DEADLINE 29 MARCH 2019 

REJECT THE WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT 

What a mess this BREXIT negotiations has become. Should I conclude that the government, MP’s and the civil service just want this to go away and abdicate our sovereignty to the EU.

Reason – they don’t know what to do

We should not allow the HoC to change the will of the people

17.4m people voted to Leave the EU

We British are brave, determined, resourceful and innovative 

The UK is the 5th largest world economy

The UK has a permanent Seat on the United Nations Security Council

We are not a push over but the way the negotiations with the EU have been conducted I must conclude we have been so far let down by weak negotiating tactics

The EU Withdrawal Agreement ties the UK into complying with Union (EU) Law, Regulations, Directives, Decisions and European Court of Justice rulings. Complying with all standards and rules on goods and services, immigration policy, security and foreign policy. Complying with tax rules, especially VAT, and any other legislation currently in being but also any new EU proposals during the implementation period. We will possibly be able to negotiate FTA’s with Third countries but only on EU terms (these will be unacceptable to those third countries) and unacceptable to the people of the United Kingdom

To make matters worse the Withdrawal Agreement will continue to apply until the future relationship between the UK / EU is concluded. To withdraw from the WA requires a positive decision jointly by both the UK and the EU

This has nothing to do with the Northern Ireland / Ireland backstop, that is but a political consequence of the Agreement

My past experience tells me that the future relationship between the UK and the EU will take years to conclude. Our demand to be a sovereign nation able to democratically control all the above will not be possible because it has to be a joint decision to put aside the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement. Think about that – the UK is the 5th largest economy in the world with a permanent Seat on the UN Security Council yet here we are looking to cede our sovereignty. (Start saying goodbye to the UN Security Seat). 

The UK should set out exactly what is required in the process of developing our future relationship. This Withdrawal Agreement is not good enough and it should be rejected

I will repeat – this Withdrawal Agreement was composed by the European Commission, it has footnotes referring to EU Regulations and Directives. It is a legally binding Treaty under Union (EU) Law overseen by the ECJ. It has been drawn up to protect the EU

TELL ME who on earth agreed to this Withdrawal Agreement 

17.4m people in the UK voted in a referendum to LEAVE

No involvement with the EU Internal (single) Market

No involvement with the EU Customs Union

Not under the rulings of the ECJ

MAKING OUR OWN LAWS

Yet here we are and nothing has changed and without knowing what – if any – the future relationship between the UK / EU will be. 

In addition we agree to pay £39bn to the EU.

SURELY THIS IS A JOKE.

On this Blog Article 4 has been highlighted just to illustrate that all the above is factual. It has been mentioned extensively by Sir Bill Cash MP during the HoC debates

I will repeat Article 4 below

The Prime Minister (the government) lost the vote on the proposed Withdrawal Agreement by 230 votes, that should have been the end of it. No more negotiations with the EU unless the Brady Alternative Arrangements were adopted. Certainly no Article 4, include a unilateral get out clause and no payment of the £39bn until we know exactly what the future relationship will be.

Those MP’s who are continuing to want to remain in the EU, who want to support an extension of Article 50, pay up the £39bn, take “No Deal” off the table and comply with Article 4 of the Withdrawal Agreement really need to consider their position since this will be a complete betrayal of the GE Manifesto of 2017 where both Conservative and Labour promised to honour the 2016 Referendum

Nobody in their right mind would support all the above during a negotiation unless of course they have never ever entered into a negotiation – which sadly I believe is the status of many of our Members of Parliament.

READ ARTICLE 4 Set out below

Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community

14 November 2018

ARTICLE 4

Methods and principles relating to the effect,

The implementation and the application of this Agreement

1. The provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of Union law made applicable by this Agreement shall produce in respect of and in the United Kingdom the same legal effects as those which they produce within the Union and its Member States.

Accordingly, legal or natural persons shall in particular be able to rely directly on the provisions contained or referred to in this Agreement which meet the conditions for direct effect under Union law.

2. The United Kingdom shall ensure compliance with paragraph 1, including as regards the required powers of its judicial and administrative authorities to disapply inconsistent or incompatible domestic provisions, through domestic primary .

3. The provisions of this Agreement referring to Union law or to concepts or provisions thereof shall be interpreted and applied in accordance with the methods and general principles of Union law.

4. The provisions of this Agreement referring to Union law or to concepts or provisions thereof shall in their implementation and application be interpreted in conformity with the relevant case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down before the end of the transition period.

5. In the interpretation and application of this Agreement, the United Kingdom’s judicial and administrative authorities shall have due regard to relevant case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down after the end of the transition period.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION

The HoC should Vote against the Withdrawal Agreement this week and immediately enter into negotiations for a non tariff Free Trade Agreement. We don’t need a Withdrawal Agreement if our word is to be believed and trusted. 

We should Leave the EU on 29 March 2019 and conduct trade under WTO terms (we already do so with other Third countries). That will concentrate the minds of the European Commission and the government’s of the 27 EU member states

Why are we allowing ourselves to fall into a Withdrawal Agreement that, in effect, penalises us to remaining under Union Law – certainly during the transition / implementation period but thereafter if the future relationship between the UK / EU has not been agreed.

Unless there is a deadline under which the UK can unilaterally withdraw from the WA we could be trapped under EU (Union) Law for decades. It appears the EU will never agree to that

TIME FOR SOME STRAIGHT TALKING

Those Ministers who want to openly remain in the EU should declare their intention and should resign. 

WE NEED TO LEAVE THIS EUROPEAN UNION NOW NOT IN TWO YEARS TIME