// Thoughts for October
appearing as first item on the News as if they are gospel. Whatever happened to, "Let's start at zero: your call"? How can we trust a single calculation from an organisation which hasn't balanced its books, hasn't received a signed-off, clean audit for nearly two decades?
Presumably Monsieur Arrogance would tell us Brits we need to learn Euromaths where you:
• Think of a number • Have a good slug of cognac paid for by a few million working taxpayers who never had the chance to vote for you
• Double it • Have another slurp • Call Berlin to check you're on the right track • Add on a hefty percentage to cover the inflation-proofed monster pensions of EU bureaucrats whose Passports to Freeloading Land need to be paid ad infinitum by more than just the German taxpayers • Finish off the bottle and tell the Brits they are very, very naughty children, need a good slap and will not be given the sheer privilege of being able to buy one of the million German- manufactured cars we buy a year or the half-billion Euros a year of Italian luxury goods or the hundreds of millions of Euros worth of French food and wine unless we cough up the spondooliks and do so without delay. Dear Reader, if you will forgive the repetition, what sheer bloody arrogance!
4. Evidently the EU negotiators deal with us one week in four ...and then have the temerity to say WE need to speed things up! What they mean of course is that we are refusing to agree to what they want. What a shame! Why on earth does Her Majesty's Opposition, both those of the official variety in parliament and those outside in the media and business, say it's the fault of HMG when there is delay or when Barnier gets angry. Not doing what the other side wants is not wrong!
5. We cannot stay in the Single Market and take back Sovereign control of our borders Mr Corbyn. Geddit?
6. We cannot stay in a Customs Union and do our own deals with the world (remember, we are the fifth largest and most open developed economy on Earth seeking global trade in Asia's Century). Please tell me you understand that, Sir Keir Starmer? (Just as an aside, Sir Kier, how does your 'K' go down with your Marxist mates in the Labour Party?)
7. We should give the right to EU citizens working here to stay here – NOW. Over. Sorted. Next?
8. Why is it that when there is no progress in negotiations it is our fault? Why aren't you blaming the EU, Labour? That bunch of Marxists would just give in, cough a hundred billion and claim victory! Barnier must love you!
So let us now start to grasp the initiative. Let us publicly call this appalling behaviour by Monsieur Barnier for what it is. Let us ask those Remoaner saboteurs to get behind doing what the people voted for...and Leave the EU, no ifs or maybes, no "stay in under another guise". We are where we are; millions
Lord Digby Jones
Lord Digby Jones is former Director-General of the CBI & UK Trade Minister; a non-aligned, Crossbench Member of the House of Lords & a Businessman (chairing six companies), author & broadcaster. He works closely with Cancer, Military & Educational Charities.
of people who voted Remain now just want us to get on with Brexit; as a nation we should be pulling together to get the best deal possible, which might well mean saying, in the end, "Take it or leave it" to Brussels.
Because, Michel, what part of "NO" do you not understand?
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