James Young

Automotive industry, agriculture & international economics, dog lover, cricket, rugger, footy, sailor, cathedral chorister, fisherman, husband and father.

[James Young @jay5672]

@marcosagusstinn Nothing will change until Europe changes its poor growth economic model, to one that is America's equal.

[James Young @jay5672]

@LizWebsterSBF UK became increasingly dependent on imports with tenure of its EU membership. We lost the ability to control trade policy.

Sovereignty is a nations ability to wholly control its laws, policies + resources. It cannot therefore, by definition, be pooled with others.

[James Young @jay5672]

@LizWebsterSBF Agree with your policy to join Ag and Env, but "The UK's self-sufficiency in food has declined over several decades — from approximately 75% in the 1980s to the current 65%". UK membership of the EU and CAP overall did not favour UK food trade balance / self-sufficiency.

[James Wharton @jameswharton]

Geoff Hoon says he regrets how small the army has been allowed to become, twenty years on from his decision to merge 21 regiments into just six.

In 2006, his reforms of the infantry brought an end to some of the army's most admired regiments, including The Black Watch.

[James Young @jay5672]

@BritainUnbound Sterling-euro rate is broadly consistent with 2010 rate when UK was a member of the EU.

2010 = 1.17
2016 = 1.22
Today = 1.17

If govts since Brexit had lowered taxes, invested in industry more substantially and cut welfare spending, we might have arguably be at 1.25 by now.

[James Young @jay5672]

@LizWebsterSBF Funney that...may be because they are not a member of an economic and political union that ceded laws, central bank and currency to power hungry bureaucrats who disrespect a nation's independence?

[James Young @jay5672]

@andrewhesselden For this time only I suspect, I agree with you. There's nothing to stop EU and UK agreeing to an apparatus, just as a few countries did in 1985, that would remove border checks. But your EU masters forbade it.

[James Young @jay5672]

@LizWebsterSBF Yes, total freedom to legislate on anything and trade with what/whoever suits us without having to pay £billions for the privilege.

Perhaps once we get a leave government in office for a decent stint, we might start to take advantage of that opportunity.

[James Young @jay5672]

@LizWebsterSBF @andyburnham He won't though. He'd lose his seat at the next election if he did.

[James Young @jay5672]

@afneil Yes agree, however, at a consumer level, I think there's a secondary point that is that Germans and French for example buy home made cars beyond their quality, a kind of national brand loyalty, that Brits don't have to the same extent. We need to respond to this.

[James Young @jay5672]

Concentration of Power is a europhile's core mindset.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Brexit was like a Tesco superstore leaving the buying group bc it thought it could negotiate better deals alone.

Instead of gaining leverage, it lost the purchasing power of the wider group.

That’s Britain today. We left the world’s largest trading bloc thinking we’d secure better deals. Instead we’ve weakened our bargaining power, added trade friction and made our economy less competitive, with precious little to show for it.

[James Young @jay5672]

It's a step in the right direction but not enough

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

Don't fall for Burnham's business rates spin. The average pub will STILL pay almost twice what it used to.

Labour's trick: more than double business rates, then apply a tiny 20% cut and hope nobody notices.

Our plan: 100% relief for pubs, restaurants, shops, and more.

[James Young @jay5672]

@andrewhesselden It's easier. The EU is the most regulated market in the world and those regulations are designed to protect its own. They actively seek to usurp any competitive imports through subsidies and rules to better their own. It's their raisin d'être.

[James Young @jay5672]

@RichardGCorbett @LabourList It's not on his agenda really

[James Young @jay5672]

@LizWebsterSBF It shows you can have open borders without being an EU member doesn't it?

[James Young @jay5672]

This is right. The EU commission and europhiles at large think it's ok to expect member states to follow their rules if they give them money. A kind of blackmail and disregard for the rights of a nation's citizens. (There's no such thing as an EU citizen).

[Mike_Strong @Strong3Mike]

@marcosagusstinn What utter nonsense you spout? Since when any baylout to anyone (not only Greece) was linked to the abolishment of rights each country had within EU?
Greece is serving well its debts and provided collaterals wasnt the handouts to Ukraine Greece has taken its share you moron!!!!

[James Young @jay5672]

@Suewilson91 EU is very low on Burnham's agenda.

[James Young @jay5672]

Burnham:

- Opening up oil fields
- renationalise steel and failed foreign ownership model of utilities
- sacks Reeves + Lammy
- Healey CoE (=tells Trump he's commited to UK military spend)
- no mention of EU integration
- rumour is he will raise tax thresholds

A good start.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has appointed John Healey as the new Chancellor

[James Young @jay5672]

The europhiles must be gutted that yet another pro-eu prime minister is avoiding a rejoin debate.

The British public has moved on. UK will never rejoin the EU. We tried it out and the British people rejected it. It is dead, confirmed by Burnham's silence on the matter.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges. That must of course include being honest about the fact that Brexit has been a disaster for Britain.
https://t.co/G9dy8lx1P9

[James Young @jay5672]

@LizWebsterSBF Incorrect. It was John Major, a europhile, who got rid of utility companies golden shares that Thatcher put in place to precisely protect them from being taken over by foreign buyers.

Major succumbed to pressure from the EU to remove them.