A massive step on the road to an EU superstate

Your correspondent Richard Fisher has been listening too much to The World This Weekend click here to read.

Every Sunday lunchtime for the last several, the BBC (naturally) ha been presenting nothing but doleful reports about our situation since Brexit. Mr Fisher clearly feels the same.

Well now, let’s see if we can’t drum up some tangible results from the move. The VAT on tampons has already been scrapped. The 95 per cent of UK firms that do not export to the EU will not have to comply any longer with expensive EU rules.

More than 60 free trade deals have already been secured. Britain now does not have to pay into the 750 billion-Euro rescue fund for the eurozone.

We regain control over billions in so-called Cohesion Fund cash, which will come in useful in levelling up the regions.

As Peter Franklin wrote on UnHerd, the recovery fund marked a massive step on the EU’s journey to becoming a fully-fledged superstate. If Brexit had not gone ahead, we would have likely been bailing out profligate southern European nations.

The Independent is a newspaper not noted for its Leave credentials but even it admitted a couple of months ago that Europe’s hypocrisy over the alleged level playing field is ‘breathtaking’.

Britain is ahead of most EU nations on issues such as environmental protections, animal welfare, the minimum wage and maternity leave, and we spend far less than France, for one example, on subsidising industries.

Not bad for starters. Oh and something else. I feel free.