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Labour\u2019s Reset is both contrary to their manifesto and completely unnecessary: It has already cost the UK over \u00a39 billion in lost fish stocks, and now the Government is negotiating to pay the EU \u00a32.9 billion a year for the privilege of allowing them to make UK rules.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n The Scotsman 07.04.26<\/strong><\/p>\n Brexit is a smokescreen for Miliband\u2019s Net Zero de-industrialisation<\/p>\n The Labour Government will deliver the greatest democratic betrayal in living memory when in the next King\u2019s Speech a Bill will be announced for what it calls the \u201cEU Reset\u201d. It is not so much a reset as it is a carefully calculated beachhead to rejoin the European Union.<\/p>\n This will happen without Labour any such mandate and its manifesto promising the exact opposite during the general election of 2024. It said, \u201cBritain will stay outside of the EU\u2026 There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement.\u201d<\/p>\n Yet this Labour government, elected on less that 34 per cent of those voting (9.7m out of 28.8m), will begin a journey to overturn a previous 52.1 per cent majority vote of 17.4m people \u2013 without a referendum to seek public opinion or establish endorsement.<\/p>\n For those that doubt there are any benefits from Brexit one only has to look at the growing list of concessions Keir Starmer is willing to make in order for the whole of the UK to align with EU laws. Those potential concessions can only be given away because Brexit allowed us to choose a different path more appropriate for our country.<\/p>\n Trite platitudes about regulatory alignment, veterinary agreements and exchange schemes are evolving into inferior and more expensive alternatives.<\/p>\n The EU\u2019s Erasmus+ exchange courses will be poorer than current support for UK students through the UK\u2019s world-wide Turing scheme. It means opening the door to freedom of movement for under 35s just when youth unemployment in the UK is on the rise.<\/p>\n Labour\u2019s commitment to banning the export of animals for slaughter and the importation of Foie Gras is up for grabs, while adopting EU food laws means having to rebrand and relabel jars of Marmalade even in our domestic market.<\/p>\n And for the privilege we have already given up our (mostly Scottish) fish stocks until 2038 \u2013 worth \u00a39bn \u2013 and are negotiating to make an annual \u00a32.9bn permanent payment to deprived regions of the EU. All while we have no money \u2013 the UK currently borrows over \u00a3125bn annually and has a ballooning national debt of \u00a32.9 trillion<\/a><\/p>\n The reset is justified as a vital economic necessity on the basis our economy suffers from restrictive trade barriers that have impacted upon our exports to the EU. It is an utter fabrication belied by hard evidence and a clearer understanding of the self-harm our own politicians have committed to Britain\u2019s industrial capacity through policies such as Net Zero.<\/p>\n The real trade figures, available from the ONS and HMRC, show consistent improvements that cannot be denied (although many still try to or simply ignore the facts).<\/p>\n In 2025 the UK exported more goods and services to the EU than ever before, and 19 per cent more than it did before the referendum in 2016. In real terms, total UK exports rose by 23.1 per cent from \u00a3735 billion in 2015 to \u00a3905 billion in 2025, while exports to non-EU countries increased by 26.9 per cent from 2015.<\/p>\n There is, therefore, no need for an EU reset. We have an EU trade agreement the EU Commission calls the best it has ever signed. What we should end is the economic house arrest of Northern Ireland where the Windsor Framework enforces unaccountable EU law over British citizens and causes trade displacement in Ireland\u2019s favour \u2013 for which Article 16 allows the UK appropriate safeguarding measures.<\/p>\n Contrary to what Keir Starmer said on April Fool\u2019s Day, Brexit has not done \u201cdeep damage to our economy\u201d. It is a falsehood, we ought instead to be looking at Ed Miliband\u2019s Climate Change Act of 2008 and the laws and ever-higher taxes it propagated, not forgetting the Covid-lockdowns and Putin\u2019s Ukraine War, have all been exceedingly more damaging than Brexit.<\/p>\n