When the first post-Brexit UK-EU summit to be held in London today was announced in February, UK Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations Nick Thomas-Symonds said that Britain will be “ruthlessly pragmatic” in talks to “reset” its relations with the EU. Most Britons are not holding out for much ruthless pragmatism of any sort from a Labour Government led by a Europhile Prime Minister who called for a second Brexit referendum. British citizens are resigned to ever greater convergence with Brussels across food standards, fishing rights, defence and energy at what is being dubbed today’s “surrender summit”.
As Britain navigates its post-Brexit future, Chatham House recommended on Thursday that the UK should link its carbon market with the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). It cited a letter signed by more than 50 companies and business groups that called for the convergence of carbon prices between the UK and EU that will “help curb costs for consumers”. Currently, carbon prices in the UK scheme trade around $10/ton cheaper than in the EU. The research institute considers this a matter of priority for the UK to be exempt from the bloc’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) – a tax based on the carbon content of imported goods – which would apply initially to imports of cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity and hydrogen.
To read the rest of this article, you need to donate at least £5/month or £50/year to the Daily Sceptic, then create an account on this website. The easiest way to create an account after you’ve made a donation is to click on the ‘Log In’ button on the main menu bar, click ‘Register’ underneath the sign-in box, then create an account, making sure you enter the same email address as the one you used when making a donation. Once you’re logged in, you can then read all our paywalled content, including this article. Being a donor will also entitle you to comment below the line, discuss articles with our contributors and editors in a members-only Discord forum and access the premium content in the Sceptic, our weekly podcast. A one-off donation of at least £5 will also entitle you to the same benefits for one month. You can donate here.
There are more details about how to create an account, and a number of things you can try if you’re already a donor – and have an account – but cannot access the above perks on our Premium page.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Voodoo “climate science,” voodoo “energy policy,” voodoo “carbon taxes.”
The “transition” being made by Britain and Europe is a transition to economic ruin.
God save us from wonks posing in hard hats and visibility jackets.
By an amazing coincidence these bits of voodoo all have the same aim: bringing the population under micro-managed control.
And extracting more and more cash via taxes, levies, subsidies etc etc – the money only goes one way…
The EU has nothing to do with trade; it is about politics. The globalist Establishment wants us IN the EU and is carrying out a step-by-step process to make us an Associate Member.
Our only hope is a Reform Government, which actually implements LEAVE.
There is no such thing as an Associate Member of the EU so it helps if you get your facts correct.
During the months before the EU Referendum, the creation of an Associate Member status was being discussed and then PM Call Me Dave was praying that they would propose this so he could use it during his campaign to keep us tied to the EU but to his horror it was not proceeded with so he hoped a rushed vote would save him – it didn’t of course.
And on facts, it is amazing after over 5 years since leaving how few politicians and media journalists understand that the EU Customs Union is ONLY for members of the EU.
They’re going to create a 2-tier EU (Eurozone = EU; non Eurozone – Associate Member).
Cameron initially proposed it with the UK leading the non-Eurozone nations, but they refused. Macron revived the idea. They’re just waiting for the Ukraine war to be over then it will be created:
This all comes as no surprise. The Labour Party and their satellites (Greens, Libdems etc) and most Tories, have, since Brexit been doing their utmost to create conditions to reverse the will of the people. It can only be said that these people are zealots and therefore unable to reason outside of their own insane ideology.
I hope reform make it absolutely clear that policies enacted by this unpopular idiotic government will be reversed.
But I suppose the only good thing to say is that they are just digging a bigger hole for themselves!
Starmer et al seem to be pursuing a similar crash and burn course as Sunak did. Almost like they don’t care about staying in power – just do as much damage as possible for one term then slide into cushy quango jobs, lecture circuit etc.
Agreed. I’ve always thought that from the perspective of the Tories and Labour the referendum was a means of getting a remain vote to enable them to join the Euro and fully give up the last vestiges of sovereignty. It would have served the dual purpose of convincing the rest of the EU populations that all was OK. Unfortunately it all went wrong when people voted to leave, so they went all out to muddy the waters, elected May and bunch of dubious characters, sent Starmer and the rest of the traitorous bunch of (expletive) to plot with Brussels on how to concoct a dodgy deal.
So now we are faced with a couple of years of more BS. No doubt they will do what they did in Ireland and pretend that the economy has rebounded when in reality the whole thing is a house of cards.
The whole project is teetering on the edge of disaster and that will spur on these fools.
I am surprised Sunak stayed as an MP and didn’t go back to the US or home to India. But then as he and his wife are already loaded he doesn’t need to grub around for money post PM-ship like Blair and Johnson.
Rishi Sunak is set to return to his former universities as he takes up two new jobs in the UK and America.
The former prime minister announced he would be joining the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government as a member of its World Leaders Circle.
He will also take up a visiting fellowship at the Hoover Institution, a think tank based at Stanford University in California.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgl7823ezqo
He must have a very light workload as an MP….
Next Starmer will ban political parties opposed to the EU dictatorship.
I think that would be too risky and too obvious a strategy. I would expect him to do something more devious, say by finding ways of restricting funding to parties that are not aligned with the anti-Brexit strategy, or by silencing high-profile members of those parties
They already are, see the Stasi tactics they are enacting at the moment and read my comments on the DS, which are if anything understated.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/19/the-sheer-bug-eyed-insanity-of-labours-banter-ban/
Two-Tier and The Blob have cancelled democracy in the UK.
The anti-democratic EU rules.
I place him in the same category as Philby, Blunt, Burgess and MacLean.