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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

OK, so Paul isn't disputing the Enoch Powell version of events. The quotes he has are, basically, one about sovereignty on a radio show broadcast in South Europe, and one about European defence in a defence journal. This falls short of what we'd expect a committed European to be doing at that time.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Does he give a single example of a speech he gave based on the European ideal? Enoch would argue he made the economic case, and it's the one part of his Eurosceptic origin story that never changed.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

So Tom McTague, who a few years ago was recommending Hugo Young, has now written a book about our relationship with Europe which has been reviewed by Vernon Bogdanor who claimed Powell was a "committed" European before 1969. Now I just want to die. What's the use if the bullshit cycle never stops?

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Doesn't help that every party has presented our accession as selling out the fishing industry. Politicians who care so much about the fishing industry they did no research of actual pre-accession fishing policy.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

When heads of state weighing in on it, was there like some underground movement talking this European Union in the sewers, do you think?

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I mean it was the biggest story in the country, in Europe and the World. It seems odd people didn't discuss it. Tell me, as someone who lived through it, was it illegal to talk about the European Union. Was it like Gilead? Were people forced not to talk about this political union announcement?

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

That would be a weird thing to be debating when absolutely nothing happened in October 1972 that relates to fish and pineapples, but they did announce the start of the development of the European Union.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Cool. So what do you remember about the debates in October 1972?

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The idea that we only talked economics on a political and economic project is a lie that Eurosceptics tell their kids when they go to bed.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Not exactly. The EEC wasn't just a treaty first organisation. So when the EU came about, the political side had been present in one form or another since 1959. Maastricht wasn't a big jump in that direction, beyond the fact the foreign policy chapter was now in the same treaty.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It's not British exceptionalism. It's universal for businesses to think that their regulations could be done better.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

That's the problem though. Many businesses complain about regulation. Who doesn't want to vote their government away. Offering to leave a government is an ultimate act of defiance and promise of the freedom of regulation. But it's a fantasy, There are regulations on the other side of the fence.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

2% of Dyson's manufacturing business was effected by the EU. Dyson never had any problem with the regulations, he had a problem with not having a measuring standard that supported his USP. However, I don't think this is what Roland was alluding to.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I never really got that argument. I think W. Rees-Mogg or someone had done a book on it, or something, but never once did I get the feeling they had dedicated 25 years on an economic project which had limited returns.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Any controversial position Farage takes won't be "Reform policy", but if he gets into power, Reform policy will be whatever Farage says on the day.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/07/2025

There is a lot of ill-informed commentary out there suggesting that the Afghan leak superinjunction is a story about transparency vs safety. That is not true, or at least it is not the full picture. Thread below.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The ECJ ruled in the 1970s EU law overrides constitutional law, but as the German court ruled, the supremacy of EU law comes from the state law itself. The ECJ has never been given the power by memberstates to create a legal system override national law.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Yes. This is not the first time I've read this week that the principle, or the overall effect of, primacy was something that appeared in the 1980s. As I said in one of my Hugo Young videos, the Law officers approached this as standard conflict resolution.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Things I know about @economist.com When you say to someone at the Economist "We're only keeping the essentials" they think you mean "We're going to keep everything". When you say National sovereignty, they think you mean Parliamentary sovereignty. The can't check the actual context of a sentence.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Yeah, we'll just keep damaging each other. 🤷‍♂️

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

That's what the argument was in 1992. We're an island. Which is why, when Schengen came alone we were pre-opted out of it. They knew we wouldn't accept it. One of the arguments is cultural. We'd have to move policing in-land, which implies id cards.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

As for Schengen, with the migration deal, forget it from this country. We don't have the political will, and while the UK did make this argument in 1992 and won, I don't think it's going to strong enough from the outside.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I think the UK should have an open offer to rewind. I don't think the EU will take it, but it was a compromise, and if they don't want to compromise, we will keep hurting our economies. There is politics which could see us going in without a firm commitment to the Euro (see above).

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Further integration of the Euro is being blocked by one country. If they bring the UK into it, they better not complain when they get exactly what they asked for.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Watch the video closely and you might see an extract of the @davidheniguk.bsky.social family tree.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I've started on the "No Loss of Essential National Sovereignty" series. In the episode I cover the first year of the campaign to join and how the Kilmuir letter was actually dealt with, in opposed to what we've been told all these years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCO4...

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No Loss of Essential National Sovereignty - The Kilmuir Letter

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The logic to do what the founders expected us to do is destruction? We didn't opt out of Schengen either. We were presented Schengen with the UK already opted out. It didn't need to be in the EU, it existed outside of it. Another "convenient" optout that is somehow our fault.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We didn't get what we wanted, they got what they wanted, and then they complained at us. If we had all stayed true to the original creators of the European project, it should have been vetoed until we all agreed on something. But they meant they wouldn't have got what they wanted.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

That was a compromise. We put forward our version of monetary union in the Maastricht negotiations, and they wanted to do what they wanted to do. Under normal circumstance it would have been vetoed. We allowed them to get what they wanted and circumvented the standard development procedure.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I think it's a British stereotype that a large percentage live up to. It's odd though, because researching the first 1960s EEC debate, I don't see any examples of that at all.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If the EU and specifically the holdout France cannot see that RIGHT NOW THIS MOMENT is the time to ratify its trade deal with Mercosur they are absolutely utterly totally hopeless.

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Trade war live: Donald Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariffs

US president accuses country of launching a ‘witch-hunt’ against its former leader Jair Bolsonaro

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The UK should have stood up to this. Everyone should have stood up to this. Now he's taken another step.

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Andrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The EU would do better to reach agreement with the recipients of these screeds than with their author. The value of any agreement with the latter is dubious at best. A coordinated approach with Japan, Korea, China and other BRICS countries interested in rules-based trade would be powerful indeed.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The Copenhagen criteria is a silly argument. EMU was in the EC via the SEA. It wasn't saying that countries must accept an explicit part of the treaty. That's the default scenario. It was about making sure their economy was not so fragile they couldn't take it on.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If the ECJ interprets things how they were meant at the time, how does a criteria cover something that didn't exist?

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

And I'm pretty sure if people look closely enough at the enlargement at the end of the 1990s, the EU was asked if the Copenhagen criteria covered the Euro, and they said 'No'.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

As an aside. I'd quite like someone to read the Copenhagen criteria. At least once. It doesn't say what most people think it says,

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Have they looked for the Epstein client list in the Mar-a-Lago bathrooms yet?

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I really thought she'd vanished. Andrew Roberts is in there too.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

So, Ruth Lea is in the HoL too. I can only conclude the previous government basically packed it with extremists.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

He was in the Pickles debate during the referendum, and he's popped up again, but I can't remember where.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

You knew John? When you originally posted that, the name didn't mean anything to me, but it does today.

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Steve Analyst @emperorsnewc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

You might want to talk to the people in 1971 about that "mistake".,

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum

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