Strike Dyson from the list. He's just buggered off with his factory to India where, no doubt, they have a better trading relationship with the rest of the World than the prickly Brits have.
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Because India isn't in the EU and can therefore trade with whatever countries it wants.
ROSS CLARK James Dyson is no Brexit hypocrite for moving HQ to Singapore, he knows world trade is Britain’s future — so suck it to ’em, Sir
The hysterical Remainers who took a smug pride in Dyson’s decision have fundamentally misread the opportunities that Brexit presents to us and the reason so many voted to leave
COMMENT
By Ross Clark
24th January 2019
The Sun
GIVEN that he employs 4,800 people in Britain, has invested his own money in a technological university and paid £185million in tax in 2017, you might think that Sir James Dyson was owed a bit of gratitude by our politicians.
Instead, he woke up yesterday to hear Lib Dem Layla Moran accuse him of “staggering hypocrisy” and Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey condemn him for “short-termism”.
Sir James Dyson announced he's moving his company's HQ to Singapore and Remainers immediately accused him of Brexit hypocrisy - but they are wrong about what Brexit means for Britain
His crime was to announce on Tuesday that he is moving his company HQ to Singapore.
Given that Sir James argued for Britain to leave the EU, the news was like a red rag to a bull for frustrated Remainers.
Dyson, they claim, helped land Britain in the soup and is now fleeing the country.
UNASHAMED BELIEVER IN GLOBALISATION
But if you will excuse the pun, the charge against him really sucks. Dyson’s decision has nothing to do with Brexit and is the very opposite of short-term thinking.
Sir James has looked ahead and seen that his most rapidly-growing markets over the next few years are going to be in the Far East. This is especially true, he believes, with his latest venture: Driverless cars.
As for the charge of hypocrisy, it could only be made by someone who hasn’t bothered listening to the case which Sir James made for Brexit.
Far from wanting Britain to retreat into glorious isolation, he wants the UK to open its economy to the whole world, and believes the EU is frustrating this.
He has complained of the difficulty in hiring staff from outside the EU.
“At the moment, if we want to hire a foreign engineer, it takes four-and-a-half months to go through the Home Office procedure,” he said in 2016.
I wouldn’t be surprised if part of what lies behind his decision to relocate his global HQ is Corbyn’s threat to seize ten per cent of UK companies’ stock
Ross Clark On James Dyson Moving His HQ To Singapore
He has also been frustrated by the way that engineers trained at UK universities are forced to leave the country after they finish their studies, rather than take up jobs here.
Admittedly, those are both failings of the Home Office rather than strictly the EU, but Dyson has also been critical of excessive EU regulation — an opinion honed through sitting on EU committees.
While it is nice to be able to trade across the EU without paying tariffs, he has said, the EU forces us to charge sometimes punitive tariffs on goods we import from outside it.
He explained his vision for a post-Brexit Britain as one where our country becomes a little more like business-friendly Singapore, which has become the third wealthiest country on Earth in terms of GDP per capita.
Sir James, in other words, is an unashamed believer in the benefits of globalisation.
So why is it hypocritical that he is practising what he preaches and locating his global HQ where he believes it will be best-placed to take advantage of economic growth?
In fact, in campaigning for Brexit Sir James was in one way arguing against his own personal financial interest.
He owns farmland in Britain and knows he will lose subsidies paid under the absurd EU Common Agricultural Policy.
The inventor poses at the Dyson vacuum cleaner factory in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, which will stay on as the company's centre for research and development
It is hardly as if Dyson is withdrawing from Britain. The company’s research and development centre will remain in Wiltshire, as will its university.
He will continue to pay large amounts of tax here, and only two senior jobs will be relocated to Singapore.
None of the firm’s other thousands of British workers will be affected at all. Rather than bark at him, Labour and the Lib Dems ought to ask themselves: What is it that makes global companies choose where to locate their activities?
If they speak to Sir James, I am sure he will tell them the same as other entrepreneurs: That they appreciate low taxes, flexible labour laws and efficient regulation.
As things stand, Britain scores quite highly in these areas, which is why — contrary to Remainers’ scare stories — the economy remains healthy and we continue to attract overseas investment.
In its assessment of the global economy this week, the International Monetary Fund sees the UK this year as having the joint third-fastest growing economy in the G7, level with France and ahead of Germany and Italy.
Employment is at a record high, with 32.5million people in work. The unemployment rate, at four per cent, is lower than at any time since the early Seventies — and less than half the levels in France.
What’s more, earnings have risen in the past 12 months by 1.1 per cent in real terms — that is after adjusting for inflation.
But it would be a very different story if, God forbid, Jeremy Corbyn made it to Downing Street.
What does Rebecca Long-Bailey think would happen to investment in Britain if Labour did as it promised in its 2017 manifesto and jacked corporation tax up from 19 per cent to 26 per cent?
There would be far more companies fleeing to Singapore, where corporation tax rate is 17 per cent.
The hysterical Remainers who took a smug pride in Dyson’s decision yesterday have fundamentally misread the opportunities that Brexit presents to us, as well as the reason so many voted to leave.
It’s not that Leavers want to pull up the drawbridge and pursue small-minded protectionalist policies — it’s that they want to take Britain away from the confines of the EU and send her out to compete globally, unfettered by the regulations and red tape of the bloc.
Just as there was a shriek of petty outcry when it was announced the our new blue passports wouldn’t be made by a British firm, the naysayers are missing the point. We are now a global nation, competing for global customers. Those passports could be made by anyone, even the French.
Sir James Dyson hasn’t said as much, but I wouldn’t be surprised if part of what lies behind his decision to relocate his global HQ is Corbyn’s threat to seize ten per cent of UK companies’ stock in order to set up funds for workers.
GREY CORPORATE MEN NOT ENTREPRENEURS
I am all for employees owning a stake in the companies for which they work, but threatening to seize assets is just going to drive businesses away.
Remainers will point to polls showing that most senior business figures would rather remain in the EU.
But there is a big difference between grey corporate men and entrepreneurs such as Sir James Dyson, who have built businesses from scratch.
Britain has produced too few global companies such as Dyson in recent years, which grew from nothing in 1991 to an annual turnover of £4billlion and profits of £1billion in the past year.
The very least politicians can do is to listen to and respect the views of a man who has achieved this.
Ross Clark is a columnist for The Spectator.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8265999/james-dyson-brexit-trade-ross-clark-opinion/
The hysterical Remainers who took a smug pride in Dyson’s decision have fundamentally misread the opportunities that Brexit presents to us and the reason so many voted to leave
COMMENT
By Ross Clark
24th January 2019
The Sun
GIVEN that he employs 4,800 people in Britain, has invested his own money in a technological university and paid £185million in tax in 2017, you might think that Sir James Dyson was owed a bit of gratitude by our politicians.
Instead, he woke up yesterday to hear Lib Dem Layla Moran accuse him of “staggering hypocrisy” and Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey condemn him for “short-termism”.
Sir James Dyson announced he's moving his company's HQ to Singapore and Remainers immediately accused him of Brexit hypocrisy - but they are wrong about what Brexit means for Britain
His crime was to announce on Tuesday that he is moving his company HQ to Singapore.
Given that Sir James argued for Britain to leave the EU, the news was like a red rag to a bull for frustrated Remainers.
Dyson, they claim, helped land Britain in the soup and is now fleeing the country.
UNASHAMED BELIEVER IN GLOBALISATION
But if you will excuse the pun, the charge against him really sucks. Dyson’s decision has nothing to do with Brexit and is the very opposite of short-term thinking.
Sir James has looked ahead and seen that his most rapidly-growing markets over the next few years are going to be in the Far East. This is especially true, he believes, with his latest venture: Driverless cars.
As for the charge of hypocrisy, it could only be made by someone who hasn’t bothered listening to the case which Sir James made for Brexit.
Far from wanting Britain to retreat into glorious isolation, he wants the UK to open its economy to the whole world, and believes the EU is frustrating this.
He has complained of the difficulty in hiring staff from outside the EU.
“At the moment, if we want to hire a foreign engineer, it takes four-and-a-half months to go through the Home Office procedure,” he said in 2016.
I wouldn’t be surprised if part of what lies behind his decision to relocate his global HQ is Corbyn’s threat to seize ten per cent of UK companies’ stock
Ross Clark On James Dyson Moving His HQ To Singapore
He has also been frustrated by the way that engineers trained at UK universities are forced to leave the country after they finish their studies, rather than take up jobs here.
Admittedly, those are both failings of the Home Office rather than strictly the EU, but Dyson has also been critical of excessive EU regulation — an opinion honed through sitting on EU committees.
While it is nice to be able to trade across the EU without paying tariffs, he has said, the EU forces us to charge sometimes punitive tariffs on goods we import from outside it.
He explained his vision for a post-Brexit Britain as one where our country becomes a little more like business-friendly Singapore, which has become the third wealthiest country on Earth in terms of GDP per capita.
Sir James, in other words, is an unashamed believer in the benefits of globalisation.
So why is it hypocritical that he is practising what he preaches and locating his global HQ where he believes it will be best-placed to take advantage of economic growth?
In fact, in campaigning for Brexit Sir James was in one way arguing against his own personal financial interest.
He owns farmland in Britain and knows he will lose subsidies paid under the absurd EU Common Agricultural Policy.
The inventor poses at the Dyson vacuum cleaner factory in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, which will stay on as the company's centre for research and development
It is hardly as if Dyson is withdrawing from Britain. The company’s research and development centre will remain in Wiltshire, as will its university.
He will continue to pay large amounts of tax here, and only two senior jobs will be relocated to Singapore.
None of the firm’s other thousands of British workers will be affected at all. Rather than bark at him, Labour and the Lib Dems ought to ask themselves: What is it that makes global companies choose where to locate their activities?
If they speak to Sir James, I am sure he will tell them the same as other entrepreneurs: That they appreciate low taxes, flexible labour laws and efficient regulation.
As things stand, Britain scores quite highly in these areas, which is why — contrary to Remainers’ scare stories — the economy remains healthy and we continue to attract overseas investment.
In its assessment of the global economy this week, the International Monetary Fund sees the UK this year as having the joint third-fastest growing economy in the G7, level with France and ahead of Germany and Italy.
Employment is at a record high, with 32.5million people in work. The unemployment rate, at four per cent, is lower than at any time since the early Seventies — and less than half the levels in France.
What’s more, earnings have risen in the past 12 months by 1.1 per cent in real terms — that is after adjusting for inflation.
But it would be a very different story if, God forbid, Jeremy Corbyn made it to Downing Street.
What does Rebecca Long-Bailey think would happen to investment in Britain if Labour did as it promised in its 2017 manifesto and jacked corporation tax up from 19 per cent to 26 per cent?
There would be far more companies fleeing to Singapore, where corporation tax rate is 17 per cent.
The hysterical Remainers who took a smug pride in Dyson’s decision yesterday have fundamentally misread the opportunities that Brexit presents to us, as well as the reason so many voted to leave.
It’s not that Leavers want to pull up the drawbridge and pursue small-minded protectionalist policies — it’s that they want to take Britain away from the confines of the EU and send her out to compete globally, unfettered by the regulations and red tape of the bloc.
Just as there was a shriek of petty outcry when it was announced the our new blue passports wouldn’t be made by a British firm, the naysayers are missing the point. We are now a global nation, competing for global customers. Those passports could be made by anyone, even the French.
Sir James Dyson hasn’t said as much, but I wouldn’t be surprised if part of what lies behind his decision to relocate his global HQ is Corbyn’s threat to seize ten per cent of UK companies’ stock in order to set up funds for workers.
GREY CORPORATE MEN NOT ENTREPRENEURS
I am all for employees owning a stake in the companies for which they work, but threatening to seize assets is just going to drive businesses away.
Remainers will point to polls showing that most senior business figures would rather remain in the EU.
But there is a big difference between grey corporate men and entrepreneurs such as Sir James Dyson, who have built businesses from scratch.
Britain has produced too few global companies such as Dyson in recent years, which grew from nothing in 1991 to an annual turnover of £4billlion and profits of £1billion in the past year.
The very least politicians can do is to listen to and respect the views of a man who has achieved this.
Ross Clark is a columnist for The Spectator.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8265999/james-dyson-brexit-trade-ross-clark-opinion/
LOL, the Dyson Co. asked me to go to work for them a couple years ago ( on the new car thing )...I thought about it. Why have just the best in Britain when you can get the best in the world? ( lol, you should have seen my test scores - which I just did for fun, HaHa )
Ah...but being early retired is just too much fun.
Dyson got his first business break in Japan so I think they have a very positive view of doing business in, and from the "east", while still maintaining a British entrepreneurial spirit too.
Ah...but being early retired is just too much fun.
Dyson got his first business break in Japan so I think they have a very positive view of doing business in, and from the "east", while still maintaining a British entrepreneurial spirit too.
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Dyson wanted you to teach their products how to suck, no doubt.LOL, the Dyson Co. asked me to go to work for them a couple years ago ( on the new car thing )...I thought about it. Why have just the best in Britain when you can get the best in the world? ( lol, you should have seen my test scores - which I just did for fun, HaHa )
Ah...but being early retired is just too much fun.
Dyson got his first business break in Japan so I think they have a very positive view of doing business in, and from the "east", while still maintaining a British entrepreneurial spirit too.
JAMES FORSYTH Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party spells end of Ukip nutters but will come at the expense of the Tories
The return of Farage has already led to Tory MPs taking a second look at Boris Johnson
Comment
By James Forsyth
20th April 2019
The Sun
EVEN by the standards of our politically volatile times, it is remarkable.
The Brexit Party launched just over a week ago. Yet it is now leading in the UK polls for the European elections and is favourite to win them.
Perhaps the most significant consequence of a Brexit Party triumph is that it would finish off Farage’s old party Ukip
Its meteoric rise is testament to both public anger at the delays to Britain leaving the European Union and to Nigel Farage’s skill as a campaigner.
But would the Brexit Party winning the European Parliament elections actually change anything?
There are three ways in which it would have an impact.
First, it will make some MPs more wary of a second referendum. Support for this has grown in Parliament in recent months, in part because more MPs have become confident that Remain would come out on top.
But if the Brexit Party wins the European elections, it will show that another referendum would be anything but a cakewalk for Remain. This might make some of these MPs more inclined to compromise.
One group whom a Farage victory won’t make more inclined to compromise are the Brexiteer holdouts against May’s deal. They’ll argue that his *success proves that the public supports No Deal.
But I suspect that what it would show more than anything else is voters’ frustration that Brexit hasn’t happened yet.
It is the delay — that these MPs must take their share of the blame for — which is so infuriating the public.
Success for the Brexit Party will come at the expense of the Tories more than any other party.
Debate will quickly shift to how the Tories can win these voters back, and that will boost the chances of the Brexiteer leadership contenders. Indeed, the return of Farage has already led to Tory
MPs taking a second look at Boris Johnson. The other great question is, what effect will a win for the Brexit Party have on Labour?
The Brexit Party's rise is a testament to Nigel Farage’s skill as a campaigner
The cross-party Brexit talks will resume next week, but those close to them hold out little hope of success.
The sense is that they will, in the words of one source, “drag on for a while” but it is “unlikely they will reach agreement”.
But if the Brexit Party is taking votes from Labour in its traditional heartlands, it will strengthen the hand of those in the party who just want to get a Brexit deal done so the issue is off the stocks before the next election.
Some in government admit that this is unlikely to happen, as doing a deal with Theresa May on Brexit would cause bitter divisions in Labour’s ranks.
They do hold out hope, though, that it might lead to more Labour MPs being prepared to back the deal — a mere five Labour MPs voted for the withdrawal agreement last month.
But with the DUP and hardcore Brexiteers determined not to back the deal, it would require 30 or more Labour MPs to come over — which is a hard ask — for the deal to pass.
Perhaps the most significant consequence of a Brexit Party triumph is that it would finish off Farage’s old party, Ukip.
Ukip’s flirtation with Tommy Robinson street thuggery and YouTube stars who make light of rape has been a disaster for the party.
The electorate will simply have no truck with such extremist nonsense and so Ukip won’t be the beneficiaries of the public’s anger at the Brexit delays.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8901750/brexit-party-success-at-expense-of-tories/
The return of Farage has already led to Tory MPs taking a second look at Boris Johnson
Comment
By James Forsyth
20th April 2019
The Sun
EVEN by the standards of our politically volatile times, it is remarkable.
The Brexit Party launched just over a week ago. Yet it is now leading in the UK polls for the European elections and is favourite to win them.
Perhaps the most significant consequence of a Brexit Party triumph is that it would finish off Farage’s old party UkipIts meteoric rise is testament to both public anger at the delays to Britain leaving the European Union and to Nigel Farage’s skill as a campaigner.
But would the Brexit Party winning the European Parliament elections actually change anything?
There are three ways in which it would have an impact.
First, it will make some MPs more wary of a second referendum. Support for this has grown in Parliament in recent months, in part because more MPs have become confident that Remain would come out on top.
But if the Brexit Party wins the European elections, it will show that another referendum would be anything but a cakewalk for Remain. This might make some of these MPs more inclined to compromise.
One group whom a Farage victory won’t make more inclined to compromise are the Brexiteer holdouts against May’s deal. They’ll argue that his *success proves that the public supports No Deal.
But I suspect that what it would show more than anything else is voters’ frustration that Brexit hasn’t happened yet.
It is the delay — that these MPs must take their share of the blame for — which is so infuriating the public.
Success for the Brexit Party will come at the expense of the Tories more than any other party.
Debate will quickly shift to how the Tories can win these voters back, and that will boost the chances of the Brexiteer leadership contenders. Indeed, the return of Farage has already led to Tory
MPs taking a second look at Boris Johnson. The other great question is, what effect will a win for the Brexit Party have on Labour?
The Brexit Party's rise is a testament to Nigel Farage’s skill as a campaignerThe cross-party Brexit talks will resume next week, but those close to them hold out little hope of success.
The sense is that they will, in the words of one source, “drag on for a while” but it is “unlikely they will reach agreement”.
But if the Brexit Party is taking votes from Labour in its traditional heartlands, it will strengthen the hand of those in the party who just want to get a Brexit deal done so the issue is off the stocks before the next election.
Some in government admit that this is unlikely to happen, as doing a deal with Theresa May on Brexit would cause bitter divisions in Labour’s ranks.
They do hold out hope, though, that it might lead to more Labour MPs being prepared to back the deal — a mere five Labour MPs voted for the withdrawal agreement last month.
But with the DUP and hardcore Brexiteers determined not to back the deal, it would require 30 or more Labour MPs to come over — which is a hard ask — for the deal to pass.
Perhaps the most significant consequence of a Brexit Party triumph is that it would finish off Farage’s old party, Ukip.
Ukip’s flirtation with Tommy Robinson street thuggery and YouTube stars who make light of rape has been a disaster for the party.
The electorate will simply have no truck with such extremist nonsense and so Ukip won’t be the beneficiaries of the public’s anger at the Brexit delays.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8901750/brexit-party-success-at-expense-of-tories/
He won the 2014 EU Election. And he'll win the 2019 one - the one we shouldn't even be having.
Britain shouldn't be taking part in these elections. We should have left the EU by now. Had the politicians honoured the referendum result then their parties wouldn't be about to be defeated by the Brexit Party in the EU elections. It serves them right.
If he didn't fundamentally believe in the EU, he wouldn't run in their elections ...
... a dilemma that the Separatist Bloc Quebecois here was never able to reconcile.
So why has he spent years trying to get Britain out of it?
Having UKIP MEPs is no different to those SNP and Sinn Fein MPs we have.
DAN HODGES: Memo to the pearl-clutching liberals railing about the return of Nigel Farage... It's YOUR fault he's back
By DAN HODGES FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
21 April 2019
Last September, David Lammy stepped on to a windswept stage outside Labour's Party Conference in Liverpool, and asked the delegates demanding a so-called 'People's Vote' a question.
'This country is at a tipping point. Are we to become the country of Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage?' he boomed.
'No!!!' shouted back his enthusiastic audience. They were wrong. Johnson and Rees-Mogg are currently surplus to requirements.
So the Remainers can unleash their rage. They can lambast the BBC and others for providing a platform for 'thuggery and extremism'. But the fact is they have just presented Farage (pictured above at a Brexit Party rally) with the best platform of all
But if last week's surveys are correct, the British people will go to the polls in next month's European elections and send a clear message – we are indeed the country of Nigel Farage.
When that happens, Lammy will react with horror and fury. As will the rest of the Remain establishment. In fact, they are not even waiting for the voters to deliver their verdict. The hard-Brexiteers are already being branded Nazis.
They have been accused of inciting violence against mainstream politicians. There are demands for them to be banished from the airwaves.
Watching this latest display of liberal pearl-clutching, it's as if Britain's political class has been collectively lobotomised.
That an especially malicious but skilled surgeon has toured the House of Commons, surreptitiously excising that part of the temporal lobe that retains memories of the political period 2010-2017.
'This country is at a tipping point. Are we to become the country of Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage?' David Lammy, above, boomed. 'No!!!' shouted back his enthusiastic audience. They were wrong [File photo]
It's the only rational explanation. There is no other way Lammy and his colleagues can have forgotten the public groundswell against the political establishment that manifested itself at the 2014 European elections.
The complete futility of attempts to paint Farage as an extremist in advance of those elections. Or his triumph then, and in the subsequent referendum.
This morning we have awoken, like Bill Murray, in the midst of a Groundhog Brexit. Just exactly what is it Members of Parliament thought was going to happen? When they secured election on manifestos pledging to implement the will of the people, then blocked it.
When they demanded they be given responsibility for extricating us from our Brexit impasse, then preened and posed their way to continuing deadlock.
When they endorsed a new set of European elections – at the tidy sum of £100 million – and then invited the voters to pass verdict on their efforts.
We know what ardent second referendum campaigners such as Labour peer Andrew Adonis think is going to happen.
At his campaign launch Farage said: 'We can again start to put the fear of God into our MPs.' Next month he will. Britain is set to become Nigel Farage's country. David Lammy and his colleagues have seen to that
'I've campaigned non-stop against this Farage-Tory Brexit catastrophe over the last year. Now we can finish it off in the European elections on 23 May!,' he tweeted shortly after being anointed Jeremy Corbyn's candidate for the South West and Gibraltar.
Or rather, Jeremy Corbyn's useful idiot for the South West and Gibraltar. Labour's leader is, as ever, happy for any help he can get in maintaining his strategy of forever stringing Remainers along with the hope he will take the option of a second referendum off the table and actively endorse it.
In reality that is the furthest thing from his mind. Speaking to a Cabinet Minister close to the ongoing Brexit negotiations, it's crystal clear a split has opened within Labour's team.
'Corbyn, Seumas Milne [head of strategy and communications] and Andrew Fisher [head of policy] would be prepared to sign off a deal. But they're being stopped by John McDonnell, Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer who want a second referendum,' he explained.
That's why Government attempts to keep the talks going over Easter recess were rebuffed.
'We wanted to keep talking and Labour just went off on holiday,' says a Government adviser.
The hard-Brexiteers are already being branded Nazis. They have been accused of inciting violence against mainstream politicians. There are demands for them to be banished from the airwaves [File photo]
Why wouldn't they? This week, as reality started to dawn on the more pragmatic Remainers, a desperate call was issued to Corbyn to block the Farage insurgency by fully endorsing a second referendum and uniting the fragmented anti-Brexit coalition.
But he has no incentive to block anything. The national polls are showing Labour with a ten-point lead. Farage's Brexit Party is splitting the Tory vote, and clearing his path to No 10. If Farage is going to offer him a piggy back to power, there is no reason to disoblige him.
The second-referendum campaigners can shriek and wail all they like. Their lamentations will have precisely the same effect they did in 2014 and 2016.
Actually, more effect. But not in the way they intended.
In 2014 and 2016 the charges of racism directed at Farage were not attended by staggering, craven hypocrisy. Those Labour MPs making them were not members of a party subject to investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for its own racism.
Or a party facing Metropolitan Police investigation for racist threats made by its own members to one of its MPs. Or exposed by its own party staff as covering up and whitewashing hundreds of examples of racism, despite the denials of its leader.
In 2014 and 2016 the voters – despite their innate cynicism towards politicians – did not have the fraudulent pledges of their elected parliamentarians ringing in their ears.
Dominic Grieve's election address stating, 'I accept the result of the 2016 Referendum. I therefore strongly support the Prime Minister's determination to secure a negotiated arrangement for leaving the EU,' had yet to be penned.
Yvette Cooper's observation, 'it was a referendum that was fought in good faith and nobody said at any time 'you know what, I am not going to respect the result afterwards'. That's the kind of thing Donald Trump says,' was still to be uttered.
So the Remainers can unleash their rage. They can lambast the BBC and others for providing a platform for 'thuggery and extremism'. But the fact is they have just presented Farage with the best platform of all.
He knows how to use it.
The most recent poll has the Brexit Party on 27 per cent. Bolt on the genuine ultra-extremists of Ukip, and that rises to 34 per cent. Labour is on 22 per cent. Mrs May's imploding Tory Party is on 15 per cent.
At his campaign launch Farage said: 'We can again start to put the fear of God into our MPs.' Next month he will.
Britain is set to become Nigel Farage's country. David Lammy and his colleagues have seen to that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...utching-liberals-fault-Nigel-Farage-back.html
By DAN HODGES FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
21 April 2019
Last September, David Lammy stepped on to a windswept stage outside Labour's Party Conference in Liverpool, and asked the delegates demanding a so-called 'People's Vote' a question.
'This country is at a tipping point. Are we to become the country of Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage?' he boomed.
'No!!!' shouted back his enthusiastic audience. They were wrong. Johnson and Rees-Mogg are currently surplus to requirements.
So the Remainers can unleash their rage. They can lambast the BBC and others for providing a platform for 'thuggery and extremism'. But the fact is they have just presented Farage (pictured above at a Brexit Party rally) with the best platform of all
But if last week's surveys are correct, the British people will go to the polls in next month's European elections and send a clear message – we are indeed the country of Nigel Farage.
When that happens, Lammy will react with horror and fury. As will the rest of the Remain establishment. In fact, they are not even waiting for the voters to deliver their verdict. The hard-Brexiteers are already being branded Nazis.
They have been accused of inciting violence against mainstream politicians. There are demands for them to be banished from the airwaves.
Watching this latest display of liberal pearl-clutching, it's as if Britain's political class has been collectively lobotomised.
That an especially malicious but skilled surgeon has toured the House of Commons, surreptitiously excising that part of the temporal lobe that retains memories of the political period 2010-2017.
'This country is at a tipping point. Are we to become the country of Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage?' David Lammy, above, boomed. 'No!!!' shouted back his enthusiastic audience. They were wrong [File photo]
It's the only rational explanation. There is no other way Lammy and his colleagues can have forgotten the public groundswell against the political establishment that manifested itself at the 2014 European elections.
The complete futility of attempts to paint Farage as an extremist in advance of those elections. Or his triumph then, and in the subsequent referendum.
This morning we have awoken, like Bill Murray, in the midst of a Groundhog Brexit. Just exactly what is it Members of Parliament thought was going to happen? When they secured election on manifestos pledging to implement the will of the people, then blocked it.
When they demanded they be given responsibility for extricating us from our Brexit impasse, then preened and posed their way to continuing deadlock.
When they endorsed a new set of European elections – at the tidy sum of £100 million – and then invited the voters to pass verdict on their efforts.
We know what ardent second referendum campaigners such as Labour peer Andrew Adonis think is going to happen.
At his campaign launch Farage said: 'We can again start to put the fear of God into our MPs.' Next month he will. Britain is set to become Nigel Farage's country. David Lammy and his colleagues have seen to that
'I've campaigned non-stop against this Farage-Tory Brexit catastrophe over the last year. Now we can finish it off in the European elections on 23 May!,' he tweeted shortly after being anointed Jeremy Corbyn's candidate for the South West and Gibraltar.
Or rather, Jeremy Corbyn's useful idiot for the South West and Gibraltar. Labour's leader is, as ever, happy for any help he can get in maintaining his strategy of forever stringing Remainers along with the hope he will take the option of a second referendum off the table and actively endorse it.
In reality that is the furthest thing from his mind. Speaking to a Cabinet Minister close to the ongoing Brexit negotiations, it's crystal clear a split has opened within Labour's team.
'Corbyn, Seumas Milne [head of strategy and communications] and Andrew Fisher [head of policy] would be prepared to sign off a deal. But they're being stopped by John McDonnell, Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer who want a second referendum,' he explained.
That's why Government attempts to keep the talks going over Easter recess were rebuffed.
'We wanted to keep talking and Labour just went off on holiday,' says a Government adviser.
The hard-Brexiteers are already being branded Nazis. They have been accused of inciting violence against mainstream politicians. There are demands for them to be banished from the airwaves [File photo]
Why wouldn't they? This week, as reality started to dawn on the more pragmatic Remainers, a desperate call was issued to Corbyn to block the Farage insurgency by fully endorsing a second referendum and uniting the fragmented anti-Brexit coalition.
But he has no incentive to block anything. The national polls are showing Labour with a ten-point lead. Farage's Brexit Party is splitting the Tory vote, and clearing his path to No 10. If Farage is going to offer him a piggy back to power, there is no reason to disoblige him.
The second-referendum campaigners can shriek and wail all they like. Their lamentations will have precisely the same effect they did in 2014 and 2016.
Actually, more effect. But not in the way they intended.
In 2014 and 2016 the charges of racism directed at Farage were not attended by staggering, craven hypocrisy. Those Labour MPs making them were not members of a party subject to investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for its own racism.
Or a party facing Metropolitan Police investigation for racist threats made by its own members to one of its MPs. Or exposed by its own party staff as covering up and whitewashing hundreds of examples of racism, despite the denials of its leader.
In 2014 and 2016 the voters – despite their innate cynicism towards politicians – did not have the fraudulent pledges of their elected parliamentarians ringing in their ears.
Dominic Grieve's election address stating, 'I accept the result of the 2016 Referendum. I therefore strongly support the Prime Minister's determination to secure a negotiated arrangement for leaving the EU,' had yet to be penned.
Yvette Cooper's observation, 'it was a referendum that was fought in good faith and nobody said at any time 'you know what, I am not going to respect the result afterwards'. That's the kind of thing Donald Trump says,' was still to be uttered.
So the Remainers can unleash their rage. They can lambast the BBC and others for providing a platform for 'thuggery and extremism'. But the fact is they have just presented Farage with the best platform of all.
He knows how to use it.
The most recent poll has the Brexit Party on 27 per cent. Bolt on the genuine ultra-extremists of Ukip, and that rises to 34 per cent. Labour is on 22 per cent. Mrs May's imploding Tory Party is on 15 per cent.
At his campaign launch Farage said: 'We can again start to put the fear of God into our MPs.' Next month he will.
Britain is set to become Nigel Farage's country. David Lammy and his colleagues have seen to that.
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