Sunday Times News on 11th June 2017

Brexit brick wall awaits ‘clueless’ May.  

The PM seems unaware that Germany and France will not yield an inch. 

Wrote Bojan Pancevski in Brussels.

How wrong is Bojan Pancevski writing in the Sunday Times from Brussels!  Mrs. May is not only a pragmatic Briton, but is made of such sterner stuff than any European could ever visualise.  From the moment she entertained Jean Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier to her British hospitality at Chequers, she had her opponents well and truly sussed; their determination to punish Britain for Brexit and their nastiness towards our freedom to choose, Remain or Leave the EU, a liberty that is denied to 27 members of the EU.  Hence the outrage leaked to the Press the following day by aides to President Juncker of the European Commission,. 

Of course the PM is fully aware of the hard line being taken by Angela Merkel and her bureaucrats, especially when Juncker and Tusk’s uncompromising demands for Britain’s severance pay went from £50 billion to £100 billion and rising with the hope of seeing Mrs.May flinch, but she is canny enough to pre-empt the greed of this political Union by including in her 2017 Conservative Manifesto that if need be, she would withdraw from the Single Market with no deal (which is better than a bad deal!).

Ironically, it’s the British Media in general and the European reporters in particular, who are incapable of reading Theresa May’s urgent resolve to negotiate Britain’s divorce, knowing what she already knows about the true character and bias of the European Union. Like the British benefits system in the last few decades, thousands on job-seekers allowance, who can never find a suitable job with enough leisure time, to warrant giving up their free hand-outs, so the EU too cannot give up their extravagance and luxury that British taxpayers had kept them accustomed to in the last few decades.  

It’s not “clueless’ May who needs to be informed of the complexities and realities of the EU position, these have been known to all Parties’ MEPs who have ever worked in Brussels, such as UKIP’s Nigel Farage and their 24 MEPs, whose research and tomes of evidence had brought about the referendum last year.  It is more incumbent of our media to be better informed so as not to make clueless and crass headlines to slander MPs, in this case the PM of the largest Party with the most votes at the last General Election.

The Sunday Times on 18th June, 2017, David Smith (Economic Outlook) wrote :
"Austerity has further to run..." as he extolled Philip Hmmond's good fortune in continuing as chancellor.  But 51.9% of us who voted to leave the EU are dreading his softer Brexit approach as it will drag out the negotiations, meaning more austerity.

The EU took nine years to negotiate a trade agreement with Canada; how long will it take to unravel 
Britain's trade with just a few EU nations?  Will our health service hold out that long?  Will nurses, school-leavers or young graduate workers survive two further years of 1% pay rises against 2.9% inflation?  How would the next generation of pensioners cope once their parents' savings invested in family homes get absorbed into hospital payments?

We urgently need to get out of the EU to allow those who wish to trade outside it to commence, and  to stop any more EU payments so we can fund our education, health and welfare services.

Jean Romsey

VOTE UKIP FOR A GOOD BREXIT DEAL

Theresa May’s mantra lacks drive, Speed and substance.

Does Theresa May’s Bexit mean half or a quarter Brexit?

The longer it takes for our EU Brexit negotiations, the more obstructions and demands will be fabricated by the greedy European Commission; and the more jobs will be lost as many companies are preparing to move from the UK due to uncertainty and lack of assurance from Theresa May and her Brexit Team.

Apart from triggering Article 50 in the last nine months, nothing has indicated that research or analysis have been undertaken by the Brexit team led by David Davis in Theresa May’s government.  Being secretive is her raison d’être in her political career's ascendency so far, but jeopardising the British economy with unnecessary delays and indecision is bad for the British economy. 

Did Theresa May decide to call a snap June general election because the Tory cabinet  agreed it was appropriate and timely, or was she having problems with staff at No. 10?  Losing both her press secretary and communication director in the same  week is shocking.

Lizzie Louden quit Downing Street

Well-respected Number 10 press secretary Lizzie Louden has quit the Tory Government, telling her friends that she's “moving on to other things”.  Ms Louden had previously worked on the controversial, but successful Vote Leave campaign, in which Boris Johnson famously borrowed UKIP's well-researched slogan: leave the EU to save £36 million gross a week.   But being Boris, he had this figure boldly painted on his red battle bus as a promise for the NHS.  UKIP had nothing to do with this!
Criticisms rained on the UKIP leader for the mistake, naturally
Nigel Farage was not amused as people thought the Tory party's Vote.Leave campaign was the same as the UKIP's Leave.EU !!

Katie Perrior

Lizzie was Mrs May's senior political spinner in Downing Street following the sudden resignation of her boss, the communications director Katie Perrior, within hours of the election being announced, saying she "never intended" to fight a general election with Theresa May.   

This came amid reports of a grim atmosphere inside Number 10 under the leadership of Theresa May and her all-powerful chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, since they came to power last July.

Theresa May with her Chief of Staff Fiona Hill

It is a bitter blow to the Tories as they try to ramp up their PR for the election campaign, following a succession of other high-profile resignations:

Downing Street's official spokeswoman Helen Bower quit in December following reports of angry bust-ups with Mrs May's top aides.   
Ms Bower's deputy, Greg Swift, then quit to become a spinner for Brexit Secretary, David Davis.

Britain's Ambassador to the European Union, Sir Ivan Rogers quit in January with a devastating attack on Mrs May's muddled thinking over Brexit.
  
The PM's national security adviser,  Mark Lyall-Grant quit in February after reportedly falling out with Mrs May,  followed by the Northern Powerhouse guru Jim O'Neill,  quit as Treasury Minister within weeks of the PM coming to power, over her lack of support for his infrastructure projects. 

Even the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney announced he was quitting two years early, following the arrival of Mrs May in Downing Street.

On the Conservative campaign trail Theresa May already sounds like a broken record repeating her carping criticisms of the Labour Leader, promising a vote for her at this general election will be for a strong and stable PM to lead the Brexit negotiations. Her avoidance of giving a straight answer to questions by pensioners or young voters is becoming tiresome, and may prove to be her achilles’ heel.  

UKIP MEPs' knowledge of EU invaluable in government

With so little substance or promise to galvanise the Tory pledges, UKIP candidates should be able to take full advantage of this opportunity to present their vision for a bright future outside the EU; to ensure UKIP’s excellent manifesto is heard and clearly expounded.  UKIP MEPs' knowledge of EU is invaluable in government.

We have no less than 20 UKIP MEPs who have spent time in Brussels, researching the internal workings of all aspects of the European Union, which brought home to the British people the realisation of 40 years of domination by the Eurocrats, costing our taxpayers more than £500 billion, and losing the traditional livelihood of our fishermen and farmers.

Let us not waste the findings and efforts of these patriotic MEPs, their Brussels experience in the European Parliament and the  many good speeches made by Nigel Farage, who highlighted so much of the flawed EU ideology which cost us dearly and indirectly impacted all our public services today.

Labour’s predicament has been made worse by Theresa May's decision for a snap general election, and the Brexit referendum has not worked in their favour.  Britain has voted to leave the EU and we certainly don’t want the undemocratic LibDem Party to aspire to revoke the democratic decision to leave the EU.  Leave means Leave, with or without a free trade agreement or a single-market deal.

The EU is clearly struggling with a long list of problems, and losing the UK’s billions of pounds of annual contribution and our pro-trade influence on their policy do not bode well for their future.  They would be anxious to make Britain pay for their future programmes and the lavish lifestyle they have grown accustomed to.

Theresa May has been accused by Jean-Claude Juncker, Angela Merkel and their Brussels chums, of living in another galaxy, living in a parallel reality with delusional views.  On reflection, Mrs. May's Brexit Team under David Davis did seem delusional at times and until very recently Mr. Davis admitted knowing very little of how Theresa May will be advancing with our Brexit negotiations.

For over 40 years UK's LIB/LAB/CON established Party leaders and MEPs had been so mesmerised by the EU's lavish perks and kudos, LibDem leaders specially had wallowed in their largess, they can find no fault with their methodology nor murmur a single word of criticism against their biased voting system that enables the European Parliament to pass every new law proposed by the Commission by a simple majority of those MEPs present on the day, but requiring an Absolute Majority of all 700 plus MEPs of 28 member-states to reject any proposed law, however harmful it might be to any one nation.

UKIP MEPs have good knowledge of the EU, the European Commission and Parliament.  In just four years of UKIP’s 20 MEPs arriving in Brussels, a dozen tomes of research had been published to expose major flaws of the Union’s ideology; UKIP newsletters and periodicals disseminated to reveal the EU’s wasteful spending and en-mass ferrying of thousands of MEPs, their aides and assistants, to and from Brussels, Luxembourg and the new palace in Strasbourg, which raised the UK annual contribution from £12millions to the latest figure of £16billion gross. Under Nigel Farage’s leadership, our MEPs’ work resulted in Britain getting our EU referendum and our vote to leave.

UKIP members are from all works of life; their knowledge and experience in commerce, industry, administration and life in general, give them a down-to-earth approach to politics.  UKIP is the Party that could successfully challenge the European leaders and Commissioners to ensure a good Brexit deal for the people of Britain.  It was the intelligence of the UK Independence Party that calculated how much Britain paid the EU daily (that got Boris Johnson in trouble); and many of the UKIP brilliant policies in their 2015 manifesto were borrowed by the Conservatives to win David Cameron's last election.

Vote for UKIP's resourceful candidates on June 8 to ensure our Parliament has a cross-section of society with intelligence, common sense, diligence, business and financial acumen to support the Government for the good of our country.

For best results in the Brexit deals, vote for the UKIP Party with intimate knowledge of the strength and weakness of the EU bureaucrats, to successfully negotiate in the shortest possible time to get our economy working again, and to continue the prosperity for all in the United Kingdom.

Vote for the UK Independence Party on June 6th if you wish to get Britain into free trade with the whole world, limit immigration to those with UK jobs, give our Health Service time to recover, get our younger generation on the property ladder and ease the congestion in our schools and nurseries. 

Let’s help make the UK Parliament sovereign again, free to make our own laws, dredge our rivers of silt to stop damaging floods, be proud of our British values, our customs and beliefs and get our country manufacturing again without EU red tapes.

VOTE UKIP ON JUNE 6th

Jean Lai Romsey