Britain Could Rejoin Brussels’s Net Zero Climate Scheme

Keir Starmer’s Brexit ‘reset’ could see Britain rejoin Brussels’ Net Zero scheme, re-enter an EU free trade zone and relax migration rules. The Mail has the story.

As the Prime Minister prepares to become the first British leader since Brexit to attend a meeting of the European Council’s 27 EU leaders tomorrow, sources said the U.K. was in discussions to re-enter the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which sets a cap on the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by certain industries.

U.K. officials in the Cabinet Office dubbed ‘The Surrender Unit’ are also discussing entering the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area, in what Chancellor Rachel Reeves hopes will stimulate the sluggish economy.

As part of the talks, Brussels is demanding that Britain partially reintroduces freedom of movement by allowing 18 to 30-year-olds from the EU to move to the U.K. for a few years, paying the same university fees as British students.

However, some No.10 strategists, led by Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney, fear the symbolic move to unwind Brexit will present a political “gift” to Labour’s opponents in the Conservatives and Reform.

Sir Keir failed to mark Brexit’s fifth anniversary on Friday, and today will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks at Chequers. …

Discussions to re-enter the EU ETS, a cornerstone of EU climate policy which the U.K. left in the wake of the historic vote to quit the EU, come amid a Cabinet rift over Ms. Reeves’ backing for a third runway at Heathrow, which Energy Secretary Ed Miliband once threatened to resign over. He has been conspicuously quiet since the announcement.

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transmissionofflame
1 year ago

paying the same university fees as British students.”

British students don’t really pay fees, not in any reasonable definition of “paying”. They get given taxpayers money by the government which is given to universities, and if they earn enough (most don’t) they will “repay” the money, and if they don’t, they won’t. It’s a graduate tax. Without it I don’t think the “university industry” as it stands would be economically viable.

Has a cost benefit analysis been done on “student loans” and on the huge increase over time in the number of people going to university?

PRSY
PRSY
1 year ago

Cost/benefit? 😂

transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  PRSY

Yeah they used the same template they used for “covid”

Gezza England
Gezza England
1 year ago

A massive cull of universities would be a good thing especially for housing. All those halls of residence and student digs would be available for rent by nurses for example.

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Gezza England

That got me thinking of the old Nurse training schools, removed by Thatcher apparently.

transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Gezza England

They don’t seem good value for money to me, for sure.

I like the degree apprenticeship idea – friend of mine’s son is doing it, seems like a better use of time and money. He’s doing useful work. Much more fun then studying.

Art Simtotic
1 year ago

Lord Halifax is alive and well at Number 10 and pictured shaking hands with his opposite number.

As for greenhouse gases emitted by certain industries, Fraulein Rachel is getting rid of those pre-emptively, ably aided and abetted by Gauleiter Miliband. The Migration Laws are in the incapable hands of Fraulein Pixie. A border shared is a border slashed.

Stand by for the next Thousand Years, which will flash by in a matter of minutes once the IMF gets called in.

FerdIII
1 year ago

They have a 100 strong unit renegotiating rejoining the German empire.

Of course they will rejoin. Netard zero is just the beginning. UK will be back as a lander in the EU Empire by 2030.

All part of the plan. Fake news propaganda to begin issuing their vomit as to why ‘the science’ says we must rejoin blah blah will restart any time.

And that will be the end of the uniparty. No one with an IQ higher than a Corona supporter’s, will suffer any of this. It might lead to mass civil violence. Brexit will not be revoked.

Gezza England
Gezza England
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

It might be rash to predict that the EU will still be around come 2030 as governments are elected that want to put their nations first across the EU.

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

There’s no such thing as a German empire. A state called Germany exists for historical reasons but the larger part of its ruling caste eventually plans to get rid of it in favour of turning it into a EU region inhabitated by people collected from all over the globe with a strong preference for muslims. The taxpayers of this state are essentially paying all the bills of the EU and must underwrite the debts of all EU countries since they were stripped of their own currency as condition for letting the so-called German reunification go forward. I believe to remember that the Euro project was a part of what overcame Maggie Thatchers initial rejection of this proposal (the ‘reunification’, which included Germany formally ‘forever’ accepting the loss of its eastern provinces which it must not try to reacquire even by peaceful means and turning it from a heavily armed cold war frontier state into military dwarf state).

JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Fourth Reich.

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  JXB

The notion of patriotism has always made me want to puke. Germany never meant anything to me and still doesn’t mean something to me today.
[Roland Habeck, Greens, German vice-chancellor & minister for economics]

I really wish Germany had been completely annihilated by aerial bombing in the course of the second world war. This country just doesn’t deserve to exist.
[Mieze Waziri, Green Youth/ Greens]

The lady is essentially calling for a genocide of Germans. She also, despite being politically important enough that I have heard of her (and probably not for the last time), certainly not German. Both quotes are rather exemplary for German left-wing politicians and these “Nazis” could certainly be very good friends of yours in this respect. They’re obviously both pre-EU because they’re decidedly anti-German but reality only ever gets in the way of good story-telling.

john1T
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Farage should state that he will repeal any new agreements 2TK makes with the EU on day one of a Reform government, and make it clear that he will not be held to the terms of any of them. Labour cannot tie down any future elected government with long term agreements.

Dinger64
1 year ago

If Keir Stalinmer thinks its OK to forget the Brexit vote then democracy is over, in which case, let’s forget Labour where voted in and have another general election, why not? it’s only the same thing, selective elections!

Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Yes we can steal a line from Starmer himself and call for an “Election Reset”.

mrbu
mrbu
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

The EU model is to force people who voted the “wrong way” to vote again and again until they get it right. It happend in Denmark over Maastricht, and Ireland over Nice and Lisbon. It’s also what that fishy woman in the SNP wanted with their independence vote.

Loftier
Loftier
1 year ago

I’m starting to think Starmer’s got some bet going about how spectacularly his party can lose the next election.

I can almost hear him saying “The Tories lost 251 seats in one go did they? Hold my beer…”

AEC
AEC
1 year ago

Most peculiar sight, rats scrambling aboard a clearly sinking ship.
Thoughts anyone…?

Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Look how Scholz has got his arm out. Far worse then Elon Musk’s arm stretching exercises.

Keencook
Keencook
1 year ago

As Mrs T once said “No, no, no”
Amen to that.

JXB
JXB
1 year ago

“… will present a political “gift” to Labour’s opponents in the Conservatives and Reform.”

Kamikaze Keir.

Self-immolation cannot come soon enough.

RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Farage needs to make it clear that Reform will oppose (and in due course, scrap) any “re-set” Two-Tier makes which betrays the vote to LEAVE the EU.

coviture2020
coviture2020
1 year ago

Olafs enjoying a golden period I note. Lesson for some?

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  coviture2020

For all practical purposes, Scholz is the ex-chancellor of Germany as he has an election coming to him in 20 daya he’s almost certainly not going to win and his remaining coalition partner (Greens) will probably be pretty much annihilated.

blunt instrument
blunt instrument
1 year ago

We didn’t vote for “Brexit”, which as Teresa May said means Brexit – i.e. whatever you want it to mean. We voted to “leave the EU.” What we got was treasonous, and this is treasonous.