Observations

Who cares what happens ‘over there’ any more?

This is a reasonable question. For us, the answer is simple. There is currently a huge amount for the UK Government to do to unravel 47 years of EU membership. On top of this, very regrettably the EU retains a significant influence over what the UK can and cannot do, thanks to the disastrous EU Withdrawal Agreement.

There will be major battles to fight and win in the coming months and years and the Remainer-Rejoiners show no signs of giving up their intention to see the UK remain as closely aligned to the EU as possible, thereby making an insidous and gradual renewed membership a possibility one day.

By exposing total and utter tosh such as the ‘New European Bauhaus’ above, we have shown how the agenda of the fanatical technocrats of the EU Commission has very little to do with the immediate needs of EU citizens. Perhaps if the EU Commission had been more focused on Covid last year, and less obsessed with planning nonsense like this, the EU would not be trailing the UK so woefully in its vaccination programme.

EU gobbledygook

We spent a long time trying to find some information in plain English, explaining what the EU’s ‘New Bauhaus Initiative’ will actually achieve, and how much it will cost. We were unsuccessful. With regard to funding all we know is that it will come from several different EU Directorates, making it almost impossible to keep track of. Even the EU’s summary left us none the wiser:

“The New European Bauhaus is a creative initiative, breaking down boundaries between science and technology, art, culture and social inclusion, to allow design to find solutions for everyday problems.”

Bauhaus is a German word (literally ‘building house’) which is used to define an architecture and design movement from 1920s-1930s pre-WWII Germany. It is interesting that the EU’s German Commission President reached for the name of an old German movement to package up some vague notions that have an EU feel to them.

The German original died out almost 90 years ago. Bauhaus’s founder, a man with the slightly unfortunate name of Herr Gropius, died over 50 years ago. Perhaps the EU Commission President was feeling nostalgic, or perhaps the Commission staff are more confident in introducing a more overtly German flavour to the EU’s business, now that the United Kingdom is out of the way.

Brexit is not "done" and the challenges mount

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Sadly, the challenges of seeing Brexit through are not the only concerns we face. Freedom of expression and the basic princples of democratic accountability are under attack as we we have never seen before. We have far more to do in researching, publishing, campaigning and lobbying Parliament than we have in terms of the financial resources to fulfil these tasks. We rely 100% on public donations from readers like you. Unlike the Remain/Rejoin camp, we do not have foreign billionaires to subsidise our work.

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