The Political Declaration is not a vague wish list, but an attempt to bind the UK to EU policies | BrexitCentral

Posted on by wilfredaspinall

This sets out what I have been saying about the whole of these BREXIT negotiations. Both the Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration have been composed by the Commission (including the footnote references to EU legislative Directives etc.). To come up with these texts it has taken months of deliberation, crawled all over by the Legal Services of the Commission, Council and European Parliament. Remember both these documents are covered by Union Law

Did the UK government have any input

Suddenly these documents hit our headlines but have they really been examined

The legal advice by the Attorney General appears to have concentrated on the NI/I backstop since this has been the main issue that Members of Parliament have been able to get their heads round – also applies to the media.
The current attempt by the government is concentrating on the backstop but should they not look in more detail
These two documents have not been written under common law by UK official channels. Nobody writes 585 pages (in the WA) plus the Political Declaration without an objective and nobody can convince me, with over 30 years of close involvement with the EU Institutions, that these documents were being written to favour the UK leaving the EU
– Where was the input from the UK government in writing these legally binding text
– When were they seen and who in the government actually read them and scrutinised their content and meaning before they were published. Was this why two Secretaries of State for DExEU and the Foreign Secretary plus other Ministers resigned
– How can it be possible to contemplate agreeing to these documents without a detailed analysis on their impact on negotiations for the future relationship between the UK and the EU
– Have all MP’s fully read these documents and taken outside advice on the long term meaning of compliance of a legally binding Agreement under Union Law or are they jumping on the “backstop” issue
– Why have we had debates in the HoC that have concentrated on the “process” to a deal as against debating the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the Floor of the HoC on an Article by Article basis
– Why hasn’t the HoC in examining these documents in detail not insisted that Commission Officials who wrote these documents be available to questioning
– To much detail left to chance
I am not convinced we the British people are being looked after
 
I am not convinced the the government is on top of the issue
 
I am not convinced that the HoC is on top of the wider implications
 
This is not what I would have called negotiation 

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