Sir Keir Starmer cannot be trusted on issues relating to the EU, Sir Bill Cash has warned
Published: 06/03/2024
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Sir Bill Cash has warned that Starmer’s attitude is ‘contrary to British national interests’
Brexit was achieved by the British people in the 2016 Referendum and delivered over the last few years by the Conservative Government. The General Election question that must be answered is – how can Keir Starmer be trusted on EU issues as Leader of the Labour Party, when there are such fundamental contradictions between what he is now saying and his previously publicly expressed views on Brexit?
He has himself been on record against Brexit in such extreme terms that it is clear that he has, for entirely cynical General Election reasons and his problems with the Red Wall voters in particular, decided to change his policies on Brexit simply to try to win the next General Election.
In June, following the 2016 Referendum and the groundbreaking democratic decision by the British voters to leave the EU, Starmer wrote “The EU referendum result was catastrophic for the UK, for our communities and for the next generation”. How can he possibly explain this away now?
After the referendum, Starmer said: ‘The EU referendum result was catastrophic for the EU’
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Following the European Parliament elections in 2019, Starmer said: “There are many in the Labour party who feel we need to be very clear about a second referendum and about making the case for remain. That’s certainly what I’m advocating…”. Yet, in 2023, he said that arrangements over whether to return to the Single Market or Customs Union “are in the past, where they belong”.
This is not a man of principle; it is purely a tactical move, and he cannot be trusted under any circumstances given what is at stake – UK freedom, democracy and sovereignty, with laws being made by elected MPs on behalf of their voters in the democratic House of Commons.
This cynical attitude he is now peddling is fundamentally contrary to the British national interests and our regained sovereignty.
The Referendum decision by the voters in 2016 was endorsed by the 2019 General Election, and then by the post-Brexit legislation passed since then.
On the issue of illegal immigration and the Rwanda Bill, the Labour Party has no realistic plans on how to deal with small boats and the border issues. The EU Member States are now faced with compulsory quotas and fines by majority vote, which we have escaped by leaving.
David Lammy, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, has openly stated his intention to review and renegotiate our policy of leaving the EU. Greg Hands MP, a very experienced Minister on matters of Trade, but who himself voted remain, has warned that the prospect of a Customs Union risks serious loss of UK sovereignty. He is, of course, right.
The whole question of where Labour is really going is typical of Keir Starmer’s attempt to win the General Election at any price, irrespective of principle, British sovereignty and the interests of the people of this country who have now regained the right to govern themselves.
Under our legislation to secure Brexit in the national interest, we are increasing these freedoms and, of course, this was always going to take time, and was delayed by Covid and the global inflationary pressures following Putin’s War on Ukraine.
The Labour Party has nothing to offer compared to what the Conservative Government has already and will continue to achieve through our leaving the EU. The EU itself is in turmoil economically and politically, with massive protests in France, Germany, Spain and many other countries. By leaving, we have escaped from 7,200 EU laws already passed in the EU in their Council of Ministers behind closed doors, unlike our own democratic decision-making process at Westminster- they don’t even have a transcript, like Hansard. Our Online Safety
Act 2023 is far stronger than the EU’s Digital Services Act. Unlike them, we have imposed criminal sanctions on big tech bosses putting young people at risk of self-harm and suicide.
We now govern ourselves, and even the IMF and Deutsche Bank report that the UK will soon outgrow Germany and France in the failing Eurozone. We are the fifth biggest exporter in the world and the City of London is now overtaking New York.
