posted by Helena Hankart
Many opinion writers in mainstream news and commenter in alt_media are pushing the lie that the majority of Britons want us to rejoin the EU. This 'Brexit was a disaster' narrative is based on results from a few dodgy opinion polls in which very small samples of the populare were interviewed and the questions asked displayed a marked pro - EU bias.
Insofar as opinion polls have any significance, the polls that count are voting intention polls for the next General election (still three and a half years away and if a week is a long time in politics three and a half years is forever,) and currently, according to th Politico poll of polls Reform, the ani - EU party is streets ahead on 29% with Labour on 19%, the Conservatives at 18%, Greens 14%, Lib Dems, 12% and a plethora of fringe parties, cranks, nutters, one issue fanatincs and the SNP taking up the slack. Then there are the 25% of those entitled to vote who simply can't be arsed.
sssuming the can't be arsed party's supporters split evenly between Return and Eff Off Europe, that gives a comfortable majoriyy for the status quo. And quite rightly too.
All the economic and political evidence says Europe is doomed. Not just a bit shaky, but up shit creek god and proper doomed. And the kicker? It's trying to drag us Brits down with it, like a mate who's had one too many at the pub and insists on a piggyback home.
Mario Draghi’s major report to the EU Commission noted that Europe's industrial base is "static", bureaucratic code for shrinking. Defence spending A pathetic 2.2% of GDP, while the Yanks chuck 3.5% at it and the South Koreans nearly 5%. Patents? Europe’s slipped from second to fourth globally, with China filing more than the whole West combined. No wonder. Over in Brussels, they've got 100 tech laws policed by 80 agencies – the Digital Services Act, AI Act, Cyber Whatever. Xavier Niel nails it when he says:_
"If I want to build an AI company, I'll go where it's easier in terms of regulation. And right now, that's not Europe."
Spot on. Europe’s unicorns? One-third scarpered to the US between 2008 and 2021. No EU firm's cracked €100bn market cap in 50 years. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley's churning out trillion-pound behemoths like they're the standard size for tech firms.
And the industries? Solar power: Germany was king in the 2000s, 150,000 jobs buzzing. Then China subsidised eight kinds of crap out of it (an amaxing feat as there are only seven kinds of crap known to science,), slashed prices by half, and now owns 90% of the market. Europe's slapping tariffs on the surplus, but it's like putting a plaster on a severed artery.
Cars? BYD's doubling sales in the EU despite 45% duties, because they bother innovating for what punters actually want: longer wheelbases, in-car karaoke. Europe? Still churning out diesel slugs for the school run. Chemicals? Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos is getting hammered by cheap Chinese imports and "bonkers" green rules that punish you for going green. Energy costs? Sky-high, thanks to self-inflicted CO2 taxes that just shift the filth to Beijing. As Tom Crotty says, it's "lost jobs and increased CO2." Genius.
And the UK? Post-Brexit, we're not exactly roaring but at least we're not lashed to the EU’s Titanic. Half our goods trade's still with the EU, making us their third-biggest mug after Uncle Sam and China, but rejoining? The Rejoin camp, led by Starmer, would hand us back to the pre Brexit regulatory meat grinder that sparked the whole divorce in the first place.
Europe's got talent and mony – high savings, wealthy nations ith investments ticking up interest and dividends despite the rot. A crisis or a shock to the system, like Milei in Argentina might get things moving for them. But what about us us? We're the plucky escapee, free to pivot in the direction of market forces, not drowning in directives.
Rejoining now would be like a medieval wiccan volunteering for the dunking stool. Why would any sensible country want to do that?
Europe is doomed. Not just a bit wobbly, mind you – properly, catastrophically, "pass the cyanide" doomed. Economic stagnation, woke ideologies, mass immigration by professional benefit claimants And the kicker? It's trying to drag us Brits down with it, and our Dear Leader Starmer is fully on board with the project.
Mario Draghi’s major report to the EU noted that Europe's industrial base is "static", code for declining. A pathetic 2.2% of GDP, while the Yanks chuck 3.5% at it and the South Koreans nearly 5%. Patents? Europe’s slipped from second to fourth globally, with China filing more than the whole West combined. No wonder. Over in Brussels, they've got 100 tech laws policed by 80 agencies – the Digital Services Act, AI Act, Cyber Whatever. Xavier Niel nails it when he says:_
"If I want to build an AI company, I'll go where it's easier in terms of regulation. And right now, that's not Europe."
Spot on. Europe’s unicorns? One-third scarpered to the US between 2008 and 2021. No EU firm's cracked €100bn market cap in 50 years. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley's churning out trillion-pound behemoths like they're the standard size for tech firms.
And the industries? Solar power: Germany was king in the 2000s, 150,000 jobs buzzing. Then China subsidised the hell out of it, slashed prices by half, and now owns 90% of the market. Europe's slapping tariffs on the surplus, but it's like putting a plaster on a severed artery.
Cars? BYD's doubling sales in the EU despite 45% duties, because they bother innovating for what punters actually want: longer wheelbases, in-car karaoke. Europe? Still churning out diesel slugs for the school run.
Chemicals? Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos is getting hammered by cheap Chinese imports and "bonkers" green rules that punish you for going green. Energy costs? Sky-high, thanks to self-inflicted CO2 taxes that just shift the filth to Beijing. As Tom Crotty says, it's "lost jobs and increased CO2." Genius.
What does the EU do about all this? They impose new restrictions on free speech to preven discussion of these failings.
And the UK? Post-Brexit, we're not exactly roaring but at least we're not lashed to the EU’s Titanic. Half our goods trade's still with the EU, making us their third-biggest mug after Uncle Sam and China, but rejoining?
Remember the €6bn French tantrum over military funds? That's the vibe: endless haggling, zero gain. Our leaders are bureucrats, they would love to let the EU handle socil and economic policy and have NATO take over foreign and defence matters, We'd bin "Global Britain" for a seat at the losers' table, watching our talent flee to where ideas aren't strangled at birth. Claudio Irigoyen calls it "secular decline" More like assisted suicide.
Europe's got talent and cash squirreled away – high savings, wealthy nations ticking up despite the rot. A crisis might spark reform, à la Milei in Argentina. Fine, let them sort it. But us?We voted to be free of all that, why are our leaders so eager to take us back.
Rejoining now would be volunteering for the dunking stool. Why would any sensible country want to do that?
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