Political Thoughts - the magazine

5th December 2013, update May 2016 Nigel Lawson, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer,  recently criticised the UK membership of the EU , the media has covered his mainstream view as if he is a bad boy starting a fight in the school playground, but is he right about the EU? What has changed that makes EU membership a burning issue?  What has changed is that the 19 countries of the Eurozone are now seeking political union to escape their financial problems.   Seven further EU countries have signed up to join the Euro but the British and Danish have opted out.  The EU is rapidly becoming two blocks - the 26 and Britain and Denmark.   Lawson's fear was that if Britain stays in the EU it will be isolated and dominated by a Eurozone bloc that uses "unified representation of the euro area" , so acting like a single country which controls 90% of the vote in the EU with no vetoes available to the UK in most decisions.  The full plans for Eurozone po...

In this article I will explore how much benefit the UK obtains from being inside the EU.  Most articles about the benefits of the EU simply state the growth in trade between the EU and the UK but  I will also compare the UK with other countries to show the comparative benefit that the EU has delivered. If the EU is beneficial to the UK it should be obvious that UK-EU exports should be growing faster than the exports from other countries in general to the EU.  In the table below the growth in trade with the EU since 1993 is compared between countries. It should shock the reader to discover that exports grew less between the UK and the EU than they did between Russia, China or the USA and the EU .  All of these countries are not EU members but enjoyed a better export growth with the EU than the UK. Being a member of the EU was not a trading advantage for the UK.  In fact the UK is 28th in terms of export growth with the EU.  EU financed pressure g...

Comedian gains kudos from Anti-Austerity There have recently been a string of "Anti-Austerity" protests in the UK.  These protests are actually about falling incomes but why are incomes falling?: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) weekly earnings Curiously the Anti-Austerity marchers are marching against their own political opinions.  This schizophrenic political thinking is a result of propaganda.  The reasons why both Labour and Tories have promised Austerity are outlined below. EU Balance of Payments Deficit Membership of the EU is accompanied by a £100 bn per annum Balance of Payments Deficit with the EU.  This is the total amount of money that is gained by the EU as a result of trading with and performing financial transactions with the UK.  The UK is an overpopulated country that depends upon making a profit from overseas trade to remain wealthy but it makes a gigantic loss with the EU. ONS Data  (The Balance of Trad...

The Great Rebellion is against one economy, one law, one culture and one rule for all of Europe.  It is a battle against an Establishment Coup that wants to centralize all power marginalizing whole nations let alone the individual people. It should be obvious by now that the main voices favouring the EU are greedy corporations and venal politicians. That multinational corporations and foreign politicians are queuing to bully you into voting to Remain should set alarm bells ringing. The rebellion is against an Establishment that has persuaded millions in Britain that remaining in the EU is the "safe" option when the truth is that the EU is just about to change into a full political union where the UK will be terminated and we will be plunged, powerless, into a world controlled by a corporate Elite. The world is depending on you, the citizens of a nation that has nurtured independence and freedom to stand up to the bullies.  Trust your instinct for freedom, you know th...