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I remember how his answers on Transport Policy were not that edifying! It showed him up for what he was. He blinked in the daylight. But to refuse to work with the BBC? Dumb, Ms Sturgeon, just plain dumb.
• And lastly I give you as my most significant example of an
SBO...one specific aspect of the raging Brexit Debate: Not once (once!) in all the propositions and from the Remain Camp have I heard how precisely continued membership of the EU intends to deal with:
• The sheer waste of a quarter of a billion euros each and every year by moving the European Parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg every (yes, EVERY!) month just to please the French.
• The fact that what Germany wants, Germany gets. (Don’t blame the Germans for this; if I paid the most in I’d want to boss it too). Why doesn’t anyone refer to this situation and why does no-one appear bothered by being run by another country?
• The Big Lie: Martin Wolf in the Financial Times (a Remain propaganda sheet if ever there was one; its Editor has even been awarded the Legion d’Honneur!) wrote; The EU is a “peace project that works by embedding mutual relations in a framework of equally-applicable and legally-binding rules. The rules need to be clear and subject to an authoritative legal process.” Really Mr Wolf? So how do you account for the flagrant and frequent cheating by France, Italy, Greece et al? Even Germany ignored the Growth & Stability Pact when it suited them (but then enforced strict near-fatal rules on Greece). Just ask any UK Small Business which regularly deals in those countries; they cheat, mainly because they can. Enforcement is expensive, takes too long and is opaque at best. It isn’t working for the average woman and man in Northern, Anglo-Saxon Europe and they’re fed up of being told to shut up because their (unelected) Masters know best.
Politicians (who love blaming “Europe” for domestic spinelessness and inadequacy), the Establishment Elite and Big Business call for us all to look at “the bigger picture”. Surely it is the biggest Statement of the Bleedin’ Obvious of all that millions and millions of Leavers (and, I guess, more Remainers than will admit it publicly) can see, the EU Emperor has no clothes on. Those basic questions remain unanswered, they are buried in Euroflannel …and the only answer seems to be “put up with it; you don’t understand”.
But we DO understand. Why? Because it’s so Bleedin’ Obvious!
Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham KB
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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.
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