Rejoiners are massing for a march on Parliament, but do they know what they want to rejoin?

‘UK benefited least from our greatest achievement,’ says EU in last Single Market report

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Official: The UK was ranked 28th out of 28 by EU Commission in 2020

With almost 50 Rejoiner groups massing for a march through London on Saturday 10 September (2022), Facts4EU.Org presents the facts – direct from the EU Commission – of just how little the UK got from the EU’s flagship policy.

The EU Commission describes the Single Market as its “greatest achievement”. Every year it produces a scoreboard which ranks member countries in terms of how much they each benefit from this. In the last report before Brexit the United Kingdom benefited least, as it had done over many years.

The UK : The second-largest EU contributor, the last to get any benefit

All readers will remember how the EU’s Single Market was held up by the state-sponsored Remain Establishment as the jewel amongst the reasons why it was essential for the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.

Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne, and all of “the Great and the Good” didn’t stop talking about it. Without being a member of the Single Market, the public was told, the UK was more or less finished.

Between 500,000-820,000 people would lose their jobs almost immediately, the UK economy would fall off a cliff, house prices would plummet, and the defence of the Realm would be in peril.

So, how did the UK actually do out of the EU’s Single Market, according to the EU itself?

Brexit Facts4EU.Org reviewed the last official EU ‘Single Market Scoreboard 2020’ before the United Kingdom finally left on 31 December 2020. Here is the EU Commission’s verdict.

“The UK has the lowest trade integration in the Single Market for goods and the third lowest trade integration for services.”

- Official EU Single Market Scoreboard, 2020 report

The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP gave Facts4EU.Org his thoughts

"The more revealing figures show the UK’s growth rate fell after we joined the EEC and fell again once they completed the single market in 1992. That was why some of us campaigned to leave the Single Market as well as leaving the EU.
The Single Market was designed against us and promoted continental exports to us to replace our home production."

- The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

How the EU's Single Market delivered nothing for the UK's trade in GOODS

The chart shows the percentage of a country’s GDP represented by trade in goods with other EU countries (average of imports and exports). This is how the EU itself summarises the Single Market and trade.

The EU ranks its Single Market at the top of all its ‘greatest achievements’

It is important to be clear about the EU’s Single Market. It wasn’t a surprise that David Cameron, George Osborne, the BBC, and the rest of the Remain Establishment talked about the Single Market so much. The EU rates it as its ‘greatest achievement’.

As ever, Facts4EU.Org quotes from the EU Commission itself:-

“EXECUTIVE SUMMARY”
“The Single Market ranks at the top among the greatest accomplishments of European integration. For over 25 years, it has been delivering growth, jobs, legal certainty to business, a wide choice of safe products to consumers and guaranteeing the free movement to EU citizens in the Member States. It is part of our daily life, interweaving the activities of businesses and consumers across borders.”
- EU Commission website

“Ah, but what about services?” cry the Remainer-Rejoiners. “This is the UK's strength!”

Facts4EU.Org also analysed the EU’s figures on the benefits of the Single Market to each country in respect of the service economy.

Firstly, we must once again point out that the Single Market does not work for services – the UK’s strength – by the EU’s own admission.

“The Single Market – this jewel that is all too often taken for granted –
does not function properly for services”

- Elżbieta Bieńkowska, EU Commissioner for the Single Market, 2017

The UK got almost as little benefit from its strength in services as in goods

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

How the EU's Single Market delivered nothing for the UK's trade in SERVICES

The chart shows the percentage of a country’s GDP represented by trade in services (financial and non-financial) with other EU countries (average of imports and exports). This is how the EU itself characterises this.

Observations

The “March for Rejoin”

The “March for Rejoin” will take place in London on 10 September. The organisation has already raised £18,695 through crowdfunding – for this single one-day event. Facts4EU.Org doesn’t even receive money like this in over four months.

According to their website, the top donor is Steve Bray (the irritating “No Brexit” man outside Parliament) who donated £1,500. Given that he doesn’t have what most people would describe as ‘a normal job’ we found that interesting.

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We suffer daily abuse on social media from Rejoiners who can’t even be bothered to click on the links to our short, summarised reports. In the rare instances when they try to rebut our facts they find they can’t, so they deflect onto other things.

Our report above shows that the UK benefited least from membership of the Single Market out of all 28 member countries, despite being the second-biggest funder of the EU’s budget. And this is according to the EU Commission itself.

No amount of braying can take away the facts.

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Reader Comments 23

1. Dennis Pengelly , Friday, August 19, 2022, 08:51:

I would like someone to give me 3 good reasons why we should have been in the eu , because I didn’t find anything that benefitted me; or the uk, in all that time.

2. Brexit Lover , Friday, August 19, 2022, 08:59:

Rejoiners such sad hopeless, deluded people!!
#HatetheEU
#LOVEbrexit

3. Adam , Friday, August 19, 2022, 09:19:

Let them have their little protest I along with other leaver's will fight any Remoaner attempt to drag Britain back in the EU tooth and nail and lastly I noticed that the irritating Nancy Pelosi doesn't like Liz Truss even more reason to hope she is the next Prime Minister if it annoys Biden and Pelosi

4. Catherine M , Friday, August 19, 2022, 09:30:

@1, Dennis - Remainers perpetually cry out that when we were in the EU they could go cross into different EU countries without having to queue in the non-EU queue. They seem unaware of the appalling Faustian pact they agree to - hand over decision-making and increasingly tax-raising powers to an unelected and unaccountable body. Didn't work out too well for Faust, nor for those he seduced.

5. Ashley Great Britain , Friday, August 19, 2022, 10:22:

So rejoiners plan to try and sway the next PM. Liz truss?
Their cause is now gone with the wind.
Anyway you look at it,The UK will not be rejoining the EU.
It will he a sad sickening day to watch idiots with blue berets parading around the street.
They fit neatly into the woke, lefty, Liberal, lovey group.
Everything that's wrong with the current state of affairs.

6. Andy , Friday, August 19, 2022, 11:08:

Comment 1, Dennis. I believe guests at luncheon or dinner at the 'Palace' were asked exactly that question prior to the Referendum by Her Majesty. Answer came there none I believe.

7. Gordon McGeachy , Friday, August 19, 2022, 12:37:

Pathetic hatred of our nation. Their leaders like Adonis should be arrested and charged with sedition and treason.

8. Adad , Friday, August 19, 2022, 14:54:

1. Dennis, I'll give you only one but that ought to be sufficient - to halt the expansion of Russia.
All the figures here are from the ONS site, using their "context calculator" based on ONS & the EU commission's own data.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/econ...
In 2019 our NET contribution to the EU: using ONS estimates was £11 bn,
which breaks down to: £212 million /week, or £166 per person per year , or £.45p per person per day.
using the EU Commision's numbers = £7.8bn, breaks down to:
£150 million/week, £117 per person per year, £.32p per person per day.
Someone ought to put that on a bus, at least it's true.
Choosing the lower figure, it's still less than what we're already spending fighting Russia & the effects of their expansion.
Analysts estimate that the UK public will lose £2300 - £1000 /household per year as a result.
We've pledged £1 billion more in arms on top of the £2,7 bn already. Humanitarian aid is at £1.5bn
Zelensky needs £4.12bn a month.
There was enough said about the geopolitical imbalance Brexit would create - none of you were interested. Get it done!
Is the Single Market great. Not at all. Even the EU admits that - calling it a "living policy framework".
We were impatient & impetulant. Qualities that do not normally dominate statecraft.
Where those qualities did exist - they became teaching examples in military academies the world over - Napoleon etc

9. jon livesey , Friday, August 19, 2022, 15:07:

8. Adad: So if we rejoined the EU we suddenly would not have to spend money on defence and Russian expansion would be "halted"? Could we have a few details on that, please?

10. jon livesey , Friday, August 19, 2022, 15:41:

1. Dennis Pengelly. I don't know about three good reasons, but at the time people like Heath were fascinated by the daft theory that if you wanted your economy to be like Germany's, then you should integrate politically. It is basically the same theory that later misled us into joining the ERM - another very bad idea.
So far as I know, there is no evidence that political integration leads to economic convergence - it certainly does not work for the EU today - but forty years ago such ideas were very popular with both the Press and the politicians.
People who say we should still follow such theories today are really saying that we are not allowed to learn any lessons from forty years of EU membership.

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