Is Britain Being Blackmailed By the European Union?

by Neil Bamforth

The European Union seem to have declined Britain’s most generous offer of 20 billion pounds as a ‘divorce settlement’ when we leave – albeit I’m still tempted to write ‘if we leave’ as I’m far from convinced the British government has the balls to actually do it. Still, we must proceed under the impression we are leaving as that is what we voted to do. Latest reports suggest Prime Minister, Theresa May, is about to offer them 40 billion to try and get things moving.

This 20 billion / 40 billion business is quite confusing mainly because nobody has the foggiest idea why we should be offering them any money at the moment.

It is quite conceivable that we committed to certain things financially prior to Brexit and, if so, depending on what it is we committed to, there may be a certain moral obligation to honor said commitment. There is certainly no legal obligation but, even if it costs Britain a few billion I would like to think we can maintain the moral high ground here.

The problem is, the EU are clearly doing their damnedest to stymie negotiations for as long as possible.

It is clear they are doing this for two reasons.

Firstly, in order to try and extract as much money as possible from Britain.

Secondly, the longer the negotiations go nowhere the longer the EU can maintain the fiction that they are in charge.

On both counts the British government are culpable for allowing the EU to do just that.

The truth of the matter is, or would be if the British government had any balls at all, that Britain could and, indeed, should, walk away and say to the EU ‘We’re off chaps and you aren’t having any money at all. If you want to negotiate sensibly then by all means let us know and we’ll pop along for a chat. Otherwise toodle pip and either behave with tariffs of we’ll put German car manufacturing on it’s knees’.

Now that’s negotiating. Be strong, be firm and negotiate from a position of strength. That’s where we could and should be.

Now I know most of you lot think Britain is insane to be leaving. Let’s not argue here. We are leaving. It is a question of how we leave.

We can roll over and allow the EU to dictate or we can dictate and just walk away if the EU won’t play ball – which, I suspect, they never will as they daren’t give us any deal of any kind worth mentioning.

The doomsayers have yet to be proved right.

Actually even I was getting worried when I heard the number of EU nurses applying to work in our National health Service had dropped by 90%. ‘Oh dear’ I thought, ‘that’s not good’.

As it happened, the pro-EU media were exaggerating a tad as applications from within Britain, the USA, Australia and The Republic of Ireland were not included in the figures.

As a result, the doomsday 90% drop from the EU was more than counter balanced by a huge increase from elsewhere.

So come on British government. Stop behaving like a sulky child being forced to do what you clearly would rather not. The vote is the vote and we’re leaving. Pull your trousers up and crack on. Tell the EU precisely where to go unless they start getting serious with negotiations.

You know they won’t, I know they won’t and everyone knows they won’t because they can’t.

Let’s just walk away without payment and trade around the globe. We’ll trade with the EU and give them some preferential deals as long as they reciprocate. If they don’t we’ll slap tariffs on all their exports to Britain and, we’ll double any tariffs they slap on our exports to them.

Britain will win. We always do. Eventually. It’s history and it’s cyclical. Britain always wins when it really counts. Always will.

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