“It exploited every weakness we had to its advantage. For example, we had to trade off fishing for energy security, such is our dependence on electricity from the EU.
“It is time for the government to wake up and ensure that we have sufficient manufacturing capabilities to give us sufficient defence and energy security and resilience in the future.
“It also needs to introduce measures to counteract the structural undervaluation of the euro which has done so much damage to British manufacturing capability over the last 20 years.”
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Image: GETTY)
THE EU was dubbed appalling by a commentator who argued the bloc is increasingly undemocratic and authoritarian as he tipped London for a post-Brexit boom.
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Judge criticises man for ‘carrying on like pork chop’ in deadly assault
By Naomi Neilson|02 March 2021
A Supreme Court judge has broken away from tradition in delivering a judgement to a man – or “nasty hyena” – who was charged with manslaughter following a two-punch assault that killed a “noble wildebeest” in the early hours of a November night.
“Just before midnight on 24 March 1944, British tail-gunner Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade jumped from a spiralling Lancaster, on its return from a mission in Berlin, at an altitude of 5,000 metres. He had no parachute,” read the first line of a Victorian Supreme Court judgement, written by the Honourable Justice Michael Croucher, that set out a punishment for a man accused of killing another in a deadly assault.