On 01 Jan 2014, the EU accepted Mayotte as part of the EU
Mayotte is a poor island off Africa, with a 97% Islamic population
They voted to become part of France so they could join the EU
Population is 227,000 of which 55% are under 18 years old
71% of adults are unemployed
It is still ruled under Islamic law
Mayotte: Latest of EU’s enlargements - British people are told nothing
Next time Cameron says Turkey won’t join until year 3000, remember this
Vote Leave to stop the constant deceptions, the huge costs, and the enormous risks
[Sources: EU Council Directive 2013/61/EU – Mayotte. INSEE (French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies) : Résultats statistiques de Mayotte. INSEE: population statistics. EU Commission European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations 2016.]
THE EU ELITE'S EXPANSIONISM IS COSTING THE UK BILLIONS
Each new country is poorer, meaning huge costs to the UK taxpayer
EU is paying €23.2 BILLION to these countries before they even join
EU's money comes from ever-smaller number of countries like the UK, who are net contributors to the EU
The EU has never stopped expanding since we joined.
It started as 6 countries and now encompasses 28 including the UK.
13 other territories are in various stages of negotiating their membership.
132 MILLION people from 4 non-EU poor countries will get visa-free access this year
Over 1.25 million people claimed asylum in the EU in 2015. 73% of them were male
Migrant arrivals in Greece in January 2016 were 38 times higher than January 2015
Nearly three-quarters of asylum-seekers were NOT from Syria
Turkey’s population is 78.7 million and is 99% Islamic, with 85,412 mosques
The EU is spending €23.2 BILLION of EU taxpayers' money on non-EU countries like Turkey, Moldova, Albania, etc, which are destined to join soon
The 2 richest countries in Europe - Norway and Switzerland - don't want to join, but the poorest countries are queueing up
The Failing EU Is Out Of Control - This Is Not a Safe Club To Be A Member Of
[Sources: EU Commission paper on costs of enlargement. Official Turkish Statistical Institute: Cultural Statistics 2013. Turkstat Census of Population 28 Jan 2016. EU Frontex report 22 Feb 2016. Eurostat Asylum Statistics 2015, published 02-04 March 2016. UN population data 2015. ]
14 June 2016
EU EXPANSION
The facts about the EU army and more countries joining EU
EU ARMY? TURKEY? - WHAT ARE THE FACTS?
- REMAINERS DISMISS AND PATRONISE, WE GIVE THE FACTS
For months we've reported on EU's military intentions including EU army
We've also reported on EU expansion - Turkey and many other countries
Voters say they want facts. Our facts below are in two parts:-
What has actually happened so far
What the EU is planning
These facts are well-researched as always and are incontestable
EU has created: the European External Action Service, the EU Institute for Security Studies, the European Defence Agency, the EU Military Committee, the EU Military Staff, the Eurocorps, and the EU Battle Groups
Discretely, the EU has been building everything it needs to run a combined military under the EU flag
Meanwhile, German 1st Panzer Division has taken over Dutch 43rd Mechanised Brigade
German Rapid Forces Division has taken over Dutch 11th Airmobile Brigade
Dutch have now agreed to combine naval forces with Germany
2007 - BBC: “The European Union has quietly acquired what might be described as a standing army.”
2015 - Jean-Claude Juncker, President of EU Commission: “The European Union needs its own army"
"Such an army would help us design a common foreign and security policy.”
April 2016 - German Defence Minister, Ursula von der Leyen: "This collaboration shows the extraordinary depth of the partnership with the Netherlands... Dutch and German [forces] will live, work, train and exercise together in the future. They become a fused entity"
"This is the path to a European Defence Union," she added.
Only 5 weeks ago, ‘Europe Day’, 9th May - President Daul (largest party in EU parliament): “Today more than ever, the peace of our continent cannot be safeguarded without a common and functional security union, including a European army.”
Finally, the Lisbon Treaty's express policy is for an EU 'Defence Union'
Exclusive: EU TO ALLOW 132 MILLION VISA-FREE ACCESS
EU EXPANSION ISN'T ONLY TURKEY
There are many other countries lined up to join the EU
We have significant information about the overall picture of EU expansion, but unfortunately our current resources don't allow us to write and code this essential information for you at this time.
It's a shame, because it will make devastating reading and should be very useful for all campaigners.
13 June 2016
WINNING OVER YOUNGER VOTERS
With Facts4EU.org
YOUNGER VOTERS ARE ESSENTIAL TO WIN
They need the facts they care about, and they need them now, without being patronised
Higher education establishment is firmly pro-EU
We must counter propaganda our young people have received for years
MANY HAPPY RETURNS YOUR MAJESTY, ON THE WEEKEND OF YOUR OFFICIAL 90th BIRTHDAY
90 Glorious Years, 64 Years As Our Sovereign
Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina, Consortionis Populorum Princeps, Fidei Defensor.
Head of the Commonwealth of 53 nations (representing ¼ of the World's population), Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
12 June 2016
SUNDAY EDITORIAL
12 June 2016
FACTS4EU.ORG
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GREAT NEWS, LATEST POLL SHOWS 10% LEAD
However we need 20% lead if Leave is going to win
We’ve consistently argued Leave needs 20% lead to win
Despite evidence, many people will still go for ‘safe option’ on 23 June
Below we continue to show voters will be better off out
We show OECD’s data proving Single Market hasn’t worked
We show mass immigration has a massive cost to families and communities
We wish strength and courage to all campaigners going out today.
It’s you who are putting in the real work in this campaign.
Mr Osborne, if the Single Market is so important, why didn't our growth rate jump?
3. The Single Market is based on goods not services - only 20% of our economy is goods
Messrs Osborne and Cameron talk of the EU 'completing the Single Market' as being vital
What they mean is that it should have been extended to cover services long ago
Services are 80% of our economy, unlike the rest of the EU
In 30 years, the EU still has no single market in services
In the EU, when something's in the UK's interests, it doesn't get done
4. Over 150 countries trade happily with the EU, without joining the ‘Single Market’
If the UK leaves the EU, nothing will change - trade will carry on
The UK will negotiate a 'British Option" - a trade deal in our own interests
Even if it's not perfect, it will still be better than our current arrangement
No more mass immigration, no more EU-imposed laws, no more EU politics
Just good profitable trade, the way the rest of the world has done it for years
Note: The graph showing average growth has been produced from data from the IMF - one of the Government's current favourite international bodies. It shows a rolling average trend line of the growth of the UK's economy each year.
June 2016
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'SINGLE MARKET' MYTH DESTROYED
PART EIGHT
Mr Cameron, please look at the graph. Can you even tell when the Single Market started?
MR CAMERON, IF THE SINGLE MARKET IS SO GREAT
and if it's the reason we must put up with mass EU immigration, loss of sovereignty and democracy, inability to make our own laws, massive pressure on housing, schools, the NHS and public services....
Can you please explain why there's been no growth effect?
Make Britain Wealthier Again – Vote Leave
[Source: IMF data tables, rolling 5 year average] 12 June 2016
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE ON ITV?
Leave debaters: Andrea Leadsom (Con), Gisela Stuart (Lab), Boris Johnson (Con). Remain debaters: Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Angela Eagle (Lab), Amber Rudd (Con)
BORIS AND FIVE STRONG-MINDED WOMEN
How did he and they get on? Our analysis of the ITV debate
Most national Press comment gave debate to Leave
Leave gave facts and arguments, Remain offered personal insults
Best debater: Andrea Leadsom, in our opinion
Gisela Stuart also excellent, Boris on good form
Lessons: Much better defence of £350 million per week claim required, if this is to be maintained. Remain’s “£4,300 per household worse off” claim could have been raised briefly.
Positives: Strong upbeat message overall from Leave, excellent points.
Leave debaters came across as likeable, and quoted facts. Leave never retaliated over continual insults.
10 June
FACTS4EU.ORG EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS
Click on the graph to see the 'headline' figure of £350 per week, compared to the gross figure, and the figure after our rebate
Once again last night, £350 million per week figure dominated
So let's use Mr Osborne’s independent ‘Office for Budget Responsibility’, 2016 figures :-
£398 million per week gross
£305 million per week of our money even after our ‘rebate’
£87 million per week of our money then spent by EU in the UK All these payments to farmers, universities etc, will continue which leaves £218 million per week that we pay for what?
Facts4EU.org has always said that a figure of £10 billion per year is a very reasonable and uncontestable figure to use, for what the EU costs us.
£398 million per week is the OBR’s estimate for this year, gross.
Even £192 million per week (£10 billion per year), is understated as a net figure after all deductions.
Frankly it’s a massive understatement of the total cost of the EU to the UK
[Sources: Office for Budget Responsibility, March 2016 data ] 10 June
FACTS4EU.ORG EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS (as with almost everything you read on this site)
GOVERNMENT’S ‘FIX’ OF REFERENDUM RESULT
Unprecedented extension to voter registration – we show the results
Government completed its rigging of Referendum vote
We show results of 2-day extension to voter registration
436,000 extra registrations, of which only 2% were aged 65+
77% were aged under 45 – the most likely group to vote Remain
Site down for only 100 mins before original 7th June deadline
This isn't about process - it's genuine concern for democracy, arising from a flagrant Government move to influence the Referendum vote. Raising this serious concern might make them think twice about any further nonsense before Polling Day.
A breathtaking abuse of Government power to fix a Remain result.
[Sources: Electoral Commission, Cabinet Office ] 10 June
The Norwegians had the confidence to reject the EU and they have never looked back
You may find some of what they say awfully familiar!
In 1994 Norway's government lied to their people too.
The Norwegian people saw through the lies, voted no to the EU, and they've thrived ever since.
(Short clip, 2 mins 50 secs)
10 June 2016
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UK's borrowing costs fall, as World shows confidence in UK
WORLD GIVES BIG THUMBS UP TO UK
Cost of borrowing for UK falls by 45%
Falling interest rate for UK debt shows World’s confidence in UK
The lower the rate, the more confident they are
UK’s borrowing costs have fallen from 2.2 to 1.2% since July
UK’s cost of borrowing has fallen 45% in 10 months
Government says UK economy suffering because of Brexit fears
The facts show huge confidence in UK, despite Brexit
[Sources: TradingEconomics.com, UK Treasury Dept ] 09 June
FACTS4EU.ORG EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS (as with almost everything you read on this site)
Official Government data shows huge risks of remaining in EU
EU MIGRANT WORKERS TO RISE TO 10 MILLION
Osborne predicts to 2030, so we look at EU migrants working in UK by then
Government data shows almost 10 million EU migrant workers in UK by 2030
This means a minimum of 15 million extra EU citizens
All will need healthcare, housing, schools, public services
This is about the economy and our standard of living
Staying in the EU means the UK can’t stop this
Note: We used official government data showing increase in EU migrant workers in last 6 years and projected it forward to Remain's favourite year: 2030.
[Sources: Office of National Statistics, 2016 data ] 09 June
FACTS4EU.ORG EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS (as with almost everything you read on this site)
Official Government data shows how they're fixing the result today
GOVERNMENT MOVES FAST TO 'FIX' REFERENDUM
48 hour extension to deadline, for registration of Remain voters
All polls show young voters most likely to vote Remain
Some young people left it until 10.30-12.00 on last night
How many pensioners tried to register after 10.30pm at night?
On final day, ‘young’ registrations 10 times higher than ‘older’
Why extend 48 hours? The site was only down for 100 minutes
We propose extension tomorrow morning, 07.30-09.10am
There is only one way of describing this.
A breathtaking abuse of power to fix a Remain result.
[Sources: Electoral Commission, Cabinet Office ] 09 June
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IN THE END IT WILL COME DOWN TO YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT
When something’s been true for years, it’s for you to judge and decide
When the EU economy’s been failing for years, why will it suddenly get better?
When EU unemployment’s been disastrous for years, when will they make jobs?
When EU immigration into the UK has been rising fast for years, why will it stop?
When the Single Market’s never given us extra growth, when will it ever?
When the EU’s currency has been in crisis for years, when will it collapse completely?
When the EU’s outvoted the UK 72 times out of 72, why will the 73rd time be different?
When the EU has gradually reduced Parliament's law-making to 40%, why won’t it reach 0%?
When unelected bureaucrats run more and more of our lives, why will they give that up?
When the arguments are disputed, recent history is often the best guide.
Sadly, experience and the facts show only one thing. It's time to Leave the EU.
Sources: All the above facts come from official sources, described in detail on this site.
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07 June
TIM ‘NICE BUT DIM’FARRON
Lib-dem leader embarrasses himself on live TV at Cameron rally
Very unwise to accuse Leave of lying and then lie himself
DID HE REALLY SAY THIS ON NATIONAL TV TODAY?
“There isn’t a single, recognised, credible economist, at all, that’s backing the Leave side”
Tim, YOU KNOW there are:-
Patrick Minford, Professor of Economics at Cardiff University
Dr Gerard Lyons, 27 years as chief economist for leading global banks
Roger Bootle, Chairman of Capital Economics, specialist adviser to Treasury Select Committee
Ryan Bourne, Head of public policy, Institute of Economic Affairs
Professor Tim Congdon, former member of Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters, one of the “Wise Men” 1992 – 1997 advising Chancellor on economic policy
Warwick Lightfoot, former economics editor of The European, special adviser to Chancellor of Exchequer 1989 - 1992
Kent Matthews, Professor of banking and finance at Cardiff University
Neil MacKinnon, global macro-strategist at VTB Capital
And more. Oh, and two former Chancellors of the Exchequer.
Tim, if you're going to accuse Leave of conning the Public, please try to get your facts right first.
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MEPs voted in the EU Parliament to approve a 14 page document about Turkey.
On the last page, the document says the EU:
"Welcomes the initiative ... to make Turkish an official language of the EU, and urges the parties to accelerate this process."
The reference to the Turkish language was buried on the final page of the report.
The MEPs approved the report by 375 votes to 133 votes, on Thursday 14 April.
[Sources: EU Parliament website. P8_TA-PROV(2016)0133 2015 Report on Turkey, European Parliament resolution of 14 April 2016 on the 2015 report on Turkey (2015/2898(RSP).]
President Daul’s statement on 9th May couldn’t be clearer
“Today more than ever, the peace of our continent cannot be safeguarded without a common and functional security union, including a European army.”
“This is the only way to defend our core values and defend the lives of EU citizens.”
So said Joseph Daul, President of EPP, on ‘Europe Day’ (9th May 2016).
The EPP is the largest political party - 75 member-parties from 40 countries, members include Angela Merkel, President Jean-Claude Juncker (EU Commission) and President Tusk (European Council), 7 EU and 5 non-EU heads of state and government, 14 members of the European Commission.
If the EPP President says it, it’s official policy.
IN RELATED NEWS: Germany takes over Dutch military forces
2014: The German Rapid Forces Division took over the 11th Airmobile Brigade of the Netherlands.
2015: The German 1st Panzer Division took over the Dutch 43rd Mechanised Brigade.
April 2016: Germany and Netherlands agree to combine naval forces.
"This collaboration shows the extraordinary depth of the partnership with the Netherlands… Dutch and Germans will live, work, train and exercise together in the future. They become a fused entity", said German Defence Minister, Ursula von der Leyen, April 2016.
"This is the path to a European Defence Union," she added.
AND FROM REPORTS WE STARTED PUBLISHING IN MARCH....
1. Last year, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of EU Commission said: “The European Union needs its own army... Such an army would help us design a common foreign and security policy.”
2. What he didn’t tell you is that the EU Army is already well on its way. The EU has created: the European External Action Service, the EU Institute for Security Studies, the European Defence Agency, the EU Military Committee, the EU Military Staff, the Eurocorps, and the EU Battle Groups. Discretely, the EU has been building everything it needs to run a combined military under the EU flag.
3. Even the BBC has said: “The European Union has quietly acquired what might be described as a standing army.”
4. The above is another example where the British people aren’t aware of what the EU is doing. Imagine our defence decisions being taken in Brussels. Imagine the defence of the UK in the hands of an Italian or German general. This is our future if we stay in the EU.
MEANWHILE, Mr Cameron and Government Ministers continue to deny an EU Army exists or is being planned. Sorry Mr Cameron, but this is a simple fact.
Vote Leave To Keep British Forces Defending the British People.
[Sources: Official websites of European External Action Service | EU Institute for Security Studies | Eurocorps | European Union Military Committee | EU External Affairs Sub-Committee House of Lords | Also BBC News 2007, Guardian 2015. | EPP Press Release 09 May 2016: http://www.epp.eu/press-releases/europe-day-eu-efforts-must-be-proportionate-to-the-threats-we-face/ | And German Defence Ministry ]
Here are the earnings of some of these rich & powerful people
Mark Carney, Canadian Governor of Bank of England : £880,000 p.a.
13 years at Goldman Sachs which makes millions from the EU
Roberto Azevedo, Brazilian Director-General of WTO : £600,000 p.a.1
35% of World Trade Organisation funding comes from the EU28
Angel Gurria, Mexican Director-General of OECD : £400,000 p.a.1
OECD receives funding from the EU
Christine Lagarde, French MD of IMF : £500,000 p.a.1
Currently under investigation by French courts
Carolyn Fairbairn, Director-General of CBI : £312,000 p.a. founder/co-owner with husband of luxury French chateau business
Frances O’Grady, Head of TUC : salary £143,207 p.a., 6 weeks paid holiday. TUC receives EU funding.
The above are just six examples of ‘independent experts’ telling the British voter to vote Remain.
The earnings figures above relate to the last year for which information was available. We don’t have their latest earnings which will of course be higher.
They move in a rarified world, from top job to top job, and they all want the UK to Remain.
Carney: Governor of Bank of England. Previously at Goldman Sachs (13 years), Canadian Gov’t Finance Dept, Governor of Bank of Canada, Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements, Chairman of the Swiss-based Financial Stability Board.
Christine Lagarde: MD of International Monetary Fund. Broke IMF Treaties to prop up the Euro. Previously arch-Europhile French Finance Minister, Chairman of US law firm Baker & McKenzie. The IMF made massive loans to prop up the Eurozone. If the UK leaves and stops contributing, the IMF’s loans to the Eurozone are more vulnerable. She is due to stand trial before the French Court of Justice in a €400 million fraud and negligence case but maintains her innocence of all charges.
Carolyn Fairbairn: Director-General of CBI. Previously Partner at McKinsey, Director of the BBC, Lloyds Bank, Capita, UK Statistics Authority, Financial Services Authority
Do these ‘independent’ people represent the interests of most British voters?
Leaving the EU is in the interests of normal people, not the Rich & Powerful.
Sources: [ CBI accounts 2013 | BoE accounts 2015 | OECD accounts 2014 | BBC, World Bank, IMF, CityAM, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Economist, EU Commission - please ask for links. ]
1Note: The salaries and generous additional allowances for people working for 'international organisations' above are not subject to any taxes so we have given a reasonable estimate of what their earnings would be if they were taxed like a normal person.
Note: Ms Fairbairn has every right to be involved in the luxury French hotel business which she founded with her husband - and her place looks beautiful. We just think that voters have the right to know who is lecturing them how to vote, and what these people's own particular circumstances might be.
Voters want facts, not wild claims. Here are some real facts from the IMF.
Outside the EU, Norwegians and Swiss are twice as wealthy per person as Eurozone citizens
Norway and Switzerland are outside the EU.
Unlike all the 13 poorer countries queuing up to join, the Norwegians and the Swiss are very happy being outside the EU.
The Remain camp quote Norway and Switzerland all the time, even though the UK will do a 'UK deal' with the EU after we leave, because we're so much bigger than Norway or Switzerland.
The graph shows you their GDP (national income) per person
Now, would you rather be inside or outside the EU?
The facts show we can be much wealthier out of the EU.
Vote Leave and let’s make Britain great again.
[Source: Official IMF international financial tables ]
We’re sure the President didn’t mean to mislead when he visited, so here are the facts:-
The UK exported £47.5 billion to USA in 2014 – without a trade deal. Our exports have grown 5% per year since 1998.
The EU hasn’t managed a US trade deal since 1957 – there isn’t one.
Current attempt (TTIP) ‘frozen up’ – only 15% of Americans and 17% of Germans support deal.
Trade deals are negotiated concurrently – UK is doing fine without waiting for EU deal which may never come.
However we could do a lot better if our EU membership didn't prevent us from doing free trade deals with the World's biggest economies.
The US has 20 free trade deals with individual countries – the UK is bigger than all of them.
Australia has had one with the USA for 13 years. If they can, so can we. But only if we leave the EU.
President Obama's 'back of the queue' comment means no change.
The UK is doing fine exporting to the US without a free trade deal.
We could do even better if we left the EU and could negotiate our own deal with the US.
[Sources: ONS export data set 2016 https://www.ons.gov.uk/ | YouGov poll for Bertelsmann Siftung 21 Apr 2016 ]
Read what Theresa May really thinks about the EU and immigration.
In her speech to the Tory Party Conference just 8 months ago, Mrs May said :-
“The numbers coming from Europe are unsustainable.”
“We need to build 210,000 new homes every year to deal with rising demand.”
“We need to find 900,000 new school places by 2024.”
“Thousands of [our] people forced out of the labour market, still unable to find a job.”
“Workers coming to the UK can claim over £10,000 on top of their salary in benefits.”
“Schengen means they can make their way to the British border at Calais, without checks.”
“Many will get EU citizenship and the free movement rights that come with it.”
“There's no case in the national interest for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last decade.”
Nothing has changed since then except that numbers keep growing. EU immigrants continue to arrive daily and Mrs May as Home Secretary can do nothing to stop them.
Mrs May : Leaver by belief, Remainer by career choice
Fact: UK can’t control mass immigration from EU while staying a member of the EU.
[Source: Speech to Conservative Party Conference, Oct 2015 ]
SAJID JAVID is Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and the President of the Board of Trade. Note: his pro-remain statement came after Mr Cameron’s ‘renegotiations’ this year.
So these are the pro-remain Business Minister’s current views
Taken from his official and current statement:-
OVERVIEW - “My heart says we are better off out.”
“It's clear now that the United Kingdom should never have joined the European Union. In many ways, it’s a failing project, an overblown bureaucracy in need of wide-ranging and urgent reform.”
“If this year’s referendum were a vote on whether to join in the first place, I wouldn’t hesitate to stand up and say Britain would be better off staying out”.
On Mr Cameron’s ‘Reformed EU’:
“I am disappointed by the scope and scale of the reforms offered by the European Council.”
… “Even fans of the EU will admit that further treaty changes are needed to fix crises such as the Eurozone meltdown.”
On our business future post-Brexit:
“I’d embrace the opportunities such a move would create and I have no doubt that, after leaving, Britain would be able to secure trade agreements not just with the EU, but with many others too.”
On Britain being stronger in or out:
“Had we never taken the fateful decision to sign up, the UK would still, of course, be a successful country with a strong economy. We would be an independent trading nation like the US, Japan, or Canada.”
On being out of EU, taking control of immigration, being independent:
“Over the years, we would have developed trade agreements with the EU and with others, all without surrendering control over immigration or our economic independence.”
On the Government’s Project Fear:
“As I’ve said before, a vote to leave the EU is not something I’m afraid of. I’d embrace the opportunities such a move would create…”
“Ignore the scare stories about a vindictive EU snubbing the UK – it simply couldn’t afford to, and an agreement letting the UK maintain its current level of access to EU markets would, eventually, materialise.”
Our interpretation:
The pro-Remain but anti-EU Business Minister seems to be telling us:
‘Our house is on fire, but we can’t call the Fire Brigade in case they use water to put out the flames.’
NOTE
Mr Javid has always been one of the strongest Eurosceptics in Cabinet. Some say that his eventual statement for ‘Remain’ was made to safeguard his job.
We leave you to decide.
Source: Full article published on Mr Javid’s official website. We’ve summarised his thinking under various headings using excerpts from his own article and you can read the full article here. His article was originally published in the Mail on Sunday.
The Brussels elite don't seem to care - it's been like this for years.
The only way to make this change is to take action by voting to leave, and forcing them to change their policies.
Under 25’s have been suffering joblessness for years in mainland Europe.
It’s not only in Greece (50%), in Spain (48%), and in Italy (40%).
Even in Brussels, the EU’s Capital, youth jobless is running at 36.2%.
However in non-EU European countries the youth jobless rate is an average of only 9.1%.
You choose - stay in the dysfunctional and jobless EU?
Or build a brighter future in an exciting, successful, independent UK, growing rapidly through new global trade partnerships - inspiring our fellow Europeans with an alternative vision that genuinely works.
Brexit won't affect our trade with the UK, says survey of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of world's biggest companies.
Nearly 73% said Brexit would mean 'no change' or 'slightly more likely to trade' with UK
Only 2.1% said they were 'significantly less likely' to trade with the UK in the event of Brexit
The results come from the latest annual CNBC Global CFO Council survey
This annual CNBC survey of the finance directors of the world's largest firms was one which could not be influenced by phone calls from Downing Street.
Who said 'Leave' has lost the economic argument?
Facts4EU.org continues to show we'll be better off if we vote to leave, using real facts.
[Source: CNBC Global CFO Council Annual Survey 2016]
SO WHY IS NO-ONE TELLING VOTERS WHAT 'REMAIN' WILL LOOK LIKE?
The EU mutates and grows every year. Often in a significant ways. Generally unreported on British TV.
19 of the 28 countries are now in the Eurozone. They share the common currency: the Euro.
All other members except UK and Denmark must join in the end – Treaty rules.
The Eurozone is in crisis and the EU's only solution is economic and political union – one state.
This was always the intention of the EU's founders from the beginning - now it's coming.
Last year the EU set out a plan, described in many official documents, to achieve it.
The EU plans to merge all 19 Eurozone countries’ economies and policies by 2025 – only 9 years away.
So by 2025, 19 Eurozone nations will effectively become one country.
You didn't know this? That's because British TV almost never reports such things.
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, the Netherlands, etc will cease to exist as sovereign, self-governing countries.
This is fact. States which can't control their budgets, their banks, their taxes, their borrowing, their benefits, their social policies, their borders, and their foreign policy, obviously cannot be considered to be sovereign nations.
The UK will then be on the outside of everything. The German-dominated 'United States of Europe' will reign, and yet we'll still be expected to pay ever-growing contributions.
The British people will feel like extras, paying to appear in someone else’s foreign movie.
Sounds alarmist? This future is fully-documented by the EU.
Mr Cameron knows this – why isn’t he telling you what you’re voting for?
For the EU, ‘One Direction’ means one country.
A Financial and Political Union of all member states: A ‘United States of Europe’.
In the end the UK will be forced to join this political and financial union.
When that happens the Pound will go, your taxes, benefits and laws will come from an unelected government in Brussels (many do already), your armed forces will be under foreign Generals, you’ll have the EU anthem and fly the EU flag, and an EU President will inevitably become Head of State instead of your Queen.
Mr Cameron can say what he likes about our supposed 'special status', or our supposed opt-outs from 'ever closer union', Schengen, and the Eurozone. It won't make any difference. The EU has a long history of ignoring agreements and referendum votes, and of taking ever more power. In the end we'll have to join.
IMPORTANT : Only vote to Remain if the future above is what you want.
[Sources: There are hundreds of EU documents about this. Possibly the most important recent one is the EU "5 Presidents’ Report" from last year: https://ec.europa.eu/priorities/publications/five-presidents-report-completing-europes-economic-and-monetary-union_en | Other links: http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/deeper-and-fairer-economic-and-monetary-union_en | On EU powers and democracy: http://facts4eu.org/facts/laws_and_democracy.htm]
10 years of being pro-Turkey, then going cold-Turkey just before the Referendum?
Here are some short excerpts from Mr Cameron's speeches on Turkey's accession to the EU.
2005: “We warmly welcome the accession talks with Turkey.”
2010: “So I will remain your strongest possible advocate for EU membership and for greater influence at the top table of European diplomacy. This is something I feel very strongly and very passionately about.”
“Turkey deserves its place at the top table of European politics – and that is what I will fight for.”
“The case for Turkish membership of the European Union is indisputable.”
(Ankara, speech to Turkish Parliament, Jul 27, 2010)
2015: “I can confirm the British government’s policy hasn’t changed and he’s absolutely right in what he says about the importance of helping Turkey [become an EU member state].”
May 2016: “Turkish membership of the EU, don’t think about it. It’s not remotely on the cards.” (House of Commons Liaison Committee, 04 May 2016)
June 2016: Turkey won't join the EU until "the year 3000” (Sky News TV Debate, 02 June 2016)
10 years fighting for Turkey’s membership – gone in a Referendum instant. Believe it if you want...
[Sources: Hansard, House of Commons | Ankara, speech to Turkish Parliament | Hansard, UK Parliament Statement to the House | Hansard, to Parliament Liaison Committee | EU press release ]
We explain Mr Osborne’s extraordinary claims in normal language.
We've read his 202 page Treasury report so you don't have to. Below we give a summary in a way that most normal people like us would understand things.
Mr Osborne claims you’ll lose £4,300 per year per household by 2030.
The £4,300 figure is 'GDP per household'. This is NOT 'income per household'.
No-one uses 'GDP per household' - not even the Treasury before now. GDP is a measure of national income - that's nothing like personal income.
Based on Mr Osborne's figures, the Treasury Select Committee say Osborne's 'GDP per household' is the equivalent of only £1,600 of income per household. But this sounds less impressive...
Mr Osborne's claims are based on predictions for 2030 – no-one in the financial world forecasts that far in advance. (Even the Treasury's latest 6-month forecasts were wrong by £27 billion.)
Critically, Mr Osborne doesn't admit that national income will still rise if we leave, even with his own pro-EU figures.
He's really saying you'll still be better off in 2030 with Brexit, but in his pro-EU view not quite as much.
The report was produced by Treasury civil servants. The public used to rely on their impartiality. All that has changed and the Head of the Civil Service has confirmed that they're backing the Government case to Remain.
Mr Osborne's claims in the Treasury Report are based on hundreds of assumptions which favour the Remain case. And the Report even assumes immigration will be an extra 3m people - way above the Government's target of 'tens of thousands per year'.
Even with his unusual calculations, his apocalyptic version of Brexit still shows :
National income growth per person very similar to remaining in the EU. (See chart.)
So, even if you don't believe anyone these days (no reason you should), at least you now know that even with Mr Osborne's own 15 year forecasts your income won't fall by £4,300 per household if you vote to leave the EU. In fact it will rise, and the economists who correctly predicted the ERM and Euro crises forecast that it will rise higher than if we stayed.
It's your choice. We think the British Public know when they can smell a rat.
We'll leave the last word to the BBC's Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, when the report was published:
"If Osborne believes all that, did he REALLY mean it when he said he'd be ready to leave EU if UK didn't get renegotiation?"
Note to Editors: We can provide details of the calculations, and source material from the Treasury Report and the IMF, to back our chart and assertions.
[Sources: Treasury website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-treasury | Treasury report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-analysis-the-long-term-economic-impact-of-eu-membership-and-the-alternatives | IMF (approved by Mr Osborne last week) World Economic Outlook Database, April 2016 | 27 May Treasury Select Committee Report
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