VOTE LEAVE #1

As I am now a fully paid-up(*), card-carrying member of the VOTE LEAVE campaign I will, apparently, be in receipt of a weekly agit-prop summary of relevant events!  Naturally, I will reprint them here but whether you read them or not is entirely up to you.

*Actually, I haven't sent them a donation yet but I will, honest, guv, I will!

 

David -- Each Friday, we do a round up of the main events of the week. If you would prefer just a weekly email on a Friday, click here and change your subscriber settings. If you want to know how we think we will win the referendum, click here for our Big Picture Update for October. PM’s list of demands was published and flopped David Cameron laid out his renegotiation demands in a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk. Read our response here. Click here to read the Number 10 media briefing document that argues why the PM’s promises should not be taken seriously by journalists. David Cameron’s plan is: 1) to produce a wish-list that is in reality trivial so he can be confident the others will agree to it; 2) to spin the trivial wish list as significant so that it seems like he has solved real problems; 3) to lay the foundations for claiming that his new deal represents ‘a new type of membership’ (perhaps ‘the British model’, which he referred to in his speech, largely unmentioned by the media), so that it seems he has achieved something very significant. The European Commission played their part in the theatre claiming that some of the changes are ‘highly problematic’, whilst Mr Tusk stated it would be ‘really difficult to find an agreement and, for sure, there is no guarantee that we can do this by December’. This spin is obviously to try to persuade people that the Prime Minister is really asking for big things. The PM’s speech got an awful reception in the media - click here for the Sun’s leader. Downing Street hit the panic button again and rushed out a document to journalists which we obtained. You can read it here. Usually, Number 10 tries to persuade journalists that the PM’s promises should be believed. This document is very unusual in that Number 10 is trying to persuade journalists that the PM’s promises and manifesto pledges should NOT be taken seriously! Over the years, David Cameron has promised many big changes, such as ‘a complete opt-out’ from the Charter of Fundamental Rights. He has dropped almost everything apart from trivia - click here for a full list of all the promises he has dropped. Further, Vote Leave research has also revealed that George Osborne’s plan to introduce a new living wage will undercut David Cameron’s plans to restrict EU migrant benefits. Government policy is incoherent - they have an immigration policy that stops brilliantly qualified people coming to Britain while having an open door to the EU, and they are trying to cut benefits to migrants while simultaneously introducing the living wage that will increase the incentives to come to Britain. The only way to have a humane and rational immigration policy is to Vote Leave. We expect that the Government will get everything that the letter asks for. It will solve nothing significant with the UK-EU relationship. This letter will probably be superseded by a new initiative. All 28 countries will announce that there will be a new EU Treaty in the future; this new Treaty will give Britain all sorts of wonderful things; these new opt-outs will amount to a ‘new British model of EU membership’ that gives Britain a special status. The 28 will also have some PR gimmicks such as depositing the agreement about the future Treaty with the UN. Nobody should trust David Cameron’s spin. There is no status quo. The EU Commission has already set out a timetable for a new Treaty centralising many more powers in Brussels, including over taxes. Read more about the new Treaty here. The only way to build a new relationship with the EU and take back control is to Vote Leave. Modi visit Narendra Modi made the first visit to the UK by an Indian PM for 10 years. David Cameron skipped a European Council meeting to welcome Mr Modi to London. In his speech, Mr Modi said that Indians ‘invest more in Britain than in the rest of the European Union combined’ as they ‘find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.’ Imagine how much more successful this relationship would be if we could agree our own free trade agreement with India. The UK now has no trade deal with India because the EU has failed to secure one - negotiations started in 2007 but show no signs of concluding. After we Vote Leave important trade deals like this will be easier to achieve. Britain, Europe, and the wider world will all gain. CBI - Voice of Brussels We have revealed how the CBI has been misrepresenting the views of business on the EU for years. We exposed how they are funded by Brussels. At their conference on Monday, they were denounced as ‘the Voice of Brussels’ because our analysis showed they almost never oppose stupid EU rules. Downing Street has been so unnerved by the flop of the BSE campaign and the collapse of the CBI’s credibility that they have resorted to complaints to the Electoral Commission that we should not be allowed to campaign. This shows just how panicky Number 10 now is. We’ve had a great few weeks since we launched but we are still big underdogs. If we are going to win we need YOUR help. We will need to build a mass movement to take on the Establishment. It will be an alliance of people the likes of which this country has never seen. We need your help – join the campaign, get involved, and PLEASE DONATE. Weekend reads Europe’s single market is a cosy corporate club - Wolfgang Munchau, FT. This is a very good example of how the Single Market has many large costs and problems - it is not the panacea portrayed by the Establishment. Europhiles think history is on their side - they could be in for a shock - Allister Heath, Telegraph. This piece by physicist Dirk Helbing (Nature, 2/11/15) gives a fascinating glimpse of the sort of institutions that will shape our future - the sort of institutions that could help Europe recover from the problems caused by the bureaucratic centralism of the EU project. Vote Leave http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/

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Comments

[Lawrence Duff]

O.M.G. Say it ain't so.

The brightest Liberty light at the end of my tyranny tunnel just went out.

It's like the moment when Darth Vader takes his helmet off to reveal he was Luke's father after all - only in reverse.

The Gaffer's just pealed his face off, CGI stylee, to reveal he was Goebbels after all.

D&N, beacon of free speech, is now a propaganda broadcaster.

Woe is me and I am woe.

SoD

[Penseivat]

The followers of the Frankfurt School of Thought must be laughing their socks off as their plan is falling nicely into place. Just consider how many of those proposals are now enshrined in law or accepted by society in general? So much so that the few politicians with balls enough to do something about it are hamstrung by their quisling colleagues. If I looked on eBay I wonder if I could find some old lampposts and a shed load of piano wire? Failing that, 30 barrels of gunpowder and a man with a match!