The decision by Keir Starmer to charge inheritance tax will affect a number of farmers who are, in the vernacular, asset rich, but cash poor. For example, a farm with an asset value of £8 million but average profits of £19 000 pa will face a tax bill of £1.2 million on the death of its owner. This is yet another example of a Government looking round desperately for cash to drive recovery, although the actual amounts gained are relatively small.
Many farmers were duped by the Brexit sales pitch in 2016. It is at the root of the problem. The Conservative Government’s promised replacement for the Common Agricultural Policy was very poor in comparison with what we had in the EU. Today, the far right and Deform UK are to hijack the farmer’s protests, instead of admitting that it is THEY who the root cause of farmers’ problems, having sold them the lies of “BSE” (Brexit Surrealistic Exaggerations).
Dr Charlie Clutterbuck writes on the Brexit mistake for food, farming, land and labour. Here’s an extract from our White Paper on the topic.
If we were to admit that the Brexit elephant is at the heart of our problems and apply to Rejoin EU, we would not need to be doing this, nor punish other groups through measures which don’t help Britain grow.
Write letters to MPs, Lords and influencers using our white paper, exec summary and template letter. All details via Rejoin EU.
This excellent piece by Sumi Olson:
Sorry (not sorry) but those pushing the farming hysteria need an absolute fcking reality check. The very same group who ignored strong warnings about the devastating impact brexit would have on farming, and who voted time and again for the actual political party that signed international deals that undercut UK farmers, undermined our food and environmental safety standards, are now reaping what they sowed.
And aided by the right wing media pumping out misinformation/disinformation fed by the tories and the millionaire agricultural land investing tax dodgers, they’re gaslighting everyone into blaming Labour for their current difficulties. I simply refuse to wring hands for people who are blaming others for a crisis of their own making (in that voting has consequences). Labour’s October inheritance tax measures are not responsible for the last eight years’ worth of farming difficulties.
Yes, things are very, very hard for farmers- as Remainers told them it would be if they voted for Brexit (and the tories), and urgent measures have to be done to help them. But get a fucking grip. Don’t let those who made policy these last 14 years play you into blaming a party which only took power before Summer Recess.
I’m fully aware commercial farmers work extremely hard to produce their harvests for domestic and overseas consumption. And every nation needs to be able to feed itself as much as possible. I am very supportive of farmers who farm ethically and sustainably. I’m very supportive of vocational, family business, small farmers. But I’m not prepared to swallow this narrative that this is all Labour’s fault and farmers are Labour’s victims. No, many farmers played a hand in this situation, and need to acknowledge it.
Analysis from Farmers’ Weekly: 7 years after Brexit, farmers count the cost: Increased red tape, a worsening economic situation, damaging free-trade deals, a trail of broken promises – it seems that farmers and those working in the ancillary industries are far from satisfied with Brexit.
That is the inevitable conclusion from a new survey by Farmers Weekly into how the agricultural sector now perceives Brexit, seven years on from the historic referendum of 23 June, 2016.
A group of us from all over Europe have just written to Lord Darroch about our white paper on Rejoining the EU after he published a piece in the Observer about Trump and our place in Europe. Here is the letter on Rejoining the EU, which you may adapt for your own purposes for use with Ambassadors, Lords and influencers:
Dear Lord Darroch of Kew KCMG,
We read with great interest your piece in The Observer on Sunday, where you mention the UK’ relationship with the EU. We are Reboot Britain, a network organisation that campaigns for a Better Britain in a Better Europe for a Better World
We write to appraise you of a comprehensive cross-party white paper on the question of rejoining the EU by 60 members of our network. You are right. The government’s painfully slow and minimalist reset towards the UK EU reset is not good enough. It amounts to a slow decline of Britain by 1000 ameliorations.
Public perception is now at the point where a number of polls suggest that 2/3 of British people realise that Brexit was a mistake and that we should rejoin as a priority. Sadly political paralysis accompanies the apparent “will of the people” in this respect. It is unlikely that UK growth will be possible by “ignoring the Brexit elephant in the room”. We are sure that, particularly given the likely governance inclination of President Elect Trump, you will agree the much needed “growth” in the UK economy is impossible outside of Europe. We potentially face a further depression in the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) growth predictions for the next four years.
We would urge you to read the report and would be very happy if you were to circulate it to interested parties that you know. A two-page Executive Summary is attached also. If at all possible, we would like to meet for an open dialogue without prejudice in Westminster or at a place of your choosing. Would this be possible?
Yours sincerely.
Alan David – MBA, Member of the International Systems Dynamics Society,
Fellow of the Institute for Teaching and Learning 07729 828360
Michael Hindley – Three term MEP, Vice President of the European Parliament’s Trade Committee. Coordinator of the Former MEPs’ Guest Lecturers Programme.
Colonel Terence Knott MC – President, Amicale Europe Pays de Fayence, France
Peter Cook – MBA, MRSC C. Chem, FCIPD, Leader, Reboot Britain 07725 927585
This is an extract from our white paper to Rejoin the EU. The piece on the white paper is heavily referenced and has been edited to suit more gentle minds. This piece is the unvarnished truth, without window dressing of apology from a cyber / security specialist who has been operating in Ukraine and other places behind the wire. It reads more like a murder mystery than an academic paper, hence the title. Read on.
Download the white paper to send to MPs by clicking the image.
The Deceit & Russian interference;
Kipling’s Six Serving Men, KYE and How the Disinformation monolith is taken down & positive hope
Introduction – Situation Report
The aim of this document is not to look back at the criminal travesty inflicted on the UK by Brexit, but it is essential for us to review and understand the state level resources who were and are ranged against our legitimate and reasonable aims to rejoin the EU.
In this section we seek to understand how they achieved their long term aims & massive investment in the damaging and weakening of the UK & EU, how they sowed and continue to sow and propagate disunity, the by-product of which is the UK equivalent of the US MAGA cult.
They are led and grifted to their rage by the agents of chaos, in the pay of Russia and the fossil fuel industry.
We can gain perspective that they are not to be feared, that their downfall is written into the script they follow, with the hope that escalation and global conflict will be avoided.
Once we have that valuable insight – How do we proceed in the short / medium / long term?
Are there any examples of ordinary, decent people fighting back and reclaiming the realms of reasoned debate and civility, with a view to showing the agents of chaos back to the rocks they crawled out from?
Can we align and link up meaningfully with these organisations or follow their highly successful “business model“ ?
I highly recommend the works of the esteemed Professor Timothy Snyder particularly his “On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from The 20Th Century” and any of his own channel videos on YouTube or recorded presentations, lectures or blog postings.
Some insight into Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, better known as ‘huilo’ is in order. Born in St Petersburg, of dubious parentage, he has a fabricated and much-fabled childhood, with stories of his mother being noticed by his father in a pile of bodies after a battle with the Germans and revived, him as a small child confronting a cornered rat etc. The facts are he was enamoured by a radio series about a spy and aspired to join the KGB. He achieved this, excelled in the German language but failed to achieve a serious & meaningful posting, ending up in the backwater of the Kommandatura in Dresden under the cover of a translator. The stark fact remains that he ended up there, and not in some leading role in the organisation, because of his security risk due to his alleged paedophilia.
Post German reunification and the end of the Soviet Union, Putin achieved power in St Petersburg through grand fraud and corruption and working with organised crime groups in a time of crisis; natural resources were sold (wood) for food, but he never delivered, and he tasted corrupt wealth.
As deputy mayor, he developed kompromat on his senior and usurped him.
During another time of crisis with Yeltsin he was selected as a grey and controllable vessel by a group of oligarchs, led by Boris Beresovsky, (who would later be suicided in the UK by Putin) with his agreement to spare Yeltsin and his family from prosecution being agreed in advance before his succession. This plan to have a puppet controlled by the oligarchs backfired completely, as Putin simply upscaled his St. Petersburg model on his appointment to president.
The biggest mistake we can make on Putin and his regime is to think it is, as his publicly stated aim is, to restore the communist federation of the Soviet Union. He oversees a partnership between the state and organised crime, where he allows his oligarchs and siloviki (inner circle) to carve up ownership of and profits from natural resources, providing him with a percentage, in exactly the same way as any mafia boss operates. This makes him the richest man on the planet, owning a vast portfolio of properties and luxury items, registered through family and friends as cut outs. The obscenity of this wealth was exposed by Navalny, with the Pink Palace featuring an aqua disco and gold toilets, he also has a significant number of luxury homes in the UK, some in the name of his daughter.
Every country has organised crime groups that operate on a national / international / intra national level. Russia is a country owned by organised crime, and Putin is a fascist – witnessed by his adoration of Ivan Illyn (his devotion extending to disinterment of Illyn from Switzerland and reburial with honours in the motherland ,gifting his works to Russia’s ambassadors and promotion of the modern Alexander Dugin.
To further his kleptocratic aims, he has followed the Gerasimov principles of asymmetric warfare, and the Surkov ethos of sowing chaos, backing all sides politically, but focussing heavily on the right wing “populist” movements. This entails provision of direct funding through cut outs, individuals, or organisations, expertly detailed by the OCCRP’s Russian Laundromat investigations.
This is how Salvini, Orban, Le Pen, Fico etc are funded, and political fringe nothings like farige have achieved prominence.
Putin’s investment in subverting the UK has been a long and thoughtful one; the capture of Londongrad, to use our capital as a money laundering hub and safe haven for oligarchs and siloviki to hide their money and educate their brats has been carried out over decades. The purchase of the tories was easy, direct donations, sidling alongside, indirect funding, easily obtained British citizenship and patronage of and funding by people like Lebvedev, pere et fils and of course the “Conservative Friends of Russia”. Johnson, like Trump, is an ideal vehicle for Putin’s aims – easy to flatter narcissist, sexually incontinent and constantly in need of money. The amount of dirty Russian money the tories have received from Russians and as freshly minted British citizens is staggering.
Quite simply Putin bought the conservatives, but he needed another vehicle to sow deep division and hatred. The ultimate aim – destruction of the EU, enabling him to march into any country previously part of the Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact at will, was to be lead by a raft of Brexit style “revolutions” , hence the “Grexit“, “Frexit“ farces, all fell flat because of
A. The respective governments putting country before personal profit and
B. The abject failure of Brexit
Ahead of a French presidential election the Russians attempted a huge data dump disparaging Macron & his wife, this fell flat because the French Security Service were prepared for this by deploying appropriate resources in counter intelligence and the Russians making the drop in English for some bizarre reason.
Back to the UK – Step up the loathsome, vile fascist revenant from Kent.
Examination of this creature’s voting record whilst an MEP (when he bothered turning up of course) shows absolute regurgitation of Russian propaganda, toeing their disinformation line with dogged devotion, for money.
The £700,000 fees from Russia Today (RT) that we know about are the tip of a deep iceberg (the full extent of his funding from Russia will be available when Putin falls unless the data is bought in Belingcat style ). The more recent blaming of the EU and Ukraine for the 2014 & 2022 Russian invasions shows that this agent is still in the pay of and active for Putin.
So let’s bring this completely up to date – in the run up to the UK General Election in July 2024, we were all subject to that twisted Twitter/ ‘X’ algorithm that meant we saw nothing but the Reform Ponzi Scheme templates along the lines of
“I’m a 73-year grandma from Nottingham, traditional Labour voter etc, but because of blah Nigel saviour blah reform “
There were thousands in the run up to July’s General Election, the template credible enough in tone and style for the actual gammon to copy them, suggesting they were prepared by Reform beforehand and signed off for use by Russian Troll Farms like St Petersburg’s Internet Research Agency.
Sharp eyed Twitter users found instances of deceased people’s photos – some harvested from BBC news stories – being used in the fake Russian profiles to vilify the tories and Labour and promote Reform.
We now know that the pro-Trump Elon Musk bought Twitter with financing from Russian oligarchs, removed it’s moderators and proceeded to mould it into a pro Putin / Trump cesspit. There are further revelations that Musk has met with Putin, there can be no doubt that the capture of Twitter is seen as a good investment and the massive loss in the value of the company is of no interest if it achieves its Russian propaganda aims.
The Fightback – Hope in the response to Russian propaganda & Putin’s fall
So far, we have painted a grim picture – we have the 21st Century Hitler, waging both a full genocidal war in Ukraine and a full on destructive attack on democracy using asymmetric Chekist principles.
Can we hope, as decent people, to fight back?
Has anyone been successful in countering the tidal wave of division and hate?
The answer is a resounding yes to both questions.
The Baltic countries, Ukraine and Georgia have been long term targets of Russian information warfare and they have become the best equipped and experienced in combatting the hydra like attacks on their nations. The Elves academy was established as a joint venture to combat Russian trolls and they have been very successful.
There is a story of ordinary, decent people stepping up, facing off and defeating Russia in their hate campaigns that was recognised with an award of the Lithuanian Diplomacy Star for the tireless work and countless hours that volunteers have put in since Russia’s 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine.
That organisation is NAFO (The North Atlantic Fella Organisation) and is estimated to be comprised of more than 250,000 people from around the world.The members of NAFO are called Fellas as each one has a NAFO-forged avatar, primarily Shiba Inu dogs or cats, adopting a wide range of personas.
NAFO started by a response to a propaganda tweet by the Russian Ambassador to the UN. This was swamped by people in response, and the ridiculing of blatant lies (known as shit posting) followed, with #NAFOArticle5 being invoked to bring other NAFO Fellas into the response and to mass report terms of use violations, resulting in the suspension and banning of perpetrators.
Along the way, NAFO has developed into an organisation that funds good causes in support of Ukraine and has plugged gaps where delay and dithering has left Ukraine short of supplies and support.
Most importantly, NAFO has show that the vast pernicious forces of division and hate, operating directly from Russia or through their agents here, and be faced down and defeated.
Almost to a person, the vast and nebulous network that is NAFO knows the full roster of traitors working for Putin, and by way of example, farige, Banks and Galloway are well documented:
It is very easy to become a NAFO Fella, it is also very easy to adopt the ethos of NAFO and strike back at the people working directly for or as agents of Kremlin propaganda or disinformation.
The Rejoin community has much in common with NAFO & an alliance would be a strong, supportive and cohesive way forward.
One thing that defines NAFO is a collective sense of humour that pierces the fascist conceit with deadly accuracy – a tradition that can be traced back to Charlie Chaplin and his Adenoid Hynkel character in The Great Dictator.
We all know that fascists with their dedication to “othering” and obsession with their racial superiority can’t bear to be laughed at, the “Splash the Fash” campaigns prove that.
One of Professor Timothy Snyder’s recommendations is that we can all, however minor or modest, play a part in stopping those trying to destroy democracy and piling in to correct Reform lies and their promotion of Russian interests is a good place to start.
Putin’s Fall – is not far away, his greatest hope that Trump is re-elected has come to pass.
The fallout from Putin’s fall, for his international agents and puppets, will be rapid.
In the endemically corrupt Russian state, anything is for sale, and the prime examples of Belingcat’s purchase of data that provided the evidence on both the shooting down of MH17 and the Salisbury poisoners amply demonstrates that.
A major boost came in September 2024 during an interview with Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was freed in the prisoner exchange. In his Guardian interview he said:
“These guys keep meticulous records. When the end comes – and it will – and the archives will open, we will find out about Marine Le Pen and your British guys too “
There are constant, exceptional efforts to combat the agents of chaos – there is a positive outcome, closer than we imagine – and we can all play a vital, valid part in making that day happen.
It’s Rejoin Day 11th November. Please read our newsletter via Reboot Britain : Rejoin EU and subscribe for updates. In this issue:
Send our 89 page white paper and two page executive summary to your MP. A template letter is provided, so a few clicks and you are all done. It matters not if your MP is a Tory, a Brexiteer etc. It will be read and shared by others, eventually finding its way to the Civil Service, hence the 89 page version. Share the summary online with an invite to ask for the white paper via reboot@brexitrage.com
Over time we will provide you with graphics, films and other ways to persuade your chosen targets.
We need a tsunami of letters a la opening scene from Harry Potter … all political parties have attempted to airbrush Brexit out of the conversation. Rekindling a fire is much harder than fanning the flames of one that’s already raging … and most of the major political parties are trying to ignore the Brexit elephant in the room, SO
Share the Reboot Britain : Rejoin EU newsletter with friends by e-mail and ask them to write letters to MPs as well. Share again and again on all platforms in the coming weeks and months.
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We need a tsunami of letters to MPs / Councillors and others spread out over time ….
If there wasn’t a 20 mile strip of sea between Dover and Calais I suspect that Michael would not have written this book and I would be reviewing it … Michael Hindley is a former Labour politician and MEP over many years and writes from years of experience of our turbulent relationship with Europe.
The Semi-Detached European describes our hokey-cokey relationship with Europe and the EU. Importantly it gives us a lesson in history for those who appear to have forgotten or distorted the truth about our relationship with Europe. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, Jacque Delors, Clement Attlee, Theresa May, Charles De Gaulle, David Cameron, Jean Monnet and many others.
We continue to suffer catastrophic losses from our so-called freedoms from the largest market and successful experiment in large scale democracy on the planet. Our continuing ambivalence towards Europe will finish The United Kingdom off economically, socially and politically. Michael helps us to understand our grand mistake. In his words … ” We had to resort to a referendum to put a complicated question, whose solution had escaped the wit and skill of politicians, to a popular vote.
The Semi-Detached European will help you explain the real value of the European project, warts and all, to the few remaining doubters who believe that we should erect more walls to make us feel secure rather than building bridges.
Michael gives talks across Europe about his work. You are welcome to contact him via mhindley1947@gmail.com
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