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Jim Grace #FBPE
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Brexit means:
1. Our own trade deals! ( But the WA backstop bans these.)
2. Freedom from EU state Aid
and competition rules ( But the backstop signs us up to them - including any future changes -
about which we will now have no say )
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3. The ability to cut red tape on environmental, employment and social regs. (But the backstop bans us from doing this, too).
4. No more interference in UK tax affairs. (But the backstop binds us to EU good governance tax principles)
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5. Control of our borders! (But the backstop means an open border with a neighbour Ireland and a new hard border between two parts of the UK)
6. More sovereignty! (But we can NOT unilaterally quit the backstop, whereas every EU member has the power to unilaterally leave the EU)
It seems like the May deal not only fails to deliver on Brexit promises, it actually does the precise OPPOSITE. It delivers less freedom, less control and less sovereignty than EU membership. And, unlike EU membership, there is no unilateral way out...
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Jim Grace #FBPE
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Superb.

#HannanIrishHistory : The potato famine was caused by EU protectionist racket tariffs.
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"When the EU banned tea imports from India and China the result was an Ulster plantation"
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Jim Grace #FBPE
@mac_puck
Minicab driver last night: "Why don't we just leave?"
ME: "Why do you want to?"
DRIVER: "All the rules telling us what to do"
ME (boy did he pick the wrong passenger): Out of 35K pieces of Westminster legislation, only 4K were EU-led, only 72 against our wishes.
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...and those were all about the EU forcing the UK to make food safer, clean up beaches, protect workers, protect consumers, provide a level playing field for businesses."
DRIVER: "But we can't deport criminals and sex offenders - there's a prison up the road full of them"...
ME: "You know we CAN deport foreign criminals, right? Unless they have naturalised as British or would not be safe in their home country.
And before the ref non-EU citizens were ten times as likely to naturalise (EU citz didn't bother).
And no EU country is deemed unsafe"...
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Jim Grace #FBPE
@mac_puck
I recently looked at "all them rules" that the EC imposed on the UK against our will. The Brexiters also like to bewail the tyranny of the ECJ, but usually cannot cite a single judgement. So here are all 89 judgements against HMG over the last 30 years (3 per year😱). Enjoy...
1) 09-07-91 e.ur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
ECJ: Unbelievable! You just moved your territorial waters further out! Did you really think no-one would notice?
UK: Ahh..soz. Ruler must have slipped, haha. Britannia "rules" the waves, wot wot!
(2) 10-10-89 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
ECJ: This law you passed: "A boat ain't British if it's owned or crewed by Wogs, Frogs, Dagoes or Wops". REALLY?!
UK: They're allowed as ballast…
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