FUTURE MEANINGFUL NEGOTIATIONS 

The result of the indicative votes demonstrated that the HoC does not have an answer to the current BREXIT exit. No one solution was given a majority.

The Withdrawal Agreement equally has failed. Everybody refers to it as the government’s document but it was the EU that drew this up and has been emphatic that there is no possibility to reopen negotiations. The EU has to change its position 

The EU has produced an Agreement that would bind the UK into accepting EU laws, under Union Law, adjudicated by the ECJ for many years to come.

We hear that the EU does not want to have a No Deal Brexit. 

My experience of dealing with the EU Commission over the last 30 years is that they will blink if forced to do. The member states will exert their pragmatism realising that they have lost annually  €15bn from their budget

The 17.4m who voted to LEAVE have been let down by those in government who appear to have capitulated on most issues in the negotiations with the EU. Clearly there was no over sight exerted by the political arm of government.

They have also been let down by those who demanded the “NO DEAL” option be taken off the table. Negotiations don’t finish until there is a deal or end when no deal is the only conclusion

The referendum vote was to leave. The negotiations by government and these indicative votes demonstrate that 70% of members in the HoC are Remain supporters

The government now need to tell the EU that the option that had the majority support was the Brady amendment for alternative measures which now needs to be introduced into the Withdrawal Agreement.

There could be an agreed solution but the EU would have to break away from the prescriptive script set out in the Withdrawal Agreement adopt a pragmatic way ahead found. I will be very surprised if the EU, as a whole, don’t now realise that their objective in this BREXIT process needs amending 

The UK is the 2nd largest EU economy, the 5th largest world economy, the 2nd largest contributor to NATO (defending the security of Europe). A permanent member of the UN Security Council

How can anybody try and say that the UK has to seek the permission of the EU in order to exit. 

That a Decision of the Council of Ministers overrides UK law. 

We will not be pushed about and to add insult we are expected to handover £39bn.

SOLUTION

Article 4 of the Withdrawal Agreement needs to be deleted and all references to that Article taken out of the Withdrawal Agreement 

The Irish / Northern Ireland backstop needs to be deleted and the Articles and Clauses referring to it reworded or deleted. 

A declaration be undertaken between the UK (involving NI) the Irish Republic (involving the EU) ratifying the Good Friday Agreement to maintain no hard border between NI and the Republic of Ireland

A specific timeframe of 12 months should be inserted in the Agreement to conclude the future relationship between the UK and the EU

No funds that are negotiated during this 12 month period should be handed over until the future arrangements are agreed and implemented 

The Withdrawal Agreement needs to be scrutinised in detail to make sure that it’s text complies with the wishes of the UK. That may need additional amendments in the 585 page document. The document should be reduced in size. 

A pending document could ensure this

The statement that the Withdrawal Agreement sets the scene for discussions and negotiations on the future relationship between a sovereign UK and the EU must be deleted from the Agreement in order that the future can honour the terms of the UK referendum and the objectives of the EU

The renegotiated conclusion should be completed by 22 May 2019. Without such a mutually agreed conclusion the UK will exit the EU on WTO terms yet maintaining a meaningful dialogue to have a FTA between the UK / EU

ESSENTIAL that the Withdrawal Agreement follows the sentiment of mutual cooperation and trust.

If the EU are intransigent we LEAVE on 12 April 2019 with NO AGREEMENT on WTO terms