In March 2016, Britain appeared to have scored a rare victory in Brussels. The deeply unpopular and unfair “tampon tax” – the 5 per cent VAT applied to women’s sanitary products – was finally going to be abolished, as the EU announced it would loosen the restrictions which forced member states to tax the products as […]
The EU likes to present itself as a global force for good, fostering aid and development in the world’s poorest societies. It boasts of its £12 billion aid programme, and calls itself “the most generous donor in the world”. It truly believes itself to be a kindlier world power than the United States, Russia, or China. […]
A survey by the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, reports that a major concern among supply chain managers is Britain’s supposedly weak position going into the Brexit negotiations. This, they believe, is the main “challenge” facing our negotiating team. Given the pro-EU media narrative which has tried to portray these negotiations as a one-sided […]
The UK sends the EU over £13 billion per year – excluding our rebate. Almost two-thirds of this money is never to return to our shores. The EU spends it either on their own institutions, or on projects in other EU countries. Nor is it spent wisely; Brussels pours millions of Euros into bizarre, pointless schemes. A report […]
Go to one of Britain’s many pro-Brexit strongholds and you’ll find plenty of EU flags featured on posters, proudly announcing whichever project is being promoted as “co-funded by the European Union”. These advertisements are a bizarre obsession for the EU. The British Government, by contrast, doesn’t feel the need to plaster everything it funds with the Union […]
As the Article 50 Bill makes its way through the House of Commons this week, the Government has pencilled in March 9th as the date when Brexit negotiations are due to start. Across the Atlantic, a not entirely dissimilar process began last month, when the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and US President Donald Trump met and […]
EU leaders continue to insist on the inseparability of the much-vaunted “four freedoms” of the Single Market – free trade in goods, services, and capital, as well as free movement of people. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, for instance, told Britain: “There is only the whole menu or none.” According to Schäuble and his fellow Eurocrats, […]
Theresa May’s visit to India earlier this month was overshadowed by the issue of visas. The Indian government proved to be particularly interested in the loosening of restrictions on British visas for Indian professionals and students. One of Narendra Modi’s former advisors described Britain’s stance, somewhat unfairly, as: “We want your business, but we don’t want your […]
