IS Boris Johnson the only former Brexiteer to be at least half awake to Starmer’s new threat to our sovereignty? I can’t believe I am writing anything positive about that awful man, but, for once, he’s said something sensible. Even if it is only to cover his back.
In a typically gung-ho Daily Mail article on the UK’s wonderful economy and his grand idea of an US-UK-EU trade alignment, he dropped what looked like almost gratuitous warning: ‘If Keir Starmer submits to regulatory alignment with the EU, and makes us the non-voting punk of Brussels, he will face political extermination’.
So, what was all that about? You may well ask. He didn’t explain, nor, that I can see, have any other of the country’s former Brexiteers. Too preoccupied by the Indian and US trade deals like Dan Hannan maybe, or just asleep at the wheel? Who knows.
On Friday, a gingerly worded Telegraph editorial (alone in the MSM) warned of a ‘leaked’ new security partnership that ‘commits the UK to consider sending its Armed Forces abroad on EU military missions, and would effectively lock Britain’s decision-making powers in Nato, the G7, the G20 and the United Nations to the EU in an aligned foreign policy, severely limiting the UK’s room for independence.’
It coincided with my much more urgent warning that an irrevocable defence sellout (of our defence industry too) is due to be signed on May 19, Monday of next week. If it weren’t for Lt. Gen Jonathon Riley’s eye on the ball, his detailed knowledge of EU defence systems and structures and their developments since May’s fateful Withdrawal Agreement, none of us would be aware of this threat. But for that, I suspect, there’d have been no alert at all, and we’d all still be in the total dark about the imminent betrayal of sovereignty. Such is the uselessness of the fourth estate – the one that once held the government to account.
Neither Johnson’s throwaway line, nor The Telegraph’s editorial, will be sufficient to stop Starmer in his tracks, whatever his collapse in the polls. Not while he has his huge Labour majority and still over four years of his five-year term to run, with a compliant MSM at his back, dutifully selling the EU reset pact as a trade opportunity for the UK. Just take a look at Friday’s Guardian report and note the weasel words of tis exercise in Orwelian deceit – ‘moved on from Brexit’ and ‘look forward not back’:
‘The UK has “ambitious” plans to secure a closer trading partnership with the EU, Keir Starmer has said, as he argued the British public had moved on from Brexit. Before a UK-EU summit, the prime minister urged people to “look forward, not back” as the country embarked on a new era of its relationship with the bloc.’
No money could buy Starmer a better, less critical, propagandist.
As to the dedicatedly sycophantic and ‘remainer’ Times, their political editor, Steven Swinford, tells us that having ‘secured two significant trade deals’ (never mind that one is a betrayal of British workers and that any financial gain will be swallowed up in NHS costs, as Alp Mehmet set out in TCW this week), we can now look forward to the EU deal. Oh, yes?
No mention of a sellout, nor from Politico either. Just more of what we’ve always heard so many times before when it comes to the EU forcing the UK’s hand to capitulate to a one-sided EU agreement. We, the UK, the lie goes are the ones being difficult:
‘Frustrations are beginning to emerge in the EU over what it sees as a cautious approach by the government to its request for a reset in the relationship, in part because of the electoral threat from Nigel Farage’s party’.
Umm. What threat? While Macron has been playing hard ball, where has Mr Farage and his party been on this? Asleep at the wheel.
Correct me readers if I am wrong, but up to midday on Saturday, I couldn’t find any statement, let alone warning, on this from Britain’s Brexit hero, or from any other Reform UK MP. Not a mention of it in Farage’s major centre page spread in the Daily Mail yesterday on what he’ll do to mend broken Britain.
Well, if Starmer is allowed to get his way, there may not be a sovereign Britain to mend by 2029! Could Farage once again be tacking to the so-called centre ground? To the Remain position, even? It seems unbelievable but a pro-EU campaign group ‘poll’ report made me wonder. A few days ago Best for Britain claims that ‘separate polls show support for closer EU-UK relations in important areas among Reform UK voters and those considering voting for Reform.’
To secure those votes, would Mr Farage also think we have to move on from Brexit? It seems unthinkable. Maybe he’s just overloaded with work and underwhelmed by his own policy unit and research staff’s attention to political developments?
The Mail’s editorial, side by side with the Farage spread, made the Farage omission more obvious. It stated (though without much urgency) that: ’With a UK-EU summit on ‘resetting’ relations next month, it is increasingly clear No. 10 is determined to drag us back into the bloc’s orbit by stealth’ and that the ‘stench of betrayal grows stronger by the day’.
The pro-Brexit Express reporting has also been underwhelming. Student free travel and university placements will hardly be the most fundamental aspect of the deal. And what are we giving away to get that crumb?
That seems to be all the MSM coverage we have for a pact that will open up a defence back door for the UK to return under EU control as a compliant third state. Yet the reasons for alarm and for rejecting such a pact are even stronger than they were when Boris Johnson said ‘No’ to them in 2019.
We’ll be spelling the detail as to why – in lieu of the MSM – this coming week. Starting with what Labour signing an Association Agreement with the EU means, and the range of new defence and foreign policy commitments that come with it; how these will erode the autonomy (as a sovereign state) under the Common Security and Defence Policy; and still more on the billion-pound defence industry sellout that it entails.
What the MSM should be doing.
‘This means so much to us who are trying to warn the 17.4million that their vote in 2016 is being reversed via the backdoor!!!’, a fellow soldier put it to me when I told him our plan. ‘Thank goodness we have TCW to put out the message without fear or favour!!!’
That endorsement is enough to keep me going on TCW for another week. Don’t worry – just a joke!
