THE COST TO THE CITY – AND TO YOU - IF BREXIT IS STOLEN

Do articles about the City of London and finance usually bore you?

Here’s one that explains things for the layman

The City generates enormous wealth for the UK – so this is our wealth that is at risk.

This is about the EU, the City of London, (one of the UK’s largest generators of wealth), and what it means to you.

The article below is written by our friends at The City for Britain. It outlines just some of the benefits we could achieve from Brexit, and the huge risks if Brexit is in any way compromised.

The article summarises just five main points. It’s worth a couple of minutes of your time.

The Cost to the City if Brexit is Stolen

As things stand, the UK will leave the EU on 29th March.

If Brexit is stolen (and make no mistake, any delay is simply an attempt to reverse the referendum), we will lose the opportunity to supercharge and reinvigorate the industry.

Benefits that Brexit brings us and we will lose if Brexit is overturned include :-

1. We will lose the opportunity for better, lighter regulation

Outside of the EU, the City will be able to repeal, revise and avoid regulation that currently makes us less competitive and unnecessarily increases costs.

We have already seen MiFID2 drive business from the UK to the US due to the excessive administrative costs it has created. We will lose the the ability to address this.

2. We will lose our commodities markets

The EU is requesting that the UK charges VAT on commodity derivatives. We are currently being sued by the EU for not imposing this tax, with (of course) the ECJ adjudicating.

If Brexit if overturned (or worse, we are stuck with May's Withdrawal Agreement - no voice, veto or vote) the UK will be expected to charge VAT in an environment that is already seeing spreads narrow and margins fall. We will lose this business to the US and Asia.

3. We will lose tax-free transactions

The Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) is something our government has vetoed several times before. It was first put forward by the European Commission in 2013. The idea was revived in December 2017 as a pet project of French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and raised yet again by French President Emmanuel Macron in July 2018.

More recently Olaf Scholz, German Finance Minister, called for a Financial Transaction Tax in a speech in November 2018 (the same speech in which he is reported to have called for France to relinquish its UN seat to the EU, a Eurozone budget and an EU army).

As a reminder of the potential impact, in the 1980s the Swedish government introduced a series of financial transaction taxes with the end result being that by the end of that decade more than 50% of all Swedish trading had moved to London.

Within the EU we will lose the ability to resist this.

4. We will lose Euro Clearing (and jobs)

The ECB has attempted to prevent Euro clearing outside of the Eurozone on several occasions before. The UK won its case against the ECB's last attempt on a technicality and the court went to great lengths to show the ECB how to fix that technicality.

We will lose the ability to clear euros (and with it thousands of jobs) within the UK, unless...

5. We could lose Sterling and be forced to adopt the Euro

Whether or not you believe the story from Frankfurter Allgemeine that EU officials have discussed plans to force all EU members to join the euro by 2025, Roberto Gualtieri, the Italian MEP and member of the European Parliament's Brexit Negotiation Team, confirmed the general ambition in an interview with Andrew Neil in 2017.

In this context, it is important to note that non-Eurozone EU nations, voting as a bloc, currently have an effective veto on new European Banking Authority (EBA). This will disappear when the non-Eurozone states fall to four, which now seems likely to happen within the next five to ten years. At that point Britain would lose whatever residual defence it currently has and would be forced to adhere to regulations designed for the benefit of the Euro.

Given the unsustainability of such a scenario, we would once again be faced with an existential binary choice: join the Euro, or leave the EU. This time however, since we would have had to revoke Article 50 on an "unequivocal and unconditional" basis to get to this point, we would be at the mercy of the ECJ who would decide if we could attempt to leave a second time.”

First published by The City for Britain on 28 Feb 2018

What is ‘The City for Britain’?

At Brexit Facts4EU.Org we have always seen ‘The City for Britain’ as a welcome counterpoint against the overwhelming bias of the many global financial organisations who have fought against Brexit from the beginning – in their own international and globalist interests. The City for Britain reflects the financial interests of this country, as its name suggests. Here is what they say about themselves :-

“The City for Britain represents the views of practitioners from across the financial services industry. Our members have direct hands-on experience in the sector and many are currently involved in Brexit implementation projects for institutions in the City.
“We initially came together before the referendum to campaign for Vote Leave, and our sole concern is the future prosperity of UK financial services – unlike so many (often conflicted) multinational groups whose voices are loud but whose bases and shareholders are largely overseas.”

Observations

We know that the subject of finance turns many people off. We have previously researched and published articles on subjects like the MiFID2 regulations – enough to make many people’s eyes glaze over!

We hope you found the above article from our friends at The City for Britain interesting, though. Of necessity this is a summary. There are many more excellent articles on The City for Britain’s website and we would encourage you to take a look.

The simple fact is that the City is important for the UK economy. If we become a non-voting colony of the EU, as we would under Mrs May’s abomination of an international treaty, then the financial consequences for all of us could be very severe indeed.

[ Source: The City for Britain ]

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 11 Mar 2019

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Reader Comments 8

1. OnlyTheTruth , Monday, March 11, 2019, 07:39:

What about the costs and risks of Brexit? Already car and other manufacturing companies are moving out of the UK.
France and Germany will compete against us in financial services.

2. steve , Monday, March 11, 2019, 09:32:

to - only the truth - we chose ELECTED ACCOUNTABLE leaders, not the dictators in the EU and we will have democracy and freedom restored and it can be at ANY price as far as i am concerned.

3. Patrick F , Monday, March 11, 2019, 09:37:

Only the truth, which car and other manufacturing companies are moving out of the UK? Please post your links and sources.
Tumbleweed warning.....

4. Catherine, Dollar , Monday, March 11, 2019, 10:15:

@ONlyTheTruth - the car manufacturers are leaving the UK (1) BECAUSE of the EU and the FTA it has concluded with Japan. Under that FTA, Japan can make the cars in Japan and sell them into the EU, without any tariffs. Before they had to make them in an EU country for that. So Japan obviously chose to cut its costs, and just make its cars in Japan. Simples. Because of the EU.
(2) Car sales have been at a high for a couple of years. But now, in particular with the CHinese economy slowing, but also the euro zone, demand is right down, and the car manufacturers are shutting down many sites, all over the world.
(3) The EU tightened emissions standards ... partly after failing to follow up on its own findings, that German manufacturers had manipulated the software in the cars to pretend they weren't spewing out diesel. Manufacturers are finding it difficult to adjust.

5. Martyn, Co. Durham , Monday, March 11, 2019, 10:56:

As our City/financial services industry is the envy of most European/world capitals, it's very important that we get this information out there. As highlighted in the article, the last thing the City needs is more regulations and taxes - normally the EU's answer to everything!

6. Chris , Monday, March 11, 2019, 16:50:

Honda are pulling out of the UK of course, but that has nothing to do with Brexit. They are moving production to Japan.
JLR (Tata) have also been making threatening noises, but they have just taken a £143m bribe from the EU to set up a plant in Slovakia.
Then there is Nissan, which tries to blame Brexit for their woes, but really it is just staggering management incompetence at not reacting to dieselgate, Even now, you still can't buy a 4WD Qashqai unless it has a diesel engine.
On the other hand, there have been a lot of reports of American companies reaffirming their commitment to the UK. Boeing wants to expand here, for example.

7. Tom N, Dartmouth , Monday, March 11, 2019, 17:38:

I think OnlyTheTruth's source must be Deep Throat, only without any inside knowledge.

8. barbara Jell , Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 01:36:

So only the Truth is hardly the Truth then? And the opposite of the truth is a ....... quite!!

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