The EU Commission President shows his grip on reality continues to weaken.

In a speech to the European Forum Alpbach yesterday, President Juncker showed the massive gulf between EU group-think and the common sense of normal people.

Meanwhile in Italy at a German/Franco/Italian summit, it was the opposite story.

The real Boss of the EU, German Chancellor Merkel, continued backtracking on her disastrous ‘Alles Wilkom’ migrant policy of 2015, saying:

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has demonstrated once again that he is unfit to lead the EU’s directing body. It can only be a matter of time before he is forced to ‘resign on health grounds’. This would leave the way open for the President of the European Parliament, Herr Schultz, to stand for the Presidency of the EU Commission.

[Sources: European Forum Alpbach, BBC, DT, FAZ ]       23 August

Good news stories on the UK’s economy come in every week

Unemployment is down by 8,600 since the Referendum, the number employed is at record levels, retail sales increased 1.4% in July, and GDP growth forecasts remain stubbornly positive. Inward foreign investment continues, with substantial sums being committed to the UK every week by international companies.

What will the BBC do to fill its over-inflated ‘news output' once the Olympic Games are over? Certainly it will struggle to find enough pro-EU and anti-UK stories to fill its schedules.

In fact, there are now so many good news stories each week that we expect the Financial Times will have to dramatically cut its number of pages, with so little bad Brexit news to write about.

Perhaps its Editor, about to receive the equivalent of a knighthood from the French Government, should rename his paper the ‘Les Temps Financiers’ in a gesture of fraternité and mutual misère over the Rosbifs’ décision catastrophique to leave the EU.

If he and the entire Editorial staff of BBC News were then to take some French Leave, it’s possible that many people in the country would cheer them on their way with some fine English sparkling wine.

On this August Sunday morning, we'll raise an optimistic toast to that.

Facts4EU.org   21 August

INSEE (the French version of the Office of National Statistics) released its latest employment data late last week

Eurozone countries continue to suffer serious economic woes and France is not alone. Italy's banks have bad debts running at a disastrous and unsustainable 18%. Germany's Deutsche Bank has lost over half (55%) of its value in the last 12 months.

The UK has many challenges ahead of it and not all in the garden is rosy, but compared to the misery predicted by Remain immediately post-Brexit, and compared to the problems of the Eurozone, there are reasons to be cheerful.

[Sources: Official INSEE French Government 18 Aug report, ONS, Bloomberg ]       21 August

Office of National Statistics releases latest figures for EU migrant workers

Meanwhile, the pro-EU BBC UK headline news this morning is
'Racial Inequality Entrenched in Britain'......

The EU's ‘Single Market’ demands free movement of people.
The City and Establishment want this to continue - the Leave majority do not.
Latest government figures show EU immigration still rising fast.
There can be no compromise on free movement if Mrs May is serious that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ and if she cares about social cohesion across the country.

(Yet another original piece from the team at Facts4EU.org - no mainstream media outlet has recognised or reported on the 12% annual increase in EU workers.)

[Source: Office of National Statistics UK Labour Market: August 2016]     18 August 2016

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However, Pro-EU Chancellor continues myth that UK Agriculture, Science, Regional Development, etc, are funded by the EU

CRUCIALLY, THIS DOES NOT AFFECT OUT NET SAVING OF £10+ BILLION PER YEAR WHEN WE LEAVE THE EU

The Treasury finally issued a “business as usual” announcement yesterday. The statement refers to EU funding over 25 times, but there’s no recognition that this is the UK’s money sent to the EU and then channeled back to the UK.

1. ALL OF THIS WAS LIED ABOUT, BY REMAIN CAMPAIGN
With so much funding under apparent threat, many people voted Remain in fear. Throughout the campaign, the Leave campaign said this funding would continue. Finally the Chancellor has confirmed that the Leave campaign was right. Imagine how much bigger the Leave victory could have been.

2. PRO-EU CHANCELLOR CONTINUES TO PERPETUATE THE MYTH THAT THIS IS EU MONEY
As a big net contributor to the EU, UK sends this money to the EU who channel it back as ‘EU funding’. It was and is UK money. Pro-EU Hammond's guarantee to continue the funding involves no net cost to the UK taxpayer.

3. THIS IS PART OF OUR GROSS CONTRIBUTION TO THE EU
- NO REDUCTION IN NET SAVINGS WHEN WE LEAVE
This does not affect the net contribution of £11 billion which we'll make to the EU this year, and which could be saved if we were no longer a member.

[Sources: Treasury statements 13 Aug ]       14 August

No.10 responds to our article by posting announcements about PM's travels

Yes, the Brexit Dept is probably busy organising itself.
No, we’re not expecting the announcement of a Brexit plan in all its details.
However communication is an essential part of government.

Whilst it's good to know No.10 reads our site, posting old news is a poor response.
Have Davis and his 3 Ministers been gagged? What on earth is going on over there?

(Yet another Facts4EU.org exclusive)

[Source: www.gov.uk official UK Government announcements]     12 August 2016

Or "Why some Brexiteers should stop obsessing about EU laws and treaties and recognise the political realities for Brexit"

Much has been written about the various EU treaties, and the tens of thousands of laws, regulations and directives which have been imposed on EU Member countries as a result of these.

There appears to be a tendency in the UK Government and the Civil Service – and most certainly a strong opinion amongst a vocal (albeit small) section of Leave commentators - that EU Treaties and laws are what will decide our Brexit arrangements.

They won’t.

Currently, the Government is failing in any meaningful way to enact Brexit. The will of the people is effectively ‘on hold’ while ministers and the Civil Service ostensibly work out the details of how the UK will leave the EU. Even the issuing of an Article 50 notice has been kicked into the muddy winter grass of ‘early 2017’ by the new Prime Minister herself.

It hasn’t helped that the Government and Civil Service failed completely to honour their obligations to prepare for a Brexit result in the Referendum. Facts4EU.org called for senior Civil Service heads to roll for this serious abdication of its duties and responsibilities. Regrettably the mainstream media has almost ignored this issue, with one or two admirable exceptions.

Putting this to one side, however, let’s just look at how the EU does business. From the get-go, the EU was a political ‘project’. From its earliest incarnations as the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, the intention of its founding fathers (yes, they were all men as the vast majority still are) was to set off on the road to a United States of Europe, masked behind a series of supposedly economic and trading initiatives.

Along the way, Treaties have been negotiated and signed and countless thousand EU-imposed laws have been enacted. The erosion of national will, powers, and sovereignty has been a depressing sight over many decades. But when push comes to shove, how well-observed have been all these constraints on how countries are supposed to behave?

The answer is that EU laws and treaties are often compromised when national factors are involved and the EU is forced to apply common sense and reach a political solution.

Examples of EU compromise in the last few years abound. The Eurozone crisis since 2008 meant that fiscal rules were openly flouted and vast EU sums were used to prevent collapse of the EU’s single currency the Euro, most notably applied in Greece but also in several other countries.

Were Treaty provisions and laws obeyed? No.

You only have to look at our story below, from yesterday. This shows how Spain and Portugal have flagrantly breached the EU’s fiscal rules embodied in the Treaty for the Functioning of the EU (the ‘Lisbon’ Treaty’). They’ve done this repeatedly over many years, and yet are once again being let off massive fines for so doing.

Why did both the EU Commission and EU Council agree to this fudge again? At heart, the answer is politics, and to a lesser extent money.

Youth unemployment in these two countries continues to run at breathtaking levels, political considerations of all kinds are threatening the new governments there, and the EU doesn’t want any more trouble. So it has kissed goodbye to over €2 billion of fines it could have imposed.

This political factor is never more true than at present, as the EU reels from the shock of imminently losing its second-biggest donor and its biggest military and cultural power: the UK.

How will the UK leave the EU?

So this brings us back to home turf. Civil Servants, Ministers, and that part of the Leave commentariat which pays too much attention to the nitty-gritty of Treaty obligations and laws are barking up the wrong tree. The solution to Brexit will be a simple ground war fought on political and monetary issues.

The EU has been a political project since inception, peopled by self-aggrandizing ‘dirigiste’ bureaucrats who knew that they knew better than the peoples of Europe. They quietly embarked on a direction not wanted by the vast majority of Europeans. For decades they manipulated their way to ever-increasing power and influence and now dominate the elites of the media, education, science, and other professions, in addition to their obvious political power.

When all is said and done, however, Brexit will be a political compromise encompassing a financial sweetener. The elites in Brussels are happy to see us go as it better enables them to complete their cloaked project. And if we 'bung them a few quid', you can forget all talk about the minutiae of EU Treaties, EEA, EFTA, and a myriad of laws and international protocols.

In other words, ‘It’s about the politics, stupid’. Plus some dosh, of course.

The Facts4EU.org Team     11 August 2016

EU runs scared of anti-EU feeling across continent

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO THE UK?
Please see our analysis above.

[Sources: EU Commission and EU Council statements 09 Aug ]       10 August

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VISA’s July Consumer Spending Index produced by Markit shows spending buoyant

“Looking at the sectors, the longer term trend we’ve seen for increased spending on leisure and recreation is enduring. And the high street saw its strongest annual growth rate in five months with clothing retailers in particular bouncing back after a fall in June.”
– Kevin Jenkins, UK & Ireland Managing Director at Visa.

(Yet another positive piece from the team at Facts4EU.org)

[Source: VISA Markit report for July, Visa website]     09 August 2016

Vast majority of EU citizens think EU should be doing more on key issues

No doubt the figures will be much higher now, after so many terrorist and immigrant-related attacks in France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, and other EU countries

[Source: Europarl EU Barometer survey 2016 ]       07 August

Department has issued NO announcements since David Davis appointed

Surely the new Brexit Dept must have done SOMETHING since it started?
The absence of news does nothing to reassure the Public that ‘Brexit Means Brexit’.

(Yet another Facts4EU.org exclusive)

[Source: Official UK Government website]     07 August 2016

THE STATE OF THE UNION

Some short lowlights of the current state of play in the EU.

FACTS4EU.ORG    06 August

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Latest Treasury ‘Pink Book’ is published by ONS

Yesterday CfB co-chairman Steve Baker MP said: "Shockingly we were billed even more than Vote Leave thought.”

What a shame Vote Leave's Management didn’t use our data – then they wouldn’t be shocked now.

Fortunately many local campaign groups did use our data and charts and produced their own leaflets.

[Sources: Office of National Statistics, BBC, DE]       02 August

In the last two weeks we can't recall seeing or hearing from Mr Davis.

We very much hope that this will change very quickly,
if the minority Leave voice in the Cabinet isn't to be marginalised
as we predicted.

Facts4EU.org   31 July

MISSING PERSON Have you seen this man? Name : DAVID DAVIS Age : 67 Missing since : Cabinet reshuffle Last seen : House of Commons Tea Room Mr Davis is known to think he's the UK Government's Brexit Secretary, based on a conversation he claimed to have had with the Prime Minister several weeks ago.

If you have seen this person
please contact the 17.4 million people who voted for Brexit 5 weeks ago.

Eurozone’s and USA’s growth is half UK’s - Q2 figures

EU and USA Statistics bodies issued latest economic data yesterday.

Poor performance by Eurozone last quarter, yet again.
Despite UK’s biggest trading partners floundering,
the UK performed very well.

[Sources: Eurostat, ONS, INSEE, US Dept of Commerce.]
       30 July

Deliberate, sustained, and self-serving pessimism from Remainers, perhaps?

On a daily basis we can find good news – if we search for it amongst the gloom in the output from the Remain media and consultancy elites.

For example, here’s a headline from us, which you won’t have seen on the BBC or Sky:-

“WE HAVE COMPLETED NEARLY £2 BILLION OF RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE
SINCE THE BREXIT VOTE,
8% UP ON THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR”

- Barclays plc 2016 Results Announcement, 29 July 2016

Since June 23rd, overseas companies have been making major investments in the UK. Last week two international companies announced over £½ billion of investment in the UK over two days – and they are only two of many each week who’ve made such announcements.

All the early Project Fear predictions have failed to materialise, except for the expected fall in the Pound. Osborne’s ‘Emergency Punishment Budget’ has disappeared, as have apocalyptic forecasts from Mark Carney at the Bank of England, Christine Lagarde at the IMF, etc.

At the first sign of a piece of potentially negative Brexit news, the Remain-dominated TV pundits have pounced on it in joy. The fact that these news items often turn out to be innaccurate hasn’t deterred these Remainers, and of course the Public hear the initial headlines, not the corrections afterwards – if they’re even offered.

There is a much more fundamental point, however. And it will counteract the great potential of the UK’s new, globally-facing future, if we continue to let it happen.

For months the Public heard 95% of ‘experts’ predicting catastrophe if they voted Leave. These ‘experts’ can’t now say they were wrong or that they exaggerated,
or they would look foolish.

The result has been a continual ‘talking the country down’ since the Referendum, by everyone from Mark Carney and the Chancellor, to Big Businesses using Brexit as an excuse for poor results, to the desperately pro-EU BBC and Sky editors and correspondents.

If you tell people that ‘There will be big trouble ahead’ and you do this on a daily basis, some people will start to believe it. If people are told they should be pessimistic about their economic future, they’ll behave accordingly. Company purchasing managers will hold off on big orders, and members of the Public will put off large personal purchases or major life decisions like moving house.

There’s nothing new in this – it’s called ‘the self-fulfilling prophecy’. It’s up to all of us – but particularly the Government – to hit this on the head.

The UK has a very bright future ahead of us if we are positive and optimistic.

The Government, especially the new Brexit Secretary, need to act now, to set the tone of a great future ahead. The current failure to do so is already costing us billions.

We can do so much better than this.

Facts4EU.org       30 July

Admits pro-EU CEO of Lloyds Bank

Who is António Horta Osório, the CEO of Lloyds?

The BBC, Sky and ITV pounced on Lloyds' report blaming Brexit. Later, the CEO Snr Osorio and the Bank was forced to admit it was nothing to do with Brexit.

By then, the Public had absorbed the ‘bad Brexit news’.

Will BBC, Sky and ITV give equal prominence today to the Bank’s retraction?

We add António Osório to the list of those who should resign over pro-EU bias

[Sources: Lloyds Bank half-year results, FT, DM, DT, Bloomberg, BBC, Sky, ITV]
       29 July

EU ACCELERATES FUNDING FOR TURKISH DEAL

Yesterday, EU Commission adopted Special Measure of extra €1.4 billion for EU-Turkey deal

Despite Turkey rapidly becoming a dictatorial Islamic state, EU accelerated funding for €6 billion Merkel-Erdogan deal to reduce migrants into Germany.

The EU says the UK has sent in its first contribution – towards the first €3 billion. It's not yet clear when the second payment will be due.

The UK will continue to be liable for extra EU expenditure like this until the end of the Article 50 2-year notice period is up. Mrs May has said the UK won't give notice until next year.

The sooner formal notice is given, the sooner the UK won't have to keep paying for Mrs Merkel's mistakes.

[Source: EU Commission Announcement July 28]       29 July

PM faces strong party opposition if she waters down Brexit

Only 56% of Tory MPs (including Ministers, PPS's, Whips, etc) declared for Remain. And many of these were Leavers by inclination.

Reuters interviewed former Minister John Redwood MP - 'an intellectual leader of the Brexiteers in Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservative party'.

John Redwood MP supports the PM but is part of a core group of some 25 Tory backbench MPs who are determined to ensure that the Referendum vote is delivered as intended.

Mrs May's majority in Parliament is just 15.

Added to that, the PM knows that only 56% of her Parliamentary party voted to Remain - many of whom had jobs in Government and came out for Remain despite having previously-stated Eurosceptic views. The true extent of the Remain contingent is probably in the minority in the Parliamentary Conservative party - as it is in the party's membership nationally.

[Source: Reuters interview and original chart research by Facts4EU.org]       28 July

UK's pro-Remain Commissioner quit after Referendum Leave victory

The new UK Commissioner's role is the sole decision of unelected EU President Juncker

EU Commission lead spokesman said yesterday "This is only for the President to decide, so it's the President who will decide the portfolio and the timing of the announcement"

Source: EU Commission yesterday

So, the UK's sole representative will be Commissioner for paperclips, perhaps?
Watch this space.

(Yet another Facts4EU.org exclusive)

[Source: EU Commission Press Conference 26 July]     27 July 2016

Exactly one month ago this morning, the UK awoke to a Brexit victory.

THE EARLY DAYS

WEEKS 2-3

WEEK 4

Facts4eu.org continues to have complete faith in the great future ahead for a truly independent United Kingdom, freed from the shackles of the failing EU project.

However Facts4EU.org continues to have no confidence that true Brexit
will in fact be delivered for the British people by the Government.

Regrettably we can’t find any major organisation which recognises this risk as strongly as we do and we’ve been unable to find any serious funding for continuing our work.

[Sources: See the last month's articles below for sources]       24 July

Many Leave campaigners would say this was so nearly an accurate description

The Chief Exec of Vote Leave took the personal glory in a BBC-funded self-promo film yesterday.

Credit: BBC's 'Daily Politics' show, 21/07/2016, reposted by Current Top NeWs on Youtube

During the campaign we resisted criticising Vote Leave’s management, focusing instead on providing useful information for campaigners, but we simply can’t stand by and watch VL’s Chief Exec crow now.

In the last 6 months we didn’t receive one email praising VL’s management – quite the reverse.

Local campaigners and Eurosceptics criticised VL’s management across the board :–

OUR OPINION
The real heros were the thousands of unpaid men and women who went out many times each week, knocking on doors, manning stalls, speaking at small local gatherings and debates, producing their own leaflets and websites, persuading friends and family, putting up with daily bias from the BBC, ITV and Sky, and believing passionately in the cause.

We also salute the MP’s and influential names who worked tirelessly and who were highly effective when they got themselves on TV and in the press, without Vote Leave's help.

And finally we salute those entrepreneurs who put their hands in their pockets to fund so many efforts in the overall Leave campaign to the tune of millions of pounds. And we can never forget all the people who made individual donations to enable the Leave campaign to function. They gained nothing from this but did it for their country.

We suggest Vote Leave’s Chief Exec and Campaign Director leave their London offices and go out to talk to real campaigners across the country – those who actually won the Referendum.

     22 July 2016

PM gives up UK’s right to 6-month EU presidency starting July next year

Why did Mrs May do this without demanding something in return?
Why are 3 million EU immigrants used as bargaining chips,
but the UK's right to the EU Presidency isn’t?
Did the Cabinet approve this decision on Tuesday?

[Source: No.10 Press Office]   21 July

Remainers in red, Brexiteers in blue

Please make your own judgement about
Theresa May's Cabinet.

Facts4EU.org   21 July

Government lawyer confirms EU will not be given notice of exit by UK before next year

The above will be deeply worrying for the majority of the electorate who voted to leave the EU. Below we give our continuing opinion on this.

   20 July

Giving notice now to the EU isn’t ideal, but it's essential

Astonishingly, the Government and the Civil Service made no contingency plans for Brexit.

However there are two key reasons why UK should start leaving now:

1. To put an end to the daily undemocratic nonsense, so that Brexit is accepted by all and we unite to move forward positively as a country.

2. The sooner UK gives notice, the sooner UK can stop free movement, have its own laws, do international trade deals and grow faster.

Delaying the UK’s exit notification to the EU is dangerous.
It may not be ideal to trigger it now,
but the advantages now outweigh the disadvantages.

Davis, Fox, and Johnson need to man up and tell it like it is.

Facts4EU.org       20 July

The facts about the Scottish Remain vote, and who Nicola Sturgeon speaks for

Let’s put the SNP into context for our EU readers, despite what they think as result of massive Sturgeon and SNP coverage by BBC, Sky, ITV, etc.

Democracy means the majority wins.
Stable and decent democracy means taking account of minority views. It doesn’t mean giving a wildly disproportionate voice to a small minority.

The UK voted to leave, including 1 million Scots,
and Scotland is part of the UK.

Facts4EU.org – It’s always interesting to look at facts

[Source: Official Electoral Commission Referendum Results]       19 July

Arron Banks throws Leave.EU weight behind Steven Woolfe's leadership bid to replace Nigel Farage

The powerful Leave.EU organisation is backing Steven Woolfe to become the new leader of the UK Independence Party

[Source: Email from Arron Banks, EU Parliament biography]       19 July

Further 37 MP's appointed as Junior Ministers yesterday - only 4 are Leavers

Prime Minister May now has a massively Pro-Remain Cabinet, and the overwhelming majority of new Junior Minister appointments in her Government are also Remayners.

Forget the few big personalities like Davis, Fox and Johnson.

The numbers show Leave has been marginalised by Mrs May.

The Leave campaign isn’t over.
Please forward this to individuals or organisations who might fund our work.

[Sources: Cabinet Office announcements of posts]       18 July

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Giving the SNP false hope and talking about delaying exit is bad for democracy.

May has implied Scotland can influence the EU exit deal : “I've been very clear with the First Minister [Sturgeon] today that I want the Scottish government to be fully engaged in our discussions and our considerations, and I will listen to any options that they bring forward.” (BBC interview, 15 July)

Last time we looked, EU membership and exit was not a devolved matter. EU exit is a matter for the United Kingdom Government, under Royal Prerogative.

Scotland will not vote to leave the UK, even if a further Scottish referendum were offered by Mrs May, which she has indicated will not happen.

The Scottish people aren’t stupid and, despite the noise generated by the SNP, the SNP speaks for under half of the proud Scottish nation. There’s no chance the EU will allow Scotland to negotiate separate membership and the canny Scots will not vote for economic collapse outside the United Kingdom.

The UK as a whole voted to exit the EU, not the UK’s component parts. The SNP - and major elements of the Labour Parliamentary Party, as well as the Lib Dems and Greens – simply have to accept the result and live with it. You win some, you lose some. It’s called democracy.

Despite massive Government propaganda funded by the UK taxpayer, Remainers lost the Referendum. Get over it and let’s move on.

Mrs May now needs to embrace the democratic will of the whole country. Delaying the notice to leave the EU will further damage people’s understanding of democracy and what the Leave result meant.

Invoking Article 50 - notice to leave the EU - right now isn’t ideal because the Cameron Government and the entire Civil Service unbelievably didn’t prepare anything for a Leave result. We’re still waiting for senior Civil Service Heads to roll over this gross negligence and incompetence.

Thanks to Mr Cameron and the Civil Service Heads, we are where we are. It’s essential that stability is restored to our democracy. We believe Article 50 should now be invoked within a few weeks, to put to bed some of the nonsense being spouted about 2nd referendums, general elections, Royal Commissions, etc.

Yes, this will take some very hard work in a shorter period than is ideal.

But let’s get on with it, employ a great team (more about this in a future piece), and start getting out.

Then Mrs May can start truly uniting the country again.

Facts4EU.org       17 July

More Junior Ministers appointed Saturday by Mrs May - all supported Remain

All 4 of the new Junior Ministerial appointments yesterday are Remainers.
So far that means only 3 out of 14 are Leavers - 21% compared to 52% of the country.

Dominic Raab, prominent Leaver and Minister at Justice Ministry, left the Government.

You can contact us with your views about new appointments, or post your comments at the bottom of the page.
   05.50am, 17 July

We asked for your thoughts on candidates for ministerial positions

Here are key ones from emails we received :

Owen Paterson, John Redwood, Steve Baker, Iain Duncan Smith, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Peter Bone, Philip Hollobone, John Baron, Peter Lilley, Dominic Raab, Bernard Jenkin, Philip Davies

Please note that these emails were received before sackings started, such as that of Michael Gove.

Readers may want to send us further suggestions?

   17 July

Quietly overnight, more Ministers appointed by Mrs May

Last updated 04.55am, 16 July

7 out of the 10 new appointments are Remainers

You can contact us with your views about new appointments, or post your comments at the bottom of the page.
   16 July

The news isn't all bad. Anna Soubry was sacked from Government last night.