No self-respecting country
would accept this deal-
MPs must vote it down
By DANIAL HANNAN
SUNDAY, MARCH 3,2019
The deal will come
before Parliament next week represents a devastating failure
of
BRITISH STATECRAFT
It would keep most
of the costs of EU membership while junking most of the
benefits. It would require Britain to cede part of its
territory to
FOREIGN
JURISDICTION.
It would allow
BRUSSELS
to
CONTROL
OUR COMMERCE with
NON-EU STATES
EVEN AFTER WE
LEAVE.
MPs
who believe in
parliamentary sovereignty
should
VOTE AGAINST IT.
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MPs
who believe in the
UNION
should
VOTE AGAINST IT .
*
MPs
WHO BELIEVE IN FREE TRADE
should
VOTE AGAINST IT .
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MPs
who believe that there is such
a thing as
NATIONAL HONOUR
and who
recognise that we are being treated in a
calculatedly vindictive way should toss it out with especial
force.
They should do so even if the
alternative is a
DELAY
IN
BREXIT.
They should do so, indeed, even
though such a delay might allow the Mandelsons and Blairs to
step up their campaign for a
SECOND
REFERENDUM.
A postponement, undesirable as
it is, is less damaging than accepting permanently
DISADVANTAGEOUS
TERMS.
As Lord King,
the former Bank of England
Governor
put it
:There are arguments for
remaining in the EU
and arguments
for leaving.
But there is no case whatsoever
for giving up the benefits of remaining without obtaining
the benefits of
LEAVING.
WE keep being told that
unreasonable
Eurosceptics
are their own worst enemies and
that, if
BREXIT
is now
thwarted, it will somehow be their fault.
But it is hard to
think of a more unreasonable proposition than that all that
matters is coming back with something that can techically
be termed
BREXIT.
Even after 30
months. Leavers are still being subtly patronised. It is
assumed that the dim-witted oafs cannot possibly have
weighed the costs and benefits before voting, and that all
that the Government needs to do is to show them something
that has BREXIT written on it in bright , shiny letters.
In fact, Leave
voters understand that some forms of Brexit are better than
others. They understand too, that some are so BAD that they
would be worse than either
STAYING or LEAVING
The EU, of course,
has understood this
FROM THE START
[THE MERKEL-MAY CLOSE ASSOCIATION GOING BACK MANY DECADES.]
As
Michel Barnier
put it in 2016,
"I'll have done
my job if, in the end, the exit terms are so bad that the
British would rather stay in the EU."
Such an attitude on the part of Brussels was to be expected.
The readiness of our negotiators to go along with it was
not.
Far from being
uncompromising, the supposed hardliners in the ERG have
accepted a series of CONCESSIONS, including a continuing
role of the [MISCHIEVOUS]
EUROPEAN COURT
OF JUSTICE
AFTER WE LEAVE.
21 months of
non-voting membership, an absurdly one-sided arbitration
mechanism and a
30 BILLION
FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT.
THAT NO INTERNATIONAL
ARBITRATOR WOULD UPHOLD.
They have accepted all these
things despite the conspicuous absence of the trade deal
that was supposed to be
quid pro quo.
Eurosceptic Tories have dug in
on only one point, namely the
BACKSTOP, and with good reason.
No self respecting country would allow the regulatory
annexation of part of its territory in exchange for... well,
FOR NOTHING AT
ALL,
really since the promised
TRADE DEAL
HASN'T
MATERIALISED.
At least EU membership, unlike
the
BACKSTOP
comes with an exit mechanism.
We are thus being asked to
replace a temporary arrangement with a permanent one
THAT ALONE IS
ENOUGH TO REFUSE...
[ This is a lengthy article of
which we are barely half way through which we will continue
shortly. For many months now we have been unable to download
articles from the Daily Mail-Daily Telegraph and others
,which therefore means resorting to fingers and in that we
follow the action of our brave archers at Crecy and raise
two fingers aloft in their image to our enemy within who
wish to sell out their once FREE INDEPENDENT NATION
STATE-the burial grounds at home and abroad of our brave
patriotic service men and women are no doubt in spirit with
those today in their just fight for that which no one has a
right to give away-the historic
" Freedom and Liberties of ENGLAND'
"
which is in our
TRUST for future generations to come.]-
TO BE CONTINUED.]
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One thing, at any
rate, ought to be beyond dispute, Britain should not sign a
permanent treaty under duress. The
WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT
has been proposed
in a
VENGEFUL SPIRIT
Eurocrats have
understandably concluded that we have no bottom line, that
the British are negotiating as Herman Van Rompuy, the former
European Council president, reportedly put it last week,
"With their backs
against a wall, the abyss in front of their eyes and a knife
on their throat. WE are nearly there."
There was a time
when that attitude would have been enough to convince us
politely to decline the EU's TERMS and forge our own way.
are we still the
nation we used to be?
[REGRETFULLY THE
SIGNS ARE NEGATIVE!]
[COMMENTS IN
BRACKETS ARE OURS!]
SUNDAY, MARCH 3,
2019
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