March 13, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| What I have said is no deal is better than a bad deal. | |
| We have to be prepared to walk out. | |
| So you are prepared to walk away from the European Union with no deal. | |
| I'm not prepared to sign up to a bad deal for the UK. | |
| Now, I believe I'm optimistic. | |
| So you are prepared to walk away. | |
| I'm, I'm, I'm. | |
| I think we have you have to. | |
| In negotiations, you have to recognise that you're prepared, that you're not in there to get a deal at any price. | |
| Well, I fully agree. | |
| It would be better to have no deal than a bad deal. | |
| So why on earth are you wedded to your poor deal? | |
| Why are you wedded to a deal that leading Brexiteers consider to be a surrender to the European Union that will turn us into a vassal state of the European Union? | |
| Now, don't think this is just rhetoric on my part. | |
| This is what an anonymous civil servant had to say about it. | |
| And he had to remain anonymous because the civil service is overwhelmingly pro-Remain, to the point where it's become kind of like a cult. | |
| Don't be fooled. | |
| This Brexit deal creates a triple lock to shackle the UK to Brussels forever. | |
| The first lock is the transition period, which lasts until at least 2021. | |
| We must hand over an estimated 39 billion for nothing to be bound by EU law and take orders from an unelected joint committee operating under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. | |
| Will the EU27 agree on an equitable free trade agreement before the end of 2020? | |
| Unlikely, since all the goodies they want in the future partnership are set out in the Northern Ireland backstop, which automatically kicks in on the 1st of January 2021 unless superseded by a partnership agreement. | |
| Full ratification by all member states is required before any such agreement can come into force. | |
| Achieving this in time to avoid entering the backstop would be nothing short of miraculous, even if the EU agrees to extend the transition period for one or two years. | |
| So it is more pay with no say and a likely doubling down of the Brexit bill to 80 billion to be paid with no reference to British MPs. | |
| The second lock, the backstop. | |
| Not only does the backstop carve out Northern Ireland as an EU province and set a border in the Irish Sea, it creates a partial customs union that requires us to implement EU trade tariffs and policy with no decision-making powers. | |
| Under highly restrictive non-regression clauses, the UK also agrees to implement all EU environmental competition state aid and tax harmonisation laws, with the unelected Joint Committee and ECJ once again able to punish us for any perceived backsliding. | |
| British farmers will be locked into a subsidy regime well below support received by EU27 farmers who nevertheless retain tariff-free access to the UK. | |
| The third lock, the future partnership. | |
| The political declaration replicates all the onerous non-regression clauses of the backstop and requires even more surrender of sovereignty via participation in and funding of the EU's aerospace and defence programmes, free access to UK waters for EU fishermen, | |
| a full customs union and common trade policy, free movement by the backdoor under mobility clauses, EU in control of UK agriculture via the state aid rules, and in general full adherence to the acquis communautaire in all policy areas. | |
| This is not a deal. | |
| This is the terms of our surrender. | |
| So one would think, with a deal this disadvantageous to the United Kingdom, that Theresa May would indeed look at it and say no deal is better than a bad deal. | |
| But instead, she tried to get this deal through Parliament. | |
| Well that went well didn't it Theresa? | |
| Historic defeat. | |
| Even the Remainers could see that this deal was the worst thing that could be done to the country and so she lost her vote trying to get it through Parliament. | |
| In January, her deal was rejected by 230 votes. | |
| As the BBC say, the largest defeat for a sitting government in history. | |
| So Theresa May went back to the European Union and said, no, Parliament will not accept this deal. | |
| I cannot implement this. | |
| We will have to renegotiate it. | |
| And after the renegotiations, the deal was practically the same. | |
| According to the Attorney General, the highest legal authority in the UK that is advising the UK government, Britain can still be trapped in the Irish backstop. | |
| Jeffrey Cox conceded that the legal risk remains unchanged, and that if the UK and EU negotiate in good faith and no trade agreement can be found to replace the backstop, then there would be no internationally lawful means of exiting the backstop. | |
| So naturally, when it came time for Theresa May to try and push her deal through Parliament once more, it was rejected. | |
| This time it was downvoted by 149 MPs. | |
| The whips had obviously been out in force to say, look, this is our last chance. | |
| We have to get this through, because if we do not get this through, Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Semitism-riddled party might actually gain the reins of power. | |
| So as we approach March the 29th, the date which we are expected to leave the EU, deal or no deal, everyone is starting to get somewhat nervous. | |
| After Theresa May's deal was defeated for the second time, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said that the chances of a no-deal Brexit have increased significantly. | |
| But hey, you can't leave with no deal if you vote against having no deal. | |
| And of course, the resolution ruling out no deal passed, at least by a narrow margin, but it doesn't matter. | |
| It passed. | |
| And now we are stuck in the European Union to leave only with Theresa May's deal or not at all. | |
| That means that Theresa May is going to have to slink back to Brussels with her tail between her legs and ask them for an extension. | |
| And they have already told us what kind of conditions they are going to place on it. | |
| For example, charging us a billion pounds a month over any delay if we are forced to ask for the extension. | |
| Why would we agree to this? | |
| Why? | |
| Why would we not walk away? | |
| If for some reason the European Parliament don't just kick us out and do choose to extend Article 50, we will have another round of voting for our MEPs. | |
| So who knows what will happen then? | |
| But again, Theresa May finds herself completely at the mercy of the European Union with no leverage, no way out, and absolutely nothing to talk to them about. | |
| Because as the European Union's chief negotiator Michelle Barnier has said, there will be no further discussion. | |
| He doesn't see the point of extending the Article 50 process when the talks are, quote, done and dusted. | |
| Why would we extend these discussions? | |
| The discussion on Article 50 is done and dusted. | |
| We have the withdrawal agreement. | |
| The EU have the deal that they want. | |
| It is sufficiently protective of their interests. | |
| It is sufficiently humiliating to Britain. | |
| It is in fact so humiliating and so against our interests that even in a Remainer Parliament, we cannot get it passed. | |
| It is that bad. | |
| But it's not the EU that's holding this up. | |
| They agree that we should be their servants. | |
| They agree that we should be a tax cow that they can milk at their convenience, to which we cannot object nor legally escape. | |
| Of course they agree to this. | |
| But for some reason, they cannot see that the only alternative here, because they have no leverage, is to leave. | |
| So which side did Jeremy Corbyn support in all of this? | |
| The threat of no deal is something that has deeply exercised people throughout the European Union. | |
| They're very worried about the consequences of it. | |
| And that was conveyed to us in no uncertain terms during the meeting. | |
| That's why we're determined to get no deal taken off the table. | |
| Well, why change the habit of a lifetime, Jeremy? | |
| You've spent your entire political career siding with the enemies of Britain. | |
| And once more, you side with Britain's opponents. | |
| If the European Union is afraid of no deal, why would you want to take it off the table? | |
| That is our leverage you are voting for. | |
| That is our influence in these negotiations that you are opposing. | |
| So I suppose the question is, how do the public feel about this? | |
| Well, I can tell you, the public are not very happy with this whatsoever. | |
| The latest polling shows that no deal Brexit is by far the most popular political position in the country with regards to Brexit. | |
| A Comrade survey found that 44% of the British public favours a no-deal Brexit over Theresa May's agreement. | |
| This is a six-point increase from January. | |
| Whereas only 30% of respondents thought that the country should not leave without a deal. | |
| And given how May has handled Brexit, it should come as absolutely no surprise that half of UK voters want Theresa May to resign. | |
| But the worst thing about all of this is it puts the European Union in a position where they can frame themselves as being the ones who have done everything they can, and that it is Theresa May and the British Parliament that are the ones being obstructionist about this. | |
| As Barnier tweeted out yesterday, the EU has done everything it can to help get the withdrawal agreement over the line. | |
| The impasse can only be solved in the UK. | |
| Our no-deal preparations are now more important than ever before. | |
| Unbelievable lies. | |
| They have refused every way that Britain has tried to make this an equitable split. | |
| There is no further discussion. | |
| You will not get any better result from the European Union. | |
| They are preparing for a no-deal Brexit. | |
| We must just leave. | |
| But instead, our Parliament has surrendered. | |
| So tomorrow, I will be at Parliament from about 3 o'clock to protest. | |
| I do hope that you will join me. | |
| And finally, what I'll do is leave a link to the join page of the United Kingdom Independence Party, a party of which I am a member. | |
| I would fully encourage you to join and get involved in the political process, because this cannot be allowed to stand. | |
| This is a flagrant betrayal of democracy. | |
| When this referendum was called, it was crystal clear. | |
| This is a copy of the Brexit ballot paper, the paper that everyone used to vote to decide whether we would remain or leave. | |
| It did not say, do you wish for a deal that was surrender? | |
| It did not say, do you wish to remain if the EU doesn't play nice? | |
| It said, do you wish to remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union? | |
| The leave vote won. | |
| There can be no option to remove no deal from the Brexit negotiations. | |
| Because ultimately, if you do that, you take the leave option off the table altogether. | |
| You betray the referendum. |
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