Peter Cook - Brexorcist in Chief - Reboot Britain

I offer an independent eye on #Brexit, having worked for 28 years as an independent business thought leader, speaker and author. I speak and write on matters of building a better Britain in a better Europe for a better World. Without fear or favour for political parties.

@2wo_funky_uk @BrexitRage Now de-paywalled 😁 archive.ph/GDapw

@2wo_funky_uk @pgnx TYSM

@MrLukeGeorge Britain can't have sustainable growth without Rejoining the EU. See this comprehensive appraisal of the benefits across the STEEPLE factors. Fully fact checked and referenced. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FZLQW9TQ @pgnx

The UK should rejoin the EU and join the Euro! Let's take back our seat at the decision making table! 🇬🇧🇪🇺

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT !!! Come to our online leader's debate on Tuesday May 26 19.00 via ZOOM. Our subject is "A Better Britain in a Better Europe for a Better World". We debate with one of the remaining Brexiteers. youtu.be/SF0hkxL-5oU/

I'm a UK citizen. 5pm I decided it might be better to visit my local GP for a troubling issue. No appointment. I was seen after a ten minutes wait. My prescription was made with immediate availability at any local chemist by e-notice. The GP also arranged a chest X-Ray as a precaution. I asked for when. He replied now. I drive ten minutes to the local private hospital. I waited ten minutes for my X-Ray. Impossible, eh? I will give you a clue though... I paid 3 euros for my prescription & 10 euros for my X-Ray. (Life here in Cyprus is pretty good on so many different levels 😎🤞)

@MaxFRobespierre You are invited to an online leader's debate on Tuesday May 26 19.00 via ZOOM. The subject is "A Better Britain in a Better Europe for a Better World". We debate with one of the remaining people who thinks that Brexit is a good idea. youtu.be/SF0hkxL-5oU/

Imagine asking a bunch of arsonists about fire safety...

@implausibleblog You are invited to an online leader's debate on Tuesday May 26 19.00 via ZOOM. The subject is "A Better Britain in a Better Europe for a Better World". We debate with one of the remaining people who thinks that Brexit is a good idea. youtu.be/SF0hkxL-5oU/

How does the UK rejoin the EU? Have a listen to David Miliband on BBC Radio 4 Today: Anna Foster, "The front page of the Guardian this morning is talking about the government trying to pitch an EU single market for goods, which Brussels seems to not be particularly keen on. What is your position on the government's stance at the moment on Europe and how our ongoing relationship with Europe should look?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm convinced that the security and prosperity of the UK depends on an institutionalized, deep and strong relationship with the rest of Europe. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows the way in which that's our number one security threat now." David Miliband, "But, we know our economy has been shrunk by 6 to 8% in the 10 years since Brexit. So there's an economic part of that. So when the government says we want a reset of our relations with Europe, I think that's a good thing. But then when I look that the reset so far is only worth £9 billion by 2040 and I remember that Britain is a 3 trillion pound economy, I'm left saying, no, we need a much higher dosage in our reset." Anna Foster, "How high? I mean, do you advocate for rejoining the EU?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm somewhat bemused by some of the commentary. I want this strong institutional relationship with the European Union. But then I know the deal we had until 2016 is not available now. We're not going to be able to get that deal again." David Miliband, "I also know the European Union is changing profoundly. The big issue for Brussels today is not Britain joining, it's Ukraine joining and Ukraine joining the European Union is going to mean a different institutional set of arrangements inside Europe." David Miliband, "So just to give you an example, they're talking about associate membership for Ukraine, they're talking about different tiers of membership. So the question of what kind of docking are we going to do in with the European Union? It's the re part of rejoin that I think we have to understand." David Miliband, "The world is changing out there." Anna Foster, "So you're not necessarily against the concept, but what you're saying is it would never be the way it was and therefore you don't think it's the right thing." David Miliband, "For that reason, it literally can't be the way that it was. We're not in a position to, I mean, the European Union wouldn't entertain us flipping and flopping. What we have to do is build a national consensus about our position with the European Union. I'm very happy with it as a long term goal." David Miliband, "Think for this Parliament we should be really driving our economic, political and other relations. There's a big debate about defence spending going on. As we know it's affected the aid budget. There's something called the European Defence Mechanism, which is the proposal for a European backed 800 billion euro defence package that would support all European countries inside the European Union and outside." David Miliband, "We should be championing that. That would be us putting in for a mutual security funding arrangement that would help fund our own defence and European defence. Because the truth is our defence is Europe's defence and vice versa."

No, vote for Burnham or any decent party to do that -nobody from the shabby range of fascist shysters such as Reform/Restore/Refraud, or any of the subversive operations the ghastly gouging Mogg toffs have touched. Don't give them another go at wrecking & looting Britain.

You are invited to an online leader's debate on Tuesday May 26 19.00 via ZOOM. The subject is "A Better Britain in a Better Europe for a Better World". We debate with one of the remaining people who thinks that Brexit is a good idea. Email reboot@brexitrage.com

“Respecting” the result of a referendum held 10 years ago, when it’s increasingly clear that it was won on the basis of a pack of lies and that Brexit is doing massive damage to Britain’s economy, status & influence in the world, is a total abdication of responsibility.

@pgnx @vivamjm @danny__kruger John is invited to an online leader's debate on Tuesday May 26 19.00 via ZOOM. The subject is "A Better Britain in a Better Europe for a Better World". We debate with one of the remaining people who thinks that Brexit is a good idea. Email reboot@brexitrage.com to book.

@vivamjm @danny__kruger Round and round the mulberry bush, 'boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse', to quote The Firm. Time to cut bait and run, just apply to join the EU, let the chips fall where they may! @BrexitRage x.com/i/status/20535…

Here’s a thing. A big thing, though it looks boring (the government has agreed to new ‘import requirements… to protect against specific plant pests’). It’s what Starmer’s EU reset - building on Sunak’s Windsor Framework - means for the UK. The Windsor Framework agreed to permanently maintain EU rules for the economy of Northern Ireland in order to deliver a key demand of Irish nationalism: no checks on goods crossing the border with the Republic. The result is that the checks have to take place on the border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland - but hang on, isn’t the United Kingdom of ‘Great Britain and Northern Ireland’... a country? You don’t have customs checks within a country - do you? Yes we do! A whacking great customs border down the Irish Sea, dividing the United Kingdom in two. On one side of the sea - sovereignty, with the public electing the people who make the laws; on the other side - vassal status, with other people in another country (the officials of the European Commission) making the laws they must live under, with no right of representation. So what about these plant pests? Starmer’s big idea to get the British economy moving is to align the UK with the failing, low-growth, shrinking-trade bloc that is the EU. The new regulations will ensure the whole of the UK, not just Northern Ireland, follows EU rules on plant imports. The whole point of Brexit was to plot our own path through the threats and opportunities of the 21st century. The EU is killing the industries of the future; the UK can lead in them - but not if we agree to align with failure. By the way, it’s not as if the agreement to align the whole of the UK with the EU will end the outrage of an internal customs border within our country. The new regs will simply maintain the status quo, giving hauliers crossing the Irish Sea with goods intended for consumption in Northern Ireland (not to cross into the blessed Republic and the EU) the privilege of the ‘green lane’, ie slightly lighter-touch customs, rather than the full-fat version applied to goods on their way to Europe. What has happened is that Boris Johnson’s delay to Brexit for Northern Ireland, negotiated under pressure in 2019-20 and always intended to be temporary, was made permanent by Sunak and is now being extended to the whole of the UK by Starmer. The history of terrorism in the province, the trauma of violence, has been exploited by the EU first to make Brexit incomplete and now to undo it altogether. Brussels is using the threat of renewed terrorism to insist that the ordinary rights of nations, to control their own external borders, do not apply in this case - even though the sort of high-tech invisible border that is needed is in place at borders (including other EU borders) around the world. This is a harbinger of Britain’s reabsorption into the EU under Starmer’s proposed European Partnerships Bill. The new rules on plant imports derive from an earlier directive whose title eloquently expresses the issue: ‘REGULATION (EU) 2023/1231 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 June 2023 on specific *rules relating to the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom* of certain consignments of retail goods’. Thus the EU makes rules for the internal affairs of the UK. The new regs are being introduced via ‘Secondary Legislation’ i.e. with no need for a debate in Parliament. The House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee gave them a cursory glance this week (scroll to bottom: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5902/ldse…). They noted the objections by me and others, without engaging with them, let alone asking the Government to respond. Thus Parliament hands back sovereignty, so painfully won in the years after the referendum 10 years ago.

@JimFergusonUK Well, an easy listen, as you'd expect from a seasoned TV presenter. It's dotted with false assumptions. amzn.eu/d/0fhhwKka You should read this, see the opposite view @ColinBrazierTV - understand the @BrexitRage felt by so many, fanned by the flames of a decade of Brexit.

@MPIainDS The ECJ was not a general supreme court over all UK law, it did not replace Parliament. Crucially, Parliament remained legally sovereign because it could repeal that Act (which it eventually did via Brexit). The UK left the EU because Parliament retained ultimate legal authority.

@MPIainDS Tosser

We will be charged the price of rejoining. The European Court of Justice would reign supreme over us again. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… In Britain, Parliament has always passed law, which is then interpreted by the courts. Since we’ve had European law infect us, which we’re now out of, progressively more and more the courts were empowered to overrule Parliament. Parliament is sovereign, and we have to make that very clear, that there may be a so-called Supreme Court, but it is not above Parliament. The problem is every time the Supreme Court has the right to rule referencing a foreign court, then that makes Parliament less and less. Rejoining would also make it impossible to leave the European Convention of Human Rights. Being a member of the non-EU Council of Europe human rights watchdog and its court is a prerequisite for joining the EU.

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@bbctheview @ClaireHanna Gammon on crack

"Wes Streeting wouldn't be my preferred candidate...." The SDLP is a sister party of the UK Labour party. Does Burnham / Streetings' position on Brexit impact who @ClaireHanna backs for the leadership? #BBCTheView