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 IT'S 900 DAYS

SINCE WE VOTED TO LEAVE THE EU

WHY HAVEN’T WE LEFT?

Today marks 900 days since the British people voted to leave the European Union.

Tomorrow evening the majority-Remainer House of Commons will vote on Theresa May’s “Remain, With Chains” abomination of a deal with the EU.

It has taken 900 days to get here. How on earth did that happen?

• It took the EU almost 6 months to appoint a Brexit negotiator
• It took them almost a year to start negotiations

IT WASN’T ONLY THE PM’S INCOMPETENCE AND BETRAYAL, IT WAS THE EU’S TOO

After the UK voted for Brexit in June 2016, in a normal world informal talks would have started within weeks. So why didn’t they?

David Cameron promised that if the country voted ‘Leave’, he would immediately trigger Article 50. Instead, he resigned.

24 JUNE 2016 - NEITHER SIDE HAD THEIR POSITIONS PREPARED

Neither the UK Civil Service, NOR the EU Commission, had done any preparation for a Leave vote. In our view this represented gross negligence and incompetence on both sides, but naturally no heads have ever rolled.

The Establishments on both sides of the Channel were convinced that the British people would never dare to vote Leave, given the propaganda onslaught they had been subjected to for months. When the British people did so, both the British Civil Service and the EU Commission were caught with their pants down.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

In the UK’s case, action was relatively swift. David Davis was appointed Brexit Secretary on 13th July – less than three weeks after the Referendum.

The EU did not formally have a person with whom the UK Brexit Secretary could negotiate until almost six months after the EU Referendum.

The cause of the EU’s delay was down to internal squabbles within the EU - between the Commission, the EU Parliament, and the EU Council - about how the Brexit negotiations should be run and who should run them. (See below.)

Meanwhile, the unelected EU Commission gave a diktat that there would be “No negotiations before notification [of Article 50].”

There was no basis in EU law nor in any Treaty provisions for this diktat. It was given by the unelected totalitarian bureaucrats of the EU, and the UK government shamefully failed to counter this in any way.

The UK had voted to leave the EU. The diplomatic and legal niceties were just that, and they didn’t alter the fact of the Referendum result nor the obvious need to begin a dialogue between the EU and the UK. It is a simple fact that informal dialogue could have been opened by David Davis in July 2016, if the EU hadn’t been in such a mess.

02 OCT 2016, PM ANNOUNCED ARTICLE 50 TO BE TRIGGERED BY END MARCH 2017

Whilst the EU was debating internally about its processes, British PM Theresa May announced that the UK would trigger Article 50 no later than the end of March 2017. In making this announcement (at the Tory Party Conference), she gave the EU six months’ notice.

15 DEC 2016 – AFTER ALMOST 6 MONTHS, EU FINALLY CHOSE ITS NEGOTIATOR

It wasn’t until the EU Council meeting of 15th December that Michel Barnier was appointed as the official Chief Negotiator for the EU.

17 JAN 2017 - PM PUBLISHED 12 PRINCIPLES OF BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS

On 17 January, Theresa May outlined 12 principles of what the UK was seeking to achieve in its vision of Brexit. These were widely publicised and freely available to all – including the EU.

02 FEB 2017 - UK GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED PAPER DETAILING ITS POSITION

At the beginning of February, David Davis published an official White Paper. Running to 77 pages, it set out the previously announced Brexit principles in more detail. This was submitted to Parliament on 2nd Feb 2017.

29 MAR 2017 - UK FORMALLY INVOKED ARTICLE 50

Ahead of the self-imposed deadline which Mrs May had announced the previous October, the UK government formally triggered Article 50 on 29 March last year. Mrs May’s 6 page letter to the EU reconfirmed the UK’s position in line with what had previously been announced.

11 JUNE 2017 - JUNCKER LIES AGAIN

President Juncker openly lies. He even admits this himself and has been transparent about doing it on many occasions.

On Sunday 11 June he gave a classic example of this to the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Naturally British broadcasters simply swallowed the EU’s propaganda and regurgitated it. Here's just one example (from Sky News but we could have chosen the BBC or many other outlets):

12 JUNE 2017 - UK POSITION PAPERS

The EU finally sent its FIRST approved ‘position papers’ to the UK government on 12 June 2017.

TUESDAY 19 JUNE 2017 - NEGOTIATIONS STARTED

Negotiations finally started on 19 June 2017, when Michel Barnier (Chief Brexit Negotiator for the EU) invited the then Brexit Secretary the Rt Hon David Davis MP to Brussels. Olly Robbins (British Civil Service) and Sabine Weyand (Barnier’s deputy) were also in attendance.

SO, THE EU WAS NOT READY UNTIL ALMOST 12 MONTHS AFTER THE REFERENDUM

The above shows how at all stages the EU had NOT been ready to start negotiations for almost a year.

If it had acted efficiently it would at the very least have been ready to start the day after Article 50 was triggered – on 30 March 2017. After all, it had been given 6 months’ notice of this by the UK government, and it was 9 months since the British people’s decision in the EU Referendum.

The above shows how a year of Brexit negotiations was lost – and the slowest player was the EU.

[ Sources: EU Commission | EU Council | UK Government | Der Spiegel        06.55am, 10 Dec 2018

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 ‘IT DOESN’T MATTER
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER TUESDAY’

THE BREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG SUNDAY EDITORIAL

THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE MPs
DEMOCRATS VERSUS ANTI-DEMOCRATS

For this Sunday edition of Brexit Facts4EU.Org we had contemplated publishing an article full of our usual official facts, explaining why the whole EEA / EFTA /Norway thing is rose-coloured Scandinavian herring.

Then we thought: “What’s the point?”

THE ONE, FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE

There is only one fundamental issue right now, and that’s the refusal of our MPs to accept the instructions of the British people.

Thanks to the disastrous government of Theresa May, there is now only one viable route for delivering the decision of the British people, and that’s an exit from the European Union on WTO terms, with some side agreements on citizens rights, flights, and whatever else the incalcitrant ideologues in Brussels might reluctantly see as being in their best interests.

The catch is that our elected representatives in Parliament are busying themselves finding any and all means possible to prevent this.

This then begs the question. Who’s in charge of the biggest issue for our country in generations, the people or the politicians?

WHO WAS IN CHARGE?

We all know the answer in theory. We were told over and over by the politicians before we voted ‘the wrong way’. It was made clear that we were in charge of whether to remain or leave. It was solely our decision.

Sadly – and precisely because we voted ‘the wrong way’ – our elected representatives have persuaded themselves over the past two and a half years that they should be in charge of ‘our’ decision after all.

THE ISSUE ISN’T BREXIT

This leads us to the real issue..... And this issue isn’t Brexit, because that was decided by the people on 23 June 2016.

No, the real issue is something that drove many people to vote Leave in the first place.

Brexiteers believe in democracy and sovereignty. Remoaners don’t. This battle is really between democrats and anti-democrats.

“OH NO, HOW MANY MORE TIMES?”

We fully understand that long-standing readers of Brexit Facts4EU.Org might be tiring of our repeated articles in the last two weeks about lobbying MPs. In the last (nearly) three years, our readers have quite rightly come to expect well-researched articles about all aspects of the EU and Brexit, citing real facts from official sources.

Unfortunately we have recently felt compelled to produce yet another campaign to persuade our elected representatives to respect the majority will of the British people, as expressed in a vote which the Electoral Commission declared to be valid.

We take no pleasure in this. We have done it quite simply because none of the big boys were stepping up to the plate, in our opinion. Those large Brexit organisations, with funding we can only dream of, have failed to nail the fundamental issue. So we’ve had to do it.

And it’s working. (See article below)

IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT HAPPENS AFTER TUESDAY’S VOTE

This morning Ladbrokes are offering odds of 1/12 that Theresa May’s “Remain with chains” deal is voted down on Tuesday.

After it has been defeated, as seems extremely likely, what then?

Whatever happens, it will be decided by MPs in the first place. It doesn’t matter whether there’s a Tory leadership contest, arcane procedures to prevent an exit on WTO terms, a no confidence vote, a general election, or a vote for yet another referendum.

The key to everything is MPs and whether they can be pressured into accepting the result of the EU Referendum. Without that, everything else is simply political machinations and personality politics.

PLEASE GET YOUR VOICE HEARD – AND THE VOICE OF YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

We implore all decent, ordinary people to make an effort today. Without you, MPs will end up doing what they think, not what you’ve told them to do.

The message to MPs is simple:

Please see the following simple article and please, please act on it today.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org        06.15am, Sunday, 09 Dec 2018

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 STAND AND DELIVER!

Brighton Brexiteers handing out our 'Brexit Flyer' yesterday in the PM's constituency

DEFEATING THE PM'S “REMAIN, WITH CHAINS”
AND RESTORING BRITISH DEMOCRACY

This weekend large numbers of people have already been distributing our ‘Brexit Flyer’.

And tens of thousands of people have been receiving electronic copies so that they can print out as many as they can and go out delivering door-to-door today.

EVERYONE LOVES IT!

Described by a national officer of one of the political parties as “the best I have seen”, Facts4EU.Org’s ‘Brexit Flyer’ is designed to put pressure on MPs where it hurts them most - in their majorities!

This flyer promotes an exit on WTO terms – now the only truly viable route to a clean Brexit - and gives voters the chance to sign it and post it to their MPs today. The underlying message for voters to send to their MPs is :-

BACKING FOR OUR ‘BREXIT FLYER’ IS GROWING BY THE HOUR

• Alliance of British Entrepreneurs
• Brexit Alliance (nine pro-Brexit groups including Get Britain Out, Better Off Out, The Freedom Association, the Bow Group, the Campaign for Conservative Democracy)
• City for Britain
• Fishing for Leave
• Scots for Leave
• The Time Party
• UKIP
• Veterans for Britain
• You can download the pdf here

THREE EXAMPLES OF MANY EMAILS RECEIVED IN THE LAST 24 HOURS

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Please gird your loins once again, we need you to hit the streets! If you could print off as many of these flyers as possible and deliver them locally, it will make a real difference. Already thousands of people are doing this all across the country but we need the maximum possible effort this weekend.

Even if you only delivered to 10 houses, it all adds to the pressure on MPs to respect democracy, even if they don’t care about our sovereignty.

Will you “stand and deliver” today?

HERE’S THE LEAFLET / FLYER

• You can download the pdf here
• You can request the original MS Word document from us, for editing to add your local details
• Any individual or local group can use it with our permission
• We simply ask large Brexit organisations to contact us first and we will readily grant permission

The attachment is safe and has been scanned by our anti-virus software.

Please also send the link to this article to as many people as possible via any means possible – email, social media, whatever. You can copy and paste the link by clicking on "SHARE THIS ARTICLE ONLINE" at the bottom of this article.

And remember the key message is that it’s worth people making the effort to POST this. Emails with identical content aren’t read, but MPs can’t ignore huge bags of envelopes arriving in their offices!

With best wishes,

The Brexit Facts4EU.Org team

Brexit Facts4EU.Org        06.45am, Sunday, 09 Dec 2018

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 WTO – THE WAY TO GO

Part Two (Click here for Part One)

DEAD BODIES, GRIDLOCKED COUNTIES,
RUBBISH PILED UP IN THE STREETS?

PROJECT FEAR AND THE WTO SOLUTION

There are many important flaws in the current Project Fear wild stories about exiting on WTO terms.

To remind readers, these wild and irresponsible claims by national and local government include Southern England’s roads becoming gridlocked for six months by trucks queuing for Dover, dead bodies being uncollected, food deliveries not getting to supermarkets, and even children missing their exams because of clogged roads.

All of these claims were made or reiterated yesterday by Government Ministers and by Kent County Council.

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• Any border problems would come from act of economic aggression by the EU
• EU policy is for electronic system of customs clearance
• Non-EU goods already pass into EU seamlessly
• Any action by the EU would halt Irish exports to EU
• Such action would also stop £75 billion per year of German exports into UK

ACT OF ECONOMIC AGGRESSION

In order for any of these wild claims to be remotely true, it would require deliberate action on the part of the EU to make their borders as difficult as possible for normal trade to work.

Putting aside the immediate action that the UK would take against the EU at the World Trade Organisation and the UNECE for breaking its rules, there is a more fundamental point to make.

If the EU were to introduce vindictive and unreasonable checks at their ports on 30 March next year, it would be doing so to punish the United Kingdom for leaving.

That argument alone is a key one, and is not one you will hear from the BBC or Sky. Who would want to be part of a club which was so evil?

WHAT HAPPENS AT BORDERS?

The world has been moving to a system of pre-clearing goods for customs purposes for many years. It is official WTO policy and the EU itself has such a system, as well as a legal requirement on all member states to comply.

The EU is now moving swiftly to an enhanced and fully electronic system. This is mandatory and the UK’s HMRC says that the UK system will be in place in January, ahead of the EU’s deadline.

Physical checks of goods involve a tiny proportion of trade. Depending on the border in question this is around 2%, and these checks are generally intelligence-led.

For example, the Chairman of the Board of the Irish Revenue Commissioners told a Committee of the Irish parliament in 2017 that :

WHAT ABOUT GOODS FROM OUTSIDE THE EU?

What is almost never mentioned by Remainer MPs is that borders exist between independent countries all around the world. And hundreds of billions of pounds worth of goods enter the UK’s and the EU’s ports every year from non-EU countries.

Strangely these international (non-EU) goods pass through into the UK and EU without involving massive gridlock or trucks backed-up in their countries of origin.

THE FINAL KILLER FACTS

If the EU were instantly to make life as difficult as possible for goods travelling to the EU from the UK on 30 March 2019, this would be an act of enormous self-harm.

1. Republic of Ireland goods travel through the UK to mainland EU

The EU claims to be Ireland’s best friend in the Brexit negotiations. If Southern England becomes gridlocked for six months as a result of vindictive action by the EU, what happens to exports to the rest of the EU from the Republic of Ireland?

The majority of these travel across the Irish Sea, through the UK, and down to Dover. Obviously they would not be able to be delivered to mainland EU and the Irish economy would be in big trouble.

2. EU’s goods exports to the UK

The other consequence of vindictive action by the EU is obvious, but is never stated. (Except by us.)

If Southern England becomes gridlocked, what happens to EU exports into the UK? Let’s just take one EU country: Germany.

Last year Germany’s businesses sold over £75 billion (pounds) worth of goods to the UK.

How is Germany going to react to these goods not being delivered to their British destinations, because the UK’s roads are gridlocked by ideological EU action?

[ Sources: Irish Customs testimony to Dail Committee | Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) | Michael Fabricant MP tweet | Steve Baker MP ]        06.15am, 8 Dec 2018

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 LAST CHANCE SALOON?

IF YOU BELIEVE IN BREXIT,
YOU NOW HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT… AGAIN

In 2016, we won. All of us. You won, we won, Vote Leave, Leave.EU and UKIP won, pro-Brexit special interest groups won, all the thousands of people combining in local groups - of all parties and none - across the length and breadth of the country WON.

We defeated the massed battalions of British and international Establishment forces lined up to brainwash, bully and pressure the voters of the United Kingdom into more decades chained to a dysfunctional and failing ideological edifice called the European Union.

We won. Phew.

Oh, wait.......

Almost immediately the Remainer Establishment started their fightback. Prime Minister David Cameron resigned, instead of invoking Article 50 as he had promised to do “the next day”. Spurious High Court cases began, and an online parliamentary petition to overturn the result gained over 4 million signatures within days.

Three days after the vote, the Cabinet Minister the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP was on TV saying: “It is essential we remain inside the Single Market.” Yes, the same Jeremy Hunt who is now Foreign Secretary and who has apparently claimed himself to be pro-Brexit.

The second weekend after the vote there was a mass march through the streets of London, by people unable to respect a democratic vote. It secured huge TV coverage, of course.

Within two weeks of winning the Referendum, it seemed that it had become acceptable to question the result on every level. The pro-Remain BBC, Sky News, and ITN joined in with gusto, feeling themselves free of the shackles of supposedly maintaining objectivity during the official campaign period itself.

AND WHAT ABOUT US?

At Brexit Facts4EU.Org, we published the news of the victory during the night of 24 June 2016 and have continued publishing every day thereafter. Looking back now at what we wrote in the days following the vote, we take no pleasure in describing it as prescient. We did not leave the stage.

We saw all the signs that whilst the battle had been won, the war was far from over.

Others might have gone on holiday, but we didn’t.

WHY ARE WE TELLING YOU THIS?

Below we are once again appealing to our readers, social media followers, and every pro-Brexit organisation out there.

We weren’t wrong about any of this. We soldiered on with insufficient (although generous) amounts of funding by individual readers, with daily articles which fought back against the rising tide of Remainist propaganda using our continuing research of facts from official sources, as ever.

So when we ask everyone to rise up today and deliver our leaflet or risk losing Brexit, we hope this appeal will be taken seriously.

DO IT PLEASE.   NOW.

The ONLY chance now is to hit MPs hard with the prospect of losing their jobs forever if they don’t respect the largest democratic vote in the history of the United Kingdom.

And the most effective way of doing that is to use our leaflet, going door-to-door or at stalls in the shopping streets. The leaflet is a simple way of getting MPs deluged with envelopes in their offices in the Palace of Westminster. Old-fashioned? Yes. Effective? Yes.

We truly hope you will read and act on what follows in the piece below. We may well be entering the last chance saloon for Brexit.

This has been a heartfelt plea from the Brexit Facts4EU.Org team.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org        06.15am, 7 Dec 2018

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 LET’S DO IT
THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY

The PM will be leafleting today in her constituency

WE NEED TO GET OUT THERE TODAY, PEOPLE!

On Sunday we asked for your thoughts on a leaflet designed to get people sending it to their MP. On Wednesday (5th December) we published our leaflet.

These are just two examples in the last 24 hours of the huge number of positive messages we’ve received. No flyer can ever be perfect for everyone, but it seems that this one is something everyone wants to use.

HERE’S THE LEAFLET / FLYER

• You can download the pdf here
• You can request the original MS Word document from us, for editing to add your local details
• Any individual or local group can use it with our permission
• We simply ask large Brexit organisations to contact us first and we will readily grant permission

THE PRIME MINISTER IS LEAFLETTING TODAY, IN MAIDENHEAD

Sadly we doubt that the PM will be using our leaflet.

If Theresa May is leafleting in her own constituency today, why not join her? We don’t have a copy of her leaflet, but we’ll bet a pound to a penny it’s not a patch on ours!

We were unable to persuade a large Brexit organisation to print and distribute copies of the leaflet around the country, so we can only ask you to print as many copies as possible yourselves.

If you have no printing facilities, we are hoping to persuade some local pro-Brexit business owners to print some for you to collect. Please contact us via email or via our contact form here.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org        06.15am, 07 Dec 2018

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 ‘RESPECT MY VOTE,
OR LOSE YOUR JOB’

Right now, MPs are continuing to debate
how bad Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement really is

BUT MOST OF THEM WANT TO REPLACE IT WITH REMAIN

URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED BY ALL OF US

We know Mrs May’s agreement with the EU is bad. You know it’s bad. It’s possibly the worst Treaty that the British government has ever proposed signing up to in British history.

THE TOP, TOP PRIORITY

Every day readers hear MPs talking about how they believe another Referendum or another General Election is needed. You hear them regurgitating their failed arguments about staying in the EU.

PLEASE PRINT AND DELIVER THIS LEAFLET TODAY

Please click to open the printable version

THIS IS IN YOUR HANDS

It’s now up to you to leaflet your local communities today, just like you did in the original Referendum campaign, asking people to tell their MPs to respect democracy. Thousands of people are now doing this. Together, we can make a difference.

The leaflet is based on what readers and social media followers told us would work, together with some input from us. If you prefer, ask us for the Word version and amend it.

PLEASE print this out today and deliver as many as you can. And we would love it if you tell us how many you’ve delivered!

(And don’t forget to post your own copy to your MP today!)

THE KEY MESSAGE

Remember, the key message to MPs is “Respect my vote or I’ll vote you out of your job”.

At this late stage, this is the only message that will help. MPs MUST be told.

Not only must MPs reject Theresa May’s surrender document, they must accept that leaving on WTO terms – with some side agreements on citizens rights, flights, etc – is the only option now.

Remember, the majority of the World trades with the EU, and they don’t have to be in the Single Market or Customs Union to do so. They trade fundamentally on WTO terms. It’s normal.

LET’S MOBILISE AGAIN!

We live in dangerous times for Brexit.

Will you now print this and deliver as many as you can in your area today and in the coming days?

Please get behind this. We are here to help. You can get in touch using our contact form or by emailing direct to . (Sorry, this is an image to protect us from spammer robots.) We can even provide a Word version if you wish to change some wording to suit your local area, or to add local contact details.

We had hoped to persuade one of the big Brexit organisations to fund the printing of these flyers, but alas we were unsuccessful. Nevertheless, large numbers of people said they would print copies themselves if we provided a PDF version of the flyer.

We are also hoping to persuade pro-Brexit businesses nationally to agree to print some off, for collection by local people, but we ask all people reading this to start printing themselves, and delivering today.

Note: This leaflet is our copyright. Permission is granted to private individuals and to small, local pro-Brexit groups to print and distribute it on their own behalf. Permission will also be granted to Brexit organisations but they must contact us prior to use. Please note that we have NOT branded it with our logo. This leaflet is a generic message and it’s not about one organisation, it's about all of us.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org        12.50pm, 6 Dec 2018

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 WTO – THE WAY TO GO

Part One

86% OF WORLD SALES TO EU DON’T NEED
SINGLE MARKET OR CUSTOMS UNION

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• Not in the Single Market
• Not in the Customs Union

• Not paying for access
• Not having EU laws imposed on their parliaments and their peoples
• Not having EU laws imposed on all their businesses
• Not having to allow free movement
• Not allowing the EU to try to take part of their territory
  www.facts4eu.org    Source: Official EU statistics for 2017, Eurostat

WHERE DOES THIS RESEARCH COME FROM?

Brexit Facts4EU.Org conducted research into the trade figures for 2017 from the official statistics body serving the EU Commission. Their list includes everyone from little islands to the major economies such as China and the USA. Technically some of the small islands are not countries, but they’re on the EU’s official list so we’ve included them.

In order to give you a very clear picture of how easy it is to sell into the EU, we then excluded EEA and EFTA countries and those with any form of close relationship, such as Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Turkey and others. In other words we looked at all the countries selling into the EU perfectly successfully, without EU complications.

THE UK COULD BE ONE OF THESE NORMAL, INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES

If the vast majority of global sales into the EU come from countries which are not members of the EU’s Single Market or Customs Union, why shouldn’t the UK become one of them on 29 March next year?

If 200 countries and states can do it, why can’t the United Kingdom? This is the NORMAL way of selling to the EU.

WHO ARE THE 40 TOP SELLERS?

Our list of independent countries and states manages to sell to the EU without being in the EU’s Single Market, the Customs Union, or the EEA.

Below we narrow this down to show the top 40 countries selling into the EU in 2017, without any of the complications which Remain MPs and peers wish the UK to have with the EU.

The countries above - and another 160-odd countries and states - sold to the EU last year without having to accept free movement, nor having to have their laws made in the EU, nor having to pay billions per year to the EU.

They most certainly didn't have to give up their sovereignty, as Theresa May is proposing to do with her 'Withdrawal Agreement'.

And yet last year they sold goods worth over €1.8 trillion euros to the EU.

• Almost 80% of the EU’s imports come from 40 independent countries around the world
• These countries are not members of the Single Market but they sell successfully to the EU
• They are not members of the Customs Union but they sell successfully to the EU
• They are not members of the EEA but they sell successfully to the EU
• They have control of their borders, their money, and their laws, but they sell successfully to the EU
• And the only country in the top 40 with a full, ratified Free Trade Agreement with the EU is South Korea

[ Sources: Official EU data - Eurostat ]        06.45am, 6 Dec 2018

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 86% OF BREXITEERS FAVOUR
IMMEDIATE GROUND CAMPAIGN

RESULTS OF OUR POLL

Brexit Facts4EU.Org is pleased to report the final results of its 48-hour online Twitter poll regarding a ground campaign to hit MPs hard, leafleting door-to-door to ask people to contact their MP immediately.

From the sample of 1204 people (comparable with national poll sample sizes), 86% of respondents said “Yes, let’s do it”.

In addition, we received many emails and private messages from individuals and local groups across the country, each of them offering to deliver hundreds or thousands of leaflets, and many of them offering to print these flyers themselves.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS CAMPAIGN?

1. To persuade everyday Leave voters to pressure their MPs right now – not after these MPs have voted to thwart Brexit
2. To simplify and clarify the latest pro-Brexit messages to people who are being brainwashed by May and the media

WHAT WE DID

We asked readers and social media followers what they thought was important. We combined this with our own fact-based and bullet-point approach and have produced a leafet which is punchy but effective. Please see our article below for more details.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org        05.15am, 5 Dec 2018

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 TIME TO ATTACK

MPs ARE SET ON OVERTURNING BREXIT
IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS

HERE'S THE ANSWER

It’s time for the ground campaign - NOW!

In 2016 thousands of ordinary people campaigned for Leave. They did so door-to-door, at market stalls, at public meetings, and in many other ways. They reached out and connected with millions who had never even voted before.

LET’S MOBILISE AGAIN!

Below is a leaflet which we have produced based on comments from ordinary Leave voters in the last two days. It highlights some key points and most importantly asks the public to act now, by telling their MPs in no uncertain terms to respect the Referendum result in full.

Will you now print this and deliver as many as you can in your area today and in the coming days?

Please click to open the printable version

THE LEAFLET

Please get behind this. We are here to help. You can get in touch using our contact form or by emailing direct to . (Sorry, this is an image to protect us from spammer robots.) We can even provide a Word version if you wish to change some wording to suit your local area, or to add local contact details.

We had hoped to persuade one of the big Brexit organisations to fund the printing of these flyers, but alas we were unsuccessful. Nevertheless, large numbers of people said they would print copies themselves if we provided a PDF version of the flyer.

We are also hoping to persuade pro-Brexit businesses nationally to agree to print some off, for collection by local people, but we ask all people reading this to start printing themselves, and delivering today.

Note: This leaflet is our copyright. Permission is granted to private individuals and to small, local pro-Brexit groups to print and distribute it on their own behalf. Permission will also be granted to Brexit organisations but they must contact us prior to use. Please note that we have NOT branded it with our logo. This leaflet is a generic message and it’s not about one organisation, it's about all of us.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org        05.15am, 5 Dec 2018

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 THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE

HOW FAR WILL OUR DEMOCRACY FALL?

In 2017 the Conservative government of Theresa May retained power following the General Election - and no-one challenged the result.

Even with the first-past-the-post voting system in the UK, Mrs May failed to achieve a majority of seats, resulting in a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the DUP’s MPs in order to stay in power.

The Conservative Party achieved 42.4% of the vote, with Labour just behind on 40.0%. It was a narrow victory. A larger margin of victory was achieved by Leave voters in the EU Referendum.

Yet no-one pursued High Court actions to overturn the result of the General Election. No-one went to the ECJ in Luxembourg.

As Mrs May’s combination of incompetence and lack of desire to implement Brexit became fully apparent, there were no claims that “When they voted, no-one knew how awful her government would be.” No-one demanded that the General Election be re-run.

THIS IS ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT

In this morning’s Daily Telegraph, former Conservative leader William Hague tells its readers that “Parliament doesn’t want No Deal, and MPs will kill it dead.”

He goes on to argue that MPs will find ways to frustrate Brexit completely in the coming weeks and gives many examples of how they can do so. He does so without any hint of shame or embarrassment.

THE REFERENDUM RESULT WAS AN INSTRUCTION TO LEAVE THE EU

The people gave the politicians an instruction. There is simply no question about this. It was confirmed by all senior politicians, many times, in writing and on the radio and television. It was even in the Government’s official leaflet, delivered to every household in the UK.

The people did not give a conditional answer, dependent on whether the government proved incompetent to negotiate with the EU. We were told that this was a once in a lifetime decision.

There was no “See what you can negotiate and then we’ll vote again.”  It was simple: the majority of people voted to leave the EU. And the Prime Minister promised to trigger Article 50 “the next day”.

The default answer to Brexit is therefore that the UK should leave the EU at the end of the Article 50 notice period on 29 April 2019, regardless of what arrangements are or are not made with the EU before then.

“A FULL BREXIT, OR WE VOTE YOU OUT”

If - as William Hague and many Parliamentarians assert they will - MPs reject Mrs May’s abomination of a ‘deal’, and are then determined to stop an exit on normal WTO terms, then we have a major constitutional crisis on our hands.

In fact it’s far worse than that. The chattering classes will talk of all the constitutional matters. A large part of the country will talk of the end of democracy in the United Kingdom.

It is our contention that only the most direct and stark warning must now be given to the Establishment and in particular to all MPs.

“Deliver a full exit from the EU, as you were instructed, or we’ll vote you out.”

[ Sources: Electoral Commission | Lord Hague in the Daily Telegraph ]        05.15am, 4 Dec 2018

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 WE HAVE A CHALLENGE FOR YOU

DO YOU WANT ACTION ON BREXIT?

Yesterday Brexit Facts4EU.Org asked a question of our thousands of followers on social media.

Our idea is to produce a simple, bullet-pointed flyer. It could summarise in everyday language :-

• Why Theresa’s Brexit isn’t Brexit at all
• How Brexit is still the right decision for the country
• The bullying way the EU has behaved
• How we exit the EU on WTO terms with some agreements on citizens rights, aviation, etc
• There would be no hard border between N.I. and the Republic
• Why people should write to their MP today

This leaflet could then be delivered door-to-door by as many ordinary people as possible, to as many doors as possible.

ADDED BENEFIT

Many initiatives have spin-off benefits and this one is no exception. Would you like to have a list of the key arguments about Brexit and where we are now? The process of deciding what goes on the leaflet would achieve this, for use on social media and in everyday conversations. Who knows, some MPs might even start to use the points.

OUR CHALLENGE TO YOU

We could draft such a leaflet, but we thought we would ask you, our thousands of readers, for your ideas. We believe it would be refreshing to have a leaflet designed to appeal to ordinary people, by ordinary people, not dictated from on high.

Here is an example that we received overnight, from a regular reader who first emailed us on Saturday about taking action. As part of our answer on Sunday morning we thought we would throw out the challenge to that reader. We think the result is very good.

The example is too long as you can see – our fault for not specifying a smaller number of words to this reader. Nevertheless it gives you some idea.

HOW TO INPUT YOUR IDEAS

Firstly, some golden rules. Your version must :-

Then simply copy and paste this into our contact form, or send it as an attachment to our email address . Sorry, this is an image to protect us from spammer robots.

THE TIME IS NOW

We only have days before the Commons vote on Theresa May’s non-Brexit Brexit ‘deal’. Either we mobilise now or the consequences could be dire. Whilst there appears to be no chance of her deal being approved, the fall-out is anyone’s guess.

Imagine if it resulted in a subsequent vote for another referendum, when the result of the original Referendum hasn’t even been implemented?

If you’d like to contribute your version, please do it today!

HOW WE CAN USE THIS TO BEST EFFECT

We are in discussions with many other Brexit organisations, some of whom will back this. Your contribution may well be included in something which will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people – maybe millions.

In an ideal world we would love it if this flyer could be delivered at the same time as a postcard onto which people could write their name and address, affix a stamp, and send off to their MP at the House of Commons.

Below we give an example of such a postcard, from our friends at Scots for Leave. It’s from a few weeks ago and naturally the new version would look different. However the stalwart souls from Scots for Leave went out and delivered thousands of these, often in harsh weather!

Or you could look at a postcard delivered by ‘Leavers of Dorset’.

[ Sources: A reader's response | Scots for Leave | Leavers of Dorset ]        06.55am, 3 Dec 2018

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 THREE ARTICLES ABOUT TRUTH, JUSTICE
AND THE THERESAN WAY

What Kind Of World Are We Living In?

Theresa May and her government are lying about Brexit on an epic scale.

As the great character Dr House, played by Hugh Laurie, says: “Everybody lies.” Certainly it is a common refrain used by many people about politicians in particular.

In the case of Mrs May and her government, this reputation for mendacity is being honed and polished until it blinds the great British public. On a daily basis now the Prime Minister is deceiving the people of our country and – yesterday – the World.

Below we bring you two more articles about ‘truth, justice, and the Theresan way’. The first is our Sunday editorial and the second is on the same topic but includes Labour’s similar mendacity.

We hope you will find them informative and thought-provoking.

Best regards, the Brexit Facts4EU.Org team, 05.00am, Sun 02 Dec 2018

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 WHAT DOES BREXIT MEAN?

DON’T WORRY, THE EU HAS ALREADY DEFINED IT

A Sunday Brexit Facts4EU.Org Editorial

The EU has a definition of what Brexit means. They defined it in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which was enacted nine years ago yesterday, on 01 December 2009. It says:

“The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in paragraph 2, unless the European Council, in agreement with the Member State concerned, unanimously decides to extend this period.”

The key phrase is that the “Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question”. In other words, the UK would no longer have the obligations defined under those treaties. Using this test, the UK will not have left the EU on 29 March 2019.

It is clearly stated in Mrs May’s so-called Withdrawal Agreement that the UK will continue to have virtually all the obligations of EU membership after that date. This of course comes with the added ‘bonus’ that she has cleverly negotiated, viz that the UK will no longer have any say in anything the EU wishes to impose on the British people.

WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A MAY

So how do Theresa May and her colleagues get away with it?

The answer is simple. They use the future or future continuous tense. “We will be leaving the jurisdiction of the ECJ”, or “We will be leaving the Common Fisheries Policy”, or “We will be able to do trade deals with other countries”.

What they don’t say is when.
And there’s the rub.

Instead of a clean break with the EU after two years as suggested by Article 50, Mrs May is tying the country into a long process lasting for many, many years. When you add the invidious ‘Backstop’ into the mix, she will have given the EU the effective right of veto over whether the UK ever leaves at all.

JOURNALISTS SHOULD START DOING THEIR JOB

If the nation’s journalists – in particular those from the BBC, Sky News and ITN – were not mostly Remainers, they would be asking the Prime Minister and her colleagues one simple question over and over again.

“When?”

It’s such a simple question, and if repeated over and over it would expose the Prime Minister and Cabinet as the charlatans they are. We want actual dates, and therefore the journos will be forced to press the PM for these.

For example: “When exactly will the UK be completely free of any jurisdiction of any kind by the ECJ?” (Answer: a minimum of eight years' time, under Theresa’s plans.)

NOT EVERYONE READS THE SPECTATOR

This may come as a surprise to all the London-centric chattering classes out there, but the majority of people in the country do not follow the twists and turns of Brexit on a daily basis. They have busy lives to lead.

Instead they hear sound-bites. And with these, the Prime Minister is successfully giving the impression that we are leaving the EU on 29 March next year. She is doing so daily.

We would hazard a guess that there are millions out there who have no idea just how awful is the ‘deal’ that Theresa and friends are about to foist on the country. They hear the PM saying we will leave on 29 March next year and they take her at face value, more or less.

LET’S JUST TAKE TRADE

Yesterday the PM was at the G20 Summit in Argentina. In addition to holding one-on-one meetings with the leaders of several countries (but not with President Trump), Mrs May gave a statement to the world’s media.

The clear impression given to the World’s media and to the British public who saw this on television is that the UK will be able to agree trade deals next year. Not so. In fact there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell.

The PM knows this. Dr Liam Fox, International Trade Secretary, knows this. The entire Cabinet and the majority of MPs know this. And yet a large section of the British public doesn’t.

Not only that, but the UK will continue to be bound by the EU’s Common External Tariff, meaning that one of the biggest economic benefits of Brexit is on semi-permanent hold. The UK will have to continue applying absurdly high EU taiffs on imported products. Prices will remain high.

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 THOUGHTS ON THE AFTERMATH OF THE REFERENDUM

    

ON A LAWYER’S MISUSE OF LAWYERLY TALK

By Michael Donnan for Brexit Facts4EU.Org

If nothing else, the aftermath of the Referendum reveals that democracy in the UK is under threat and that the culprits include representatives of the major political parties. I shall take two representative examples.

SIR KEIR STARMER

Up first is Sir Keir Starmer, who, in his article (“Labour won’t be bullied into a bad deal”) in the Sunday Times dated 11.11.2018, stated that there “is no mandate for a no deal”.

That statement is quite mendacious, in the sophistical manner beloved of second-rate lawyers. In the 2016 Referendum, the electorate voted by a clear majority to leave the EU: there were no provisos, no restrictions, no qualifications. It was therefore a vote to leave, come what may. Accordingly, if it proves impossible to persuade the EU to agree an acceptable trade deal, then the UK Parliament already has the implicit authorisation from the electorate to leave without a deal.

It has to be borne in mind that the Referendum was not some kind of opinion poll, nor was it merely advisory: it was a referral by Parliament, in the exercise of parliamentary sovereignty be it noted, to the electorate of a decision as to whether the UK stays in the EU. It follows that the decision should have binding force, in as much as it is an instruction to Parliament to act upon it. To ignore that decision or to seek to subvert it would therefore be an affront not only to democracy but also to the rule of law.

Unfortunately, Sir Keir Starmer has form in this area. As reported in a Sky News article dated 27 August 2017, he told Sky News:

This would be a travesty of the Referendum decision: to leave the EU means leaving the organs (such as the customs union and the single market) that are constitutive of the EU as stated in the Treaty on European Union. Under Article 50 of that treaty, the treaty’s provisions cease to apply to the UK upon expiry of the period prescribed in that Article.

Sir Keir is one of the many pro-EU politicians who, finding themselves on the losing side of the Referendum result, resort to sophistry and other shabby means in an attempt to undermine the electorate’s democratic decision.

THERESA MAY

Up next is Mrs May. Article 89 of the draft agreement being promoted by Mrs May says this:

This means that the CJEU will have jurisdiction over the UK in certain areas, even after the UK has notionally left the EU. However, in her Lancaster House speech, Mrs May said:

If follows that if the draft agreement forms the basis of a treaty between the UK and the EU, then even after the expiry of the Article 50 period, the UK will, in Mrs May’s own words, not have truly left the European Union. This is clearly a betrayal of the decision of the UK electorate in the 2016 Referendum, a betrayal that serves the EU’s interests rather than those of the UK.

ANTI-DEMOCRATS

So, we are saddled, it seems, with anti-democrats to the left of us, anti-democrats to the right of us. (I was tempted to use a much stronger term than “anti-democrats”.)

I fear that the expiry of the Article 50 period may well go down in history as the day democracy finally died in the UK. And this will have consequences, since if the governing class is seen to thwart the democratic decision of the UK electorate, and hence (as noted) ride roughshod over the rule of law, there will be elements in the general population who will consider that democratic principles and the rule of law need not apply to them either. That is a recipe for anarchy and the violence that goes with it.

Are our MPs so blind or stupid as not to realize how dangerous is the situation into which the likes of Mrs May and Sir Keir Starmer are leading us?

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THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY ARTICLE WAS REQUESTED BY MPs

We produced the following summary article on defence after a request from MPs yesterday. Inevitably it can't cover all aspects of the subject of defence and Brexit or it would be far too long.

Nevertheless we have tried to highlight some of the major points and provide some examples. We are happy to provide further information on request.

We hope that readers will appreciate the summary as much as Brexiteer MPs.

Best regards, the Brexit Facts4EU.Org team, 05.00am, Sat 01 Dec 2018

 DEFENCE OF THE REALM
UNDER THERESA MAY

A summary paper researched and written by Brexit Facts4EU.Org,
and endorsed by Veterans For Britain

How MPs and the public are not being told the truth about UK defence and Brexit

This article is a summary of a complex subject. It’s been written in plain language to highlight the issues, for MPs and for ordinary members of the public.

• Government has quietly been signing us up to EU defence structures since the Referendum
• UK will keep paying billions, and Parliament hasn’t been properly informed
• UK defence forces will not be fully independent of the EU
• EU is accelerating its own ‘EU Army’ to replace NATO in Europe
• EU defence budgets are rocketing – 50-fold increase in budget starting 2021
• Nations states expected to contribute even more from national budgets
• Yet the EU hasn’t even been capable of paying for its own defence since it started

It is important to understand that it’s not what the EU and the UK are saying, it’s what they’re doing that matters….. And what they have been doing for the last few years.

WHAT DOES THE WITHDRAWAL TREATY SAY ABOUT DEFENCE?

Theresa May’s Withdrawal Treaty has a section on defence. Out of 585 pages, defence merits the equivalent of only half a page of A4.

And those few words are all about the UK paying the EU. After we ‘leave’ on 29 March 2019, the UK will continue to pay for “the European Defence Agency, the European Union Institute for Security Studies, and the European Union Satellite Centre, as well as to the costs of Common Security and Defence Policy operations…”

WHAT ABOUT THERESA’S ‘POLITICAL DECLARATION’?

The vague and woolly ‘Political Declaration’ which was supposed to have given us the outline of the UK’s future relations with the EU is no better than the Withdrawal Treaty. However it makes clear the direction of travel.

“the Parties agree to enable to the extent possible under the conditions of Union law:

a) the United Kingdom's collaboration in relevant existing and future projects of the European Defence Agency (EDA) through an Administrative Arrangement;

b) the participation of eligible United Kingdom entities in collaborative defence projects bringing together Union entities supported by the European Defence Fund (EDF); and

c) the United Kingdom's collaboration in projects in the framework of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), where invited to participate on an exceptional basis by the Council of the European Union in PESCO format.”

This makes it clear that both the EU bureaucrats and the mandarins at the MoD are hoping to carry on ‘business as usual’.

AND WHAT ABOUT THE MONEY?

The EU has consistently failed to pay for its own defence for decades. The contributions to NATO from EU member states who are members of both organisations are pitiful.

Yet the UK has paid far more than its fair share.

EU DEFENCE BUDGETS ARE ROCKETING

Under Theresa May’s ‘deal’, the UK is expected to pay for EU defence until 2021 on top of the UK defence budget, and for the pensions of EU defence staff for decades. It is also clear from the EU’s track record that there’s no chance of it agreeing a trade and future relations deal with the UK before then, which means the UK will keep paying for EU defence.

This is mentioned briefly in the Political Declaration when it refers to the EU’s ‘defence capabilities’ and says that “These should include a fair and appropriate financial contribution.”

Below is the EU's own admission of the increase in costs for defence for its 7-year accounting period starting 01 Jan 2021. They admit to a 22-times increase.

However, in the above chart the EU has not included all the defence items. Specifically they omitted the Military Mobility fund (€6.5bn) and the off-the-books 'Peace Fund' (10.5bn). This brings the increase up to 50 times the amount in the previous period, 2014-2020. And these figures only include defence. ‘Security’ is on top of this.

• €4.1bn Defence research projects
• €8.9bn “Collaborative capability development projects”
• €6.5bn “Military mobility”
• €1.3bn Contingency
• €20.8bn TOTAL
• PLUS €10.5bn Off-the-books 'Peace Fund' controlled by EU de facto Defence Secretary

It was announced last year that as the funds gain pace, member states will be expected to contribute at a rate 5 times that of monies coming from the EU's central budget. This kind of thing is happening more and more in the EU, so that the EU's real costs appear to be much smaller than they are.

ADDITIONAL “OFF-THE-BOOKS” EU FUND OF €10.5bn

In addition to the €21bn above which the EU is including in its budget for the 7-year accounting period starting 01 Jan 2021, EU documents reveal a further, less transparent defence fund. This one is described as “off-budget” by the EU, meaning that it will not appear anywhere in the main EU budget tables. MPs are rarely told about these 'off-the-books' funds which the EU has been using more and more. They do not appear in the list of UK contributions to the EU.

HOW MPs AND THE PUBLIC ARE BEING DECEIVED

Since the Referendum the UK has consistently approved new EU defence propositions when they come up at EU Council, but MPs are unaware of this.

Here is just one classic example. On Thurs 22 June 2017, the Prime Minister attended the European Council where she approved:

Crucially - and unreported by anyone but Brexit Facts4EU.Org at the time - the Council agreed that the deployment of EU Battlegroups should be borne as a common cost on a permanent basis. This had previously been resisted by several other EU countries. Nevertheless Mrs May, who was representing a country which had voted to leave the EU, approved this.

As shown below, in her statement to Parliament the following week the PM failed to mention defence at all, despite it having been the top item on the agenda at the EU Summit.

EUROPEAN COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS SECURITY & DEFENCE was the first section.

MRS MAY'S’S STATEMENT ON EU DEFENCE DEFENCE wasn’t even mentioned once.

We invite Conservative MPs who still back Mrs May to study the Conclusions of the European Summit and compare them with Mrs May's statement to the House of Commons immediately after it. In Mrs May’s version of events, there is no mention whatsoever of what she agreed with the EU on defence, and yet it was the main item.

Sadly this has been typical. MPs have not been made aware of what civil servants and government ministers – including the PM – have agreed.

FOR ONCE, THE EU HAVEN'T EXACTLY HIDDEN ANYTHING

Here is the EU’s de facto Foreign and Defence Secretary, former Communist Ms Mogherini, in June 2017 - one year AFTER the Referendum - talking about the EU’s developments in common defence:

[ Sources: NATO | EU Commission | EU Council | Hansard ]        05.00am, 1 Dec 2018

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