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Unbound Daily Briefing
Today we cover the results of two recent polls, by Freshwater Strategy and Lord Ashcroft respectively, that both show a lack of support for rejoining the EU when the details and implications are revealed in more detail
with links to related articles and research
In Focus: The Dangers of The UK-EU Reset
The notion of having a strong and mutually beneficial relationship with our neighbours in the EU is a perfectly reasonable aspiration, and one that polling has consistently shown is popular with the British voter. However the approach of the current Labour government is not one of a mutually beneficial partnership, but of increasing servitude. When this is coupled with a detrimental impact of many billions to the UK economy, as has been forecasted by multiple outlets, the dangers of an ideological motion towards EU alignment are all too apparent.
Britain Unbound strongly believes that good ideas and policies are not unique to a particular people or country, and can be seen being implemented by different countries across the globe. The EU has implemented well considered policies in the past, and will no doubt do so again in the future; but to blindly align fully with all EU policies in a given sector also requires the UK to implement policies that are clearly wrong for the UK economy. The decision in 2016 to leave the EU was borne from a belief that, on the whole, EU policies had a net negative effect on the UK.
If another country happens to develop a policy that makes sense for the UK to replicate and adopt then the UK should consider doing so, whether or not it is first conceived of in Belgium or in Borneo. The UK should also retain the freedom to not implement policies when they will have a detrimental effect on the UK economy.
WE BRING TOGETHER INDEPENDENT THINKERS FROM ACROSS POLITICS AND PUBLIC LIFE, UNITED BY A SHARED BELIEF: THAT BRITAIN NEEDS CLEAR THINKING, A LONG-TERM VISION, AND THE CONFIDENCE TO CHALLENGE THE PREVAILING NARRATIVE. THIS CROSS-PARTY AND MULTI-SECTOR ENDEAVOUR GIVES A UNIQUE CAPACITY TO INFORM AND TO ADVISE
