Pascale Molliere | Brexit Swindle from start to end

The Great Brexit Swindle ~ with the U.K. caught between a rock and a hard place, are we just in danger of becoming another of the United States?. ~ By Pascal Molliere

Who is really leading the U.K. out of Europe?

“A soft Brexit blueprint would “kill” Britain’s chances, said Donald Trump.

The story was that David Cameron was ‘honouring his pledge’ to the British people when he announced that there will be a referendum on whether the U.K. electorate wanted to stay in the European Union, or whether they wanted to leave ‘and take control of our borders and trading decisions’.

At least that was the spin.Frankly, can anyone recall there being any sort of ‘uprising’ or debate about the people demanding to leave Europe?

Yes there were news stories, scare stories of this and that, people being offered a chance to vote on such a thing, in fact, if this was really something that the British people were so desperate about, then would it not have been debated and discussed over years prior? Perhaps there would have been discussions in parliament? Or in the House of Lords, or even on tv on Question Time?

Maybe if Britain and the British people were really so desperate to leave the awful grip of the ‘unelected bureaucrats’ we’d have seen marches, protests, demonstrations.. Surely? Or great debates during Newsnight programs or even a huge rally in London with people shouting ‘we want out!’ perhaps with a few riots, arrests and all the rest of it.. right?

But there was none of that.

Or maybe, if this was something that the Great British electorate was so passionate about, we might have at least been aware of it being such a huge bone of contention for so long, but are we? Were we? Honestly?

Nope

The answer is a resounding ‘no!’ we never were particularly vocal or demonstrative about anything to do with leaving Europe, until it was said by David Cameron that we were to hold a referendum. Suddenly, the machines began to spring into action. It was only then, that we began to hear the stories, the migrants, the NHS bills and the costs of staying in Europe.

People like ‘rent-a-gob’ Nigel Farrage popped onto the scene, spouting hate speach about immigration, taking back control of our borders (didn’t we always have passport / customs / immigration anyway?) and suddenly we were bombarded with news stories, articles and an endless stream of scaremongering nonsense that suggested we were all suffering because of the number of immigrants coming into the U.K.

How odd, one might think that they’re so desperate to leave the comforts of their own family life, in Syria, or Iraq - unless something terrible had happened there.. Oh, hang on, it had - when Britain bombed the living daylights out of their homes and family life.

Did anybody also notice the horror stories about immigrants marching through Europe, with Facebook videos circulating showing armies of refugees trampling across boarder fences and stampeding their way to British soil. The scare movies that circulated through the social media channels showing armies of immigrants, Eastern European’s, Muslims and others beating a path to get to England.

And then there was Cambridge Analytica, and the scandal of how social media was used to manipulate opinion and to spread biased information which was far from truthful.  And as we approach the deadline date,  The US president told reporters the withdrawal agreement "sounds like a great deal for the EU" and meant the UK might not be able to trade with the US.No 10 insisted it is "very clear" the UK would be able to sign trade deals with countries around the world. Downing Street added that Mrs May is ready to defend her deal in a TV debate with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

It has been reported the debate could take place on 9 December - two days before the Parliamentary vote on Mrs May's deal. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Mr Trump said: "Right now if you look at the deal, [the UK] may not be able to trade with us. And that wouldn't be a good thing. I don't think they meant that."

Remember the ‘referendum’? The period of mad propaganda showing Farrage ranting and shouting about immigrants, NHS and Britain taking back control of its borders? One of the most prominent claims made by the Leave campaign was that the UK would take back £350m a week once it had left the EU – with the sum going to the NHS. The UK Statistics Authority has since said this was a “clear misuse of official statistics” – most notably because the figure did not take into account the money the UK gets back from the EU after paying into the budget.  After taking into account the rebate, the figure is believed to be closer to £250m but the question remains whether the money will actually go the NHS.

On the day after the Brexit referendum result, Nigel Farage, who had been more closely associated with the Leave.EU campaign than Vote Leave, disowned the pledge saying it was “one of the mistakes” that had been made by those wanting us out of the bloc.

A poll by Ipsos MORI published in June 2016 found that nearly half the British public believed the claim. Two years on and Theresa May has now pledged additional funding for the NHS and has said the extra money will come, in part, from a “Brexit dividend”. Under the plans, the NHS budget will increase by £20.5bn by 2023, and the government has said this will be funded through a combination of tax rises, economic growth and money no longer sent to Brussels.

The Office For Budget Responsibility (OBR) has however said that although there would be some savings if Britain leaves the EU, this does not take into account the potential economic impact or the money that could have to be sent to the EU as a result of the Brexit deal. 

2:- A free-trade deal with the EU will be 'the easiest thing in human history'

One year after the referendum Liam Foxsaid a post-Brexit free trade deal with the EU would be the “easiest in human history”. “The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history,” he told BBC radio.

“We are already beginning with zero tariffs, and we are already beginning at the point of maximal regulatory equivalence, as it is called. In other words, our rules and our laws are exactly the same.”However, the negotiations have been far from easy and, with the clock ticking, the prospect of a no-deal Brexit appears increasingly likely.  Mr Fox himself has now said that leaving without a deal would be better than prolonging talks with Brussels, a move he described as a "complete betrayal" of voters.

He said any attempt to extend the Article 50 process was unacceptable amid speculation that Ms May could be forced to lengthen the negotiations to prevent Britain crashing out without a deal. David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, made similar claims during the referendum campaign and said that Britain would negotiate individual trade deals with other EU countries. However, EU member states cannot negotiate individual trade deals with outside countries and instead do so as a bloc of 28.

“Post Brexit a UK-German deal would include free access for their cars and industrial goods, in exchange for a deal on everything else,” he said in May.“Similar deals would be reached with other key EU nations. France would want to protect £3bn of food and wine exports. Italy, its £1bn fashion exports. Poland its £3bn manufacturing exports.”

3:-  ‘Two thirds of British jobs in manufacturing are dependent on demand from Europe’

Alan Johnson, a Remainer and the former shadow chancellor, claimed two thirds of manufacturing jobs were dependent on Europe after looking at outdated analysis that had been conducted by the Centre of Economics and Business Research (CEBR). The figure used by Mr Johnson compared the total number of manufacturing jobs, 2.55 million, with the 1.7 million jobs the CEBR had said were dependent on EU trade.

However, the two figures were not comparable and more recent analysis shows that the figure is more likely to be closer to 15 per cent.

4:-  'Turkey is going to join the EU and millions of people will flock to the UK'

Though Turkey has been an official EU candidate state since 1999, talks have long stalled and there is no prospect of the country joining the bloc anytime soon.The European Parliament voted in favour of suspending negotiations with Turkey just months after the Brexitreferendum, on the basis of human rights abuses and the European Council has said it will not open talks in any new areas. During the campaign Michael Goveclaimed that Turkey and four other countries could join the EU and claimed it was possible this could happen within four years.

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