Observations

Why does Sir Keir want to align more closely with an unpopular regime?

With Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers constantly talking about 'closer alignment' with the EU, the results of our analysis will come as a blow. Naturally, this depends on whether the PM actually cares what people think. With less than four in ten of the population having 'a positive image' of the EU this is not necesarily a good starting point.

It does of course have to be remembered that Sir Keir and his Cabinet were all vociferous Remainers. Furthermore, Sir Keir and some of his colleagues were leading lights in the campaign for "a people's vote" which was designed to overturn the largest democratic vote in British history - one which had already taken place in June 2016. If that Referendum wasn't "a people's vote" we're unsure what is.

In many ways, that flagrant disregard for the clearly expressed view of the British people when they were asked a direct question, should perhaps have been a clear signal of what was to come once they got into power. Facts4EU.Org continues to be non-partisan but we will always speak out when fundamental issues of sovereignty, independence, democracy and freedom are at stake.

Whatever spin they put on this, the Eurobarometer results don't make for comfortable reading in Brussels

Ursula von der Leyen's new EU Commission started work on Monday, with a 'mandate' (not democratic) for five years. Not only did this Commission receive the lowest-ever percentage of approval votes in the EU Parliament, the Commissioners can now see how unpoular the EU is amongst its citizens.

Trust in the EU is below 50%. The number of people having a positive image of the EU is below 50%. What's more, the trend seems to be firmly against them.

The Facts4EU.Org site and its activities such as conferences, TV & video interviews, forums, etc, are :-

• Advert-free : no annoying distractions or ‘pop-ups’
• Paywall-free : Reading our news and reports does not require you to sign up and pay
• Merchandising-free : We don’t try to sell you t-shirts or coffee mugs advertising us
• Sponsorship-free : No corporate sponsorship funds our reports – we’re independent
• We’re funded by donations from you – the public

The content :-

• Unique, original, well-researched reports
• No ‘re-hashing’ of articles you’ll read elsewhere
• Based on official data, statements and reports, analysed by us
• Transparent sources : Whether it’s the EU Commission, the ONS, or the IMF, we state where we obtained our data
• We rely solely on donations from you – the public - to keep us going

NOTICE : Facts4EU has now scaled back to publishing 5 days-a-week

For nine years we have worked seven days-a-week. As far as we are aware we are the only organisation of our type to have done this. We are grateful to those of our readers who have made donations but sadly the level of our funding is now such that we must make it stretch for as long as we can. This means team members taking other paid work and reducing our output to five days-a-week.

Please, please help us to carry on our vital work in defence of independence, sovereignty, democracy and freedom by donating today. Thank you.