Goodbye and good riddance to the tampon tax. Yes, this Brexit is better than no Brexit at all. But it is still a bad deal. We remain subject to the State Aid rules, rendering impossible the regeneration of the left behind areas that swung the referendum for Leave. By 2024, that and the sellout of the fisheries will be impossible to ignore.
The Liberal Democrats upfront, and much of the Conservative and Labour Parties barely behind the scenes, will then go into the General Election saying that Brexit had failed. They will do the same, but even more loudly and forcefully, in 2029. But I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?
It’s going swimmingly. As well as scrapping VAT, we’ve today implemented John Redwood’s recommended ban on pulse fishing and live animal exports and are set to ban EU supertrawlers too.
ReplyDeleteLet’s now implement the rest of John Redwood’s recommendations including scrapping VAT on a range of other products, capping immigration from inside as well as outside the EU, scrapping EU port regulations to put in the Freeports and Enterprise Zones more quickly than current plans, reforming our farming grant regime go to promote more UK grown and reared food, removing all tariffs from Mediterranean and tropical produce we cannot grow for ourselves, (to let UK consumers buy tariff free from non EU destinations) drop IR 35 and improve the tax and regulatory package for small and start up businesses and use government procurement more intelligently to back UK small business where they are competitive or innovative.
You've been had.
DeleteAll of these things are now possible thanks to an excellent deal Labour etc describe as “thin” because it gives us huge regulatory freedom.
ReplyDeleteThe Government is going to do few or none of them. John Redwood abstained on this deal because Michael Gove had failed to give him the assurances that he had sought in his speech.
DeleteWe’ve already made a promising start.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/01/eu-fishermen-banned-electric-pulse-trawling-uk-takes-back-control/amp/
And that's pretty much the end of it. Redwood is 100 times cleverer than the ERG, and he has seen through this from the start.
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