Update 26 March 2020 - by Mel Cooper:
26 Mar 20
Dear
Sienna Rodgers,
Could
you please discuss the following with Jeremy Corbyn on my behalf:
Since you say he is completely
committed to the "strength
of a society that cares for each other” then why has Jeremy Corbyn been a
Eurosceptic for so long and why did he do such a lousy job defending a Europe
that works together and cares for each other? Are the nations of Europe not
potentially a kind of society that cares for each other and works together for
the common good? Or does he not think that the UK is actually a part of Europe?
I admit the running of the EU has flaws. But when he said on national
television that he supposed he would have to admit that he was 7 out of 10 for
staying in the EU if someone pushed him to a wall and held a gun to his head, I
believe that he not only lost the Referendum but that he was lying and really
meant 3 out of 10. Frankly, the answer should have been 10 out of 10 for
staying in and then 10 our of 10 for improving it. As with everything else, the
man was prevaricating. He was also, it seems to me, lying. He basically
wanted us out of Europe.
Also: If he is so keen to see Israel obey international laws,
especially over their decidedly stupid and provocative building settlements in
the so-called Occupied Territories, will he sit down with his “friends” in
Hamas and Hezbollah and suggest that they
might want to think about obeying the international laws of 1948 that
established the state of Israel? or that the leaders who are crying death to
Jews as their basic position might consider using some of the oil wealth of the
Arab nations to do something positive for the living conditions of
their “subjects”? Maybe the descendants of the 800,000 Jews who were
kicked out of Arab nations in 1948 and taken in by Israel should now also, for
the sake of parity and fairness, be given a Right of Return?
Frankly, I left the Labour party
precisely because of the directions in which Jeremy Corbyn and his Acolytes
have been taking it. I am disgusted by the narrowness , shallowness and
ultimately racist attitudes in the party now (including that one race is always
right and another is always wrong — you guess which ones I mean — and
even the use of the term “race” and an implication of
separate “races" when Jews and Arabs are actually all of the same
race and Semites together).
And I am incensed also that the
Labour Party is still, in the days of the coronavirus, not pointing out that
after all this is over Europe is going to have the same kind of problems and
challenges rebuilding as it did after World War II in terms of economic and
social issues. Not only do we need to be thinking about how much better off we
will be as part of the unified Europe trying to overcome the devastation of
this virus, but also, frankly, what we can do to help. One thing missing from
the entire debate about the EU has been the moral issue. It is not about
what the EU does or does not do for us, but about what we should be doing for
the EU, for all of Europe united. Instead we are permitting our feeble,
intellectually challenged and totally lightweight government to make us a second
rate nation and remove us from a forum where we have been leaders
with influence well beyond our actual powers and position in the world. We
could still return to a position of being leaders and influencers, but, of
course, that would not in any way fit in with the adolescent and uncritical
Marxism of Momentum or Jeremy Corbyn .
And by the way, he lost two
elections in a row and cannot take credit for anything the government is doing
now because that is all down to the coronavirus. If the Labour Party had any
brains it would get rid of Corbyn and his people completely (I hate to think of
him in his preferred role as Shadow Foreign Minister) and maybe get someone
like Gordon Brown to become a top advisor. Otherwise, I think that the Labour
Party is doomed.
23 January 2020.
Mel asks:- Can you explain to me again the advantages of leaving the EU?
Two septuagenarian experts, Brian and Noel, rise to the challenge.
Noel writes: Brian puts it far more elegantly than I. But we
agree in principle.
Bumbling Boris and Cummings the Clown, with his baggy old trousers drooping off his bottom, must now globally renegotiate trade deals on the 70,000 items we buy and sell. They must win better terms than we have today with the EU. They must make up the last 3 years of huge Brexit costs. So, I guess that England is doomed, doomed, doomed. AND - Where are the
City’s Passporting Rights? Is The City of London also doomed? - Noel
********
Brian writes:
Dear Mel,
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to list the
advantages arising from the UK leaving the EU. Here are my thoughts, in
no particular order:
- Foreigners really will “begin at Calais”.
- We will be able to make “wonderful” trade deals, which
will inevitably be inferior - certainly in terms of the quality of what we
import - than those we already have. This is inevitable because of
the greater size and therefore bargaining power of the world’s larger, and
therefore more significant, trading nations.
- We will be able to re-establish new Governmental
departments, at enormous cost, to negotiate and then monitor our new
“wonderful” trade deals, establish our own food and other standards.
These, and many other new costs, will swamp any savings we make from
leaving the EU.
- It will be necessary for the UK to agree new trading
and other arrangements with the EU, by far our largest current trading
partner. But, it will be equally necessary for the EU to ensure that
post-Brexit Britain gets worse terms than it currently enjoys; anything
else would result in the unravelling of the whole of the EU as its other
members would be encouraged to leave so as to improve their own
status vis-a-vis the EU.
- If we want the best trading terms that the EU is likely
to offer us, they will have to be on something other than an arms-length
basis (i.e., along the Canadian, Swiss or Norwegian lines) and this
arrangement will involve the UK in paying towards the EU’s ongoing costs,
somewhat as we do now. On the other hand, to avoid such costs, it
will without doubt result in poorer trading terms with the EU, our most
important, closest, and probably most empathetic neighbour (compare and
contrast the USA, China and Russia in terms of empathy).
- We will lose perhaps a very sizeable proportion of the
most profitable “industries” we have: the financial, automobile and
aerospace industries.
- Brexit will result, almost inevitably, in the UK losing
both Scotland and Northern Ireland, and, who knows, perhaps also Wales.
Oxford is sure to follow if they leave. Using my constant
desire to turn every thought into an anagram, the United Kingdom will
become the Untied Kingdom.
- The English
language will no doubt over time cease to be the de-facto lingua
franca of the EU. One could expect the French to push for
English to be replaced by their own lingua franca, and the Brits
will be forced to learn languages - a great imposition.
- When outside
the warm embrace of the EU, the UK (in its then diminished, solitary,
situation) will have to find new ways to impress other large nations to
treat us as being significant on the World’s political stage. Without
Scotland and Northern Ireland, we will be a nation of about 60 million people,
and have the clout of countries of like size, say Tanzania.
- And this one’s
for the historians. In the whole history of Europe, England (or the
UK) has never found itself in the opposite camp to a united France and
Germany. But note: for this to be true, the pedant would set aside
the 16 years between the Treaty of Rome and the UK’s triumphal entry into
the then European Communities. Ignoring the pedant, as we should, I
don’t know what this might entail, but it’s food for thought.
I find that a heavy heart is not conducive to creativity,
and these are the only things I could come up with at short notice. I’m
sure if I left this to stew a little longer, I could imagine other, greater,
benefits to come from the UK leaving the EU.
Best
regards,
Brian
********
Noel responds to Mel.
Of course. The advantage of pissing off 50% of our
export customers is to crash sterling and make £46M or more, far more, for
Rees-Mogg and his pals – offshore, tax free.
Sterling has gone from $1.51 to $1.30 dollars
(-13.2%).
This coming year, 2020, of non-deals and hopeless confusion will
knock another 15% to 20% off sterling. Let’s sell the BBC and the NHS to the
USA! Whoopee!
Jan 23 - 20 - 1 Pound
sterling equals
1.31 United
States Dollar
23 Jan, 10:56
UTC · $1.51 30 Jan 2015
“UK trade deficit. A deficit of £139 billion on trade in
goods” losing up to, say, 20% on sterling (with which we buy our imports) is
$27.8bn (annually) which at the average wage of £25,000 is 1.1 million jobs –
accumulating year after year. So, after 5 years of sterling at 20% down it is
equivalent to 5.5 million lost jobs. BUT, a fantabulous, generous trade
deal with Trump will make our exports soar, wipe out the deficit, put it all to
rights and make us rich – rich – rich. Brilliant Brexit Bullshit!
Noel Hodson - Director
Tax Reconciliations, Oxford
UK,
On 23 Jan 2020, Melvin Cooper wrote:
Can you explain to me again the advantages of leaving the
EU? Mel
Cummings the Clown and Bumbling Boris said: Who needs experts? Nobody wants experts? Nobody reads long expert analysis. We do it all from sound-bites, by instinct. When we are seriously ill, we don't consult trained medics - we rely on shamans, prayers and lots of positive continual shagging. "GET BREXIT DONE and gambol into the Sunlit Uplands. Hurrah!"
NOTE - Should you, contrary to Tory promises, lose your job, assets or sanity in 2020 - these two representatives of the gang who brought us Brexit can be found at Number 10, Downing Street. They will personally compensate you, in full, for any financial losses.
