EXCLUSIVE: EU report shows Brits look out globally, EU27 are ‘Little Europeans’

Official from EU: most Britons buy online globally, but most EU27 citizens buy from the EU

Brexit Facts4EU.Org’s summary of latest “EU Barometer” survey yesterday – Part 1

For the latest Eurobarometer survey released by the EU Commission yesterday, 27,438 citizens in the 28 EU countries were asked a series of questions about their views on international trade.

In this two-part series Brexit Facts4EU.Org takes a look at the answers given. In this Part One, we consider the answer to one of the questions, which sums up the differences between the British and the EU27 when it comes to openness to the World.

British people buy globally, most EU27 citizens don’t

In Part One of this summary of the EU Commission’s report we look at the revealing answer to one of the questions which the EU Commission asked.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

“In the past 12 months, how often have you bought goods or services via the Internet
from sellers outside the EU?”

61% of British people had bought goods or services from outside the EU in the past year
Only 42% of EU citizens had done so
British people came out 1st out of 28 nationalities for buying online globally
Amongst EU27 countries the figure was as low as 20%

About this EU survey

This survey was requested by the European Commission, Trade Directorate-General. It was co-ordinated by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication. It is one of many expensive surveys conducted by the EU each year, which are carried out by a firm based in Brussels.

Observations

This survey is yet another in a long line of expensive public opinion exercises each year in which the EU Commission asks (often) leading questions designed to show how well it is doing and how much the EU public love the EU.

Above we have highlighted just one of the questions in the latest survey which was released yesterday. We have done so because it is highly indicative of the fundamental differences between the UK and the rest of the EU.

Remainers (and the EU itself) always speak of ‘solidarity’, ‘unity’ and other luvvie concepts. The simple fact is that the EU is a forced amalgamation of very different national interests.

Tomorrow we will publish an indictment of this survey as whole, and show how it is yet another propaganda exercise by the EU Commission, part-paid for out of UK taxpayer funds.

The provisional title is :

“Latest EU propaganda survey shows that EU propaganda works - Part Two”

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 21 Nov 2019

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Reader Comments 8

1. DT , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 06:54:

I’d like to thank the Trade Dictator-General and the Dictator-General for Communication for producing these neat propaganda materials to further build and strengthen our wonderful Dictatorship. With love, Donald Tusk

2. Concerned , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 06:57:

I would like to see the Govenment seriously implement changes to make 'Buy British' a reality. For the greenies and Liberals, buying home-grown is better for the environment! (The produce or products travel less, before purchase and use). The French and Germans are very nationalistic, in that they tens to buy their own nation's cars to a much larger degree than anyone else.
The UK however has allowed purchase of property and British companies by companies from outside the UK now for decades, I find this a very short-sighted policy that I hope will be reversed in years to come.
What happens in a war? Even British Steel, will now have Chinese owners. I presume the short-sighted Conservatives are relying on Labour taking over in the next war years as they will presumably according to the marxists nationalise everything whoever owns it.
Oh for some patriotic leaders and more importantly advisors and civil service.

3. Sydney Ashurst , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 09:44:

Manifesto's.
Three hard questions (and an easy one) for Labour about their Brexit policy on brexit central today.
John Redwood questions questions the libdems £50 billion bonus from cancelling Brexit.
Worth a read.
I question the greens rigid (religious) belief the Earth will end soon in a fiery hell caused by anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide.

4. Concerned , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 10:48:

One has to realize the Conservatives have as opposition a group of parties who are all socialist/communist/marxist (in various degrees), they can call themselves liberal or green or pink for all I care, but their real aim is for me a socialist nightmare.

5. Sydney Ashurst , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 13:13:

Facts are ignored by the politicians of little brain, the silly season of manifestos is with us. Promises are easily made and I can better yours. Fulfilling them is another matter, especially if I am not in Government and held to account.

6. Concerned , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 15:12:

Yes manifesto promises indeed first the Cons are going to plant 30 million trees then not be outdone the stupid so-called Liberals pledge 60 million. I wonder at their manifestos every GE and try to guess how few will be honored and how many gather dust.

7. James Bertram , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 15:18:

Off-topic: good article from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com...
'The prime minister’s snappy, inane slogan is the prelude to inevitable lies, betrayal and duplicity... First overboard in the great betrayal will be fishermen. Brexit offered them false hope that foreign trawlers would be banished from UK waters. But hated quotas will be back. Other maritime EU states will demand them as a condition of progress in talks over other issues. Johnson will fold, and then systematically let down other voters who trusted him....'

8. James Bertram , Thursday, November 21, 2019, 15:21:

and this was from Fishing for Leave:
Heartbreakingly it confirms everything FFLs said is right
We've surrendered to being lined up for permenant CFP associate membership
https://www.rte.ie/news/ana...
'
"This is not what was promised to the people of this country," the MP raged, "let alone the fishing communities of Scotland. And if history teaches us anything, it is that our European friends will not desist until they have worked out a way to plunder Scottish waters for their fish."
May’s Withdrawal Agreement simply reinvented the Common Fisheries Policy, the MP said, but with the EU holding all the cards, bullying and blackmailing until it got what it wanted.
That MP was Boris Johnson.
One year on, the same Mr Johnson has signed up to to exactly what Theresa May did on fisheries.
In the Political Declaration of October 2019, agreed by both sides, the four paragraphs on fisheries, including the link between fish and trade, is word for word the same as the Political Declaration of November 2018.
"That was really important to us," says Gerard Van Balsfoort, EUFA chairman.
"This is the starting position. There will be a direct link to the wider economic and trade partnership. We wanted this from the start in the mandate and also in the text of the Political Declaration. The whole linkage of the wider partnership and fisheries is still there."...'
But the UK rhetoric has shifted.
Fisheries minister George Eustice now talks of getting a fairer deal out of UK waters.
"We really want to get a fairer share of the quotas in areas where we don't get a fair share," he told a House of Commons committee on 16 October.
"I think it’s unlikely we get to a situation where we say all EU vessels are excluded, but we will be saying there are certain conditions to the access we grant, and that will be a rebalancing."'

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