THE Eurocrats in Brussels will be licking their lips at the prospect of Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed “economic reset” between Britain and the EU.
They screwed us at every opportunity when we were EU members — forcing us to make vast financial contributors to their failing political project — so why does anyone think they will be doing anything other than preparing to screw us all over again?
It’s the only way they know.
Freedom of movement for young Europeans, acceptance of EU laws and the chance for European fishing fleets to continue to pillage our waters will be the least of their demands for a trade agreement which would drag us back into the EU’s malign orbit and wrap us up in the red tape this country voted to escape back in 2016.
And who will be negotiating on our behalf? A team of 100 from our own largely Remainer civil service which has done so much to obstruct Brexit at every turn since the referendum.
No wonder they have been dubbed by fearful insiders as “the surrender squad”.
Does the Government care if our hard fought for freedoms are carelessly tossed away?
Everything about the Prime Minister’s previous campaigning to keep us in the EU would suggest not.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch warns that he is “taking us backwards”.
If he does, it will be a betrayal that the British people won’t forget or forgive.
IT’S bad enough that the TV licence fee still exists but in a move that would shame Ebeneezer Scrooge, the BBC has been sending out bullying letters to pensioners.
They are threatening to knock on OAPs’ doors on Christmas Day if they don’t pay up the hated telly tax.
Dennis Reed, of the campaign group Silver Voices, describes the letters as “thuggish” and he’s not wrong.
The Beeb, which has blown £169 million of our money chasing those without TV licences, apologised to The Sun and said the letters had been sent “in error” and that their enforcers would not be calling on anyone on December 25th.
That doesn’t mean they won’t be spending taxpayers’ money criminalising vulnerable elderly people as soon as Christmas is over.
THERE is some festive cheer, however, thanks to The Sun.
The Chancellor’s decision to continue to freeze fuel duty — as our ongoing Keep It Down campaign had called for – will be a welcome present for drivers.
Without the 7p-a-litre price hike, the average white van man will save around £215 next year, and a two-car family around £100.
That should help to soften the effect of the post-Christmas bills.
