BREXIT – All the Withdrawal Agreement clauses on Union Law must go

The WA as it currently stands has been totally rejected by the HoC. It cannot be brought forward unaltered. Indeed if at all.

We would like a long term settlement with the EU to regularise our future relationship between the UK and the EU members states. A non tariff, mutual recognition of standards and rules on goods and services Free Trade Agreement

I think most member states would like that too

I noticed that Michael Gove on the Marr Show, when pressed about the WA, said that the backstop must go but he then went on to say that everything in the WA that required the UK to come under Union Law (and that includes jurisdiction of the ECJ) also had to be deleted

Most people will not have read the WA’s 585 pages including footnotes setting out EU Directives and Regulation that the UK will have to comply with. Remember the WA was composed by the EU Commission for a purpose. And that purpose was not to help the UK . Compliance with Union Law is explicitly set out in Article 4 (I cannot understand why this Article has not been given great prominence).

In addition current interpretation of the Withdrawal Agreement comes under the competence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ)

If all the clauses set out in the WA that required the UK to comply with Union Law were deleted this legally binding Treaty would  be a different document. The HoC might be able to support it.

The Government no doubt are crawling all over the WA and if following a complete review Union Law Compliance and other related issues such as the NI / I backstop (and essentially Article 4) are deleted we might just be on a settlement path.

A NO DEAL scenario must however be on the table as leaving on WTO terms remains an option. EU member states will then have to trade with the UK but the GATT article 24 can apply until a FTA is sorted out

It is essential that Prime Minister Boris Johnson keeps his nerve, the Cabinet sings the same tune and the United Kingdom leaves the European Union on 31 October 2019

Those MPs who are asking for “No Deal” to be taken off the table are indeed undermining what most voters want and encouraging the EU to continue to resist further meaningful negotiations. The withdrawal of the Whip must be the ultimate sanction

The electorate will support the PM to get an INTERIM deal pending further discussion on a Free Trade Agreement