75 Brexit benefits – a great new book by Gully Foyle
By johnredwood on September 28, 2025
Gully Foyle 75 Brexit benefits Available now on Amazon. Foreword by myself.
This is a welcome treasure trove of Brexit benefits which the mainstream media have preferred to ignore or play down. The author sets out how as an independent country we can improve things for ourselves. We can change our laws, cut our taxes, extend our trade deals, take down tariffs, get our seat back on the leading world institutions where the EU displaced us. The 75 benefits are all good. Brexiteers feel let down that successive governments gave away so much in the Withdrawal negotiations and then failed to use many of the freedoms we have now regained. Nonetheless Brexit is still a great victory for the majority against the governing elites. Our Parliament can now use our sovereign powers to make things better. This government's failure to do so lies behind its collapse in support.
The government's attempted "re set" is turning out to be a series of embarrassing climbdowns, sacrificing our powers in a way which will make things worse. As the country clamours for fewer migrants, the government takes up the EU demand to give more access for younger people into the UK under a scheme likely to prove even more lopsided than Erasmus. That scheme made UK taxpayers pay for many more EU students coming to the UK than UK students wishing to go to the rest of the EU. A desperate Chancellor argues more younger people coming in from the EU would boost our growth. She should look at growth in income per head, which would be lowered by inviting in yet more people to low pay jobs and no jobs, and their dependents. The OBR should have none of it as a positive when making their forecasts. The EU always did and always will mean more UK costs for taxpayers to meet, slower growth and more regulation.
Remain said that if we left the UK would be marginalised and less powerful in the world. At the time of the vote in 2016 the UK was the third ranked country for soft power in the world. Today we are still in third place after Brexit. More importantly we are still third despite the rise of China to second place because Germany has fallen well behind us into fifth. So the UK outside the EU is ranked more highly than the EU's largest country, which when we were in the EU was thought more influential than us. That looks like a Brexit win.
Gully Foyle has done a magnificent job showing in detailed accounts just how many things we have already improved, many from avoiding new laws and charges from a power grabbing EU. He puts the wins under seven heads. There are the money savings on our membership fee and lost tax revenues. There is independence to have our own fishing, farming and animal welfare policies. There is more trade through the large extra trade deals we have been able to sign. Our service exports have roared ahead. We can decide on our own laws. We have used more flexibility in financial markets to grow our worldwide business. We can control our own border and have greatly reduced legal migration from the EU. Governments have failed to suspend European human rights law to grip the issue of illegal arrivals though they are free to do that. We have improved our position in defence and our world standing.
The financial wins are large. There is the saving of £12-16 bn a year from our annual subscription, soon to be much increased by the EU as they expand their spending and borrowing.
Many of us want to treat animals well. Out of the EU we have been able to strengthen the law on animal testing. We have banned the export of live animals. We have banned cruel ways of making foie gras and the fur trade. These were not possible in the EU. We want a good environmental policy. Out of the EU we have been able to remove VAT from green products like insulation materials and we can ban the sand eel fishery which is damaging our marine environment.
The UK has left a customs union which made us impose high tariffs on goods we import from non EU sources, imposing large taxes on UK consumers. This was particularly harmful where we could not grow or make the things at home. The UK has signed important new trade deals with the Trans Pacific Partnership and India. We have removed smaller tariffs, tariffs on intermediates needed for our manufacturing, and on goods we cannot produce or grow for ourselves. There are still more tariffs we can and should remove. Why shaft UK consumers as the EU did?
What we need is a government prepared to use our powers to stop the flow of illegal and low pay/no pay migrants, to cut taxes, avoid more carbon taxes and tariffs, get rid of anti business laws and reject EU laws than create dear energy and restrict hi tech investment. All this is now possible, out of the EU.
Everyone interested in the future of our country and the detail of our relationship with the EU should read this book. For too long the mainstream media and the Remain politicians and officials have trotted out false soundbites. Some of these are based on old wrong predictions to suggest Brexit was a bad idea. As this book shows, we already have some good wins and could have so many more if we put our mind to it. To date most of the wins have been avoiding new laws and taxes the EU is imposing on its members. We could have more and bigger wins if we got on with the job of dismantling the bad taxes and laws we were made to adopt.