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⛓ Plan to Make Post-Brexit UK ‘Submissive’ ⛓

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Channel: Jeff Taylor · 2017 · News & Politics

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The European Union intends to punish the UK and make it submissive, claims a leading German economist and academic.

Yesterday, Professor Thorsten Polleit said that EU leaders were intent on punishing the British and making them submissive for having the temerity to leave their precious political union.

The professor, who is the chief economist of the gold bullion firm Degussa, an academic at the university of Bayreuth and also the president of the Ludwig Von Mises institute has lambasted the EU and called it ‘anything but a free market’ and accused it of being an ‘instrument of power’ that cudgels anyone who disagrees with it.

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He also said that the EU’s actions after the UK vote to leave amounted to threats, which showed the true nature of the union.

"In fact, the EU single market is anything but a free market, and the free trade agreements of the EU are often more harmful to free trade than they are of use to it.” he said.

Although none of the EU leaders has ever actually said that the UK should be punished, they have repeatedly said that, whatever agreement is reached, it must not be more favourable for a UK outside the EU, than inside it.

Germany’s minister for foreign affairs, Sigmar Gabriel, has said that “there should be no advantage for countries which leave the union”.

And once president of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, has previously said that the UK should not end up with a more favourable position as it would mean there’s no point to the EU.

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has said that the Uk won’t be punished and that revenge for leaving was not on the agenda. But he has said that the UK “will not have the same rights and it will not have the same facilities as a member state”, which gives away the real thinking behind these negotiations.

Let’s take a step back and look at this.

The Uk is leaving the EU and wants to strike a good trade deal with the EU and has been actively putting forward proposals.

But all the EU does is put up obstacles and demands for outlandish amounts of money.

The EU is not negotiating for a deal that would be the best outcome for the businesses and people of the EU, it is negotiating from a political stance of making sure the UK does not benefit from leaving. EU negotiators are putting the political project ahead of the well being of the citizens.

The EU also refused to properly negotiate with David Cameron as he frantically toured the Bloc’s capitals looking to secure a deal that would keep the UK in the EU. Their response was take it or leave it.

The EU has proved that it only has one direction of travel, and that direction does not accommodate the needs of the individual nation states within it.

The people of the UK have come to realise that and now wish to move on. In time others may well want to follow suit; with a successful UK outside the EU being the catalyst for change. You only have to read the news to get the general rumblings from its discontented nation states. And punishing them and their businesses by proxy for the actions of the UK could be a step too far! Brexit may well prove that the concept of the un-reformable EU has now passed its sell-by-date.

Those top Eurocrats understand the gravity of Brexit and are desperately trying to ruin it purely to keep their failing political project alive. They know that this could prove in time to be their Berlin Wall moment and they are on the wrong side of it!

Do you think any attempt to punish the UK for Brexit will work?

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Source:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/842459/Brexit-news-German-professor-EU-trying-punish-Britain-leaving

https://mises.org/profile/thorsten-polleit

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