Dear Remain MPs and voters, the EU is about politics, not trade

Theresa and Jeremy talk about the Customs Union and Single Market - and ‘red lines’

Brexit Facts4EU.Org looks at the reality of the EU - includes one of our famous 1-page PDF summaries!

Dear Remain MPs and voters,

Below are some important general points about the EU, and we hope you will find this perspective interesting.

While Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are arguing over ‘red lines’ in their talks to cobble together some unacceptable compromise which can never be called Brexit except by desperate politicians, we look at a simple question.

Is the EU a trading bloc or a political project?

A Brexit Facts4EU.org Summary

1. No other trading bloc in the world:

Demands political obedience
Demands open borders
Imposes its own social laws on members
Imposes its tax system on members
Imposes its own court
Has its own (failing) currency
Is forming its own army
Demands £10bn per year membership fee

Forget the ‘EU Single Market’, it should really be called the ‘EU Single Government’

2. Single Market & Customs Union are based on goods, not services - only 21% of UK economy is goods

Previous Governments (including Messrs Osborne and Cameron) talked of the EU 'completing the Single Market' as being vital
What they meant was that it should have been extended to cover services long ago
Services make up almost 80% of UK economy
In 26 years, the EU still has no effective single market in services, and UK average growth has fallen
Generally in the EU, when something's in the UK's interests, it doesn't get done

3. Single Market & Customs Union are intrinsically bound into EU Membership

The term 'Single Market' doesn't appear anywhere in the EU treaties
Instead it is referred to as the 'internal market'
It includes the 4 freedoms - goods, services, capital and people - and requires being subject to the European Court of Justice
It is inextricably bound into membership of the Customs Union
The EU legal database contains over 31,000 documents relating to the internal market - Treaties, International agreements, Legislation, EFTA documents, Consolidated legislation, Preparatory acts, EU case law, Directives, Judgements, Decisions etc

4. Almost all the world trades with the EU, without joining the Single Market or Customs Union

Over 160 countries trade with the EU, without any Customs Union or Single Market membership
When the UK leaves the EU, trade will carry on using WTO terms
Even falling back on WTO arrangements will still be better than the current system
No more mass immigration, no more EU-imposed laws, no more EU politics, no more annual payments
Just good profitable trade, the way the rest of the world has done it for years

We have created one of our now-famous 1-page PDFs of this information which you can download here.

You might want to print it off and send it to your MP?

Don't forget, letters by post have so much more impact, because MPs receive tens of thousands of emails a day and don't have time to read them. Thousands of envelopes in their offices are impossible to ignore!

Observations

The vote to leave the EU was not about being part of a trading bloc or not.

It was about whether to be a sovereign and independent country again - a country able to make its own laws, to control its own borders, to own its own taxpayers’ money, and to be master of its own destiny.

This is not possible with Mrs May’s surrender treaty.

It is not possible with Mr Corbyn’s Customs Union.

And apparently it is not possible with the current bunch of anti-democratic MPs in the House of Commons who seem only to like democracy when they use it to get elected.

On that latter point, they will soon find an electorate only too willing to give them a lesson in what democracy really means.

[Sources : EU legal database Euro-Lex | TFEU ]

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 23 Apr 2019

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Reader Comments 2

1. Peter / Leeds , Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 07:15:

We were always told that the EU is mainly about trade plus other mutually beneficial arrangements. Sadly most of our politicians are still trying to keep the blindfold on our eyes and Remoaners are happily going along with that for some reason. They'd still like to believe that the EU is a lovingly crafted big & fluffy something (although they don't seem to be terribly sure what exactly). But the EU monster hatched from the egg is breathing down our neck and no blindfold can disguise it any more.

2. Nicholson B , Sunday, April 28, 2019, 18:31:

Remoaners only want to stay out of self interest, trips, freebies etc.

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