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Stuart Budd #PeoplesVote 🇬🇧🇪🇺❄️ @StuartBudd1
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The #Brexit choice......

The UK will align all standards to it's trading market.
EU or US

Satellite of US & take their food standards with no say.
Satellite of EU & take their food standards with no say.

Part of the EU & make the standards on food with full say.

#PeoplesVote
If being a Satellite of the EU and taking standards, including food with no say, can the UK influence legislation?
Yes, a little.
It can ask an MEP from a country represented in the EU to put it's case.
Is the UK any good at it's own food standards?
No.

BSE
Salmonella
Foot and Mouth
Bird Flu
Swine Flu

"we are going, once more, to have the freedom to make our own decisions on …how we label our food…”
Theresa May, 2 October 2016

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1/
 The Withdrawl Agreement

Loss of UK sovereignty
Bound by the backstop
No trade deals
Subjected to laws with no say, bound by the ECJ.

Humiliation for Britain:
politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/11/…

Top 40 horrors lurking in the small print of the Brexit deal
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/the-to…
2/
 Article 4
The UK is bound by the ECJ after the transition period

Withdrawl Agreement reference:
ec.europa.eu/commission/fil…
3/
 Article 7
The UK will be subject to EU laws under the ECJ during and after the transition period ends.
The "transition period" could last forever.
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1/
 I’m an Expert on Negotiations, and I Have Some Advice for Theresa May
Maybe there’s still hope.....

Ref:
nytimes.com/2018/12/20/opi…
2/
 "It’s not often that you can foretell success or failure clearly at the beginning of a negotiation process. But with Brexit, I could"

"Almost none of what was promised is actually possible"
3/
 On Monday, she reaffirmed that she won’t support a second referendum, a counterproductive move that limits her options and her leverage. But with a vote in Parliament scheduled for the third week of January, she needs to do something to break through the impasse...
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Unite Members:

57% backed #PeoplesVote
24% leave voters backed #PeoplesVote

West Midlands car workers:
“Only now have voters started to see through the initial referendum campaigns and truly understand the implications & costs of leaving the EU."

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Unite union:

"open to the possibility of a vote on any deal the Tories come back with"

"members fears that the Tories' in-fighting and destructive red lines will bring ruin to their jobs and communities"

Unite Statement:
unitebrexitcheck.org/unite-policy-c…

#PeoplesVote
Great speech by Julie Ward MEP on why she marched with #WomenForEurope for a #PeoplesVote

Women and the young will be the most affected by #Brexit



#PeoplesVote
#StopBrexit
#FBPE
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#brexit is a belief, a religion. There's no evidence to support it. It is just a blinkered faith. They believe what they want to believe. Their leaders are preachers, not politicians, & their reaction to doubting them is that of nothing less than a religious fundamentalist #FBPE
2. As such many will quite literally do this for some kind of reward in the next life or for a "cause" for their fellow followers. And when you read the words of some of their protagonists that is exactly what one sees.
3. And we must ask how it is possible so many have been converted to this religious extremism. In general it will the same as elsewhere, hardship, poverty, hate, a conditioned mind that is made to believe a specific group is the cause of their troubles.
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At Chequers @theresa_may, alongside @POTUS, says she thanked him for expelling 60 intelligence officers from #Russia following Salisbury nerve agent incident.
Will pursue a US-UK free trade agreement following #Brexit, adds @theresa_may.
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So @MichelBarnier is making case for a goods border in Irish sea.

- UK has agreed to respect IE place in Single Market.

- EU says all good entering NI "must comply" with rules of single market (ie checks)

- And notes SPS checks already exist "and everyone is fine with that"
I've not heard the Cion plan to 'fix' Ireland made so plainly by @MichelBarnier before.

Essentially making case for goods border in Irish Sea.

But we saw in December how quickly that inflamed Scotland issue /2
But if "English #Brexit" brings English frictions and Ireland has de facto SM membership, then how long before Scotland (which voted 62-38 remain) wants same.

Can't work in current political climate where things that might have once been smuggled through, no longer can. /3
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I did a quick explainer for @prospect_uk on how #Brexit may affect #VAT, both domestically and in relation to EU-UK trade. Quick thread on some of the key points: prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-…
1/ The UK, like all other EU member states, currently is part of the common EU VAT area. While the EU does not prescribe exact VAT rates, it put in place certain guidelines, e.g. a minimum standard rate of 15%, or limits on granting of reduced rates and exemptions.
2/ Leaving the EU presumably means leaving its VAT area (Monaco currently only non-EU state that is a member). This would have a range of serious implications, both positive and negative.

(Though some trade experts expect EU would offer UK continued membership, if asked.)
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Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
Ex-Russian spy & daughter 'poisoned' in UK sparks fears of another Kremlin-backed hit. Investigators scrambling to identify the chemical used. Skripal feared for his life after his wife died in a car crash & his son was killed in a road incident.. thesun.co.uk/news/5733372/s…
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Skripal's brother, son & wife have been killed in the last 2 year.
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EU Commission has published the draft mandate for #Brexit transition talks.

ec.europa.eu/commission/sit…

A couple of noteworthy points:
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(1) As expected, Com demands that whole of EU acquis should continue to apply to the UK, incl. all four freedoms, Euroatom, justice and home affairs, even down to the current UK's opt out regime.

This crucially includes primacy of EU law and direct effect
(2) UK will no longer benefit from EU FTAs during transition. This is detrimental to UK economy, but also implies that it may strike its own FTAs during transition.
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