PM’s shoddy Brexit deal will have us dancing to the EU’s tune and we get NOTHING in return

YOU cannot fault the Prime Minister for her tireless efforts at securing a deal with the EU.

In January 2017, she brought the Conservative party and country together with her Lancaster House speech.

She sought to heal the divisions from the referendum campaign and to honour the wishes of the 17.4million people who voted to leave.

And she outlined a clear vision for the UK’s future outside the EU - one of equal partners with a special relationship based on a trade agreement, mutual co-operation and respect.

Nothing in the withdrawal agreement demonstrates an “equal partnership”. It’s a one-sided deal weighted heavily in favour of the EU and it represents a complete capitulation by the Prime Minister.

It doesn’t serve our long-term national interest, it fails to deliver Brexit, puts our country in grave danger and breaches the clear promises made by the Government and in the Conservative party manifesto.

Despite our commitments that the UK would not be in a customs union with the EU, the withdrawal agreement would bind Britain into a “single customs territory”, forcing us to abide by EU tariffs. It also gives the EU a veto over our attempts to negotiate new international agreements and trade partnerships with other countries.

This would prevent us from lowering trade barriers to help poorer countries and block us from establishing new trade deals with the USA, our friends in the Commonwealth, and growing markets across the world. And it would harm our ability to deliver exports, trade-led economic growth and jobs.

We would have to refrain “from any action or initiative” which the EU deems to be prejudicial to its interests and the UK is explicitly frozen out of participating in the work of international organisations unless “exceptionally invited” by the EU.

No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity.

The EU court, which has done so much to undermine our law-making and democracy, will still cast a shadow over us. This makes a mockery of us taking back control of our laws.

And the proposal would leave our precious Union in a fragile state: Northern Ireland would be treated differently to the rest of the UK and we would have to seek the EU’s permission to leave the backstop mechanism. Members of the Conservative and Unionist party should never contemplate imperiling our Union in this way.

The EU is tightening its grip on us and we get nothing - certainly no trade deal - in return. And all this costs us £39billion!

Our negotiators have capitulated, undermining our freedom, sovereignty and our place in the world. We will forever be dancing like puppets to the EU’s tune, with Brussels pulling our strings even more firmly than before.

The British people voted to take back control of our borders, trade, money and laws. They chose a bright future as a free, independent and sovereign country. This agreement effectively means that the EU has taken back control.

This is not what the country voted for. If our Government is of the view that this proposal is consistent with the result of the referendum, it is not in our nation's interests for them to see it through.

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