Monday, August 22, 2016
Thursday, August 04, 2016
TURBO BREXIT
Instead of prevaricating and manoeuvring for a Brexit-lite deal,
assuming that Brexit is to happen at all, the government should have pressed on
with the implementation of the referendum decision. The delay merely means that
the damage caused by membership of the EU continues.
The English Rights Campaign would regard the following points as
central for maximizing the benefits of Brexit and the opportunities it allows.
This might be termed Turbo Brexit:
1. A complete end to the annual payments to the EU. Any post-Brexit
deal should exclude any further payments to the EU. The so-called Norway Model
should be rejected. From the money saved, £100million per week should be
allocated to the NHS. The sooner the EU payments cease, the sooner the extra
funding for the NHS is available.
2. There should be a full restoration of British sovereignty. Neither
the EU, nor any other international organization, should have any power over
Britain's internal affairs. Britain's laws should be determined by Britain's
parliament. Britain should withdraw from the jurisdiction of the European Court
of Human Rights and repeal the so-called Human Rights Act.
3. Britain should regain full control over its territorial waters and
those should be set at the international standard, with the fishing limit
extended to 200 miles. Britain should have full control over its fishing policy
and fish conservation.
4. There should be an end of free movement of people and Britain should
take whatever measures are necessary to bring mass immigration to a complete
end. The EU should have no say over who lives in Britain. Illegal immigrants
and immigrant political extremists should be deported. This must necessitate
withdrawing from the UN Convention on Refugees; help should be given to genuine
refugees in their own or neighbouring countries. British citizenship should not
be granted until someone has lived in Britain for at least 30 years and is
someone of good standing.
5. Overseas Aid should be reduced to a minimum. The aim should be to
reduce it by at least £10billion. Those who wish to give donations to overseas
bodies and charities, are of course free to do so with their own money.
6. Britain's trade policy should be one of balanced trade. Britain has
a massive balance of trade deficit with the EU and also with China. Britain
needs to adopt trade policies that will eliminate these trade deficits. If
necessary, tariffs should be used. In addition, there should be measures to
prevent further key British firms being taken over by foreign entities. Other
countries protect their key industries and so should Britain.
7. There should be a determined de-Marxification programme to remove
the ideology of political correctness from society. Those promoting political
correctness should have their access to public monies cut. Political
correctness should cease to be the basis of morality and patriotism should be
quietly engendered.
8. Priority should be given to reducing the government spending
deficit; ending the scandal of councils seizing pensioners homes if they are
taken into care; and reintroducing a fully transferable married couples tax
allowance. To raise money, in addition to the extra tax income from increased
growth due to trade being brought back into balance, and the savings on
overseas aid and payments to the EU, there should be the introduction of a
Solidarity Tax on those who have thus far avoided the extra costs of the
political correctness and immigration that they so loudly demand. All
organizations bringing in immigrants should be charged the full cost of a
house; there is no reason why taxpayers should fund a housebuilding programme
to cater for the immigrants brought in to save wages and training costs for business
and other organizations; let those organizations which do so well out of
immigration pay to house those immigrants.
9. The House of Lords needs to be replaced to better reflect the views
of ordinary people and to cull the collection of cronies with which the chamber
has been stuffed since the expulsion of most of the hereditary peers; it has
become an expensive Ponzi class gravy train and is dysfunctional. There should
also be the introduction of an English parliament to give the English an equal
footing in Britain. The powers devolved to the various national parliaments
should be equalized with a proper federal structure.
10. There should be selective measures taken to tackle crony
capitalism, self-aggrandising lawyers and dishonest bankers (including their
agents). Monopoly abuse should be met with fines. Lawyers should no longer be
allowed to manipulate the law to their own financial advantage (e.g.
orchestrating allegations from foreigners against British troops, and
exploiting divorce proceedings). It should be assumed that the wealth created
during a marriage is split evenly in order to simplify, make fairer and
minimize lawyers' fees. Small and medium sized businesses should have the law
amended to alter the balance of power in their favour regarding banks. Bank
criminality should be aggressively prosecuted.