Thread by @BlayneyDeborah

LORD HANNAY cont
#BrexitBill UNTRUTHS
Does jurisdiction of ECJ in this country cease on Thursday?
No, not in NI, & not in respect of issues relating to the status of EU citizens living & working in this country
Are were gaining our independence?
No, we never lost it!
#BrexitLies

How otherwise could we have decided to leave the EU?
Are we regaining unfettered sovereignty, that golden calf before which so many supporters of leaving the EU seem now to worship?
NO, this agreement we are debating inhibits the exercise of our sovereignty in hundreds of...

different ways, as does our membership of NATO, acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the UN’s International Court of Justice & the WTO's dispute settlement procedures,as do the provisions of the rules-based international order we are, quite rightly, defending & promoting

I suggest one of the best tests of the agreement is what is NOT covered by it—what we really will lose..or at least risk losing. That includes freedom of SERVICES, which are 80% of our economy & in substantial surplus with the EU; financial services, which depend on equivalence..

of treatment YET to be settled;
recognition of PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, which depends on a cat’s cradle of bilateral arrangements YET to be negotiated;
& DATA exchanges, which are IN LIMBO.
Our INTERNAL SECURITY & ways to deal with..INTERNATIONAL CRIME are SEVERELY REDUCED😭

from what we have now, with the Home Secretary surely alone in asserting that we shall be more secure🔥😂
..not a trace of any provision on co-operation on foreign policy & security, yet we need not only bilateral co-operation with other European countries, but co-operation with

the EU’s decision-making institutions.
This is a sorry tale before we even get to the detail😭
CONC: Britain could have done better, Britain needs to do better, & Britain will do better at some future point when we have regained some of our national characteristic of pragmatism.