 16,141,241 voted to Remain in the EU, that was 48 per cent of the 72 per cent turnout and is only 34.7 percent of the electorate. Even in Scotland, where Nicola Sturgen claimed an outright majority, the 1,661,191 who voted Remain only represent 41.7 percent of the electorate. All that Remainers had to do was to get more than 50 percent of the electorate to vote REMAIN and BREXIT would have been dead and the last two and a half years would have been entirely different, but they didn’t, and they couldn’t even win the vote on the day

 

More than 400 MPs were at odds with their constituencies by voting Remain in an area that voted Leave but most of them said that they would respect the result and support the BREXIT process. In the political areas 270 voted Leave, 67.7 per cent, while only 129 voted Remain, 32.3 per cent. and 74 per cent of Conservative constituencies voted Leave and 64 per cent of Labour constituencies also vote Leave.   

Almost all MPs should be BREXITEERS as virtually NONE of them has the support of the majority of their constituents to pursue  a Remain Agenda. A majority of the country wants an Independent UK with no EU string while it would appear that a majority of their elected MPs don’t want them to have it.

We want to remain an active part of Europe but not be controlled by the Brussels.

“When ordinary people do nothing the fanatics take over”. Edmund Burke

 

James Hancock. A Common Man.

 

Ormskirk.                                                                                                     Ref: B90412

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BREXIT - What About the £20 billion each Month.

BREXIT –  What About the £20 billion each Month.

 

The UK spends £20 billion a month with the EU, making it one of the largest customers that the EU has.

 

During the discussions and negotiations  over the last two and a half years I have heard very little reference to this fact. The way that the EU has treated the UK over the last period, especially since the people voted to leave the EU, is not the way that any organization, or business, would normally treat one of its largest customers, especially when they spend nearly one quarter of a trillion pounds each year. You would expect them to be making the right noises and using a positive approach to try to retain, and possibly even expand, that business in the future after the UK has left the EU, especially as UK politicians appear to have an obsession with spending UK taxpayers money abroad.

 

 Instead the bureaucrats appear to be more interested in how much money they can get out of the UK to avoid pending budget problems and being seen to be hard and difficult to discourage to the other 27 member countries from wanting to consider any similar type of action. There was never going to be a chance of us negotiating a meaningful agreement with the EU. Being seen to have given the UK any sort of favorable deal and then the UK go on to be successful is the very last thing that the bureaucrats in Brussel want to happen and therefore it is in their interests to be as difficult as possible and place as many obstacles as possible in the way. The main problem which the UK politicians seem to have missed, or choose to ignore, is that Michel Barnier, the EU’s main negotiator, was given the outcome of the negotiations and told to fill in the gaps to justify it and he appears to have done exactly that..

 

There was no reference to having a deal that would benefit Big Business, Big Banks and Financial Institutions, the Rich and Powerful, Fat Cats, Celebrities, those who make a profit directly from our membership and pressure groups who act through Lobbyists. We voted to Leave the EU and we want our Sovereignty, an end to free movement and full control of our borders, our Fishing Rights, our right to Trade with who we choose, our right to our own Laws, control of our money and most importantly our Independence With NO Strings Attached.

 

We are not leaving Europe, we are leaving the European Union, the EU . If it hadn’t been for the UK and its friends and allies from around the world there wouldn’t be a FREE EUROPE. Too many people spilt their blood and lost their lives to release countries from being controlled and run by Germany for us to turn our back on it.

 

 We want to remain an active part of Europe but not be controlled by the Brussels.

 

“When ordinary people do nothing the fanatics take over”. Edmund Burke

 

James Hancock. A Common Man.

 

Ormskirk.                                                                                                     Ref: B90310

 

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BREXIT - Fanatical REMAINER Rebels out to STOP " NO DEAL "

BREXIT –  

 

Fanatical REMAINER Rebels out to STOP “ NO DEAL ”

 

I do not understand how the political elite, who voted for a referendum to be held, and in the two largest election manifestos promised to honour the outcome, and now because they didn’t like the outcome are trying to stop it. In the “ People’s Vote “ held on 26^th. June 2016 out of the 46.5 million people eligible to vote only 16.1 million voted Remain, that is 35percent not the 50percent plus they think that they were entitled to. Part of the problem is that we have too many career politician who have only known life under EU rule and have very little experience of life outside of the Westminster bubble, and who unfortunately put their CV first, the party second and then if there is any spare time, the electorate and possibly even the country.

 

In reality, virtually none of the MPs has a working majority from their constituency to support a remain agenda. If you look at the number of people who voted remain in any individual constituency and compare it to the number of constituent eligible to vote you will find that the percentage is below 50 in almost every case. Even the Prime Minister doesn’t have a majority. Theresa May, MP for Maidenhead, had 44,086 votes Remain which was 53.9 percent on the day but only 43 percent of the constituents. Anna Soubry, MP for Broxtowe, had 29,672 vote Remain which was 45.5 percent on the day but only 35.5 percent of the constituents, She couldn’t even convince her own constituents to support her point of view and apparently a number are so unhappy that she is not representing them or their views that they are trying to get her deselected. There are many examples and hopefully at the next Election the electorate will duly reward them for their lack of loyalty and the disruption that they have been causing.

 

Nigel Farage MEP, Architect of Brexit and Co. Vice Chair of “Leave Means Leave” recently warned that the group of Fanatical Remain Rebels was well organized and financed and determined to stop “ NO DEAL BREXIT ” at any cost and using any tactic, no matter how divisive, and that the country must be prepared to resist these attacks on our democracy.

 

In a recent European Commission Study, which was reported in the Sunday Express 30^th. December 2018, “Brussels only trusted by 40 % of EU citizens”, it showed that only 31% of UK citizens trusted Brussels. This is directly in line with the result of the referendum where only 35% of the UK electorate voted to remain in the EU.

 

The last gravy train leaves the UK on the 29^th. March 2019, after that time people who continue to promote Remain will be treated like those who do “antisocial behaviour”.

 

“When ordinary people do nothing the fanatics take over”. Edmund Burke

 

James Hancock. A Common Man.

 

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Brexit - To Remain or Not to Remain

Brexit – To Remain or Not to Remain.

 

To remain or not to remain, that was the question. Whether it would be better for the UK and its people to continue the indignity of being a subordinate member of a mostly Franco-German controlled EU run by unelected bureaucrats based in Brussels or to take the decision to leave and once again play a role on the worldwide stage as an independent self governing country, before it was too late.

 

In the People’s Vote, which was a Referendum held on 26^th.June 2016, which we were promised would be a once only vote, free from political influence, the outcome of which would be honoured and acted upon, and which no person, group of persons, Government, organisation or MPs could change, only 35 percent of the population voted to remain. ( Brexit -The Real Majority )

 

The REMAIN campaigners, who seem to be concentrated in the M25 bubble, and who appear to have personal interests in continued membership of the EU and believe that they alone know better what is best for the UK and its people, drastically underestimated the feeling in the rest of the UK.

 

The 65 percent of the population, who support LEAVE, include the silent majority who finally had a chance to have a say in their future, not constantly being told what they can and cannot do. They were not idiotic, moronic, misinformed and too stupid to understand as claimed by Remainers, but mostly well informed patriotic citizens, who do not like being bullied or talked down to, but based their decisions on over 40 years of membership and how it has affected and shaped their lives and communities and what sort of future they see and would like for themselves and their families.

 

We voted to Leave the EU and the question had nothing to do with how. We didn’t vote to leave the EU if Brussels would allow us to, we didn’t vote to leave but still be controlled by Brussels, therefore the only question that should act as an attention grabber is, when we leave, do the 27 other countries want to continue to supply us with the  £20.8 billion worth of goods and services each month, £7 billion over and above what we supply to them, or not? If so then they are running out of time to come up with an offer acceptable to us before we have to seriously start looking at alternatives.

 

It is time that all politicians started to put the UK FIRST.

 

James Hancock.

 

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Brexit - The People have Spoken.

Brexit - The People have Spoken.

 

The people have spoken and the Government claims to have heard them. The main problem is that being heard is one thing but being listened to is something entirely different. I would have thought that Theresa May, the Prime Minister, would have received the message from her snap general election, that the ordinary people were not happy with the fact that she did not appear to be listening to their concerns.

 

The referendum, on the 26^th. June 2016, was a People’s Vote, where ordinary people had an opportunity to have a say in what was being done in their name. It was non political and the result would be final and acted upon. Out of the 46,501,241 people eligible to vote only 16,141,241 voted to Remain in the EU, that is only 34.7 percent of the electorate. Even in Scotland, where Nicola Sturgen claimed an outright majority, the 1,661,191 who voted Remain only represent 41.7 percent of the electorate. All that Remainers had to do was to get more than 50 percent of the electorate to vote NO and Brexit would have been dead and the last two years would have been entirely different, but they didn’t, and they couldn’t even win the vote on the day.

 

All MPs should be BREXITEERS as virtually NONE of them has the support of the majority of their constituents to support a Remain Agenda. Theresa May, MP for Maidenhead, current Prime Minister, had 44,086 votes Remain which was 53.9 percent on the day but only 43 percent of the constituents. Philip Hammond, MP for Runnymede and Weybridge, current Chancellor, had 20,259 vote Remain which was 45 7 percent on the day and 34.8 percent of the constituents. In his acceptance speech on Election Day he said “I will do my best to represent the interests of my constituents”, or the minority who support his personal agenda.  Anna Soubry, MP for Broxtowe, had 29,672 vote Remain which was 45.5 percent on the day but only 35.5 percent of the constituents, She couldn’t even convince her own constituents to support her point of view and apparently a number are so unhappy that she is not representing them or their views that they are trying to get her deselected.

 

The MPs who campaigned for, and voted for, Remain now have an obligation and responsibility to support the UK as it leaves the EU. Of course we welcome them using their knowledge and experience to ask questions and encourage debate to ensure that we leave with the best of terms, but at the end of the day they have no authority to try to reverse or block the outcome.

 

The question isn’t if we leave but how, and the best way to do it putting the interests of the UK and its people FIRST.

 

James Hancock                                                                                           

 

The Voice of a Common Man.                                                                    Ref: B83401

 

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BREXIT –  We voted to LEAVE with  “NO DEAL”

 

At the referendum held on the 26^th. June 2016, the people were offered 2 options, to Remain or to Leave the European Union. While there were campaign groups trying to put forward their visions of what the United Kingdom would be like either way the vote was a straight forward Remain or Leave. The people who voted LEAVE, include the silent majority who finally had a chance to have a say in their future, not constantly being told what they can and cannot do. They were not idiotic, moronic, misinformed and too stupid to understand as claimed by Remainers, but mostly well informed patriotic citizens, who do not like being bullied or talked down to, but based their decisions on over 40 years of membership and how it has affected and shaped their lives and communities and what sort of future they see and would like for themselves and their families. They voted to LEAVE.

 

They didn’t vote to leave the EU if Brussels would allow us to, they didn’t vote to leave but still be controlled by Brussels, therefore the only question that should act as an attention grabber is, when we leave, do the 27 other countries want to continue to  deal with us and supply us with the  £20.8 billion worth of goods and services each month, £7 billion over and above what we supply to them, or not? If so then they are running out of time to come up with an offer “acceptable to us” before we have to seriously start looking at alternatives

 

There was never going to be a chance of us negotiating a meaningful agreement with the EU. They have too much to lose if they are seen to be giving the UK any form of favourable term as it might encourage other members to decide that they want to leave. The main problem is that Michel Barnier, the EU’s main negotiator, was given the outcome of the negotiations and told to fill in the gaps to justify it.

 

The Government was entrusted with the responsibility of carrying out the wish of the people and to get a clean break from the EU. There was no reference to having a deal that would benefit Big Business, Big Banks and Financial Institutions, the Rich and Powerful, those who make a profit directly from our membership and pressure groups who act through Lobbyists. We voted to Leave the EU and we want our Sovereignty, an end to free movement and full control of our borders, our Fishing Rights, our right to Trade with who we choose, our right to our own Laws, control of our money and most importantly our Independence with no strings attached.

 

The last gravy train leaves the UK on the 29^th. March 2019, and all those who think that they would prefer to live in a country under EU Rule, The Remain Fanatics, had better be on it because after that time people who continue to promote Remain will be treated like “smoking in public places”, “drink drivers” and others who persist in “antisocial behaviour”.

 

“When ordinary people do nothing the fanatics take over”. Edmund Burke

 

James Hancock. A Common Man.

 

Ormskirk.                                                                                                     Ref: B84706

 

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Brexit - Possibly worse than Greece was.

Brexit –  Possibly worse than Greece was.

 

It is my opinion, for what that is worth in our vast array of so called experts, that if the UK remains involved with the EU that we could end up “worse than Greece was” and while the Greek people suffered harsh austerity the EU Bureaucrats  did nothing to help them, they just sat back an watched.

 

With a National Debt of £1.8 trillion, nearly as big as our annual GDP figure, and growing by the minute, which currently costs the UK £48 billion pre year in interest cost, 28 percent of which goes abroad to foreign investors, a trade deficit of £7 billion per month with the EU and the Government budget being in deficit and needing to be supported by further borrowing it would only be a matter of time before the UK exhausted its credibility and needed a BAIL-OUT from the EU. At that moment the UK would be finished on the world stage with no individual identity and absorbed as just a state of the EU. Any experience of austerity so far would be nothing compared to what would be imposed if the EU was given the total control of our affairs and the Euro was forced upon us.

 

The only thing that Germany has ever wanted is a United States of Europe with them at its head, and the only people that keep getting in the way of them achieving that are the British. Angler Merkel has come a lot closer to achieving that aim than Hitler did and by using a far more subtle approach, but imagine their approach if they were given the chance of dominating the UK.

 

There was never going to be a chance of us negotiating a meaningful agreement with the EU. They have too much to lose if they are seen to be giving the UK any form of favourable term as it might encourage other members to decide that they want to leave. The main problem is that Michel Barnier, the EU’s main negotiator, was given the outcome of the negotiations and told to fill in the gaps to justify it.

 

Mrs. May, who is under direct pressure from Big Business, Big Banks and Financial Institutions, the Rich and Powerful, Bureaucrats, Remain Fanatics and pressure groups through Lobbyists has lost her direction and appears to be following a REMAIN Biased Agenda. It is time for her to be aware of the long term affects of her actions and forget about the so called “friends and partners” who are actually bullies, and be seen to be putting the interests of the UK and its people FIRST.

 

“When ordinary people do nothing the fanatics take over”. Edmund Burke

 

James Hancock. A Common Man.

 

Ormskirk.                                                                                                     Ref: B84705

 

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BREXIT - DOES ANYBODY REALLY CARE ?

BREXIT – DOES ANYBODY REALLY CARE ?

Does anybody really care about what happens to the UK after the referendum vote on Thursday 23^rd. June 2016 ?

I care passionately about what happens to the UK and what is going to happen to it after the referendum vote has been decided. Nobody wants to listen to ordinary people, they seem prepared to be taken in by the politicians and their personal agendas. I voted to stay in the Common Market at the last referendum and after finding out that we were actually lied to by the politicians I will not be making the same mistake again. I fear that if we vote to remain we will be absorbed as a federal state of a Franco-German EU, the National Debt will continue to increase to a point where it can not be supported anymore and we have to ask for a bailout.

On the other hand, if we vote to leave we can concentrate our efforts and resources into supporting and increasing our manufacturing base to initially cover our own consumption and use, allowing us to reduce our imports, reduce our benefits bill and increase our tax income for essential services. If EU countries want to continue to trade with us then they will have to be prepared to offer reciprocal arrangements.

Nigel Farage cares about what happens to the UK after the referendum vote. His whole existence is based around the fact that the referendum is happening at all with his setting up of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, the clue is in the name, and getting members elected as MEPs, Members of the European Parliament, to keep us informed of what is actually happening and to fight for our ever decreasing corner. As a working man I am more likely to believe somebody, who operates at the coal face, who is talking from practical experiences and who is prepared to talk himself and his colleagues out of a well paid job. I find it hard to believe how politically motivated members of the Vote Leave campaign have been allowed to treat him in the way that they have rather than using his inside knowledge of the EU to their advantage.

James Hancock.

A Good Common Man.

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

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BREXIT - THE REAL PROBLEM IS ?

BREXIT – THE REAL PROBLEM IS ?

We were promised a Referendum that would be non political, where the people of the UK were given the facts about our current membership of the EU and what we could expect if we were to continue, and what would be the reasons for us to leave the EU and the advantages of  becoming an independent country making our own way in the world. People could then make a rational decision on what they thought would be best for the country as a whole and their own family, friends, colleagues and communities in particular. What we have ended up with is politicians fighting amongst themselves, giving us their versions of what is important and using tactics like scaremongering  to try to achieve their goals. While this is going on they appear to be missing what the real problem is and what we can do to solve it.

In reality “ THE REAL PROBLEM IS ” that the UK is effectively “ BANKRUPT ”. After 40years as a member of the EU the UK’s NATIONAL DEBT is £1.7tn., that is £1,700,000,000,000, over £27,000 for every man, woman and child or over £47,000 for every tax-payer, and it is currently increasing at the rate of £5,170 per second. We currently pay £48 billion pounds each year, 8% of what we collect in taxes, to Bankers and investors to service this debt and it is set to increase to £60 billion by the year 2020.

Current figures from the ONS for April 2016 issued on 09/06/2016 show that the UK imported £19.1 billion from the EU, equivalent to £294 per head and exported £12 billion to the EU, equivalent to £24 per head, making us a net importer of £7.1, money that has to be borrowed and adds to our National Debt. Our total trade exports were £25 billion showing that less than half of our exports actually go to the EU.

We need positive action to stop reckless borrowing that achieves nothing and makes things worse, hidden behind a screen of smoke and mirrors. 

James Hancock.

A Good Common Man.

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

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BREXIT - LIFE AFTER THE EU VOTE.

BREXIT – LIFE AFTER THE EU VOTE.

 

The main thing that will loose the “leave campaign” a unanimous vote in the referendum is the people’s fear of what to expect in “ life after the EU Vote ”. Unfortunately it is a fact that “frightened people always vote for the bully” and we know who the bully is in this matter despite the “in campaign” claiming that fear would play no part in their campaign. The people need to be given both sides of the argument in clear language that ordinary people can understand to allow them to make an independent decision on what they think is best for the UK as a whole and them and their family and friends in particular.

 

The “leave campaign” have to be seen to be singing off the same hymn sheet. It is the message that matters more than the messenger and ordinary people are not going to support a cause just because they recognise the person giving it. A number of people are keen to tell us what life could be like if we vote to stay in the EU, much of the same as we have experienced over the last 40 years, but nobody seems as keen to tell us what “life outside of the EU” will be like for the ordinary people. What are the main problems and what is leaving going to do to help us solve them Introducing a few new laws and redirecting some of the savings from the membership cost to the NHS isn’t going to cut it for those who want to know how living standards will be affected for the ordinary people.

Ordinary people can see the possibility that things might change for them if they vote to leave the EU as their lives have been better than they are today. They are only ordinary people and nobody listens to them, especially the political class, but now they have a chance to be heard but whether anybody will actually listen to them is a different story. The Vote Leave people need to listen to their concerns and give reassurances to these ordinary people.

James Hancock.

A Good Common Man.

 

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

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