{"id":216895,"date":"2026-09-06T03:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/216895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:18:18","slug":"burnhams-eu-reset-plan-will-be-an-economic-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/216895\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham’s EU reset plan will be an economic disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

For young Britons, it is a slap in the face. Our 18-to-24-year-olds, who are already grappling with 16 per cent youth unemployment and a recent historic high of one million NEETs<\/a>, would be thrust into direct competition with nearly three million unemployed EU youths for entry-level jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And for what in exchange? A return to the Erasmus+ scheme<\/a> that the report suggests is a total scam. Under the reset, British taxpayers would pay \u00a3570m a year from 2027, scaling up to \u00a3810m by 2028. Based on historic participation, this translates to a mind-boggling \u00a342,100 per UK participant, which is nearly three times what it cost before Brexit.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is the star-encircled insanity clearer than in its assault on Britain\u2019s already beleaguered farming industry. Under the guise of seamless trade, every single farm and food business in the UK would be dragged back under rigid EU regulations, regardless of whether they export a single sausage across the border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is estimated that mid-2027 cliff-edge alignments with EU pesticide limits alone would wipe out between \u00a3500m to \u00a3800m in horticultural profits, slashing total income from farming by up to 11 per cent. Holy cow. To make matters worse, joining the EU\u2019s strict regulatory framework would instantly suffocate Britain\u2019s burgeoning agritech sector, which \u201cdespite Brexit<\/a>\u201d is currently worth \u00a328bn, more than double the entire \u00a312bn value of UK food exports to the EU.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, UK manufacturing would be trapped in made-in-Brussels bureaucratic straitjacket. Mid-2027 EU rules banning certain plastics and forcing new labelling would cost British business \u00a32bn-\u00a33bn upfront, plus \u00a3400m-\u00a3700m annually. Joining the EU Emissions Trading System<\/a> would slap a 20 per cent tax hike on factory energy costs \u2013 a surefire way to drive heavy industry straight out of the country. Forget Burnham\u2019s loathed Thatcherism, this will destroy what\u2019s left of Britain\u2019s manufacturing base.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, extending the EU\u2019s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism<\/a> to fertiliser ingredients like ammonia \u2013 which neither the UK nor the EU produce in sufficient quantities \u2013 threatens to skyrocket US import prices by 34 per cent in 2027, rising to 60 per cent by 2034.<\/p>\n

The ultimate insult of all this is that its touted benefits are fictitious. It will have no impact whatsoever on airport queues because member states oversee border control, not the European Commission (which explains why it\u2019s easier to travel through welcoming Greece compared to hostile France).<\/p>\n

Similarly, it won\u2019t \u201cstop the boats\u201d because people smuggling remains under the jurisdiction of wherever the migrants are coming from. Remainiacs claim it will \u201csupercharge\u201d food exports, ignoring that food and live animals make up a paltry 1.3 per cent of total British exports. Others argue it will beef up Britain\u2019s flailing defences but in reality it will require us to hand over our intelligence and intellectual property, while forcing taxpayers to guarantee up to \u00a314bn of an off-balance-sheet \u00a390bn EU loan to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a negotiation but a capitulation and it must be stopped at all costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For young Britons, it is a slap in the face. Our 18-to-24-year-olds, who are already grappling with 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73961],"tags":[28914,4622,939,387,50,55,11748],"class_list":["post-216895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-andy-burnham","tag-andy-burnham","tag-comment","tag-european-union","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-top-story"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117221936624464256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}