“Britain is back on the world stage,” he proclaimed

Not anymore, Prime Minister. Britain is now back in the EU cage

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An Editorial by our Chairman

Yesterday Sir Keir Starmer, the great internationalist, began his statement in the most peculiar fashion. After opening with: “Ladies and Gentlemen, Britain is back on the world stage” he immediately continued to sound-check two trade deals that truly did present Britain on the world stage:

“In the last two weeks alone, we’ve delivered trade deals with India and the US. That means: jobs saved, jobs created, more growth and a huge vote of confidence in this country…. lead the way internationally… made Britain a place where people want to do business once again.”

How strange he should feel able to begin his triumphant speech by talking about the world stage when he was about to announce that Britain was turning inwards again, to the shrinking portion of the world market that is confined by the EU’s borders. Neither of these two world deals with India and the US will now go ahead as planned, given what he was about to say. And many of the other trade deals the UK has done are now in serious question.

You’d have to be stark, staring Starmer to present this total EU sell-out as part of:

“Doing deals that will grow our economy and putting more money in the pockets of working people.”

Yet of course that is precisely who he is.

Virtual reality

The extent to which reality intrudes into the Prime Minister’s consciousness has never been an easy question to answer. Perhaps yesterday took us all a step closer to the option on the multiple choice answer paper of “Not to any extent you’d notice”.

This ‘Great EU Reset Summit’ was all over so quickly it was more like a press call. Leaders showed up at Mansion House, had a coffee – and presumably had their cake and ate it – came back out, kissed, embraced, smiled for the cameras and hurried off back home, doubtless to crow about it all to their colleagues.

The actual text of the ‘agreement’ / ’understanding’

Yesterday it was the EU Council that was the first to rush something out in writing, perhaps because they feared Sir Keir might suddenly wake up and realise what he’d done. It came in the form of a ‘Joint Statement’ which you can read here.

This was followed by the EU Commission releasing its own statement entitled “A renewed agenda for European Union – United Kingdom cooperation - Common Understanding”.

The only thing that can be said in favour of these texts are how vague they are. So thin on substance, so thick on the subsuming of the country into the suffocating envelope of Brussels bureaucracy, regulation, enormous expense, and group-think. An ideologically-driven dreamworld.

Warm words, cold hearts (and some broken ones)

One of the very few details in both the Council’s and the Commission’s texts was on the destruction of the UK’s fishing industry. This wording managed to devastate the lives of thousands of fishermen in just 15 words and a date.

“We note the political agreements leading to full reciprocal access to waters to fish until 30 June 2038”

That was it. 15 words and a date, telling our fishermen that they will continue to suffer foreign fishing vessels in their waters for another 12 years. We know that for some this will be the final straw.

Somehow in his statement, Sir Keir managed to present this as “a win-win”.

“We’ve reached a deal today on fish, protecting our access, rights and fishing areas with no increase in the amount that EU vessels can catch in British waters.”

“No increase?!!!” A more accurate description would be “robbing us blind”, but this is ‘a win’ because we will stay just as blind as we were before. Blind, because the EU won’t admit to how much fish they actually do take from our waters. The last time this was calculated was in 2016 when the UK was still a Member of the EU. At that time the EU fleet was taking EIGHT TIMES the value of fish from UK waters as the UK Fleet was taking from EU waters. Our colleagues at The UK Fisheries Campaign will be saying a great deal more about this.

Taking back control?

As for reversing this with the next government, think long and hard, because the EU certainly did.

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), supposedly inviolate, has had its ‘cherry on top’ picked and, well.. taken. Previously deemed unamendable it is now possible, apparently, for this precious young thing to be deflowered and to have a new clause inserted. The sly new entry is the incorporation of the new surrender of the UK’s sovereign waters for a further 12 years.

This TCA, once inviolate, can never be the same again. The next UK government can’t then take back our lost 12 years, because if they do we will become subject to the overriding clause under the TCA which allows the EU to take away some significant part of the trade and tariffs agreement as a penalty. That is the point at which some serious decisions will need to be made.

The position before Sir Keir’s ‘Understanding’ is set out in writing. At the end of June next year all UK waters became ours. The new agreement changes that hard-won agreement completely.

The EU’s first major colony

Yesterday it was official. The EU has it’s first major colony. No empire is truly an empire without a colony. The EU already had one, in the case of Northern Ireland, but this is too small and too poor to crow about too much. From yesterday however, it had its first major prize. One of the largest economies in the World, arguably one of the top three soft powers, and the fourth strongest military power in the world. And it only cost the tickets to fly or Eurostar over to get it.

Did any readers detect the slightly incredulous aspect in the smiles of the EU leaders, as if they were worried they were merely players in one of Sir Keir’s eu-phoric dreams.

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Cherries, cakes, and del-eu-sions

EU Commission Negotiator Monsieur Michel Barnier and EU Council President Donald Tusk were fond of taking English idioms and using them as if this would somehow ‘educate’ the great British people who voted for freedom and independence.

“There can be no cherry-picking,” they intoned with supercilious but vaguely menacing smiles on their faces. Cakes (having them and eating them) and cherries (picking them) were scattered with some confident air as if this proved to the British that even judged by their own idioms, to go against these and vote Leave made them idiots. And poorly-educated ones at that.

Deranged, del-eu-ded, and delivered. The United Kingdom’s cake, replete with cherries on top, presented by arch-europhile Sir Keir Starmer on a gold-starred platter to a beaming German bureaucrat. Used to having it all in her charmed life where legal actions are easily avoided by quickly moving on to a more senior role, it’s the first time we’ve seen the woman almost embarrassed at the enormity of what she had been given – and the ease with which it was delivered.

The bonus she had woken up to that morning – which we’re sure she could barely have believed – was the news that the French, sensing weakness, had pounced in the final hours of the negotiation and secured something no-one had thought remotely possible. 12 years continued access to the UK’s sovereign waters.

And at the end…

Sir Keir ended as he had started, the true internationalist and globalist, happily subsuming the nation state of the United Kingdom into an Orwellian New World Order. Like a little boy who had just been given the toy he had been hoping for all year.

He summarised with this:

“And that’s what this deal is all about: facing out to the world once again in the great tradition of this nation.”

That could not be further from the truth. Somewhere in that rather unusual mind of his he knows this. In our following reports analysing this ‘Understanding’ with the EU we will dissect and destroy Sir Keir’s fiction, piece by piece.

[ Sources: EU Council | EU Commission | No.10 ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Tues 20 May 2025

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