Published on 16 April 2026

This is my letter published in the Daily Telegraph on 14 April 2026, about the Labour Party’s plans for the so-called ‘Reset’ of the UK’s relations with the EU.
The number of subjects involved in this Reset is so large, and the degree of movement back towards the terms applicable to EU membership is so substantial, that the term ‘Reset’ is bogus.
This is ‘Rejoin’, but cloaked in a euphemism to make it seem less threatening. Nobody is fooled, though. Starmer and Labour aim to fully reverse Brexit.
That is an act of civil war towards the electors who voted for Brexit, and civil war may well be what the Labour Party gets. It depends upon how the 17 million who voted for Brexit respond.
The Labour Party usurped the 2024 General Election by issuing a manifesto consisting of euphemisms and obfuscations, concealing their true intentions. The naming of the ‘Reset’ and its scope are but one string in this deception practiced on the UK electorate. Labour’s conduct has breached a key democratic principle: that political parties declare their intentions to the electorate in their manifestos.
Labour’s intentions have since been revealed as a class-based ideological attack, so far inflicted on a range of individual groups in UK society, like farmers, private landlords, second home owners, restaurants, small businesses, pubs, pensioners, and the young. Why not go ‘all in’ and attack 17 million voters all at the same time and see what happens?
Labour’s programme in government since 2024 amounts to one side of a civil war: the attack by the government on the governed. The counterattack by the governed has so far been confined to protests, petitions, and lobbying through associations and trade bodies, apart from the violent unrest that broke out in the summer of 2024.
In that instance Starmer called upon ‘the full force of the law’, with its left-activist judges, its on-message police, its supine duty solicitors, and its compliant mainstream media. These cogs in the legal machine certainly showed where their loyalties lay during the repression of the unrest.
Anyone indulging in lawful protest against the government’s actions does so in the knowledge that Starmer can bring the legal machine down on them, as the machine is elastic to the requirements of government, rather than being a clear contract between government and the governed.
The law is meant to restrict both its formulator and its subject, but not in Starmer’s Britain, because Starmer has shown that he controls both sides of the coin: the making of the law and its enforcement. The legal machine operates at his behest, rather than its existing to control the government at the behest of the citizenry, and for the citizenry to regulate their coexistence with one another.
Starmer has de iure control over the executive, and de facto control of the judiciary, the separation of which is pivotal to democracy. This means that he has become a tyrant, and the EU Reset is tyrannical: the over-turning of a specific decision by electors, legally and conclusively arrived at.
Overthrowing tyrants has ever been a valid casus belli for civil war. The tyrant has already launched one half of the civil war. It is just a question of what the trigger event will be that causes the citizenry to retaliate and launch the other half of it.