Re: NO DEAL better than BAD DEAL
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We won’t have control of our tax or state aid policies.
EU law applies to the UK during the transition period (WA, Article 127), and beyond that the Political Declaration obliges the UK to adopt EU rules on state aid rules and ‘relevant tax matters’ (PD, para 77). This all means we can’t change tax rates to be more competitive and can’t assist a strategic industry such as British Steel.
Britain can’t pursue an independent foreign policy
The Treaty restricts UK sovereignty by preventing us taking ‘any action likely to conflict with or impede’ EU foreign policy (Article 129.6) – despite having no say in policy making. The UK will be signed up to all EU treaties, including new ones, throughout the transition period, and must ‘refrain… from any action… which is likely to be prejudicial’ to EU interests within international organisations such as the United Nations Security Council and the WTO (Art 129 points 1 and 3).
Britain can’t pursue an independent defence policy.
The Political Declaration commits us to security integration through the European Defence Agency and the European Defence Fund (PD, paragraph 102(c)). We will fund the EU’s military plans during the transition period at least, and British troops in EU battlegroups will be under foreign command (WA Articles 128.2, 129.7, 156, 157).
The United Kingdom will be divided.
The Treaty creates a de facto customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Britain. Goods moving between NI and Britain will be checked. Citizens living in NI would effectively be staying in the EU, without any say in their laws, for at least four years after the transition and quite possibly forever. In other words, the UK gives up part of its sovereign territory —for what? (“Backstop” Protocol Articles 5 and 6.2).
We pay the EU billions and get nothing in return
The Treaty commits us to pay a sum to be decided by the EU (WA, Part Five). The £39bn payment demanded is likely to be just the start, with billions more to follow.
And we’ll be trapped by the Political Declaration
The problems won’t end with the transition period. Article 184 of the Withdrawal Agreement requires us to use ‘best endeavours, in good faith’ to negotiate a future deal in line with the PD. Any breach of this duty will see the EU haul Britain before an arbitration panel – half EU appointees, half pro-EU judges from the UK. And the panel must defer to the European court on anything concerning EU Law. If they rule that a UK law goes against the Political Declaration, UK courts will have to overturn that law (WA, Articles 170-175). The Political Declaration is a trap from which there is no plausible escape.
Boris's Deal is really just the catastrophically bad "May Deal" regurgitated for the FOURTH time now but with a couple of tweaks.
Parliment has rejected May's deal 3 times but now the establishment hope to dupe the masses into giving Boris a majority
so they can finally get it pushed through and at that point BrExit is finished.
You can bet that many Remainers will be voting for Boris because of that !!!!
Boris's deal is NOT BREXIT in any sense
It is BRINO. A total betrayal of the referendum result.
No Brexiteer should be fooled by this nonsense.
The BrExit Party is the only party with a desire to get us out of the EU.