Northern Ireland is a sovereign part of the United Kingdom and wishes to remain so. If we come up with lots of new manufacturing jobs then are we going to set those coming ashore in Kent illegally to doing them? We already have very low unemployment and the NHS needs reform not money thrown into the bottomless pit. Although the EU is the destination of 42 per cent of our trade (a figure that declines with every passing year) the USA is our single largest country trade destination with 21 per cent of our trade. Only 8 per cent of British SMEs trade with the EU but the CBI makes lots of noise on behalf of a few large British global traders. What is known as the Rotterdam Effect – goods passing through the Dutch port en route to non-EU destinations – may be inflating these figures. 62 per cent of NI exports go to the EU but two thirds of that is to the Republic. What is really keeping the Remainers arguing is the incompetence of a government and a Prime Minister that was elected to “Get Brexit Done” but has really only done a small part of the job and does not seem to be interested in doing the rest. What has happened to Jacob Rees-Mogg and the bonfire of EU regulation? As the EU continues to strangle European business with more red tape we should be freeing ours up from the bureaucracy to make it globally competitive. Britain is still the top destination in Europe for people wanting to start businesses in new technology. The Northern Ireland Protocol was a bad idea that we thought we would be able to change but the EU is not interested. The EU does 20 per cent of all its customs checks on a border that sees less than 1 per cent of its trade simply to punish us. We can unilaterally remedy this situation: if the EU respond out of proportion to the effect we can point them to the terms of Article 16 of the Protocol. Remainers would love to rejoin an EU that, in our absence, has agreed to scrap most national vetoes, have more majority voting and hand more power to its unelected Commission. Why does the Ukraine want to join an EU that still sends it hardly any weapons, appeases Putin and buys Russian oil and gas?
Given currently, the jocks can't manage to use that Loch water to supply Fort Augustus or Invermoriston properly, they may need some outside help to supply the UK from it.
That's quite a flattering picture actually. I reckon Pre tea as she now likes to be known would give her right arm for a figure like that. Trouble is she couldn't then give the salute.
