It is difficult to see how the Europe question will not resurface once Labour has decided to politely thank Sir Keir Starmer for his work in making Labour re-electable after the lost Corbyn years but look for a new leader and prime minister who is a professional politician not a government legal manager who decided to go into politics as a retirement hobby.
In his latest batch of opinion polls Lord Ashcroft reports that 53 per cent supported rejoining the EU and 30 per cent remained opposed.
While nearly eight in ten Labour, LibDem and Green voters said they would vote to rejoin a surprising 25 per cent of Tory voters and even 11 per cent of Reform voters now back Rejoin.
In Norma Percy’s new BBC documentary on the Brexit 2016 campaign “A Very British Civil War” viewers see a jowly David Cameron and a paunchy Boris Johnson repeating their incantations from 2016. They look like two ageing men living in the past.
Today the economic facts speak for themselves. In 2025 goods exports from the UK were $485 bn, from Germany $1.77 trillion, from France $668 bn, from Italy $726 bn.
Britain’s declining number of mainly long retired economists who still defend the trade and people rupture with Europe point to the glorious profits made by the City selling its financial engineering products. Last year these brought in just £166 bn for the UK.
The City’s genius lies in on-line financial engineering, including the lucrative new crypto and bitcoin currency manipulations undertaken by clever Brits in remote corners of the world where there is little financial supervision. Many scams emanating from these places are based on fraudsters conning individuals, usually over the phone, to invest in money growth products which to begin with show quick big profits, leading to serious money transfers and then the disappearance of the fraudster. Nearly all are based on crypto.
This non-regulated crypto world appears as a profit in the post-Brexit UK accounts, but does nothing to help growth outside the City as the rest of Britain, cut off from its largest markets, becomes poorer and poorer.
In nearly every chapter in his new book, “Can We Get Rich Again” the former Chancellor and eternal minister ,Jeremy Hunt urges British policymakers to copy better practice in Europe.
He is right but can Kemi Badenoch leave behind the early unconditional support for Donald Trump and resist the calls from many her party to cuddle up closely with Nigel Farage?
Tory leaders who have changed the political weather have done so by finding a political vacuum and filling it. Robert Peel was accused by Benjamin Disraeli of “catching the Whigs bathing and walking off with their clothes” because Peel adopted liberal policies like voting reform, protection of young workers, trade reform to promote free trade all which challenged the cherished beliefs of established Toryism.
The same was true of Baldwin and the early Neville Chamberlain who promoted council housing, health care and other social legislation which enraged Tory diehards and press lords like Northcliffe. But they won power for Tories.
As did Macmillan’s endorsement of the 1945 social reforms brought in by Labour and Margaret Thatcher powering ahead with the Single European Act against the opposition of the anti-European Labour Party which fought the 1983 election on a manifesto offering a referendum on leaving the EEC with a pledge that Labour would campaign for a Leave vote.
To be sure the question of a British prime minister sitting in council with other European leaders every month to lay down 101 big and small decisions has been settled. Britain is now an observer not a decider , a rule-taker not a Thatcher-like rule-maker in Europe.
Until now Kemi Badenoch has shown little desire to challenge the conventional Tory thinking of Brexit era prime ministers. This has not paid off in the ballot box. Since Ms Badenoch took over after the 2024 General Election she is now the party leader who has lost the most seats. In the April municipal elections 563 Tory seats were lost to Reform and Greens. In London Reform and Greens won four councils and in Westminster a well-off middle class Tory bastion for over a century that fell to Labour in 2022 the Conservatives narrowly won but with Labour holding most of their seats from 2022 despite Sir Keir Starmer’s unpopularity.
Ms Badenoch lost 19 seats in the Scottish Parliament
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18 responses to “Message to Kemi Badenoch: "Create Impact with Innovative Approaches to UK-Europe Relations"”
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Oh, brilliant! Maybe Kemi Badenoch can create impact by re-inventing the wheel while the rest of us are just trying to find a bloody bus to get us out of this mess. 🚍💼
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Looks like Kemi’s innovative approach is really making waves—more like ripples in a teacup, if you ask me. 🫖💼 If only her strategies could rejuvenate the Tory party as well as a good espresso does for a tired cabbie! ☕️🚖
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Creating impact with innovative approaches? Sounds like a lavish dinner for two at a posh restaurant, while the rest of us are left munching on stale bread and wondering when the next bus will arrive. 😏🍞
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Isn’t it delightful how Kemi Badenoch is taking the “innovative approach” of watching the Tories crumble while she tries to figure out how to charm Europe? 🎩 Maybe next she’ll discover that charisma can’t be bought on clearance! 😏
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Looks like Kemi’s innovative approach is just the ticket for transforming the UK into the world’s leading observer of European decisions… I mean, who wouldn’t want to be a spectator in their own backyard? 😂
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Oh, the irony! Kemi Badenoch’s “innovative approaches” are about as fresh as last week’s fish and just as likely to get us in a sticky situation with our European mates. 🐟🇬🇧
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Creating impact with innovative approaches is all well and good, but if we were any more “innovative,” we might as well start exporting fish and chips to France as a gourmet delicacy. 🍟🇫🇷 Who knew Brexit would turn us into delightful little observers at the European council, eh?
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If Kemi Badenoch’s goal is to create “impact”, she might want to start by re-reading a map of Europe, because it seems she thinks we’re still playing Monopoly while the rest of us are trying to figure out the EU’s rules. 🤷♂️
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Oh, brilliant! Just what we need, more innovative ideas on UK-Europe relations from someone who still thinks Brexit was a smashing success. 🇬🇧💔 But hey, at least we can count on the Tories to keep losing seats faster than a busker in a tube station! 🚍😅
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Creating impact, are we? Brilliant idea, Kemi! Just what we need—another innovative approach to remind us how great it is to be an observer in our own backyard. 🥴
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Seems like Kemi is really on the ball with this EU thing—after all, who doesn’t love a good game of ‘let’s take two steps back while pretending to move forward’? 😂
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Isn’t it adorable how Kemi thinks she can create impact while juggling the remnants of a party that can’t decide if it wants to be a nostalgic Brexit club or a progressive force? 🍵💼 Cheers to innovative approaches – maybe she’ll find a way to bring back those lost Tory seats along with the good ol’ days!
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Oh sure, Kemi, let’s create impact—because what the UK needs is more innovative ways to remind us how charming it is to be an observer in our own backyard! 😏 #RuleTakerExtraordinaire
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Creating impact with innovative approaches? Sounds like a fancy way of saying, “Let’s try to fix the mess we made while wearing our best trousers.” 😂 Good luck with that, Kemi!
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Right, because what Britain really needs is another chat about EU relations while the rest of the economy is in the bin. Can’t wait to see how that will “create impact” – maybe with a side of Brexit pie? 🍰🤷♂️
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Isn’t it just charming how Ms. Badenoch plans to “innovate” UK-Europe relations while the rest of us are still trying to figure out how to make tea without a proper kettle? 🇬🇧☕
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Took her long enough to realize that “innovative approaches” might just mean not making a complete dog’s dinner of UK-Europe relations. Honestly, at this point, I’d trust a blindfolded monkey with a dartboard more than our political lot! 🙄
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Looks like Ms. Badenoch is set to revolutionize UK-Europe relations—right after she’s done perfecting her stand-up routine! 😂 Just what the country needed, another “innovative approach” to remind us of how splendidly we’ve been knighted into the realm of observers.
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