Tanks and trains for UK use are made overseas. "It’s as if they want big industry in Britain to be finished."
On his current construction site in Leeds, there is a Romanian earning £7.20 an hour. Among British tradesmen, he says, "you wouldn’t get a bricklayer for twice that."
Brendan Cox and his two children travelling by boat to the special service in Trafalgar Square
"Johnson didn't announce which side he was backing until February 21.
"Until then, British Prime Minister David Cameron believed he would back Remain.
"Days before Johnson announced he would support Brexit he told many close friends, including Roland Rudd, a longtime associate, that he would support the campaign to stay...
"Gove told Johnson he was backing Brexit and Johnson feared being outflanked...
"Johnson may emerge in a strong position in the short term no matter which way the vote goes. Corbyn will emerge further discredited whether it’s Yes or No..."
"The austerity ... is ...written into the EU treaty as a non-negotiable obligation. So are the economic principles of the Thatcher era."
3. "Europe's leaders still have no workable plan to distribute the refugees..."
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If the UK stays in the EU, it will be run by a bunch of unpopular right-wing, pro-Israel, pro-Pentagon characters.
If the UK leaves the EU, it could be run by a bunch of unpopular right-wing, pro-Israel, pro-Pentagon characters.
If the UK leaves the EU, it at least has a chance to throw out the unpopular right-wing, pro-Israel, pro-Pentagon characters.
Juncker (left) 1. One of the arguments put forward by those who want the UK to leave the European Union is that the European Union is led by people like Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission.
Juncker, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, has partial Jewish ancestry.
Brabantian reminds us that in 2013, "Luxembourg courts declared Juncker guilty of playing a role in the cover-up of the actions of the Luxembourg policemen who conducted Luxembourg's early 1980s Operation Gladio bombings."
In the 1980s, "Luxembourg spies were involved in a series of bombings...
"Together with military and intelligence agents from multiple European countries, they were part of Operation Gladio, a clandestine illegal paramilitary organization."
Juncker was aware of the actions of these 'terrorists' but took no action.
The terrorist activities of Gladio were organised by the CIA and its friends.
Of course, if the UK wants to loosen the grip of the CIA and its friends, it also has to leave NATO.
An 'independent' Scotland would not be truly independent if it was in both the EU and NATO.
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2. One of the arguments put forward by those who want the UK to leave the European Union is that a UK outside the EU could become like Switzerland, which is neither in the EU nor in NATO.
Switzerland is regarded as being wealthier and happier than the UK.
"If Britain left the EU but wanted full access to the European single market, "it would have to observe almost all the EU's rules.
"That is the case in Norway and Switzerland, non-members that both also pay into the EU budget (in Norway’s case, roughly 90% of Britain’s net contribution per head)."
3. If the UK leaves the EU, that does not guarantee an end to Globalisation, the process by which American companies end up controlling everything and end up moving their factories to 'cheap labour' countries.
If the UK wants to be 'independent' it has to build up its own industries.
Airports used by the CIA or its torture programme. It looks like Scotland and Ireland are already controlled by the CIA. Bush and Cheney - trial for war crimes.
4. There is a danger that if the UK leaves the EU it could become even more of a colony of the USA.
Many of the UK politicians who want the UK to leave the EU are very pro-USA and very pro-Israel.
"William Hague offered the US ambassador a 'pro-American' government.
"Hague also said the entire Conservative leadership were, like him, 'staunchly Atlanticist'..."
1.The UK's £60bn trade deficit with the EU means powerful German auto producers, French wineries and Italian furniture-makers will make sure that Britain continues to trade with the EU.
2. In 1980, the EU accounted for over 30% of global GDP.
Now, despite many more member states, the EU accounts for over 30% of global GDP.
3. Brexit makes sense because 'Europe' isn't working.
The EU today is slow-growing and tied up in red tape.
The euro, which 'most economists' told us to join, is doing untold damage.
Locked in a high-currency straitjacket, Greece and Spain are suffering 40-50% youth unemployment.
Italy, having barely grown since the euro's 1999 launch, faces a major banking crisis.
Unable to depreciate their currencies, such economies are being sacrificed on the altar of 'more Europe'.
The message in the landerette's window says: "Please note, I did not tackle the gunman. And no one shouted Britain First at any time." JO COX FALSE FLAG CONSPIRACY.
4. The UK currently sends 42% of its exports to the EU, sharply down from 55% just five years ago.
The EU is declining as a UK export destination.
5. Treaties including Maastricht and Lisbon have severely diluted British sovereignty.
The European Commission (with its over-paid, unaccountable bureaucrats) and the European Parliament (a rubber-stamping factory for Commission diktats) are now powerful entities in our national life.
Trade with the EU will still matter, but in a more inter-connected world, with the UK specialising in 'weightless' services and geography less necessary, Europe isn't economically important enough for us to succumb to a deeply undemocratic supra-national political body in order to trade with it.
6. Studies by the Treasury and the OECD say that UK households will be worse off, with Brexit.
Such 'studies' are designed to scare voters.
When the euro implodes, the big EU economies - the UK included - will pick up the tab
The UK, free from onerous EU directives and the common tariff on non-EU imports, could grow faster.
A Brexited Britain would focus more on trade with dynamic emerging markets in Asia and elsewhere.
The EU suits big UK corporates, banks and professional firms, as Brussels-based lobbying and tortuous regulation keeps smaller challengers at bay.
That's why so many small and medium-sized firms accounting for much of Britain's creativity and employment back Leave.
(Almost half of Europe’s tech businesses worth more than $1bn were founded in the UK. Read more)
7. If we vote Brexit, other countries will likely hold their own EU votes.
The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Italy could also vote to leave.
Only then will the eurocrats be forced to move to a looser, less hubristic, more democratic EU.
One focused on trade and co-operation between sovereign nations, not absurd nation-building appealing to elites.
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8. Then there is 'free movement of people' - good in theory but, I'm afraid, in reality naïve and dangerous.
Massive wage differentials between EU members have driven record UK net migration: over 330,000 last year, double that if gauged by new national insurance numbers.
When the pace is this fast and getting faster, low-income working people suffer, their wages flattened.
This isn't about being 'racist' or 'stupid', but being deeply insecure economically – something much of our media class will never understand.
1. I will cast my vote for withdrawal from the European Union.
It comes down to an elemental choice: whether to restore the full self-government of this nation, or to continue living under a higher supranational regime, ruled by a European Council that we do not elect in any meaningful sense, and that the British people can never remove, even when it persists in error...
We are deciding whether to be guided by a Commission with quasi-executive powers that operates more like the priesthood of the 13th Century papacy than a modern civil service; and whether to submit to a European Court of Justice (ECJ) that claims sweeping supremacy, with no right of appeal...
2. The EU crossed a fatal line when it smuggled through the Treaty of Lisbon, by executive cabal, after the text had already been rejected by French and Dutch voters in its earlier guise.
It created a European supreme court with jurisdiction over all areas of EU policy, with a legally-binding Charter of Fundamental Rights that opens the door to anything...
Aangirfan getting ready to vote.
3. Has there ever been a proper airing of how the elected leaders of Greece and Italy were forced out of power and replaced by EU technocrats, perhaps not by coups d'etat in a strict legal sense but certainly by skulduggery?
On what authority did the European Central Bank write secret letters to the leaders of Spain and Italy in 2011 ordering detailed changes to labour and social law, and fiscal policy, holding a gun to their head on bond purchases? ...
4. We are a long way from the triumphalism of the millennium, when the EU was replicating the structures of the US federal government, with an EU intelligence cell and military staff in Brussels led by nine generals, and plans for a Euro-army of 100,000 troops, 400 aircraft and 100 ships to project global power...
5. We are compelled to make our choice at a treacherous moment, when our current account deficit has reached 7% of GDP, the worst in peace-time since records began in 1772 under George III.
We require constant inflows of foreign capital to keep the game going, and are therefore vulnerable to a sterling crisis if foreigners lose confidence.
I am willing to take the calculated risk that our floating currency would act as a benign shock absorber - as devaluation did in 1931, 1992, and 2008 - but it could be a very rough ride.
As Standard & Poor's warned this week, debts of UK-based entities due over the next 12 months amount to 755pc of external receipts, the highest of 131 rated sovereign states...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a series of trade negotiations being carried out mostly in secret between the EU and US.
The aim is to give the USA and its corporations control over the EU.
Britain has seen almost 30 government officials go to work for Google while David Cameron has appointed two of Google's executives to posts in his government.
Google will decide the result of the EU Referendum and will decide the result of the US Presidential Election?
Recently, the Sunday Telegraph reported that the EU is poised to fine Google €3b for "web search monopoly abuse" and that "Google will be banned from continuing to manipulate search results."
Dr North told The Register that Google was in danger of losing its integrity and he warned that its power could distort the democratic process.
No mention of Trump? It has been reported that: Google is pals with David Cameron. And thus Google tends to promote the pro-Cameron stuff and tends to hide the anti-Cameron stuff. Google 'Conservatives are ...'
In 2015, Psychologist Robert Epstein told the Politico website:
'America's next president could be eased into office ... by Google's secret decisions.
'And no one - except for me and perhaps a few other obscure researchers - would know how this was accomplished.'
2. The "best academic studies" estimate that, because Britain joined the EU, people in Britain have a roughly 10 per cent higher living standard than they would have had, if they had not joined.
But, the EU has changed since 1972.
3. Donald Trump told voters in Indiana that the US could not continue "to allow China to rape our country". According to former UK cabinet minister John Redwood, Donald Trump is in favour of free trade.
4. Trump wants free trade agreements that allow US companies to take over the world.
Trump likes the fact that the United States records trade surpluses with, for example, Hong Kong, Netherlands and Australia.
Trump does not like the fact that the USA has a trade deficit with China.
5. A trade deficit can mean that a nation's wealthy citizens are so wealthy that they can afford to buy whatever good things that other nations have to offer.
Trump can buy whisky from the UK, perfumes from France, gems from India and toys from China.
The United States exports more than any country in the world, except China.
The USA's trade deficit is relatively small by world standards.
6. What about the The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, and the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement?
These will help certain big US businesses. But, some people will get hurt.
7. Trump says he wants more jobs for Americans.
Many jobs that have been lost "because of decreasing consumer demand in the U.S. and elsewhere, largely as a result of economic downturns like the 2008 crisis.
(The right wing elite have grabbed most of the money)
"That demand loss particularly impacted areas like cars, white goods, machine tools, and lots of other things that U.S. businesses and consumers alike tend to buy at home.
"Americans make 73% of what they buy here at home."
9. Donald Trump promises to force Apple Inc. to manufacture in the United States.
If Apple makes its stuff in the USA, then either it pays wages as low as those in China, or it finds it cannot compete with Samsung and other rivals.
If US firms are going to pay lower wages, that does not help the retail industry.
An Apple video iPod assembled in China sells for roughly $300 in the United States.
Very little of that $300 goes to the Chinese firms. "The Chinese get only about six bucksworth of value from the item’s assembly and shipment. Meanwhile, the U.S.-based Apple and its affiliates get hundreds of dollars from an iPhone’s final U.S. sale (for things like design, marketing, and even some manufacturing)."
10. Modern manufactured goods, such as Boeing 787s, are usually made from components from different parts of the world.
Boeing's 787, has a fuselage made in Italy, engines made in the United Kingdom, passenger doors made in France, cargo doors made in Sweden, landing gear doors made in Canada and wing tips made in South Korea.
Trump could force Boeing to have all the parts made in the USA.
11. But such a policy of 'Protectionism' has its risks.
In 1930, the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act raised U.S. tariffs on imported goods to record levels.[2]
Most economists see the Act, and the retaliatory tariffs by America's trading partners, as responsible for reducing American exports and imports by more than half.[4]
So, Trump has to be careful that he does not bring about a Great Depression.
12. Yes, too many jobs have been offshored, but Trump may not realise how complicated matters are.
There are good reasons why Coca Cola has bottling plants all around the world.
170 top economists have endorsed Bernie Sanders' platform regarding Wall Street, signing a letter stating:
"The Senator is correct that the biggest banks must be broken up and that a new 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act, separating investment from commercial banking, must be enacted."
16. "Thomas Piketty, perhaps the most influential economic thinker of the left in the Western world, is impressed by the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders...
"Piketty ... sees Sanders ....leading the United States toward a possible return to the nation's pioneering 20th century experiments with extremely progressive taxation and social spending...
"Piketty points to the fact that, prior to Reagan, 20th century fiscal policy in the U.S. was aggressive in taxing the wealthy - much more so than the European counterparts...
"From 1930 to 1980 ... the rate for the highest U.S. income (over $1 million per year) was on average 82%...
"Those rates ... played a tremendous role in creating social equality and helped provide crucial government revenue for robust social programs..."
"Reagan ... lowered the rate for the highest incomes to 28%...
"'Sanders' success today shows that much of America is tired of rising inequality and these so-called political changes, and intends to revive both a progressive agenda and the American tradition of egalitarianism,' Piketty wrote.
"In the USA, the majority of those who receive some form of public assistance (medicaid or foodstamps) have jobs ... but they earn so little that they cannot make ends meet."
Donald Trump wants to keep wages down, while reducing taxes on the rich, and spending more on the military.
Trump has a home in in Manhattan "designed to evoke the Palace of Versailles ...
"It boasts a cavernous hall of mirrors, acres of marble set off by ‘24-carat gold and diamond accents’, and ceilings hand-painted with cherubs and scenes from Greek myths."
Jesus loves rich guys?
"Trump also owns Seven Springs, a huge mansion outside New York in the upmarket hamlet of Bedford, which boasts 60 rooms, two servants’ wings, 15 bedrooms, three swimming pools and 230 acres of land.
"There’s another mansion in rural Virginia, a huge house on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and a vast waterside pile at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida."
"Numerous reports released during the first two months of 2016 document the staggering dimensions of the social crisis facing working people in the United States.
"A majority of Americans have too little savings to pay for an emergency expense of $1,000. One in four US adults is burdened by debts caused by medical expenses.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are wealthy members of The Establishment.
Donald trump is "like every other corporate tyrant in that his solution to most things follows the logic of Stalin: no person, no problem. You're fired!
"Except as president he'd have other people-removing options, all of which he likes: torture, mass deportations, the banning of 23 percent of the Earth's population from entering the United States, etc.
"Donald Trump is no ordinary con man. He's way above average."
