Humiliations for Britain
● LAST summer the Government negotiated a deal with the Chinese to finance the building of a new nuclear power power station at Hinckley Point in Somerset.
As part of the deal it was agreed to buy the electricity from this station at twice the current market price.
This was obviously not a good deal, and when Theresa May became Prime Minister it was obvious that she wasn’t happy with it, but eventually agreed and signed on the dotted line.
The reasoning was almost certainly that, with Britain leaving the EU we needed to suck up to the Chinese, with whom we would need to sign a trade deal.
We now have Theresa May cosying up with Donald Trump and inviting him on a state visit to Britain, much to the disgust of millions of British people.
The Prime Minister’s office say this is ‘in the national interest’.
It is quite obvious what this interest is; now we are coming out of the EU we need a trade deal with the USA.
Many people voted to leave the EU to return sovereignty to Britain, to ‘give us back control’. However, instead of gaining sovereignty we are losing it.
Instead of being in a partnership with other European countries where we had a vote and sometimes a veto, we are being forced to pay double for our electricity and to be nice to a thoroughly unsavoury President.
What other humiliations will our country have to suffer in order to make up for cutting ourselves off from the world’s largest free trade area?