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Author - David Blake
EU Arrogance with Russia and Northern Ireland
Professor David Blake accuses the EU of provocative arrogance both in its dealings with Russia over...
A tale of two (dis)agreements – the Northern Ireland Protocol...
The EU accuses the UK of wishing to renegotiate an international treaty agreed only two years ago i...
An undervalued Euro harms our trade
Professor Blake argues that an undervalued euro and an overvalued pound both undermine UK trade. A...
The silent bailout system that has kept the euro afloat
The political and financial crisis in Italy shows it is now failing badly
The Fantasy Economics behind the case for Scottish independence
Last week Professor Blake summarised the economic cost to Scotland of becoming independent. In this...
Scottish independence – playing by EU rules
Professor David Blake argues that the SNP want to give back control to the EU (not a slogan they...
The emperor has no clothes – or vaccines
The European Union is turning out not to be a ‘friend and ally’, but a much more malign force – for...
Financial services agreement – time to stop another disaster
The UK-EU trade agreement baked in the EU’s trade surplus in goods, but gave us nothing in terms of...
Everything is agreed until nothing is agreed.
Professor David Blake describes how the EU has cornered the UK at every turn.
The Plan to Get German Taxpayers to Pay for European Political...
Christine Lagarde and Emmanuel Macron plan to use the covid-19 crisis to get German taxpayers to...
The UK is the Eurozone’s dumping ground
The EU is following a classic 'beggar thy neighbour' strategy with its trading partners, in...
Summary: A level playing field or loaded dice? What the EU is...
This blog is a summary of David Blake’s major report Ensuring a Genuine Level Playing Field with...
Ensuring a Genuine Level Playing Field with the EU Post-Brexit
The EU claims that it wishes to negotiate the future trading relationship with the UK on the basis...
Rating agencies betray their anti-Brexit prejudices
Rating agencies that warn of Britain’s post-Brexit prospects are systematically exaggerating the...
The Single Market isn’t working – why doesn’t the Left...
The Labour Party’s six tests for supporting a Brexit deal include ensuring the same benefits as...
The British MPs behaving like the Hong Kong Executive
Professor David Blake takes the view that those British MPs conspiring with the EU to block Brexit...
The EU’s imperial ambition
As part of its plan to create a European empire to block anyone competing against it, the EU has...
It’s time the EU stopped playing hardball and agreed on a basic...
It is high time the EU faced reality and the fact that their own economies will be hit hard by...
Why does the EU go on about the ‘integrity’ of the Single Market...
If you believed the rhetoric, you would accept that the Single Market was a great success. But the...
The Single Market isn’t delivering the goods
Professor David Blake examines economic performance in the EU and discovers that trend growth in...
Why is there still no Single Market in financial services?
In the second of his articles on the failings of the EU Single Market, Professor David Blake argues...
Remainers should be frank about their real intention
Remainers who want to block a ‘no-deal’ Brexit should be frank about their real intention. Their...
EU bullying of Switzerland – the shape of things to come and how...
The EU is using bullying tactics to bring Switzerland to heel. This should be a warning to the UK...
The new Prime Minister needs a credible Brexit negotiation...
Only a credible non-cooperative strategy that cannot be blocked by either the EU or Parliament will...
Striking similarities: The origins of the European Economic...
David Blake discusses the Plan for a European Economic Community that was developed at the...
The Withdrawal Agreement is a one-way ticket back into the EU
The Withdrawal Agreement is a one-way ticket back into the EU – before 2025 and on far worse terms...
How would you like your savings to bail out Europe’s bust...
It’s another one of Theresa May’s goodwill gestures in the Brexit negotiations – after all, she’s...
Singapore wouldn’t accept EU vassalage, and neither should...
Our future would be much brighter outside the EU’s protectionist orbit where we can exploit our own...
Theresa May is not up to the job of renegotiating the Withdrawal...
Her heart isn’t in it – and in any case, Olly Robbins won’t let her.
Remainers have given the EU the status of a religious cult
Every aspect of the European Union is failing, yet Remainers are in denial. Like supporters of a...
The European Commission is slowly strangulating Europe
Stifling innovation and slowly strangulating Europe, these bureaucrats do not give a damn.
The People versus Parliament
The People did not vote to ‘take back control’ from the European Union only for Parliament to hand...
The City of London is strong enough to go it alone post-Brexit
It should never accept being a rule taker from Brussels – where they haven’t got a clue how to run...
The European Union is in total crisis – we need to get out now!
There are political, economic and financial crises developing in Europe. The EU is incapable of...
Target2 – The Eurozone’s silent bailout system
The UK is at risk from the bailout system that is keeping the euro afloat.
Every claim made by Theresa May and her rebuttal unit is false
Theresa May is the most dangerously naïve Prime Minister ever to govern this country.
We need a Clean Brexit, not this mad Withdrawal Agreement
The Withdrawal Agreement is so full of absurdities that neither Leavers nor Remainers could...
Is Theresa May under the coercive control of the European Union?
The EU have read Theresa May far more successfully than anyone in the UK. They have very cleverly...
Ten reasons that justify the UK’s decision to leave the European...
The EU is turning into an aggressive bully. It is incapable of reforming itself. Remaining in the...
Chequers White Paper. What has gone wrong and why? By David Blake
Professor David Blake takes us through the full story and offers a remedy.