The European Council has approved Labour’s rejoining the EU’s Erasmus scheme for 2027 this morning. Higher taxes to pay billions to the bloc…
That means two new negotiations are starting. One on placing the UK inside the EU’s internal electricity market – which will likely entail massive rule-taking and bill rises – and one on a new payment mechanism for sending cash to the EU:
“The agreement would establish a permanent mechanism for an appropriate financial contribution of the UK towards reducing economic, social and territorial disparities between the regions of the EU, applicable to the electricity agreement and any further agreement affording the UK access to the Union’s internal market. The financial contribution of the UK should appropriately reflect the relative size of the UK’s economy and the proportion of the internal market in which the UK aims to participate in line with consistent EU policy.
It is important for the EU that both agreements should follow parallel paths and enter into force and apply simultaneously.”
Labour working hard to reduce friction and barriers on taxpayer cash it has earmarked for lining EU pockets…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”