Complains: 1. Northern Ireland "cut off from the rest of UK" 2. European Human Rights regime "remains in UK" 3. UK "saddled with a rotten fishing deal" 4. EU firms will "still be allowed to tender for UK govt contracts"
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Nigel Farage further on "Boris Johnson's rotten deal"
"In regulatory terms, the EU will hold a Sword of Damocles over Britain with the threat of immediate tariffs if they judge that Britain is being too competitive".
"This is not what I campaigned for".
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Nigel Farage today:
"This is most certainly not what Boris Johnson's supporters voted for in the 2019 General Election".
"These handicaps will not allow Britain to transform itself into the Singapore-style entity in a European time zone that it could become."
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Farage quoted in Mail and today's Daily Express Brexit LIVE page
"UK fishermen tear apart Boris Johnson's 'disaster' deal - complete 'DEFEAT'"
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2. Immigration will surely be trickier. But is UK govt really going to sabotage this? Will they also make reciprocal EU students going to N Ire unbearably difficult?
No.
As for numbers - English is the most demanded language - so Scotland will have no problem attracting students.
3. Costs - a problem. But not insurmountable it’s a matter of will & priority.
EU as @guyverhofstadt has shown has many interested in supporting UK students in ERASMUS.
In any case ERASMUS is not significantly expensive due to principle of reciprocity & low transport costs.
What many fail to grasp is - as English is more or less obligatory for EU youngsters - there’s always far more EUers wanting to come to UK than any other country. And particularly Brits who are shared out over many countries.
This has 2 effects..
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As Erasmus is largely reciprocal this means UK academic institutions don’t have to try too hard while EU colleges tend to be generous with Brits. I know my Erasmus year was much better run than German students going in opposite direction. They couldn’t afford to lose us.
1. A deal was always going to happen 2. UK rightwing media was not in the place to let May do it 3. As disaster of no deal + COVID became clear Tories accepted a deal had to be done 4. Boris delayed deal to last moment possible to hide scrutiny
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So ignore “instant takes” from
Leavers & remainers.
Real issue
Can the UK deviate from EU standards without either restrictions to single market and/or long negotiations.
If the answer is no - then essentially it’s May’s deal with a few added decorations & disguises.
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The whole fish thing was ridiculous.
Again as I’ve said all along if fish is the only issue left..a compromise would be found. We eat each other’s fish and both sides know they need to protect fish stocks.
Any claim of “EU victory” here is as silly as any “UK win” claim.