Keir Starmer has dropped hint after hint and each one of them should worry patriotic Britons. (Image: Getty)
Anyone who is prepared to be governed by a foreign power, and take down our borders to it, is anti-British. Our Prime Minister, Sir , is anti-British.
If there is one genuine ideological view he holds it is that he wishes to be in the EU. He never wanted us to leave and he advocated for a second referendum. He will reverse whatever little we have. That also makes him anti-democratic.
What a state for the country! An anti-British, anti-democratic Prime Minister.
The language he uses of “resetting” the relationship with the EU is merely a euphemism for full regulatory alignment. He said as much in Montreal in September 2023, when he thought he was off-camera. He will dig us further into being a sclerotic state-heavy, highly indebted and taxed economy. The EU’s approach to economic management is socialism on steroids. It is in bed with large business but stamps on small and medium-sized enterprises.
Entrepreneurs and wealth creators are eschewed. The backbone of the UK’s economy is entrepreneurial SMEs – they are already greatly suffering under the weight of regulations and taxes.
This regulation will come hand in hand with energy insecurity. Through his ever-greater push towards Net Zero, our costs will not just go up, our ability simply to supply our energy needs will be denuded. We will be vulnerable at a personal and national level.
But it is even worse than that.
He wants to take down our borders. The youth mobility scheme he is discussing with the EU is the first step in that direction. It should not be dismissed as an irrelevance. Unlike similar schemes with , and , there would be no visas required for his scheme. Once applied to the youth, all that would be required is a change in the maximum age to reintroduce freedom of movement. It is a racing certainty that employment would be allowed under the scheme and any expansion of it.
Perhaps worse, he is bound to sign us up to the EU’s illegal migration resettlement scheme. In effect this is the legalisation of illegal migration through the back door. Under the scheme we would be obliged to settle in the UK our share of migrants that have entered the EU illegally. By accepting their settlement, we would be legitimising their presence. Nothing would encourage the people smugglers, and those they trade, more than knowing there is a way to legalise their presence.
I also fear he is going to subjugate our military to Brussels. The so-called “interoperable” European Defence Union, is not a union but control of national militaries. We are already paying into the European Defence Fund and signing up to aspects of their equivalent of , Permanent Structured Cooperation or PESCO. The terms of this cooperation prohibit us from challenging the EU on its foreign policy decisions. Remember – the EU is rubbish at foreign policy. Left to its own devices, it would fully be in bed with Iran. The UK would be defenceless in the face of such mad decisions.
All of the steps Starmer wishes to take would undermine the fabric of the United Kingdom.
Starmer’s resetting of the relationship with the EU is him acting against the United Kingdom.