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Is Labour Party Brexit Strategy to Suspend Article 50?

3,627 views · Published 19 September 2018 · 10:05 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2018 · News & Politics

What is the Labour Party Brexit Strategy these days? Other than to use Brexit to try and get themselves into power by telling Leavers and Remainers alike what they want to hear?

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The first thing to note is that I will be driving up to Birmingham tomorrow afternoon for the UKIP 25th anniversary conference, starting with the Chairman's reception tomorrow evening.

Although I won't be able to do my usual studio style video, I will endeavour to bring you updates over the next few days on a mobile basis.

Now I've talked to my tech savvy mate and he says it's all very simple, all I have to do is - I wrote it down somewhere ..... ah yes, I just need to go to iTunes and get app.

And from what I can gather App seems to do everything from games to photos to films to uploading to presentations to spreadsheets - seems a very clever thing this app.

Anyway I'll get App this evening so all will be ready for tomorrow! Once I've worked out how to put it in my trusty Nokia 3210 and located where the camera is on it, of course.

The Labour Party stance on Brexit has become as clear as mud in recent days now that there seems to be increased calls for deferring Brexit, from the likes of Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor.

This has prompted the Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab, to write to his opposite number in Labour, Keir Starmer, to ask him to clarify the Labour Party position.

Moving on. The anti-Brexit press is still hard at it pushing the stories once again that the police will be mobilised to quell the rioters the day after Brexit Day when all the food disappears from the supermarkets and all the doctors surgeries, hospitals and pharmacies shut down due to lack of medicines.

But, as the Guardian said in its own piece on this:

"Police made it clear they have no intelligence to suggest disorder or severe disruption, but have been considering if and how they would handle a no-deal Brexit leading to chaos on the streets."

One point that puzzles me is that the Guardian article points to the Schengen Information System as something we would lose, saying the UK police accessed the system 539 million times last year. That's one check for every single EU citizen plus a few tens of thousands left over! Now that's either one very productive police officer, or it is an automated system and it would be nice to know what information was being shared and whether it was one way or two way.

The other points to note are that SIS is designed to protect the Schengen Zone, not the EU border - they are different.

And importantly, the UK already only has limited access to the SIS in that it "..cannot issue or access Schengen-wide alerts for refusing entry or stay into the Schengen area".

Now, to return to the purpose of the Schengen Information System - under Regulation 1987/2006:

"The SIS enables border guards and visa issuing and migration authorities to enter and consult alerts on third-country nationals for the purpose of refusing their entry into or stay in the Schengen Area."

And under Regulation 1986/2006:

"Vehicle registration services may consult the SIS in order to check the legal status of the vehicles presented to them for registration."

Now, back to hospitals the much needed medicines and potential riots: the EU companies want to sell us this stuff because they want to make a profit. The NHS has the money to buy the medicines so will place the orders. Our customs people will not want to stop the medicines coming into the country and the UK government is hardly likely to put a tariff on those medicines is it?

Ah, yes inflation.

The ONS reports today that the Consumer Prices Index 12 month inflation rate rose from 2.5% in July to 2.7% in August and when including homeowner / occupier costs it rose from 2.3% in July to 2.4% in August.

I know, let's blame it all on Brexit! Well, the usual suspects will anyway.

Let's see what Howard Archer, chief economic advisor to the EY ITEM Club, said:

“The main driver of the higher inflation rate was a surprise pickup in core inflation, from 1.9% to 2.1%. This appeared to largely be a function of noise, rather than a genuine sign of escalating underlying pressures, with the bulk of the increase coming from the volatile recreation & culture sector. We would expect this impact to unwind in next month’s release.

Seems reasonable doesn't it?

So, please let us all know what you think by leaving a comment below.

Thank you for watching.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/18/police-chiefs-no-deal-brexit-would-mean-loss-crime-fighting-tools

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/schengen-information-system_en

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/august2018