Observations

Readers can see for themselves that in the first quarter of this year the United Kingdom continues to be the EU’s second-biggest market for goods, dwarfing that of China. Readers can also see that the EU continues to earn a huge trade surplus from the UK.

"Call yourselves a facts organisation? This is just fake news."

Each time we produce positive information like this, showing how the United Kingdom is an important country to the EU and to others around the world, we are attacked - often in not particularly pleasant terms. We report on news like this because if we didn't, anti-Brexit campaigners would be able to continue to persuade the British public that the UK is some insignificant little backwater.

The United Kingdom does of course have one of the largest economies in the world and wields significant influence on the world stage. (Not that you would know it, if you watch the BBC or Sky News, or listen to an FCO civil servant.)

If this were not true, why is it that 4.5 times the number of EU27 citizens have come to live in the UK than UK citizens going to live in the EU27? [From official EU data.]

For anti-Brexit campaigners, we will simply stress that once again we have used the EU’s own latest figures, released on Friday. We have even replicated the EU’s own table. If you don’t like what this is telling you – and if you hate your own country so much that you want to belittle it at every opportunity – then we suggest that you take this up with the EU Commission, not us. (While you’re talking to the Commission in Brussels, you might also want to consider applying for Belgian citizenship at the same time?)

The United Kingdom MUST transition out of the EU as quickly as possible

Looking at the EU’s latest export figures it’s no wonder the EU’s ideological zealots want to keep the UK in its current EU colony status, by extending the “Transition Period”. And it’s no wonder they then want to tie the UK into a one-sided trade agreement which would make the whole of the UK subservient to the EU’s laws and policies for a generation.

We would suggest that these latest trade figures from the EU provide yet another reason why the United Kingdom must stand resolute. The Government is right to say that the EU’s current position in the trade talks is untenable and that no country in the world would agree to the EU’s terms. Indeed we don’t think any other country in the world would have signed the Withdrawal Agreement in January, and that this should be repudiated if possible.

In any event we must exit the EU completely, as soon as possible and at the latest by 31 December 2020.

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