The woke community is already behaving like the Old Testament prophets of Baal when it comes to liberal reaction to President Donald Trump’s hard-hitting policy of introducing trade tariffs.
For hardline Brexiteers like myself, the so-called Trump Tariff Tactic (the new Treble T!) doesn’t mean a crippling of the UK’s under strain economy.
Put bluntly, the Treble T hopefully will come to represent the final nail in the coffin of the bureaucratic beast known as the European Union.
In Northern Ireland, we still face the consequences of the Remain camp from 2016 failing to recognise the democratic wish of the UK electorate by dragging its heels at every given opportunity in refusing to fully implement Brexit.
What part of ‘Leave’ does the Remain lobby not understand? Remainers in this part of the UK prefer to hide behind the politically pathetic excuse that Northern Ireland as a region voted ‘Remain.’ It seems many in the Remain camp only see themselves part of the UK when it suits them.
Us Brexiteers want to see a reforming of the old European Economic Community (EEC) which operated successfully both politically and financially before the Europhiles of mainland Europe embarked on their United States of Europe white elephant.
What has emerged is a bureaucratic beast now so financially cumbersome and politically clumsy that it makes the post Great War disastrous League of Nations look like a credible solution to global peace.
Last year’s European elections across many existing member states have seen a sudden shift to the Right as voters in those nations realise maintaining their national sovereignty and political dignity lies in radically loosening ties with Brussels and Strasbourg.
The main reason Brexit has become such a burden since the result of the 2016 UK referendum is that the Europhiles in the EU want to make an example out of the UK to prevent Eurosceptic lobbies in other member states not just gaining momentum, but also holding referenda which could result in a mass exodus of states from the ailing EU.
And, of course, the EU’s stick to beat the UK has been using Northern Ireland - the only part of the UK which has a land border with an EU member state, namely Southern Ireland.
The Remain camp in Northern Ireland, many of whom are hell bent on campaigning for the current Labour Government at Westminster to hold another referendum on rejoining the EU, need to waken up and smell the scent of the Right-wing political coffee coming from Washington’s Oval Office - the EU will soon become an economically busted flush under a Trump administration.
While the woke community is pouring cold water on President Trump’s utterances on Greenland and Gaza, it seems to have conveniently forgotten about the 46th President’s whistle-stop tour of Ireland (anyone remember Joe Biden’s election tour of Northern and Southern Ireland) during which billions of dollars of investment were promised for the island.
Given Biden’s rousing speeches, you’d almost think if he was re-elected, he’d want to buy Ireland north and south and turn it into another American state. But the 47th President, Trump, is a more politically and economically astute leader than Biden.
Hopefully, Trump will use his so-called Treble T policy as an economic coup de grace to the EU, paving the way for a unique Trans Atlantic Trade Treaty between the UK and the USA - but it will require all of the UK to be clearly distant from the EU.
The half in, half out current arrangement which the Protocol and Windsor Framework have created must be confined to the dustbin of history along with the hated Irish Sea Border.
The Leinster House administration in Dublin will have to make up its mind - are you with us in the UK as part of the Trump deal, or do you want to sink like economic Titanic now that the EU is about to crash into the Trump iceberg?
However, the clock is ticking for all sides. Unlike the Putin presidency in Russia or even a Southern Irish presidency, the Trump Presidency will only last a four-year term.
The starting gun was fired last month with Donald Trump’s official inauguration as President. He has four years to cripple the EU permanently as well as implementing a Trans Atlantic Trade Treaty with the UK.
At the same time, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has about the same amount of time to get another referendum on rejoining the EU in front of the British electorate before Trump sinks the EU.
Starmer also faces the added problem of the rapid rise of the vehemently anti-EU Reform UK party under MP Nigel Farage, who has already had an electoral breakthrough at Westminster with the party as well as past successes with the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) and the Brexit Party.
It would signal the end of Starmer’s career as Prime Minister - like David Cameron in the wake of the 2016 referendum defeat for his Remain camp - if he implemented an EU rejoining referendum and the British electorate went with the rising Reform UK tide and voted ‘We Stay Out!’
If the Remain camp in Northern Ireland continues to drag its heels politically over the Irish Sea Border along with the noose which the EU still has around Northern Ireland, then perhaps the time has come for the Leave lobby within the UUP, DUP, TUV and Reform UK to form their own delegation and go directly to the White House and negotiate in person with President Trump.
Imagine a photo call in the White House with TUV MP Jim Allister and Reform UK boss Farage with Trump signing a unique trade deal between the UK and USA.
That’ll never happen, I already hear the woke Remain lobby scream! Just remember, when Biden was addressing audiences during his Irish tour, a second Biden term was clearly on the cards - and we all know how that turned out!
Hopefully too, key Trump supporter Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance will have a well-worded political death notice for the EU within the next four years.
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| Follow Dr John Coulter on Twitter @JohnAHCoulter John is a Director for Belfast’s Christian radio station, Sunshine 1049 FM. |
In your dreams, John. Forever European. Can you list one success of Brexshit?
ReplyDeleteThat's his point, there's been so much drag over Brexit it's never been implemented in full.
DeleteAnd what does a full En.glish Brexshit look like, Steve? Exponential customs red tape for businesses exporting to the EU, 4 per cent drop in UK output, fishing industry screwed
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter what I think of it, the people have voted for it. Or are you against a democratic vote now too Barry, in your quest to have everyone agree with you?
DeleteBarry,
ReplyDeleteHow has Brexit impacted YOUR personal life --What could YOU do before Brexit that YOU can't do now?
My life hasn't changed since Brexit, my life choices haven't changed. I can still see the same people, drink in the same places, eat the same food, travel anywhere on this rock, and smoke the same fresh herbs...
Frankie, on this site I do ideas and policies not personal issues. The impact or not of Brexit on me is irrelevant to it's disastrous nature.
DeleteSteve, referendums are a bad way of deliberating on complex policy issues. Did the Brexit vote mandate the withdrawal from the SM and CU and consequent clash with GFA?
DeleteBarry that's irrelevant, the people voted for it. Do you not accept that democratic vote?
DeleteBarry,
DeleteFrankie, on this site I do ideas and policies not personal issues.</i/
That is total bullshit. When you talk about how your big toe is on the autistic spectrum, how you enjoy going to a civic centre in Colchester to drink warm beer while a Jazz man plays 10,000 chords in front of 3 people, how you once got a slap from the Shinners in Belfast because you were electioneering for the Stoops, your experiences in watch Leeds Utd matches.....None of that is 'personal'...
I'll try again...." How has Brexit impacted YOUR personal life --What could YOU do before Brexit that YOU can't do now?"....
My guess is 'YOUR' life hasn't changed....
Both Putin and Trump support the end of the EU. Makes it easier for Putin to take over the Baltic countries and maybe Poland and Romania. The rest woudl eb forced to accept "a great deal" from Trump. I see Starmer is follwing Blair in the vain attempt to become Trump's best friend as Blair did for Bush.
ReplyDeleteUnlike the Scottish Indy Reg, the GFA referendums and the Irish abortion and equal marriage referendums the electorate were not presented with a route map for the implementation of Brexit
ReplyDeleteYou are avoiding answering my question.
DeleteSteve, I am not. The Brexit referendum was a constitutionally flawed process which should never have seen the light of day due to the violations of the GFA caused by leaving SM and CU. Not living in the UK, you may not be aware of the bitter divisions the Brexit referendum caused in society.
ReplyDeleteSo you don't accept the will of the people?
DeleteI accept the will of the people as expressed in elections to representative bodies in liberal democracies not in flawed deliberative exercises like the 2016 Brexit and 1983 Irish Pro-Life referendums, Steve
ReplyDeleteAnd you get to decide what are "flawed deliberative exercises" Barry? As opposed to the people having their say?
DeleteSuddenly your opinion that social media should be tightly regulated ( AKA censorship) makes your position on a lot of things much clearer.
Steve, democratic elections to parliaments give people their say in representative politics. The Brexit referendum legitimised rule by the mob.
ReplyDeleteI think referenda are a vital part of the democratic process. With or without them the Starmers and Johnsons will lie through their teeth. Prohibiting referenda is not going to put an end to that. A society can't rule through referenda but it is one of the few forms of direct democracy available to citizens.
DeleteYou are still looking down your nose at them Barry. The fact is the choice was given to the masses and the masses voted a particular way. Whining because you didn't like the result is one thing, denying it's legitimacy is quite another. You are firmly on the path well worn by fascists and dictators if that's the case.
DeleteAt no point have you considered the masses have had a validity to their vote, nobody is asking you to agree with them, but castigating them and blaming social media raises alarm bells.
Old school socialists were against the EU for various reasons but mainly because we saw it for what is now transpiring; an unfettered movement of cheap, ununionised labour across borders. The new woke wankers claim the people are just racist if we oppose the massive influx of migrants. The Left have fucked up by allowing ideologues of bullshit to infiltrate them so they are easy to drown out. The Right tap in to migration as a "local replacement" fear trope with accompanying racist overtones. I have no idea were this leads but it's a bloody disaster whichever way it's cut.
Europe is caught between Russia and the USA. At the moment it is a minor partner of the USA in Nato. Both Putin and Trump see the EU as an emergent more major competitor to both Russia and the USA. Both would prefer to deal with European countries on a one to one basis where they could factor in their economic and military weight. In the case of Ireland, by far a small European country, what cards woudl an Irish government have to play outside the EU. If say the USA demanded stationing a military garrison to "protect" Shannon.Britain will continue to be a lapdog of to the USA,. convincing itself that it has a "special" relationship. . Putin will hope to see a reduced Ukraine and a rump which can be dealt with the same way a rump Czechocoslovakia was in 1939. Indeed a Trump Putin deal will be a divvying up parts of the world between the two
ReplyDeleteempires. A renewed EU, a far more social democrtic one, with enhanced regional funding to bring up the poor regions is neede das a counter balance to the resurgent Russian and US empires.
Frankie, what I meant was that when I write and comment on this site on politics, I base my writings on ideas not personal experiences. I found Brexit abhorrent because of the agenda behind it and the lies told by Fartage, Johnson etc. I have certain ethical beliefs and stuff like the quasi racist nature of Brexit sickening.
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