7TH FEBRUARY 2020 THE REALITY BEHIND EUROPE MONTHLY £3.50 The cost of EU membership e have included the intellectual justification for the figure.] following as a reminder to existence of EEC and later the EU and So let us put that into a naive cash Wall those who wondered the driver for even greater political and figure from the IMF data. why we are leaving the EU. economic union is wholly and entirely UK GDP in 2015 according to the “Many people have questioned the misconceived. That would mean the IMF data was the US dollar equivalent actual cost of EU membership to the whole of Europe has been paying a of US$2.7 trillion. [The IMF figures taxpayers’ of the UK. What follows is heavy price to Brussels and in lost are Gross domestic product based on an attempt to find out! GDP over decades for nothing. It also purchasing-power-parity (PPP)]. This interesting analysis in terms of takes away the rationale for increased UK GDP is projected by the IMF to EU membership, asks how much European social, political, economic rise in 2021 to approaching US$3.4 poorer has the UK become year-on- and military union. Trillion. year in cash terms? And how much There is a better rationale for such For the 2015 figure 13.8% is poorer is the UK today as a union but it is not the one seemingly US$370 Billion extra GDP. consequence of the cumulative effect driving the EU and its foundations are And on the basis of the projection on the nation’s wealth over 46 years of also structurally constitutionally and for 2021, that is an addition to GDP of lower annual growth? What would UK politically inappropriate for such a US$470 Billion. GDP be today? role. Is there were a way to estimate The following figures are solely for How much that might mean in reliably what UK annual growth might illustration and are not and cannot be either total tax generating revenue for have been if the UK had never joined considered a reliable estimate of what Government or for tax cuts is an the European Project? [I think that is the UK has been losing by being part interesting question. What is the unlikely beyond guesswork but I could of the European Project. T h e Government revenue for every £1 be wrong]. underlying assumption is the UK has generated in GDP? So how much extra To put this into terms we all can had lower annual GDP growth during would there have been for the NHS? understand - in hard cash terms what is its membership of the European Higher or lower than £350 Million the potential scale of how much poorer Project than it would have had out of pasted on the side of a big red bus? the UK has been getting year-on-year it. Was that figure far too low when the as a member of the European project? The calculations here are purely to loss of cumulative and annual losses to And how much in cash terms over 46 indicate a potential scale of loss each GDP are taken into account? years has the UK lost through year to the overall wealth of the UK But of course if the UK was membership of the European Project? over the 46 years membership of the generating an extra 0.3% GDP each Also bear in mind the hypothesis in European Project. year that [crudely analysed for the my earlier article [for which there Let us get out our crystal ball. simplicity of illustration] is crudely is evidence] that the EEC and EU have Assume the UK would have had 0.3% equivalent to something extra being always been irrelevant to maintaining higher annual average GDP growth added every year to the nation’s wealth peace in Europe: that the main driver over last 46 years if it had never joined - so there is a compound effect of the of peace in Europe has been near the European Project. And let us make extra each year contributing to the exponential economic growth post this very very simple. A most naive overall wealth of the nation - in other World War II. In other words, an calculation would place the UK with words there is a potential capital unparalled period of growth and 13.8% higher GDP today - [ignoring accumulation over time in addition to prosperity has meant people are too the compounding effect each year of the potential extra revenue generated busy making money to go to war and average annual growth on all the prior annually.” certainly may lack the motivation in increments of average annual growth. periods of great economic stability. Compounding growth on growth could Final part of “The EU no one voted If that is correct then the main conceivably make that a higher for” in November issue of eurofacts.

INSIDE: How Brexit gives hope to the long-suffering Greeks p 2 – The EU’s current version of equality p 2 - Book review - The Strange Death Of Europe p 3 – UK employment level rises again p 3 - EU companies moving to UK p 3 – Post UK election economic boost p 3 - The siege of London: A capital at odds with its country over Brexit p 7 – Letters p 9 VOL 25 NO 6 How Brexit gives hope to the long-suffering Greeks his article was first published on 2017, and was still as high as 121,349 relief when these uncertainties are the Campaign for an in 2019. resolved. TIndependent Britain (CIB) web The UK departure creates an The Greek governments were not site on the 16th January. important precedent that gives hope to happy with the final departure outcome the many Greek people who want to of the UK, but have emphasised that “The Greek Ambassador Leonidas leave the EU: that one day, they too calm must prevail. They suggest that C h r y s a n t h o p o u l o s explains how will be able to achieve their the UK’s exit does not mean the end of Brexit offers hope to the Greek people independence. the EU but a new beginning. T h e that one day, they too may be able to There is another category of Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece achieve their independence. The citizens who are concerned about the has created a website to help Greek Greeks have suffered greatly at the UK’s departure from the EU. It is those citizens and also UK citizens residing hands of the EU, which imposed on it people who have close ties to the UK, in Greece receive answers to their an extreme form of austerity over the particularly relatives of people concerns over the departure of the UK. past decade – with tragic working, studying, or who have Greece at present is mostly consequences. business interests there. preoccupied at this time with an According to UK government aggressive Turkey that is trying to When the issue of the UK’s statistics, there are more than 12,000 restrict Greece’s access to departure from the EU was finally Greek nationals employed in the UK. hydrocarbons in the East settled by the December 2019 election This category of concerned Greeks is Mediterranean, and with the result, many in Greece saw it as a worried about the repercussions of uncontrollable influx of refugee- victory against the EU establishment Brexit for their relatives in the UK, and migrants to the country. Yet despite the that has done everything possible to in particular how it will affect their personal concerns mentioned above, a reverse the outcome of the 2016 work there, their residence permits, great number of its citizens are happy referendum. their social security benefits etc. with Brexit, since it gives them hope Us Greeks have painful experience The parents of students at UK that it may be possible in the near with the EU ignoring referendum universities are worried that tuition future to renegotiate the so-called debt results. 61.3% of Greek voters voted costs may double or triple after arrangements with its lenders, or even against further austerity measures in departure. Business people are to exit the EU if the people of Greece our referendum of July 2015, only to concerned about the changes that vote for an anti-EU political party. see the result reversed by the adoption departure will bring to their The more that the UK’s full exit of further austerity measures just one commercial transactions with the UK takes place smoothly, the more it month later. as well as the Greek shipping becomes possible for Greece and other The cumulative austerity forced on companies that are established in countries to exit the EU. Yet vigilance Greece by the EU resulted in the loss London. is still required, since the EU of 28% of our national income, There are also fears that the tourist establishment may strike again during unemployment at 27% (compared to sector might be hit, since about 2.5 the negotiations for the settlement 7% before austerity), with youth million UK citizens visit Greece every agreement.” unemployment at more than 65%. We year. These are all issues that will be suffered a wave of suicides as a result. dealt with in the settlement agreement Source: The annual number of deaths rocketed that will be negotiated between the UK Web Site www.campaignforanindep from 70,830 in 2013 to 124,832 in and the EU this year, and it will be a endentbritain.org.uk The EU’s current version of equality he European Parliaments Brexit Guy Verhofstadt said he has been same assurances for UK citizens living Tco-ordinator has confirmed that he given the assurance at a meeting with in the EU. The 27 members have failed has been told that there will be no UK Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay. to agree on equal treatment. automatic deportation from the UK of Under the EU settlement scheme, This is the same EU that promotes EU citizens who have not yet got EU citizens living in the UK can apply EU values and harmonisation of rules settled UK status by the 2021 to in the country after Brexit. However, and regulations, no wonder the UK has December deadline. the EU has been unable to provide the decided to leave.

PAGE 2 eurofacts 7TH FEBRUARY 2020 Can Europe survive in its present form? his book is the Sunday Times No.1 which slices through the fog of Tbest-seller and is described as the The Strange Death of Europe confusion, obfuscation and sheer internationally best-selling account of Immigration, Identity, Islam dishonesty of public debate to a continent and a culture caught in the by Douglas Murray illuminate one key fact about the act of suicide, now updated with new world. Such a work is Douglas Bloomsbury Continuum material taking in developments since M u r r a y ’s tremendous and shattering Pbk 371pp 2018 it was first published to huge acclaim. book. These include rapid changes in the Melanie Phillips, The Times Available from dynamics of global politics, world The June Press leadership and terror attacks. This is a brilliant, important and Price £9.99 + 10% p&p This book was written before the profoundly depressing book. That is (see back cover) new Conservative party written with Douglas Murray’s usual took office in December 2019. ISBN 978-1-4729-5800-6 literary elegance and waspish humour Douglas Murray travelled across does not make it any less depressing. Europe to examine first-hand how That Murray will be vilified for it by mass immigration, cultivated self- failures of multiculturalism, A n g e l the liberals who have created the distrust and delusion have contributed Merkel’s U-turn on migration, the lack appalling mess he describes does not to a continent in the grips of its own of repatriation and the Western fixation make it any less brilliant and demise. From the shores of Lampedusa on guilt, uncovering the malaise at the important....Read it’. to migrant camps in Greece from very heart of the European culture. His Rod Liddle, Sunday Times Cologne to London, he looks critically conclusion is bleak, but the predictions at the factors that have come together not irrevocable. As Murray argues, this This is a vitally important book, the to make Europeans unable to argue for may be our last chance to change the contents of which should be known to themselves and incapable of resisting outcome, before it’s too late. everyone who can influence the course their alteration as a society. Murray’s of events, at this critical time in the tremendous’ and shattering book (The Endorsements:- history of Europe. Ti m e s ) addresses he disappointing Every so often, something is published Roger Scruton (recently deceased) UK employment level rises again ccording to the latest figures from The result for the three months to age. Athe Office for National Statistics November show that 126,00 more Nevertheless, the UK’s employment (ONS), a record number of women in women were in full-time employment rate continues to show a prosperous full-time work has pushed the UK’s compared with the previous quarter, dynamic economy in contrast with that employment rate to a new high of part of the increase is said to be caused of the EU, those who wish to align our 76.3% . by the change in women's retirement economy to the EU should take note. EU companies moving to UK ow reality has dawned on the EU, They are said to be doing this in order and Germany have applied for 228, Naccording to consultancy firm to serve British clients in a sign Britain 170, 165 and 149 temporary permits Bovill, reported in R e u t e r s , about will remain the continent’s banking r e s p e c t i v e l y, to do so already. T h e 1,000 EU financial services firms plan hub. investments will offset British firms’ to open offices in the UK after Brexit. Firms from Ireland, France, Cyprus, opening new offices on the mainland. Post UK election economic boost ood news for the United more than a year in January. high of 52.4 up from 49.3 in December. GKingdom, a survey has found that The UK composite purchasing I.M.S Markit, which compiled the the UK manufacturing and services managers’ index (PMI) which includes survey, said demand was growing in companies had their best month for the two sectors, rose to a 16-month the wake of the UK general election. eurofacts 7TH FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 3 The siege of London: A capital at odds with its country over Brexit Article from the Freedom Association by David Moylan ondon has long shrugged off the metropolitan consensus that sees only with equal force and relevance to brooding sense of resentment good in our continued rule by foreign London as to the more pastoral Lother parts of the country powers and that identifies support for quarters of Transylvania or the snow- sometimes feel at its dominance of Brexit with xenophobia, low intellect, encrusted fringes of the Gulf of national political and economic life. poor education and “the North” (or, Bothnia. After all, the capital, with over eight possibly worse, “the Midlands”). And when one digs into the practical million people, is a social eco-system Hence the vital work done by the challenges that Brexit might visit upon of its own, caught up in its own affairs excellent Lucy Harris and her friends, London, there is very little to point to. and confident that its net contribution the founders and sustainers of Leavers We are told we are going to face a to the Government coffers (over £26 of London, a beacon and a haven for crisis of baristas. The metropolitan billion a year) is sufficient answer to Brexit voters in the capital. assumption appears to be that for any regional chippiness. So we know London is not happy decades to come Poland and Estonia But London – or those who speak with the result of the June 2016 are going to send us their young for it – is still in a state of denial about referendum. But London knows about graduates, their nuclear scientists and the great revolutionary insurgence that referendums. There was one in 1998. their trainee surgeons to pull our has for the first time in decades 72% of Londoners (I admit I was not coffees and beers for us, while incomes challenged its hold on the national one of them, but I was wrong) voted to and opportunities continue to rise in narrative. Sadiq Khan, its Mayor and a have a Greater London A u t h o r i t y those countries and well paid jobs start good weathervane by which to judge consisting of a Mayor and Assembly. It appearing for them at home. No: this the vagaries of metropolitan elite has been a huge success. Few was always a transient phenomenon. It opinion, illustrates this well, first Londoners would doubt that. is a “crisis” we are going to have to “accepting” the referendum result, Under two charismatic and capable face some time and we might as well then arguing against any form of Mayors (and their successor), the city face it now. implementation that would result in has been transformed for the better – Or consider the construction sector. change (on immigration or trade), and practically unrecognisable from twenty There was a man on the BBC recently, was explicitly espousing the Remainer years ago. boss of a construction company, who ruse of running a second referendum And why did Londoners vote for was bitterly complaining that even with a question rigged to maximise the devolved government? Why have new before Brexit he was having to pay chances of reversing the result. The powers been granted to the Mayor higher wages for sub-contractors in steps the Mayor might have taken, of since then? Why do people continue to London because of a shortage. Well ensuring businesses had advice and call out for yet further powers to be that may have sounded to the BBC like support to prepare for No Deal, of handed down? another Brexit doom story, but it will offering encouragement, of travelling For the same reason the nation voted have been music to the ears of the abroad to solicit investment in the for Brexit: because people want 40.1% of Londoners who voted Leave, capital and ensure the world knew of decisions made as close to them as many from the social groups that will its innate strengths and the possible and under their control. benefit from higher wages. opportunities it offered after Brexit – It is logically absurd and flies in the In fact a ready supply of cheap these have all been neglected in favour face of human nature to say that on the labour has held back innovation and of belittling a democratic process the one hand London should have more automation. Ask yourself why so few result of which he doesn’t like. powers to govern itself but on the other of the construction innovations It’s hard to find “out” Leave voters its air quality standards should be set in generated by the Crossrail project have in London. From the dinner tables of Brussels, the quality of the water in the been directed at slimming down the Kensington to the common rooms of Thames should be decided overseas, workforce. All that money and only our schools and the trading floors of and the safety standards of its cyclist- one new machine aimed at saving our banks, those who confess to having killing lorries can only be changed at labour: a tracked vehicle that trundles voted Leave continue to be given the behest of an EU committee. It is through the tunnels drilling the pariah status. Though over 40% of ridiculous to believe that devolution to millions of screw-holes needed for the Londoners voted for Brexit, they have London is good but that key aspects of brackets that hold the miles of cables. gone to ground, silenced now in the its laws, from working time to habitats, Brilliant. But it is still followed by an wake of the referendum by a prevailing should be set so as to be applicable army of labourers putting the brackets

PAGE 4 eurofacts 7TH FEBRUARY 2020 The siege of London: A capital at odds with its country over Brexit up, screwing them in and threading the Then of course we have the big if they are to save their seats – and that cables. Brexit will change that. It will businesses, outside the City of London. means espousing the EU even if their spur innovation and automation and And here it’s impossible not to mention voters supported Leave. create new world-leading goods, the doom-laden CBI, which is still In fact the more one dwells on the machinery and ideas for Britain to regretting that we didn’t follow its upsides of Brexit, the opportunities it export to the world. advice twenty years ago and join the gives to London for beneficial change, The harsh truth is that we have euro. The truth is that CBI members the more one regrets the government’s created an economy, not just in have done well out of of the EU. Not short-sighted policy of seeking to London, with an unhealthy because it has made them more negotiate a deal that will lock us into dependency on a constant supply of competitive, but because it has allowed European law with no say, and deny us cheap labour, regardless of the them to participate in writing their own those opportunities. All the more so consequences for social services and regulations, quietly, cosily, and with after the President of the Commission social cohesion, and it is a habit we the help of an army of Brussels-based declared in his 2018 annual report to need to break, Brexit or no Brexit lobbyists – regulations that are always the European Parliament his ambition merely confronts us with the necessity. intended first and foremost to create for a totally sovereign EU, no more Another manufactured London barriers to entry and so limit upstart pooled sovereignty but a sovereignty Brexit fear is its effect on the City, the new competitors from disrupting the fully transferred to a super-state. This great global centre of financial and incumbents, regulations agreed in made it absolutely clear that there is no allied services that generates a large rooms from which the consumer is status quo in Remain. If we go back part of our national exports and of the always absent. It is our own form of n o w, cap-in-hand, humiliated, we G o v e r n m e n t ’s tax receipts. Va r i o u s crony capitalism. It is well funded and would inevitably be sucked into a lobby groups have made complete has a loud voice - and it is not speaking project that has shown over forty years fools of themselves by predicting the for the country. It’s simply not true that that it doesn’t work for us and over loss of tens of thousands of jobs just as “what’s good for General Motors is which what moderating influence we soon as we leave the EU. The numbers good for America” and it’s absolutely had exercised in the past would be to be moved abroad now appear to be a not true that what’s good for CBI gone. fraction of that. And if even a small members is good for the rest of us. It is London, with its eight million number seems bad, remember that almost delightful to watch so many brilliant people, a hinterland that banks in London have been shipping London Labour MPs line up with the brings that to fifteen million, an jobs to the rest of the world for years bosses they would normally excoriate economy so powerful that it now, many of them facilitated by EU in order that both can argue for the contributes over £26 billion a year net Freedom of Movement. When Morgan status quo of cheap labour and easy, to the rest of the country, has withstood Stanley moved its back office to protected profits. real challenges and survived. Brexit is H u n g a r y, was that a great Brexit But the key to that of course is the not even a real challenge. It is a change disaster? No, because it happened ten trades unions. While a handful, like the and an opportunity. years ago and was therefore to be RMT, continue the leftist tradition of Just as Londoners took a risk in praised as showing how the Single opposition to EU rule, those affiliated 1998 and voted for devolution, so the Market worked for our economy. The to the Labour Party (unlike the RMT), British people showed immense inconsistency is breath-taking. have been wooed and won over by the courage and confidence in 2016 in In fact the truth about Brexit and Brussels machine, which developed a voting for change and the return of financial services is that the City is new theology of the “social Europe” in their democracy. It is an enormous pity quietly thrilled to be leaving a the 1990s precisely to subdue this that complacency and timidity meant governing regime that has become source of opposition. Since then, the that on that occasion the capital was increasingly inimical to what our trades unions have been the staunchest found on the wrong side of history. But European friends call A n g l o - S a x o n supporters of EU rules and regulations its resilience and inventiveness mean capitalism. And by “Anglo-Saxon”, – to the point that they claim that the that it can recover quickly from that. they mean only one thing: London. EU, not domestic law, is the source and We should set to work to help it do so. They are explicitly hostile to the City bastion of workers’ rights. Given the and yet there are many people, constitution of the Labour Party, it’s David Moylan was the former advisor including our Mayor, who are more “moderate” MPs, in flight from to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor desperate to see one of our major Momentum, have only the dubious of London. export industries regulated by them. safe harbour of trades unions to turn to Source: www.tfa.net eurofacts 7TH FEBRUARY 2020 PAGE 5 LETTERS Tel: 08456 120 175 email: [email protected]

Commons and Lords relevance of the insight of the the first, has been decisively left-wing historian, the late C. repudiated. Dear Sir, Desmond Greaves (1913-1988), who In Ireland democrats will rejoice Yet again we saw the once remarked that all the big policy that the editorial writers of the trying to interfere with the voters debates in British politics take “Irish Times”, who propagandized for desire to get Brexit done and leave the place inside the Tory Party, with a second UK referendum and whose clutches of the EU. everyone else having at most bit eurofanaticism has destroyed the In January the peers supported a call parts. reputation for objectivity and for EU nationals to be given a physical This was so with the Corn Laws and balance of a once great newspaper, document as proof they have the right Imperial Preference in the 19th have also been eff e c t i v e l y to live in the UK, while ignoring UK c e n t u r y, with the policy of repudiated. citizens appeals for equality from the appeasement of Nazi Germany in the Britain’s political elite showed more EU. 1930s and with the UK’s relations with self-respect and respect for its They voted to remove UK’s elected the European Community/Union since fellow citizens than its equivalent in ministers; power to decide which EU the 1960s. It was the Tory Party under Ireland, who shamefully made Court of Justice rulings can be Edward Heath that took the UK the Irish people vote a second time in disregarded or set aside by the UK into the then EEC in 1973, with Enoch the second Nice Tr e a t y courts and tribunals. Powell opposing him, and it is referendum in 2001 and the second Luckily for our democracy the the Tory Party under Boris Johnson Lisbon Treaty referendum in 2009, Brexit legislation had to be returned to that is now taking the UK out. without the slightest change being the Commons where it was passed. Contrary to the superficial views made to either of these treaties. ELAYNE DIAMOND that are widely put around, the ANTHONY COUGHLAN Essex Brexiteers constitute the Left of the Dublin Tory Party, not its Right. T h e Tory Right consists of the key Congratulations Win for democracy representatives of British High Finance and Big Capital as represented by the Dear Sir, Dear Sir, likes of the CBI, the City of I wish to thank all of the people and The Conservative win in the UK London, Goldman Sachs, the organisation like your good selves who general election is a great victory for globalisers and the Euro-fanatics, have never wavered from exposing the national democracy in these islands whose spokesmen inside the To r y truth behind our EU membership. and for genuine internationalism Party were the likes of Philip What has also been very notable and against EU supranationalism. Hammond, Dominic Grieve and David ignored by the BBC doom merchants, It means that the UK has legally left Gauke. The latter two lost their seats in is how the British economy has the EU, taking Northern Ireland with it. the election. actually had a boost from finally This puts “Irexit” (Ireland Losing Britain as an EU Member, getting the divorce agreement through Exit) firmly on the Irish historical one of the largest national economies the House of Commons. agenda, as the coming years will in the world, will be a savage blow to The next goal of getting a good trade undoubtedly show. the EU. deal with the EU has also now acquired For unless Dublin pulls back from It will encourage the democratic support from various EU member its current love-affair with the EU, forces in every EU country that want states and surprisingly even the it will effectively be co-operating in a to leave this anti-democratic bureaucrats at European Commission new Partition of Ireland into supranational entity, get back their have changed their negative tones. the long-term future. national democracy and independence Let’s hope with good will on all The British Labour Party, which and hasten the EU’s inevitable sides the December deadline date for promised to implement Brexit in the dissolution. completing a sensible and workable 2016 referendum and in its 2017 Democrats across these islands will trading relationship can be achieved, election manifesto and then spent the rejoice today that the so-called The Lib-Dems, and Labour now past three and a half years trying to “ P e o p l e ’s Vote” campaign, led by need new leadership, policies and frustrate it in the House of Alastair Campbell, Peter Mandelson, direction if they ever wish to get into Commons, deservedly got its Tony Blair and others, who shamefully power! comeuppance in this election. sought a second referendum PETER SIMONS The Conservative victory shows the because they did not like the result of Manchester

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