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Scientists for Britain retweeted
Don’t be fooled by the boring diplomatic language in the leaked UK-EU draft statement. Under Point 65, Brussels is attempting a massive regulatory hijack of the UK’s highest-growth sectors—specifically AI, quantum computing, and advanced semiconductors.
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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.
Scientists for Britain retweeted
This is essential information.
The EU and sadly the UK have been bankrolling Russian arms factories by buying Russian oil and gas. Sometimes directly sometimes via intermediaries but it’s the same effect.
It must change.
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The EU is ignoring the Russian fuel ban and paying billions to Moscow.
Very unhelpful actions by the EU. They are funding the wrong side.
When will the BBC and the rest of our largely pro-EU media in the UK start reporting this?
euobserver.com/231924/banned…
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It should be regarded as treason for British politicians to pretend to negotiate in the British interest but in reality to sell us out to the EU and cost us £20 billion along the way - this EU Reset is a total disgrace youtu.be/uET-xONTW-0?is=Xokb…
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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This is a subsidy farm, not a solar farm.
Without government subsidies it would not be built.
Your taxes are subsidising farmland destruction.
This month the Energy Secretary approved his third large solar farm in a fortnight, one of them on prime farmland across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire that his own inspectors told him to refuse. They walked the site. They said no. He signed it anyway.
So here's the grand plan. Take some of the best food-growing soil in England, ground that has fed people for a thousand years, and bury it under glass panels shipped in from China to catch the famous Lincolnshire sunshine. In a country where the sun knocks off mid-afternoon for half the winter and turns up for roughly eleven per cent of the year, we are concreting over arable land to harvest photons that mostly aren't there.
A British solar field spends most of its life doing an impression of a very expensive greenhouse with the plants missing. The panels tilt hopefully at a grey sky. The soil beneath them, some of the finest in the country, sits in the dark for forty years quietly learning to be a car park.
And it doesn't come back. Not in your lifetime. They are making a permanent decision about a temporary energy fashion, on ground you cannot un-glass, against the written advice of the men they pay to give it, in the same fortnight the same government swears food security keeps it awake at night.
Sunniest idea they've had all year.
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We must not hinder economic growth by embarking on an expensive reset with the EU.
The people voted for Brexit. The consensus is the UK should remain outside the EU.
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Euro MP on a subsidised trip to Iceland to sway their referendum on whether Icelanders should give up their hard-fought independence and their ability to hire and fire the people who rule over them.
Election interference, but with the Brussels seal of approval.
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If it turns out the EU was the problem all along, what are we going to do with all those overpaid experts who said the precise opposite?
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Sounds great until they realise the last Government rewrote UK defence procurement law to mimic EU law - even placing a line of EU treaty text in UK statute.
Mimicking EU law makes it difficult to create UK-limited contract competitions.
Exclusive:
Ministers will use national security exemptions to ensure that billions of pounds of additional funding for defence is spent in Britain rather than given to American or European companies
John Healey, the defence secretary, will use a speech at the GMB union’s congress to announce plans to favour British-based companies
He will add that if a defence contract is “sent overseas”, the industry will be required to create jobs in the UK, describing the approach as “unashamedly pro-Britain”.
He will say: “The government will develop a new approach that looks to give credit in future defence contract decisions to British-based companies based on a genuine, substantive presence in Britain and long-term commitments to British communities and British supply chains.
“As part of this drive, I can announce I will make greater use of national security exemptions for defence contracts — which allow the government to require certain capabilities to be built in Britain — supporting our UK industrial base and your members’ jobs.
“We will ensure that, in large defence contracts, there are provisions to require any significant sub-contracts to be placed with UK-based companies, or guarantee competitions so UK competitors aren’t shut out.”
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Keir Starmer is expected to SURRENDER to EU demands and allow EU students to pay less to attend UK universities, effectively subsidised by British taxpayers.
Question: Is Starmer right to surrender?
0%Yes, let’s surrender
80%No, don’t surrender
20%Don’t know
5 votes • Final results Scientists for Britain retweeted
UK ministers consider lowering university fees for EU students -
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Which part of the word "Broke"
does this government not understand?
ft.com/content/c746eb1a-f3e2… via @FT
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For once, this Miliband madness WAS in Labour’s manifesto… But not its costs.
Revealed: Over £200bn and nearly ¼ m jobs are at stake with the ‘Energy Independence Bill’.
Ideological extremism and what it could cost the country: facts4eu.org/news/2026_jun_m…
Please re-post !
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There is a tradition of unpopular governments showing restraint to avoid further public anger.
Yet Keir Starmer is doing the opposite, rushing to complete an unpopular EU Partnership Bill which 'effectively reverses Brexit' – as Dr @DansBoucher explains.
briefingsforbritain.co.uk/la…
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EU tells its aid recipients not to support the Russian treasury (like the EU does with oil and gas purchasing).
euractiv.com/news/future-eu-…
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Starmer’s desperate EU convergence plans have a defence component, as economist @Bob_Lyddon reminds us here:
“The latest proposed reconvergences will involve re-alignment with EU rules and participation in new EU shadow debt schemes for defence spending.”
politeia.co.uk/cementing-bri…
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Astonishing...
From 1973 to 2010, *we paid the EEC/EU* in today's money, £500 billion to take away a cumulative £3.5 TRILLION of manufacturing GDP from us.
3.5 million jobs were lost.
#Brexit #LabourWipeout
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🚨 Starmer’s Big Answer Is More Europe — No Wonder Voters Are Walking Away
He claims Brexit made Britain poorer.
But since the Brexit vote:
UK real GDP: +12.1%
Germany real GDP: +6.0%
So why is Starmer treating Brussels like the answer?
🗞️ Read more - link in next post 👇
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This is well worth reading - whether you are a minister, opposition politician or anyone trying to understand the UK's energy vulnerability and how we address that.
The exec summary alone is hugely informative and well-argued.
Congrats to @CeeMacBee and co-authors.
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Here is my new paper for the Great British Business Council on the importance of oil, gas and coal to the UK economy.
The UK’s industrial decline is not inevitable, but the result of decades of deliberate policy choices that have undermined domestic energy production and driven manufacturing offshore. Lowering UK employment and tax revenues, while increasing the UK trade deficit.
The paper also includes a plan to reverse this.
gbbc.uk/uk-deindustrialisati…
