The UK and the EU: Friend or Competitor?

It has been 3 months since the Brexit transition period came to the end on 31st December 2020. 

The effects of Brexit to this day continues to be a disadvantage for businesses in the UK as we already got used to it. Non tariff barrier, paperwork, customs duties, red tape, bureaucracy and certification to export products/items to the EU27. bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk google.co.uk 

No frictionless trade when we were the member of the European Union. 

Plus furthermore, since the start of this year in January, UK trade to the EU have suddenly fallen. mirror.co.uk bbc.com Do you really think that has been a great start for the United Kingdom post Brexit now that it is out of the EU economic structures: the Single Market and the Customs Union? For the country that is an independent sovereign country when it was an member of the EU when it never really did lost sovereignty when the UK became the EU member 1973 (almost 50 years ago). Yet we hear so many two faced politicians who are Eurosceptic, anti EU/not pro European and pro Brexit to tell lies and myths about the EU. 

Look, the EU is not perfect especially with the UK Covid 19 vaccine (Oxford AstraZeneca) & that bickering really needs to stop between both sides cos it is not necessary. 

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While at the same time, the vaccine row between the EU27 and the UK is nothing but a distraction. Nothing will ever prove that the UK was right to leave the EU in first place because of how “un Democratic & unelected bureaucrats” is the EU & yet, we got unelected chamber in the Houses of Parliament. The House of Lords with ex government ministers, life peers, ex MPs & bishops that we have not elected them except MPs in the House of Commons. On top of that, we elected MEPs to the European Parliament so why say that the EU (supernatural organisation which is political & economic Union) be unelected? It totally makes zero sense. 

Nowadays we see the EU not only as an ally but an competitor. Rival. 

The media outlets in the UK which are mostly Conservative & Pro Brexit have successfully made an narrative that the EU is not “friend” of the UK & that it should be treated as an enemy. Now I do not know exactly why would the press to portray the European Union 27 like that? As if the EU is like Russia & China?

The EU (most of EU countries are in NATO. Same with the United States & Canada). In fact, Few days ago, Boris Johnson (UK PM) alongside France (Emmanuel Macron = French President) & Germany (Angela Merkel = German Chancellor) & other countries in the world who are all UN member states, calling for the pandemic treaty to mitigate & prevent any future pandemics. google.co.uk 

That is how multilateralism works. Regardless if the UK is in the EU or not. Yet some Brexiteers cannot stand multilateralism & the bloc of 27 nations in the EU was an example of it. 

And recently,  the UK alongside Canada, the US & the EU together sanctioned the Chinese for human rights abuses & the abhorrent treatment of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang & yet, some right wing media outlets have decided to behave despicable by writing rubbish articles just to deteriorate the relationship between the UK & the EU even further. google.co.uk How is that “Global Britain” while treating European neighbours as if it is not really friends and neighbours? Especially working together to combat the Covid pandemic? 

google.co.uk No wonder the reality have already started to bite. I am still to this day that Brexit is not beneficial & it never not be beneficial. 

Lastly, I accept that the UK is outside the EU & that it can thrive. But the altitude & behaviour from the Government (British government) & the press, they need to stop paining the EU as an villain & realise that although the UK can do do it’s own things as it is an “independent” country, the UK & continental Europe will still work together on common goals such as fighting Covid 19, dealing with climate change & other things. Not only for Britain & mainland Europe but also for the whole world. So let’s build bridges & not walls. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Finally. BBC Newsnight report of how the UK - EU relations post Brexit will go now that the UK & the EU go separate ways. m.youtube.com 

We heard so many times that the UK left the EU but not Europe. Well for me, I have heard enough of it. I am still European.