Brexit

The Tory Party’s respected Bow Group says our ex-PM’s “Brexit agreement is a FRAUD!’’

If you want conclusive proof that Boris has not ‘done’ Brexit, just listen to what the Bow Group – his Conservative party’s oldest think tank – has to say about his deal.

They say it’s a ‘fraud’ And other political pundits say Brexit has ‘a long way to go.’

The Bow Group’s courageous chairman Ben Harris-Quinney has issued a statement saying : ’Boris’s Brexit deal is a bit of a FRAUD.

‘On immigration, on the ability to make our own trade deals, and on sovereignty, Brexiteers are not getting what we wanted, however much we want to believe we are.’

Here’s 10 reasons why…

  • ‘Inadequate time has been given for Parliament and citizens to analyse and scrutinise this bill…. Never in British history has such a huge piece of legislation been forced through Parliament and without recourse to any revision.
    ‘It is therefore unparliamentary and cannot in any case bind Parliament beyond this session. ‘Without revision it cannot be deemed anything but a European directive,’
  • ‘The UK will add around 4 million new citizens as British citizenship is granted to EU nationals…. ‘A major motivation for the Brexit vote was a desire in the public to see immigration fall dramatically.
    ‘There is nothing in this trade deal, nor in any currently proposed government policy, that would facilitate any significant fall in immigration, and the numbers of new British citizens is likely to rise dramatically’.
  • Continuation of Regulatory Alignment.
    ‘Level playing field provisions on trade cut across large areas of domestic policy and in effect retain the laws of the EU Single Market on the United Kingdom; without the ability to take back control on regulation deals, in effect pushing the EU in front of the UK in any future USA trade deals.’
  • ’Lack of control on taxation and subsidy.’
    ‘The proposed deal restricts the UK government’s ability to set levels of taxation that fall outside the EU’s threshold in order to prevent the UK undercutting the EU.’
    ’It places similar restrictions on the ability of the UK government to subsidise UK businesses. ‘Both of these restrictions make it difficult for the UK to gain a competitive advantage over the EU, to improve our domestic circumstances from the status quo inside the EU.’
    ‘This is restrictive both in terms of domestic policy and our ability to get new trade deals.’
  • ‘A poor deal for fisheries….. We are deprived of fishing stocks in perpetuity after 2026….’
  • ‘A restrictive and poor deal for services.’
  • ‘A divide between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.’
  • ‘The treaty binds us to the European Arrest Warrant principle of extradition of British subjects without prima facie evidence, so it is not true that we are not under the ECJ (European Court of Justice) jurisdiction, when member states can issue infraction proceedings against us.’
  • ‘A continuation of foreign court jurisdiction over the UK. The treaty binds us to the ECHR (European Court of `Human Rights) and to UN bodies. It specifically allows the EU to terminate the entire deal within 15 days if it believes the UK has repudiated the ECHR.’
  • ‘Continued binding the UK to the EU on defence.’
    The UK will continue to fund the European Defence Agency via Horizon 2020 and of course by our own huge contribution to NATO.
    ‘The UK’s insistence on maintaining NATO funding and forward provision without condition has proven unwise, and while we have acquired many new neighbours with this treaty, we have gained no friends.’ ‘The Uk should insist such forces can be summarily withdrawn from the EU within a period of 15 days in keeping with the termination clause of the treaty.’

[Bow Group patrons include Sir John Redwood. MP, Lord Tebbit, and Lord Lamont.]


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