"Eurosceptic Anne-Marie Trevelyan was tonight handed the job of negotiating Britain’s post-Brexit trade deals after Liz Truss succeeded Dominic Raab at the Foreign Office."
At least she won't ignore her principles for power. (But her CV dooms us further.)
dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2021/09/trevel…
In a nutshell, from the article: "She voted for Brexit in 2016 and was a member of the hardline European Research Group. She resigned as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in 2018 over former PM Theresa May’s draft EU withdrawal agreement."
Dire. Dire. Dire.
Let's get to know her, in 4 tweets...
(Note: my earlier assessment was accurate.)
She ticks all the myth boxes...
- Fast-growing markets far away can replace the giant market on our doorstep.
- % growth is king, raw numbers don't matter.
- No deal was a viable option, and an important negotiating tool.
- Democracy! Democracy! Democracy!
- GATT Article 24.🤦♂️
But wait, there's more.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan is an avowed worshipper at the altar of the One True £350 Million a Week message on the side of the Brexit bus, even going as far as to resort to the mathematical equivalent of a word salad to justify it...
Never mind. At least she's happy to acknowledge that Brexit "can take longer and even cost more as far as I am concerned".
Fine words to live by for the person in charge of our future trade deals. Wonder if she's had them made into a plaque?
Another reminder that she's not fussed if Brexit leaves us all poorer because it's the "greater ideals" that matter.
In Feb 2018, she attributed a boost in food and drink exports in 2017 - yes, 2017 - to Brexit.
Why? Presumably because we'd voted for it by then. But since we had yet to even reach the Brexit transition period, nothing whatsoever had changed by then in our trading relationships.
BTW, the notion that Brexit is worth being worse off has been ingrained in her since before the referendum...
Worth noting that her base salary is £81,932, and she's going to trouser an additional £31,680 for being a Minister of State.
So presumably "worse off" is relative.
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