Re: Misled Over Brexit ? Certainly Looks That way !
Yes, and those eleven issues I list again here for clarity:
1. EU trawlers allowed up to 6 miles from UK coast for 5.5 years.
2. One third of our fishing stocks are promised to the EU ongoing.
3. The Deal set up a "Partnership Council" to review the Deal for years to come – so we don't have full control.
4.
The Deal sets up a RAFT of 19 specialised Committees and 4 Working Groups to review and change aspects of our relationship – bet you had never heard of them??
5. Boris committed the UK to stay in the European Convention on Human Rights – Strasbourg Judges will have the power to strike down British Acts of Parliament – That is not taking back full control.
6. There is still major conflict about shipments to Ulster and conflict with the Protocol.
7. Gibraltar is being crucified by Spain and must join the Schengen Zone.
8.
The level and length of our payments to the EU have not been finalised.
9. Our commitment to the European Defence Fund and the EU Defence Force, and limits to our independent Defence sourcing have not been finalised.
10. The Deal did not cover Financial arrangements and freedom for the City of London – when 'Services' are a much larger share of our GDP than 'Trade'.
11. There are restrictions on our State Aid to commercial operations.
Most of these I was already aware of.
No. 4, however, strongly suggests that we are still tied to EU rule in some respects, despite what some have claimed: BRINO rather than BREXIT.
No. 8 also came as a surprise. I thought we had paid £39 billion, or thereabouts as the price of our so-called freedom. I didn't know that we had to keep paying beyond that. Again, a sell-out by Boris.
These just go to show that despite all the celebrations on 1 January, we have still not fully left the EU.
Boris has played a blinder, for some reason known only to himself, and effectively kept us at least under some control of Brussels.
I sincerely hope that he and his party pay for that in 2024.