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Hundreds of papers from the secretive trade talks between the US and EU have been released online.

They appear to confirm fears that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks between Brussels and Washington will, when ratified, lead to the health service being privatised or dismantled.

The documents, obtained by Greenpeace Netherlands, include a US proposal to have a committee with representatives from Washington and Brussels to meet each year “to review state-owned enterprises and monopolies” which would include the NHS.

But it would still be able to review state-run services in this country. Its duties would include checking that state services do not “distort” the market.

It says: “The parties acknowledge that anti-competitive business practices and state interventions have the potential to distort the proper functioning of markets and undermine the benefits of trade liberalisation.”

Opponents of TTIP have long argued that including healthcare in the treaty will force the privatisation of the NHS or at least make the process impossible to reverse.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to ask for an exemption while trying to persuade British voters to back the Remain campaign in the EU Referendum.

Following the latest revelations, Nigel Farage’s Ukip warned the documents prove that the NHS is under threat with a Remain vote.

The party’s health spokeswoman Louise Bours said: “If we don’t say goodbye to the EU we will have to say goodbye to the NHS.

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[joefrombradford]

Whether or not the public vote to stay in or leave, the NHS needs to be killed off and replaced with something better because the NHS in its' current state is unfit for purpose.

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Along with judicial, tax and immigration issues, a Euro army has for long been one of the main irritants of anti-EU campaigners.

The fact that Germany - the powerhouse of the project - is mooting one so close to the referendum on whether Britain stays or goes is seen as madness by politicians fighting to keep the UK within the group.

The paper outlines steps to "gradually co-ordinate Europe's patchwork of national militaries and launch permanent cooperation under common structures among the member states."

The initiatives proposed includes strengthening cyberwarfare abilities and relaxing Germany's self-imposed restrictions about deploying troops in peacetime within the country. This was brought in after 1945 when Nazism was crushed and Germans turned away from militarism.

The draft proposal seeks to end the ban noting the "character and dynamic of current and future security-political threats." This includes deep-rooted fears in Germany that it could suffer a Paris-style terror strike any time soon.

"German security policy has relevance — also for beyond our country. Germany is willing to join early, decisively and substantially as a driving force in international debates ... to take responsibility and assume leadership," the white paper says.

Colonel Richard Kemp, who formerly worked on the Joint Intelligence Committee, which advises the British Government on issues of national security, warned recently that Brussels' "ultimate plan" was to bring the national armies of the bloc's member states under one command.

The idea resurfaced last year when European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for an international force. The Berlin project will see the construction of a joint civil military headquarters for tEU operations, a council of defence ministers and better production and sharing of military equipment.

Of the Nato alliance the document read; "The more we Europeans are ready to take on a greater share of the common burden and the more our American partner is prepared to go along the road of common decision-making, the further the transatlantic security partnership will develop greater intensity and richer results." .

Roderich Kiesewetter, a Bundestag foreign affairs committeee member wrote in a recent paper: "The creation of a European army is a long way off, but it is a strategic necessity to implement important steps to pave the way towards it now."

Juncker was backed by leading German politician’s last year when he said a “euro-army” commanded by Brussels would provide a “more credible” response to threats, including from Russia and the Isis terror group.

"Such an army would help us to build a common foreign and security policy, as well as jointly assume the responsibilities of Europe in the world.

“Europe’s image has suffered dramatically and also in terms of foreign policy, we don’t seem to be taken entirely seriously,” he added.

Such a force could, he went on, could “react credibly” to dangers facing the

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With 50 days to go to the historic vote on 23 June senior consultant Angus Dalgleish has joined Ukip leader Nigel Farage, Tory Grassroots Out and Tory MP Peter Bone, and former Labour Foreign Secretary Lord Owen in warning voters that they have a stark choice between keeping the NHS or staying in Europe.

Among the many proposals is a decision to have a committee on state enterprises and monopolies which will meet annually to review bodies like the NHS to make sure they do not “distort the market."

Another clause states: “The parties acknowledge that anti-competitive business practices and state interventions have the potential to distort the proper functioning of markets and undermine the benefits of trade liberalization."

Mr Dalgleish, one of the top cancer specialists in Britain, told The Express: “It will be a free for all. The NHS will have to compete with health care providers not just from America but also Europe.

“It is already virtually bankrupt so it would not stand a chance.

“The NHS is about our national health not the private wealth of US corporates.

“The only way to protect ourselves from the effects of TTIP is to vote to leave the EU's political union.

“I would urge people to speak to their friends and family, present the facts on the costs of EU membership and convince them to vote Leave."

He added: “Decisions about our NHS should be made by us, those that rely on it, not those that want to profit from it."

Mr Bone said: “The plans by the EU and United States to either privatise or dismantle the UK's National Health Service are outrageous.

“These trade talks have taken place in secret and now we know why. Remaining in the EU is the greatest risk our NHS has ever faced.

“The only safe option, the only way we can ensure the NHS is not broken up is by voting to leave the EU.

“It is just 50 days until the EU referendum. We have 50 days to save our NHS."

Lord Owen, who is a former health minister and supported staying in the European Community in 1975, has already warned that the TTIP negotiations would wreck the NHS.

He said: “No one can justify the secret trade negotiations the Commission have signed up for in TTIP. Despite protests little has been done to redress its errors.

“No regard for the social purpose of healthcare and the erosion of health as a Member State responsibility. The EU/Eurozone from 1992, in marked contrast to the old European Community of 1975, creeps into every nook and cranny of our life.

It is now becoming entrenched in the NHS and this June we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get [it] out. If we vote Leave - we will be able to protect our NHS from EU interference."

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Here is an interesting one any person with basic intelligence or has used foreign or even third world medical facilities knows that the NHS is not fit for purpose and beyond redemption. The NHS is a sub standard job creation scheme for bourgeois leftist micro management overseers and alien invaders. If it closed today and stayed closed for a month the death rate would drop.Now we have this dingbat saying only brexit can save it.
If that was the case and the alternative was Swedish,Danish,German or even Slovakian levels of Health care we would all vote to stay in the EU.

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The European Commission will impose fines of hundreds of millions of pounds on countries that do not take in refugees.

Jean-Claude Junker is tomorrow expected to unveil plans to impose a penalty of around €250,000 euros per rejected refugee, in a bid to salvage his botched migration quota scheme.

The European Commission is expected to propose on Wednesday that an emergency scheme to distribute 160,000 people around the bloc following the massive influx last summer be put on a permanent footing, with a quota system of allocations that kick in if there is another vast wave of migrants that overwhelms a country.

The new plan comes despite the temporary scheme having proved a flop. It was approved against the wishes of Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary in September, and so far, 1,441 people have been moved.

“Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” remarked one diplomat.

Eastern European states opposed the scheme for two reasons: because they said refugee admissions should be a sovereign national decision; and because many of their voters are virulently opposed to Muslim immigration. Britain is exempt due to its historic opt-out on justice matters.

The Commission has blamed national governments for failing to offer enough places for migrants. But the statistics back up the testimony of aid workers and EU officials who say the scheme has flopped migrants have no desire to be “relocated” to poor eastern European states when they would rather go to Germany or Sweden.

Indeed, under current offers of places, there are 5,989 spaces unused, including 40 in Slovenia, 480 in Romania, 1,298 in Bulgaria and 100 in Poland.

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Donald Trump's backing of Brexit was the latest salvo in a transatlantic stand-off with David Cameron that threatens to cast a shadow over US-UK relations if he reaches the White House.

The back and forth began In December with Mr Cameron's scathing attack on Mr Trump's proposal to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from the US. Mr Cameron called it "divisive, stupid and wrong".

On Wednesday, the day Mr Trump became the de facto Republican presidential nominee, Mr Cameron made clear he "would not change that view" and had no intention of apologising for it.

So it was no coincidence that 24 hours later Mr Trump decided to weigh in on the Brexit debate, attempting to undermine Mr Cameron by suggesting that Britain should leave the European Union.

Mr Trump said that "migration has been a horrible thing for Europe" and Britain should get out. “I know Great Britain very well," he told a US television interviewer. "I would say that they’re better off without it."

The statement seemed to jar with Mr Trump's "America first" foreign policy in which he has indicated he would stay out of the internal affairs of other countries and regions.

Only earlier this week Mr Trump explicitly declared that he would remain "neutral" on Brexit and did not want to "give Britain any advice".

He even criticised President Barack Obama for having an opinion on the subject, saying the president was injecting himself into a foreign country's affairs.

In his only other previous comments on Brexit in March Mr Trump had said he "didn't know" if Britain would be better off outside Europe.

Mr Trump made clear that backing Brexit was his "personal feeling" and he was "not making that as a recommendation".

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Jeremy Corbyn has been forced to abandon plans to give a speech calling for all Turkish citizens to gain access to the UK amid fears that it could push Britain out of the European Union.

Senior Labour party sources told this newspaper that Mr Corbyn had planned a major intervention this month in Istanbul calling for Turkey to join the EU, allowing it's 75 million people access to Britain under freedom of movement rules.

Sources inside the leader's office are understood to have intervened to get the speech scrapped, triggering a furious row.

The disclosure comes on the day of crucial local election results, which many figures in the party believe will determine Mr Corbyn’s future.

It emerged on Thursday that Momentum, the hard-left campaign group that supports the Labour leader, is already telling members to prepare for a coup by Mr Corbyn’s opponents.

In the event of a leadership election, Momentum will lobby Labour MPs in a bid to ensure that Mr Corbyn secures enough nominations to get on the ballot, it is thought.

It came as Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader, warned Mr Corbyn and his supporters are "an impediment to getting the kind of support that we need".

After being contacted by this newspaper, Mr Corbyn's spokesman said that the Labour leader will not now travel to Turkey until after the EU referendum on June 23.

They did not confirm when the decision to cancel the speech had been taken but said it was "recent".

Diane Abbott, who was understood to be accompanying Mr Corbyn on the visit, is said to be attending without the Labour leader.

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Jeremy Corbyn has been....calling for all Turkish citizens to gain access to the UK....

How is this good for the typical working class voter who supports this shitty party?

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Douglas Murray: Visa-free travel for 75 million Turks despite entry test failures will drive the EU to destruction

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IS Turkey part of Europe? That would have seemed a silly question.

But today, the question has become academic — because the country is now coming into Europe anyway.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, has persuaded the EU to grant visa-free travel to his 75million countrymen inside Europe’s passport-free Schengen area.

Using a combination of intimidation, threats and blackmail, he has succeeded in opening Europe’s doors.

Erdogan’s success matters, because it says much about the EU — and the idea that it exerts “soft power”.

This was the theory in 1999 when the EU declared Turkey to be “a candidate State, destined to join the Union” — so long as it fulfilled the standard criteria.

The country should have “achieved stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights, respect for and protection of minorities”.

Four years later, the EU announced that Turkey had “taken important steps” towards this.

Formal accession negotiations began in 2005, but by then something important had happened to Turkey — Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

First elected with his Justice and Development party (AKP) as prime minister in 2003, the man who is now president set about fundamentally altering Turkey’s direction of travel.

He was not some proud moderniser. While mayor of Istanbul, he was imprisoned for inciting religious hatred with an Islamist chant.

Erdogan famously compared democracy to a bus ride — when it gets him to where he wants, he will get off.

So as he continued his bus ride of elected office, he consolidated power behind himself — by taking it away from the military and judiciary and stifling domestic dissent whenever he could. The extent to which Erdogan has taken Turkey backwards is a modern tragedy. When corruption allegations emerged around his immediate circle just over two years ago, he banned YouTube and Twitter and dismissed the investig-ations as a “coup attempt’’.

And all the time, it was asked — what about EU membership? Didn’t Erdogan worry his authoritarianism would disqualify him? He gambled that the EU, for all of its pious words, could be bought off later.

Yesterday, in a sign that Erdogan is tightening his grip on power, Turkey’s prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his resignation.

He is thought to have fallen out of favour due to his disapproval of the shift to a more presidential style of government.

In 2013, protests against the Turkish government in 60 cities were brutally crushed by police and laws were passed to restrict future protests.

The government has also acted to further crush press freedom and the country regularly tops world league tables for the number of imprisoned journalists.

But even this was not enough for the EU to withdraw its offer of Turkish entry and the extension of Erdogan’s repression inside the EU is a scandal. When a late-night comedy show in Germany pointed to the absurdity of a German law forbidding insults against foreign leaders by attacking Erdogan, Erdogan called Angela Merkel to heel.

And successfully, she approved prosecution of the offending comedian.

As Erdogan has worked out, however much Turkey fails the EU’s expectations, the EU’s attitude to Turkey is “ever onwards”.

The 2013 Visa Liberalisation Dialogue set out 72 conditions on security, migration, public order and fundamental rights that Turkey needed to achieve. Despite failing them, in November last year the EU and Turkey agreed that visa-free travel should start this October.

As Erdogan himself said: “The European Union needs Turkey more than Turkey needs the European Union.”

That is because Turkey is home to 2.7million Syrian refugees — a fact which Erdogan is treating like being in possession of a loaded gun.

He threatens to send them over the Aegean to Greece, or let them walk through Bulgaria. Without visa liberalisation for Turks, he has threatened not to adhere to Turkey’s commitments.

So the EU has accepted Turkey’s abominable treatment of Kurds. It has ignored the ongoing illegal occupation of north Cyprus.


And it has ignored every single one of its own “criteria”. In trying to avoid millions more migrants, the EU has opened the doors to 75million Turks.

It is quite possible Erdogan doesn’t even want EU membership, that he just enjoys lording it over Europe and showing Turks how he can make a continent quiver.

And what of Britain’s role in all this?

Shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 2010, David Cameron went to Ankara and announced that he would do everything he could to ensure Turkey entered the EU.

He announced: “Turkey deserves its place at the top table of European politics. I will remain your strongest possible advocate for EU membership and for greater influence.”

Our Prime Minister has been true to his word. Only a few months ago in the Commons, he reconfirmed his government’s commitment to Turkish entry.

In private, Erdogan must be amazed at just how much he can wrangle. The worse his behaviour, the greater his clout in Europe.

A few weeks ago, a leaked transcript of a conversation showed Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, pleading with Erdogan to consider that “we have treated you like a prince in Brussels”.

Erdogan, prince of Europe — quite a title to confer upon a wretched Islamist bully, who regards refugees as human bargaining chips and stands poised to destroy our continent.

Nevertheless, he is someone who has at least established, and shown the world, just how the EU works.

l Douglas Murray is an author and commentator, as well as associate director of democracy think tank The Henry Jackson Society.
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By Neil Tweedie for the Daily Mail

Published: 16:35 EST, 6 May 2016 | Updated: 20:37 EST, 6 May 2016

The Station Hotel in Shirebrook has seen better times. This dilapidated Victorian pile is adorned by a sign offering rooms for a mere £65 per week — a sign written in Polish.

‘Little Poland, we are,’ says David Straw, who runs a butcher’s shop next to the town’s rather bleak market square.

A short distance away, young Eastern European men and women file in and out of Polo, a mini supermarket offering Polish delicacies such as sauerkraut with mushrooms and sour cabbage with carrot. There are few British shoppers around, and none in Polo.

Close your eyes and listen to the voices and Shirebrook — a former colliery town on the eastern fringe of Derbyshire — might be Poznan or Lodz.

‘I’m not racist,’ says Mr Straw, prefacing his remarks in a manner now obligatory in Shirebrook. ‘Don’t get me wrong, I like Polish people, most are really good. But . . .’

He pauses, slightly embarrassed and apologetic.

‘There are just too many here. The schools and the healthcare — they aren’t designed to cope with these numbers,’ he explains.

It is a condition of modern British life that any discussion about the effects of mass immigration carries with it the risk of an adverse reaction from those determined to be offended by, well, anything.

Express any disquiet about the fact the UK imports enough new people each year to fill a town the size of Middlesbrough and one risks being slapped down with the R-word.

But Mr Straw isn’t a racist.


It is people like him — decent people who are fundamentally welcoming to outsiders, inhabitants of the ‘provinces’ largely ignored by the Westminster village — who may in less than two months’ time decide that enough is enough with regard to unfettered immigration from the European Union and vote in favour of Britain leaving the EU.

‘I’ll be voting out,’ says Mr Straw. ‘Lots here will.’

He is far from alone. Pro-European sentiment in Shirebrook is as rare as a lump of locally produced coal.

This neglected corner of the East Midlands is a warning — a canary in the mine — of what can happen if mass movements of people into the UK from the EU continue unabated.

Shirebrook — as unlovely as it is friendly — has become just too popular with immigrants from Eastern Europe, and too small to accommodate them.

A once close-knit community, almost killed by the closure of its pit a quarter of a century ago, it is now being diluted by waves of Poles, Romanians, Lithuanians and others, attracted by the jobs on offer at a giant warehouse complex owned by the retail giant Sports Direct.

The chain, owned largely by the billionaire Mike Ashley — the controversial owner of Newcastle United FC — recruits most of its labour for its Shirebrook headquarters from Poland and other Eastern European states.

These workers are predominantly young people attracted by wages that, although poor by British standards, are often double those available in their home countries.

Largely unskilled, they are also prepared to tolerate a regime that has been likened to a ‘sweatshop’ by Chris Bryant, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, and branded ‘Dickensian’ by the union Unite — claims denied by Sports Direct.

Mr Ashley happened upon Shirebrook while looking for a place to site a central distribution centre for his stores. Handy for the M1, and with land to build on at the site of the old colliery, it was ideal.

Sports Direct arrived in Shirebrook in 2005, the year after Poland joined the EU, together with the Baltic states, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Unlike other countries, Britain placed no restrictions on Polish immigration, and so cheap labour began to flood in.

Sports Direct has repeatedly refused to tell the Mail how many foreign workers it employs at Shirebrook. However, the Unite union has suggested a figure in excess of 3,000.

Shirebrook’s population has risen from 9,000 to maybe 12,000 (no one knows for sure). The rest of the Eastern European workforce is scattered around the area, in Mansfield, Worksop and other towns.

The increase is much to the satisfaction of landlords, who cram beds into cheap old mining cottages and rent them out to groups of workers.

There are dozens of these HMOs — ‘Houses in Multiple Occupation’ — in Shirebrook, grim places often inhabited by groups of young men who can prove intimidating to neighbours.

Lacey Oscroft, a mother of two young boys, lives next door to one of two HMOs in Eland Road, a cul-de-sac in Shirebrook, and says she regularly endures anti-social behaviour.

‘The fact of the matter is they are making noise, they are smoking weed and they have threatened me with a knife,’ she says.

Mrs Oscroft, 28, had another shock recently when she discovered one of the young Polish men living in a HMO in her road was a convicted rapist.

Marcin Lucas Jaworski was packed off to Britain by his family in 2014 following his conviction by a Polish court for the offence against a girl, understood to have been the same age as him. He had received a suspended sentence.

We know this only because Derbyshire Constabulary failed in its bid to have this information kept hidden from the public.

During a court hearing, the police argued that Jaworski should be entered on the UK register of sex offenders, but that his identity should be withheld to protect him from potential reprisals.

In a statement to the court, Sgt Mark Church, responsible for community policing in Shirebrook, said tensions had been running high following incidents involving drunken Polish men.

These had culminated in the stabbing of a British man and a knife attack on one drunken Pole by another.

‘The rapid rise in population has put some real social strains on the town’s facilities,’ wrote Sgt Church, warning that there was ‘deep-seated mistrust of foreign nationals among many of the population’.

Releasing Jaworski’s details could exacerbate the situation, the officer warned. The judge ignored him, ruling that the young Pole was in no immediate danger.

Following the publicising of his identity, Jaworski left Shirebrook.

What has become clear is that Derbyshire police learned of his criminal status only after issuing him with a fine for breaching a ban on drinking in public in the town centre. Background checks revealed his history.

‘We don’t know how long he had been in England,’ says a police spokesman. ‘Polish citizens have free movement within the EU.’

Indeed, if a sex offender from an EU country moves to Britain, his or her home country is under no obligation to inform the British authorities.

The offender’s presence here could go unnoticed for years, unless they come to the attention of the police due to re-offending. Yesterday, Jaworski was preparing to leave his temporary home in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, to return to Poland with his mother.

On Thursday he was entered on the UK sex offenders’ register for seven years, after a court heard that his offence against the girl in Poland in October 2014 would, in fact, be categorised as sexual assault in English law, although it is referred to as rape in the Polish criminal code.

‘When I found out I went: “Oh my God, we have a rapist living in our street,” ’ says Mrs Oscroft. ‘The police obviously thought we were not educated enough to deal with this information — treating us as if we were all yobs.’

Mrs Oscroft is a member of ‘Shirebrook Together’, a residents’ group that was set up last year to protest against the excesses of some of the foreign workers.

Plumber Troy Kissane is its spokesman. ‘There are a lot more people in the town now and it’s bursting at the seams,’ he says. ‘I have had Polish people living next to me and they are absolutely lovely. It’s a small minority who give them a bad name. But the town cannot cope.’

Like Mrs Oscroft, Mr Kissane is originally of Irish stock, descended from immigrants who moved to Shirebrook to mine coal.

So rapid was the town’s growth, following the sinking of its two pits in 1896, that new arrivals were forced to live in tents. That scene was repeated more than a century later as Poles arriving in the town resorted to living under canvas.

Mr Kissane has endured immigrants camping in front of his home, defecating and urinating in the open.

Douglas Steele is 72 and has spent his entire life living in Shirebrook. Like many locals, he laments the effect on the town of sudden mass immigration.

‘They have swamped us,’ he says. ‘You have Poles and the rest sleeping rough, using hedges for toilets and looking in recycling bins for their clothes.

‘They are sleeping in garages and sheds. People find mattresses and used sanitary products. We are a dumping ground.’
‘You have Poles and the rest sleeping rough, using hedges for toilets and looking in recycling bins for their clothes'
Douglas Steele

Back in the centre of Shirebrook, it is market day and James Turner is doing his shopping.

‘You find the Polish use language as a barrier to stay separate,’ he says.

‘It makes me angry that this place, where everyone used to help each other, has become insular, with people in different groups speaking in different languages.’

Mr Turner, who used to work in the coal industry and had to leave his job with a meat wholesaler due to his arthritis, adds: ‘You try to get an appointment at the health centre and it is booked solid, and when you go all the names being called out are Polish. They love the health service.’

Debbie Jackson, spokesman for the GP clinical commissioning group covering Shirebrook, says the influx is one — but not the only — factor affecting services.

‘We are putting in a bid to expand facilities in the area,’ she says. ‘There has been increased demand but that also comes from new building in the area.’

I ask a woman at the market what she thinks of the Polish invasion.

‘You wouldn’t be able to print what I think,’ she says.

No wonder, then, that many in Shirebrook — and elsewhere in Britain — may well vote in favour of a Brexit on June 23.

The reality is that the UK is home to 65 million people, eight million of them born abroad. Of that eight million, three million come from the EU, including some 850,000 Poles. Polish is now the second-most spoken language in England.

In the year to the end of September 2015, net EU migration into the UK was, according to official statistics, 172,000, while non-EU migration (these migrants tend to secure residence in the UK through their family ties) totalled 191,000.

Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, says it’s ‘surprisingly difficult’ to know how Brexit would affect inflows from the EU.

‘On one hand, it is possible it would bring no change at all if the UK negotiated a trade deal with the EU like the Swiss or Norwegian ones, which include free movement.

‘On the other hand, Brexit could mean much stricter rules on EU migration.

‘That could have a significant impact on numbers, although it certainly wouldn’t reduce EU migration anywhere close to zero because some people would still qualify to come here for work, family or study.’
Nevertheless, momentum towards a leave vote is building. Latest polls put the Brexit campaign ahead.

Matt is among those in Shirebrook who think Britain should leave the EU.

More surprisingly, this young man is Polish. He works at Sports Direct, has a partner and two children, and has lived in Britain for six years, more than two of them in Shirebrook.

His work in the warehouse pays him £250 a week, equivalent, he says, to a month’s work in the same job in Poland. The only benefit he has claimed here is child benefit.

‘It is wonderful here,’ he says of his adopted home town.

‘We rent a house and one day maybe we can buy. We have wonderful neighbours, British and Polish.’

But if Britain says farewell to Brussels that could mean the end of his dream, couldn’t it?

‘Yes, but it would be good for this country. Britain is paying too much money to Brussels and you’re better off keeping it for yourselves.’

Certainly, unemployment is low in Shirebrook — they have even shut the JobCentre — but something has been lost in the period between the death of King Coal and the rise of King Ashley, with his legions of European workers.

‘In the mining era there would be 12 pubs, all packed, with events going on throughout the week,’ remembers Mr Kissane. ‘There was a huge sense of community, but that is in the past.’

Brexit, he believes, is the only way to stem the tide.

‘This country is like a balloon filling with water,’ he explains. ‘You can only fill it so far before it bursts. That is what is happening all over Britain. But it is happening more quickly here.

‘I will vote to go out [of the EU]. One hundred per cent.’

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Michael Gove last night set out urgent security and border improvements that could be made if Britain votes to quit the EU.

The Justice Secretary said that in the event of Brexit, the Prime Minister would have to enact new laws ‘instantly’ to stop the influence of ‘rogue’ European courts and allow the immediate deportation of terrorists.

But Mr Gove, who is the current favourite of the Tory grassroots to take over from David Cameron, said he wanted the Prime Minister to remain in Number Ten to make the country ‘safer’, and insisted he has no desire to have his job.

He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I don’t want to do it and there are people who are far better equipped than me to do it.’

The immediate powers Mr Gove wants No10 to take include freeing intelligence agencies from European law, allowing foreign criminals and terrorists to be deported without hindrance and freeing the British Armed Forces from Brussels diktats.

No10 has insisted it will take years to negotiate a new deal with Brussels and extricate ourselves from the EU. But Mr Gove said that it should begin immediately with a series of interim emergency laws.

The leading Leave campaigner also warns that the NHS and schools will not be able to cope with the further influx of immigrants that will come to the UK if the country stays in the EU.

He said: ‘We’ve stressed throughout that the day after we vote to leave, nothing fundamental changes and we still have the same trading arrangements and we start a process of informal talks and negotiations with our European partners.

‘But there are some things that we can change relatively quickly. And one of the things we can do is that we can deal with the European Court of Justice, which has become a rogue court.’

Mr Gove claims that the ECJ is considering a judgment on Britain’s surveillance regime in an attempt to assert ‘legal control over what our intelligence agencies can and cannot do’. He said that under the new laws ‘life in this country would change because Britain would be safer’.

The referendum campaign is due to increase in temperature tomorrow when Mr Gove and Chancellor George Osborne give rival TV interviews.

Meanwhile a senior Bank of England official has claimed the safeguards Mr Cameron secured to protect Britain and the City of London from the eurozone are not as strong as claimed.

As part of his deal with Brussels to keep Britain in the EU, the PM insisted he won guarantees that the UK would not be required to fund euro bailouts or sign up to draconian banking regulations.

He claimed a mechanism was now in place so that Britain could ‘unilaterally’ complain directly to national leaders on the European Council to ensure the country is not discriminated against.

But a letter from Bank of England deputy governor Sir Jon Cunliffe to MPs suggests that the Government has overstated its case.

It will fuel fears that Britain could be clobbered by rules designed to prop up the single currency and the region’s basket-ca

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This is why the fear factor was being ramped up by Cameron this morning . Nothing is working. The script had it that by this stage every official authority, foreign government, non-governmental organisation and international organisation backing the status quo would convince a fearful British public that poor old Blighty could not cope in the big bad world on her own. The Great British public seem to think “sod ’em all”…



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The UK will vote on the ‘Brexit” in June.

David Cameron will plead for Britain to stay in the EU and help prevent the Continent being ripped apart by another conflict.

Mr Cameron will highlight the UK’s role in bringing peace to Europe as he hits the referendum campaign trail.

Both the Prime Minister and his Brexit -backing Tory rival Boris Johnson make speeches this morning in the countdown to the June 23 vote.

Mr Cameron will refer to Britain’s role in “pivotal moments in European history: Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, our country’s heroism in the Great War and, most of all, our lone stand in 1940”.

He will recall how Winston Churchill “argued passionately for Western Europe to come together, to promote free trade and build institutions which would endure so our continent would never again see such bloodshed”.

He will add: “Either we influence Europe, or it influences us. And if things go wrong in Europe, let’s not pretend we can be immune from consequences.”

Mr Cameron believes UK leadership as an EU member is necessary to help avoid future conflict in Europe and he will ask: “Can we be so sure peace and stability on our continent are assured beyond any shadow of doubt?”

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Won’t get fooled again: The Who frontman Roger Daltrey backs Brexit and calls EU leaders ‘bunch of f***ing useless w***ers’

ROGER Daltrey wants Britain to quit the ‘undemocratic, highly dysfunctional’ EU which he claims is ‘raping’ southern European countries.

The Who frontman backed Brexit in an exclusive interview with The Sun, labelling our membership a “disaster”.

The legendary rocker said: “The only way we’re going to get the Europe that we want is to get rid of this bunch of f***ing useless w***ers that are running it.”

Daltrey, 72, said the EU is a “wonderful idea”, but attacked Brussels bureaucrats for the way it has expanded, saying “they kind of sneakily crept in on us”.

He said it was “set up by a bunch of crooks”, adding: “It’s like these things on the internet where they tell you to read the conditions - no one’s going to bloody read the conditions!

“But that’s how they did this, we all thought we were voting for a common trade area.



“We voted for an apple and they gave us a bunch of bloody grapes!”

Blasting the impact on our own sovereignty he said: “What it’s done to our Parliament is put them down to level of Parish Council.”

Hitting out at the unnecessary layers of Government it has created, he added: “Because there are so many politicians we get so much useless f***ing law."

Attacking the way the EU has impacted on people’s lives, he said: “That’s the biggest issue for me, it’s undemocratic, highly dysfunctional, I mean you name me one area of Europe that’s functioning really well at the moment.

“They talk about the immigration thing being the number one issue and I think it is a big issue for our country because we are an island.

“But no one talks about the other side of that immigration issue - which is the fact that all those southern European countries have been robbed of their youth, the countries have been raped.

“Their youth have had to leave to get work, so how are they going to rebuild their futures?”
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Keeping the balance of power means resisting European power monopolies

My Times column on Britain's history with Europe:

[The prime minister argues that "when we turn out back on Europe, sooner or later we come to regret it" and cited 1704, 1805, 1914 and 1940 as examples. This is historical nonsense: in each case it was our separation from Europe that enabled Britain to liberate the continent from a monopolistic tyranny. Had we been integrated, the outcomes would have been different. I argued in my Times column that the existence of the Channel, and its narrowness, have made us inevitably involved in European affairs, but also inevitably resistant to absorption into European hegemonies.]

Whatever your views on Brexit, there is no doubting the peculiar agony of Britain’s relationship with its neighbouring continent. Ever since the day at the end of the last ice age that the sea broke through the chalky gorge between Dover and Calais, it has been our dilemma: are we separate from, or close to, the continent?

Such geographic determinism may seem facile, but consider that Japan is six times further from the nearest mainland than we are. If the Strait of Dover had been six times wider, we would never have joined the Common Market, because we would have had an even more distinct culture. If it had been one sixth as wide, we would be unlikely to be having this referendum because we would have been repeatedly incorporated into European empires and would feel far more blurred in our nationality.

That Philip II, Napoleon and Hitler failed where Claudius and William I (and Eisenhower) succeeded is down largely to the width of the channel: difficult but not impossible to invade across. Britain is close enough to the continent to be repeatedly entangled in continental systems, but far enough away to repeatedly regret having joined them.

Take the events of AD410. Paul Johnson in his book The Offshore Islanders (written the year before Britain joined the common market) argued that the British were by then terminally fed up with the “festering incubus” of toga-clad colonialism. The promising prosperity of cross-channel trade in the century before Claudius showed up had long given way to a nasty occupation characterised by financial exploitation, brutal repression and religious dogmatism. Opportunity came when barbarian armies crossed the Rhine and Goths sacked Rome itself.

At that point something peculiar happened in Britain. A rebel force of semi-Romanised British nationalists, inspired by the British-born theologian Pelagius with his heretical doctrine of free will, captured London and other cities, imposed peace and then wrote to the Emperor Honorius requesting legal recognition of their independence. Otherwise preoccupied, the emperor agreed. As Johnson says: “There was no provision in Roman law for a territory to leave the empire. [Sound familiar?] But by an ingenious use of the Lex Julia the British got round the difficulty and severed their links

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By James Salmon for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:43 EST, 9 May 2016 | Updated: 18:57 EST, 9 May 2016

Foreign banks are threatening firms trying to borrow money with higher repayments if Britain quits the EU.

Lenders are preparing to introduce controversial ‘flexit’ clauses in company documents, enabling them to raise the cost of a loan in the event of Brexit.

Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs and Germany’s biggest lender Deutsche Bank are among a number of City giants reported to have broached clients about the move.

Last night Peter Hargreaves, co-founder of investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown, said: ‘This astounds me.

'It is completely outrageous and clients of [banks that do this] should tell them to stick it and find somewhere else to get their money.’

The 69-year-old, a prominent member of the Vote Leave campaign, added: ‘We’ve always known the mentality of the big banks – they are all rapacious and out to make as much money as they can.

‘You can’t trust them. I suspect there are ulterior motives at play here. These banks should stay out of politics.’
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Most discussions are said to have involved small and medium-sized companies, or firms which could be directly affected by Brexit – for example, those which export to the EU such as car manufacturers.

The development plays into the hands of pro-Brussels campaigners – led by Chancellor George Osborne – who have warned mortgages and loans could become more expensive if Britain goes it alone.

Both Goldman Sachs and Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank, which have around 13,000 staff in London between them, are vocal supporters of the campaign to stay in the EU.

They have warned about the damaging repercussions of Brexit and threatened to move large chunks of their businesses out of the UK in the event of a vote to leave.

Goldman Sachs has also donated around £500,000 to the remain campaign.

Last night one City commentator said the introduction of ‘flexit’ clauses – reported in the Financial Times – was just the latest example of the ‘hysterical nonsense’ generated by the pro-Brussels camp.

David Buik, of stockbroker Panmure Gordon, said: ‘I’ve never encountered such a degree of intransigence – predictions of death and destruction if we leave the EU.

Goldman is bankrolling the remain campaign because it makes millions in fees from the Government from advising on privatisations and asset sales.

‘It wants to scratch the back of the Government which has filled its cup to overflowing.’

Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank declined to comment.



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