Keir Starmer does not perceive primary actuality about world affairs | Politics | News | EUROtoday

International legislation is an oxymoron. Get used to that, Sir Keir Starmer. There are solely agreements made in the intervening time between consenting nations. There are not any impartial judges, no world enforcement police and every nation is sovereign.

And but regardless of this actuality, Britain’s left/liberal elite and Whitehall obsession with the “rules-based system” is permitting unhealthy actors and rogue nations to control worldwide constructions at our expense.

The so-called rules-based system is a throwback to Pax Britannica when the British world system decided the worldwide order, world commerce and its enforcement. The first globalisation was right down to us British and it labored very effectively.

It is massively ironic that it’s the left, notably, who hanker after our imperial previous and live in a fantasy world through which anyone cares what we expect.

This is creating large injury to the our prospects, wealth and prosperity and throughout main coverage areas it’s time for get up name. Characters like Mr Starmer are notably topic to the oxymoron that’s “international law” and are incapable of coping with the truth of a enterprise like, transactional world that was ever thus and much more so now.

The sensible influence of all that is manifold. The complete mess of immigration leaves the nation on the mercy of the generosity of strangers, with internet migration hitting a report excessive that scraped a million in a single 12 months.

This is allowed to occur just because it’s within the slender vested pursuits of our ruling class, each in politics and corporates, to uphold so-called human rights set out in “international law” and with the oversight of a international court docket.

The scandal of the UK capitulation on the matter of the Chagos Islands is pushed by the manipulation of the worldwide order by potential enemies of Britain: China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, in whose pursuits lie the removing of those islands from our sphere and who would and do fortunately ignore worldwide legislation when it fits them.

Our whole and main dedication to the worldwide Net Zero mission is one other instance of an unholy alliance between vested pursuits at house and a supposed worldwide motion in direction of decarbonisation, besides that the UK,even on the excessive of zealous implementation, could make no significant distinction to world CO2 emissions.

No one is following us nor do they care, however as a consequence we’re impoverishing our individuals and destroying our trade. “International law” is transferring wealth , jobs and energy to China, India and now the USA. It just isn’t inevitable, it’s a alternative, a really unhealthy alternative.

Just as pernicious was our cow towing to the World Health Organisation throughout the, doubtless synthetic, pandemic.

Lockdowns value the UK eye-watering quantities because the mad coverage of paying individuals to not work unfolded, as a way to “protect” the NHS.

Futile, damaging on so many ranges, and perverse, this stays the foremost reason for our present nationwide debt and productiveness issues – it’s as if we had gone to struggle.

It was a alternative of our Mandarin and political class to uphold worldwide agreements through the WHO, a politicised organisation to which we nonetheless pay and to whom we subscribe to comply with on any future occasion – heaven assist us!

The inhabitants of the UK elect politicians to serve the pursuits of the individuals not the vainness initiatives of worldwide elite, not the virtue-signalling, globe-trotting rulers of the nation. It is time the voters drew a line within the sand. Sovereignty means a sovereign Parliament serving the pursuits of a sovereign individuals.

Former MEP John Longworth is an entrepreneur, businessman and the Chairman of the Independent Business Network of household companies.