1. The UK has adopted a light touch to border controls for EU products entering the UK. The EU has done the precise opposite to UK products entering the EU.

2. The UK has unilaterally allowed EU firms ‘equivalence’ to operate in financial services in the UK. The EU has done the opposite, actively trying to prevent City firms from operating in the EU.

3. The UK has unilaterally relaxed the EU’s imposed customs controls on GB products entering Northern Ireland, to preserve peace and maintain the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. The EU is now taking the UK to the EU court for this.

Observations

As usual Facts4EU.Org has used the EU’s own data, released yesterday. In this way those who are anti-UK and pro-EU cannot accuse us of using selective data from the UK. In light of Covid, we have looked at the comparison between the EU’s purchases from the UK and the EU’s purchases from its other top 10 suppliers. This clearly shows that the UK is being disadvantaged.

The rote response from those who wish ill on an independent and sovereign United Kingdom to any such news is to say: “See, Brexit is a disaster, we told you so”, or words to that effect. Never once do they question whether it is the EU’s appalling behaviour towards the UK which is at fault.

It really is time to say enough is enough, ditch the N.I. Protocol, and go WTO

In two weeks’ time the UK Government must decide whether it will impose the EU’s rules making GB sales of sausages, burgers, and cold meats into Northern Ireland as difficult as possible. If – as it should – the UK Government refuses to impose these vindictive and nonsensical EU rules, the EU will almost certainly retaliate against the UK with more legal action to claim penalties, and by taking action to introduce tariffs on UK goods going to the EU.

The figures in our report above show how the EU’s closest major partner in trade is not benefiting from the so-called EU-UK ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ signed by Boris Johnson. Quite the reverse. The EU27 are well on the way to increasing their massive trade surplus with the UK.

Facts4EU.Org were the originators of the ‘Go-WTO’ campaign in 2017. We wrote repeatedly that the EU would never behave reasonably and that the UK was better off going for trade on WTO terms. Our position is unchanged.

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