Angus Allan

Forget Rejoining, the EU would gain nothing from that. Burnham is about to give them everything they want on a plate. Under the Reset the EU can: 1. force all UK food and agriculture companies to obey EU rules, with no vote and no say; 2. prevent the UK from importing food from non EU countries; 3. force the UK to pay the EU for their 'policy works' and pay for the development of poorer EU countries; 4. force UK manufacturers to pay the same ETS costs as EU companies; 5. force the UK to add carbon taxes to important input materials that the UK no longer makes. The EU will control UK money, UK laws, and even UK borders again, without giving the UK a vote.

For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights: 1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'. 2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates. 3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive. 4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS. 5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th. 6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes. 7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS. 8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports. 9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies. These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS. 10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.) 11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset. If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.

We don't have to join the EU's Internal Electricity Market (IEM) to trade electricity with the EU; we already do. Last year, 10% of UK electricity came from the EU. But interconnector capacity and grid constraints prevented us from buying any more. Joining their IEM is estimated to reduce the wholesale cost of the 10% of electricity that the UK imports from the EU by between 0.25% and 0.7%. This could save private electricity companies between £120 and £370 million a year. But the EU requires the UK to contribute to the cost of running the EU system. Based on the payments of Norway, Switzerland and Northern Ireland, Britain could have to pay between £40 and £80 million a year towards the IEM operations. The UK would also have to align dynamically with the EU's environmental protection, including its RED III target of 42.5% of gross final energy consumption to be from renewable sources by 2030. The UK's current proportion is only 16.8%. Our electricity is 53.5% renewable, but our heating is only 10%, and our transport is only 6%. (DUKES Table 6.5a) But tied to this is a mandatory commitment to pay into the EU's Cohesion Fund in perpetuity. Unlike the IEM agreement, this one has no get-out clause. Britons should expect to be forced to pay £3 to £4 billion.