http://jeanromsey.blogspot.com: July 2016

Monday 11 July 2016

The country looked set to have a woman Prime Minister

The EU referendum resulted in the UK leaving the EU

Since the referendum resulted in the country leaving the EU, five candidates came forward to vie for Britain’s leadership. Theresa May had the clear advantage of time to prepare for leadership of the country on David Cameron stepping down, but I am not convinced she is the best person to negotiate terms with the EU.

However, Liam Fox was the first to be eliminated at the first round of Tory selection on 5th July, which triggered the withdrawal of Stephen Crabb from the leadership contest.

On Thursday 7^thJuly Michael Gove with the lowest Conservative votes was eliminated, leaving the two women in the leadership contest. Unfortunately for Andrea Leadsom, who agreed to be interviewed for a newspaper, the reporter had an agenda to present her in an unfavourable light, quoting her saying she is a mum and therefore would make a better Prime Minister than Theresa May. No one in their right mind would believe that of Andrea, who had shown herself as intelligent and a good debater for the Leave campaign, totally committed to fight for our country to leave the flawed European Union.

Although she hastened to rebut the biased reporter's account at an impromptu press conference, the damage has already taken effect and the TV media had a field day at her expense. Meanwhile, Theresa May cashed in on the situation to put out her story that she actually mentored Andrea when she first came into Parliament in 2010, confirming Theresa May’s upper hand. However, Andrea Leadsom is in a strong position to negotiate a good deal as she knows the EU inside out. What she said a month ago before the campaign started on the EU referendum shows her commitment and ability to take the country forward to a successful exit of the EU :

"We have huge strengths, not least that we have the best and most innovative financial services industry in the world. London – rated number one in the Global Power City Index for four years in a row – sits at the heart of this diverse industry that stretches from Aberdeen to Bristol, from Birmingham to Bournemouth, and even to Northampton, a bustling financial services area right in my own home town. An incredible two million people are employed in this enterprising industry right across the country and its potential is vast.

A free trading, democratic Britain has SO much going for her! Not only is our language, English, the world’s international business language, but we have the best contract law you’ll find anywhere in the world. Our judicial system is consistently rated as one of the least corrupt in the world. All are enormous advantages for businesses looking to start, expand or move here.

Let me be very clear. EU member states need continued free access to our financial markets regardless of whether we remain politically bound to them or not. The UK accounts for 40 per cent of all wholesale financial markets in the EU, and European businesses depend on continued access to the wealth of expertise and capital that resides here. No financial centre on the continent can even pretend to compete with us – we compete globally, with New York, Singapore and Hong Kong, and that's the facts.

We are a truly global player, and I believe if we have the courage to unshackle ourselves from the EU on 23 June we will find we are not dependent on the EU for our success but quite the reverse – the EU is holding us back, preventing us from realising our full potential in the world.

So I'm unimpressed to hear the Remain camp insisting that a vote to leave means sterling will collapse, inflation will pick up, 3m jobs will be lost, and now, the latest scare story, house prices will collapse.

My own view, (not an economic forecast but a real world view based on 30 years of experience) is that if we vote to leave the EU on 23 June, the boost to confidence from our newfound freedoms, the prospect of proper control over the costs of immigration, as well as the £10bn per annum "independence dividend", will boost markets and investment and put the UK on a path to long term economic success.

Meanwhile, let's keep calm. Nothing will change on 24 June after a vote to leave. The truth is, every bit of EU law is enshrined in UK law, so nothing will change for at least two years while we negotiate the on-going tariff-free trading with our European neighbours, the arrangements for future immigration controls and caps, and the plans for cooperation in intelligence sharing and counter terrorism.

Don't let anyone tell you these things won't happen. No matter how furious individual European leaders might be that we've had the temerity to opt for freedom and democracy, they still have to get re-elected at home. The European leader who tells Germany's BMW workers, or Spain's Zara staff or Sweden's Ikea employees that they can no longer sell tariff-free to the UK, or who decides not to share information on known terrorist movements, will face disaster at their own ballot box. It is not an option.

So I was incredibly disappointed to see that the very man charged with overseeing our monetary policy, the Governor of the Bank of England, went out on a limb recently, to give some totally biased and indefensible predictions about our economy.

Mark Carney’s political “intervention” into the EU referendum debate has been highly damaging for the Bank of England. For an institution with the very grave responsibility of ensuring the short and long-term stability of the country’s financial system whatever the scenario, the Governor's intervention has actually increased the risk of high market volatility ahead of the referendum.

A balanced assessment would have pointed out that there are many risks to staying in. The Eurozone's debt crisis together with their migrant crisis are on-going and unresolved issues of great magnitude, that will have huge consequences for the UK if we remain in the EU.

UK voters have a fundamental choice to make: do we remain reluctant partners in someone else's failing project, or do we continue to trade with Europe, but also look outwards and embrace the 80 per cent of the world that lies outside the EU, full of vibrant growing and opportunity.

Voting to leave the EU on 23 June is the UK’s best hope for continued success. Let’s take back control."

Andrea Leadsom

Just heard the news that Andrea has today announced her withdrawal from the leadership contest, saying the country needs a leader as soon as possible to get the country up and running, giving Theresa May her best wishes and assuring her of her full support on becoming Prime Minister.

I should have published earlier Andrea’s speech which she gave a month earlier, outlining her brilliant plan to extricate the UK from the EU and putting various plans in place to take Britain forward into the world towards global trade and prosperity. Let's hope The new Prime Minister will do her best to get as good a deal as Andrea would have done. Better still, Theresa May should get together a team from the Leave Campaign to help negotiate a good deal.

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty has indeed laid out the means by which a Member State could leave the EU. However, if we try to leave using Article 50, we might well find that we were never able to leave. Under Article 50, there is a two-year negotiation period which could be prolonged indefinitely by unanimous agreement of EU member states. Even if we did manage to leave using Article 50, we could find ourselves with a ‘deal’ that still required us to pay contributions to the EU budget, having to accept a large proportion of EU laws and with open borders to EU citizens.

The only sure way for Britain to leave the EU is for our Parliament to repeal the European Communities Act of 1972. This would immediately return supremacy of law to our own Parliament and courts and free us from control by the EU. Chaos would not ensue because all EU Directives, which have been transposed into Acts of Parliament, would remain in place. These could then be repealed when needed, leaving what laws we might need to interact with the EU.

On Wednesday 13th July, David Cameron will go to Buckingham Palace to officially resign as Prime Minister, after which Theresa May will go to see the Queen to officially inform her of her new position as Prime Minister of Britain. We look forward to Theresa May to be appointed our Prime Minister and trust her to do the right thing for a Brexit Britain.

Tuesday 5 July 2016

Congratulations to Nigel Farage for getting our country back!

Character assassination of Nigel Farage by Camilla Long of the Sunday Times on 26th June 2016: "He's only making plans for Nigel", I sent the following to Letters@sunday-times.co.uk on July 2nd 2016:

For a man’s character to be so demonised by Sunday Times columnist Camilla Long, (26 June) when Nigel Farage had spent over twenty years of his working life in and out of Brussels, trying to alert our establishment to the flaws of the undemocratic EU, that has made British workers poorer (confirmed by Sigmar Gabriel, the German Economy Minister), and rendered our Parliament of MPs powerless and mere disseminators of EU regulations.

As leader of the UK Independence Party, his manifesto had inspired many of the policies that swept the Conservatives into government last year. Thanks also to Nigel Farage that our Prime Minister promised to hold the recent referendum which finally vindicated his persistence and the excellent work of UKIP’s 24 MEPs, whose in-depth research had brought to light the underlying weaknesses of this federal Union and its wasteful squandering of British taxpayers’ money that should be spent on our own priorities.

Leaving the expensive Union will bring back British rights for fishermen to fish in British waters, our farmers to grow whichever crops suit them, and our starter enterprises and small businesses can negotiate free-trade with countries of the Commonwealth and the rest of the developing world without having to comply with thousands of EU rules and directives that only big corporations with a large workforce can, and if they wish, they can continue to trade with selected EU member-states by paying a small percentage of levy, rather than the billions of pounds being sent by our Treasury into the EU budget every year.

Far from “only making plans for Nigel,” Mr Farage deserves his last laugh of jubilation that had come after years of self-motivation for the country he loves, at a price not many in Camilla Long’s circle could possibly contemplate.

Jean Romsey,

Email: jromsey@yahoo.co.uk

July 4th 2016 - With the resignation of David Cameron as a result of the UK wining the Leave vote, five candidates now contest for position of Prime Minister: Andrea Leadsom (Leave), Michael Gove (Leave), Liam Fox (Leave), Stephen Crabb (Remain) and Theresa May (Remain) - as Home Secretary she had not been effective in keeping down immigration to the tens of thousands promised by Conservative manifesto, instead had allowed our maritime borders to be breached by 4,600 Albanians, jeopardising UK's security by terminating the £4 million contracts on aerial surveillance in advance of providing alternative border control to replace this vital service.

Sadly, I received the following letter from the Nigel Farage, which will be a big blow to our Party. In view of so many incriminating accusation from various newspapers and politicians, we respect Nigel's wish to step down from the leadership, having achieved his biggest ambition in life of getting our country back, he now deserves a rest and a bit of peace and quiet to regain his own life back to spend time with family and friends. We thank him for his hard work and tenacity and hope he will find the time to reflect on his success and rejoice in the result of his achievement.

Dear Jean,

Statement from Nigel Farage

I have decided to stand aside as Leader of UKIP. The victory for the 'Leave' side in the referendum means that my political ambition has been achieved. I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician.

UKIP is in a good position and will continue, with my full support to attract a significant vote. Whilst we will now leave the European Union the terms of our withdrawal are unclear. If there is too much backsliding by the Government and with the Labour Party detached from many of its voters then UKIP's best days may be yet to come.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you the membership for your extraordinary support and generosity over the many years, I could not have done it without you.

Yours as ever,

Nigel Farage

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A Change for the Better

With so many hospitals closing in the UK, today we have less than 140,000 hospital beds compared to 550,000 beds in 1948 when our National Health Service was founded. But modern technology from America will soon step in to relieve the pressure on our A & E Centres. Take a look at iDoctor here

iDoctor http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=r13uYs7jglg

We can change our life to do some of the things you have always wanted at any time you feel it is time. Take a look at the SLOMO clip below, just click on the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/opinion/slomo.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

A Lion called Christian

In 1969 Ace Bourke and John Rendall from Australia bought a lion cub from a London department store, Harrods, and named him Christian. He grew too big to keep as a pet in Chelsea and had to be returned to the wild in Kenya.

Years later Christian still remembered his 'parents' and like long lost friends. What a reunion! Click this link to watch the video: http://youtu.be/4enNZqNrwYc

My view on current situations

Could our climate really be changing in this Millenium?

Only a week ago we had snow in Devon, one of the warmest places in the South of England that even boasts a comparison with the Riviera in Europe.

In the USA's Tornado Alley, the most destructive tornado in history travelling at 200 mph, flattened the suburb of Moore in Oklahoma City in just 40 minutes without warning, causing so much grieve and loss of lives. This powerful tornado had been rated four, on a five point Enhanced Fujita Scale, making it the second most dangerous type, with more warnings to place Central Texas on further tornado watch.

More importantly the US government must ensure that any new buildings constructed in the Tornado Alley should include shelters, basement or safe rooms, specially built to protect from such tornadoes. This Great Plain experiences more tornadoes than any where else, at the height of the season in May and June, there may be two to four each day.

There are fears that tornadoes may become more common as global temperatures change, and such devastation as Moore must be avoided at all costs.

Having visited Shanghai thrice, I am still astonished at the constant changes to this great city's skyline and the speed of its industrial revolution, from 1949 when Chairman Mao's Communism took power, to 1992 when the People's Republic of China opened its doors again to foreign trade, and to today's superpower it has become, as discovered by Piers Morgan.

This video was recorded over 5 years ago, but if you have never been there, or even if you have but don't know much about the place from your tour guide, then you will be amazed to see how Shanghai has progressed - especially with regards to women CEOs. Click on the link to see modern, glamorous Shanghai today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wbGFeDR7Gg&feature=endscreen&NR=1

FOR OUR ECONOMY TO GROW

We need to get Britain manufacturing again; for goods to utilise our rail freight, road haulage and container ports; to expand our market worldwide and to be self-reliant.

With so much intelligence and creativity in our young and educated population, I am amazed to find that our UK Business Sector has not developed a strong, effective Export and Marketing Department to help develop products created by our inventive industrialists, nor facilitate co-operation between Universities and businesses to research new ideas and promote British Manufactures for export. All over the world, entrepreneurs are learning English to be able to trade with us, we do have the advantage of doing business anywhere.

For the Conservatives to win in 2015, David Cameron cannot rely simply on rhetoric about turning the tide on years of decline here or in the EU, in the battle for Britain’s future.

The government is likely to double the national debt inherited from the Labour government, if we continue to lose high street shops, vital businesses, century-old corporations and franchises, leading to empty premises and redundancies, which serve only to reduce the much needed Corporation and income tax, whilst swelling the ranks of the unemployed queuing for benefits, job-seeker and housing allowances.

The government must put a stop to the culture of rewarding failure with disproportionate pension packages, and gross bonuses unrelated to services rendered, for bankers, health service managers and local authority leaders alike, especially those who failed in their jobs. When an executive is recruited for a job in the public sector, the salary determines the job’s worth, there is no reason why bonuses or pensions should exceed the total pay, particularly in the present economic climate.

Any government that cannot legislate against this extortionate ransom culture, practised by leaders of public services, then they don’t deserve to be re-elected.

Take the news of Sir David Nicholson stepping down next year, retiring with his full pension of £2 million. Not more than a few decades ago he would have recognised his failure in running NHS England and resigned. Should he be allowed to take his full pay and pension package? It's an astronomical sum by any standard, and that same sum spent on improved nursing care at Stafford Hospital would probably have saved all those who died, from living under those unbearable conditions as described in various reports.

How does one man who could never do the job of supervising the whole of the NHS all by himself, deserve so much? We also must remember that in the costly reorganisation of the NHS, hundreds of managers were made redundant, obviously because they have not achieved success in their particular sector. After receiving huge severance pay and pension, why are some of them re-employed with new contracts, and probably on even higher pay packages, to carry on doing what they did before? Are we spending tax-payers' money wisely?

It is indeed time for the Chancellor to look into how much the re-vamping of the NHS is going to cost the nation and really cut down on management expenses, but increase training for good nursing care to properly run each hospital, to make them fit for purpose. Cut out the middleman, trim the fat and get Britain back to basic good value, responsible and trustworthy.

Only then will the Conservative government be returned to power. Austerity alone will not suffice. The voters need to see real changes, and good value for their taxes instead of wastage.

Congratulations to Nigel Farage for leading the UKIP to win almost a quarter of the votes cast at our local elections, thus forming the fourth major political party of Britain.

This is not just a protest vote from the public, but a vote of confidence in Mr. Farage as an honest man of integrity, not greedy for power for himself, but for the nation in trouble, and in debt to the tune of £billion, which no successive governments since WW2, had been able to eradicate.

UKIP's common sense approach to easing our national debt by opting out of EU membership will save us £billions in subsidies, huge MEP pay and expenses, and massive prison expenditure for un-deported foreign criminals. If we also temporarily withhold foreign aids until our own debt situation is no longer as bad as those we sought to assist, we should come out of debt sooner.

Chancellor Osborne should continue with our austerity policy, and also bring civil servants' pay and pension in line with the rest of the private sector remuneration to encourage growth in our economy with youth employment and private enterprises.