Britain Faces Paying Huge Sums to EU for Single Market Access Under Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit Betrayal’ Reset
Britain faces handing huge sums to the EU for better access to the single market under Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit betrayal’ reset. The Mail has the story.
The PM is pushing for closer ties with the bloc under huge pressure from Europhile Labour MPs and ministers, arguing it can boost the economy.
Legislation expected as soon as next month could sign the UK up to EU rules on food standards, the electricity market, animal welfare and pesticide use.
That has been billed as implementing a deal agreed last year, but Sir Keir has already made clear he wants to go further – while stressing that fully rejoining the customs union and single market are off the table.
Downing Street said today there were “clear, indisputable benefits of closer alignment”.
Brussels sources have been making clear the Government will have to “pay to play” if Labour wants to remove more barriers.
Diplomats told the Financial Times that the bloc’s “red lines” meant the UK would have to obey EU rules and contribute to its budget.
Another official questioned whether there was any appetite in Europe for another renegotiation.
“Brussels is now preoccupied with the Ukraine war, European rearmament and internal negotiations over the next budget cycle,” they said.
“There is no remaining bandwidth at this point, while arguably there might have been back in July 2024.”
Sir Keir sparked a storm at the weekend by telling the BBC that he was looking at better access to the single market.
“I think we should get closer and if it’s in our national interest to have even closer alignment with the single market, then we should consider that,” he said.
“If it’s in our interest to do so, we should take that step.”
Critics fear the PM will be forced into more concessions as he desperately hunts for ways of saving his leadership.
The EU is pushing for a ‘youth’ free movement deal that could mean large numbers of people coming to the UK to work.
Before Christmas the government announced it is paying £570 million to rejoin the Erasmus student exchange programme.
On an annual basis the sum is double what Boris Johnson rejected as too expensive in 2021.
It is equivalent to roughly a fifth of the entire EU funding envelope for Erasmus+, although the Government insists a chunk of the money will go on travel for British youngsters.
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Starmer working hard to steal our money and hand it over to his masters.
The P.A.A., the Party of Anglophobes and Anti-Whitists (formerly the Labour Party), does not represent us, and has no intention of serving our interests. It has to be deposed.
Does China, or any non EU country, pay for access to EU markets? This is a strange kind of trading. Perhaps the EU should be charged for access to UK markets and especially our fishing grounds.
Starmer is committing treason.
Actually they do. The EU puts loads of tariffs on China. And from Jan 1st they have to pay carbon taxes on the stuff they import into the EU which has not been produced up to EU “low carbon” standards. All of which will of course end up as higher prices for the general EU population.
Funny how when Trump went on his tariff spree, the corporate media jumped to demonise it as economic madness, but carbon taxes (i.e. economic warfare masquerading as virtue) that raise prices on the consumer – that’s ok. Good for the planet, no doubt.
Yes, but a tariff is paid on goods delivered. We will be paying this failing, corrupt Ponzi scheme lump sums whether we deliver one pound or one billion pounds of goods. Surely better to pay on what we supply, after all, we are already selling more into the EU than before Brexit.
Wow the robot man is bending the UK over a barrel and telling the whole world to rxxe it to death. When does fifth columnist reality take hold?
Starmer, the biggest QUISLING ever in UK Politics.
It’s as though a referendum never happened.
Michael Crick on GBNEWS last night was mockingly dismissing the result as indecisive. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
More bare-faced mendacity than hypocrisy HoH.
The hypocrisy is that people like him expect the results they want to be honoured.
This is sickening Treason against the British People, as the Stalinists become ever more bold in trampling Brexit underfoot to drag us back into the EUSSR. It’s because Brexit disrupted the 1975 Club of Rome plan to create Ten Kingdoms, Ten World Regions, in which the British Isles was “assigned” to the EU, with Islamic Turkey stuck onto the southern end of it, instead of with the Arabic states where it naturally should be. “When the 2016 referendum concluded, the choice was made. Love it or hate it, seventeen million people voted Leave, and the democratic result should have been final. Yet for years, establishment figures refused to accept that verdict. They demanded second referendums, staged parliamentary revolts, and treated Leave voters with open contempt. The irony is that this very obstruction has now emboldened a Labour government determined to undo Brexit, but without bothering to ask voters again.” “As one observer put it, the EU has form here. Denmark rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and was forced back to the polls. Ireland rejected EU treaties twice before accepting them. Norway has voted against EU membership on two separate occasions, yet its elites continue to push. The pattern is… Read more »
If one subscribes to the perfectly reasonable theory that the Roman Empire never went away, borne out by the ubiquitous presence of Daphne’s laurels on all global livery, as well as the ancient obelisks relating to Isis / Osiris in Washington, the Vatican and elsewhere, surely the USA has the most overwhelming amount of Roman symbolism. As things stand, Donald Caesar has my support, but these times are impossible to read.
Sometimes you can make a meal out of all the scraps from the previous day. Just like the EU is made out of scraps left over from the Third Reich
No he doesn’t, WE do!
The irony is that we would be better off with EU health services funded by insurance. And the German municipal rental system where the tenant can have a long tenancy but are evicted quickly if they do not pay and/or trash the property.
The problem with Brexit is that around half the country and almost the entire state bureaucracy didn’t want it. Running a campaign to win a referendum is one thing. Producing and executing a plan to transform one of the biggest economies in the world from a highly regulated, European satellite to an independent, low regulation, global trading powerhouse is whole different matter. And the people who sold the idea clearly weren’t up to it.
So what’s the plan now? Languish as a highly regulated nation addicted to state benefits with suicidal energy and immigration policies, looks like. And go grovelling back to the EU for scraps. The future’s bright…
To be fair the people who sold the idea were not in power. Parliament, including large sections of the governing party, didn’t want to carry it out. It took some shenanigans and an election to even get to Stage 1. After that, the Tories were in power and we all know how good they are at keeping their promises. Johnson was PM, who switched to “leave” quite late on as I remember.
I still think leaving was the right thing to do because in the unlikely event the voters see sense and we get a vaguely decent government, they will have a bit more leeway to sort things out. In practice it has not made much difference yet and is certainly unlikely to under the current government.
Brexit in my mind was never a solution, it was a beginning, an enabling step – one that so far we have not taken advantage of.
Nice to see somebody who understands that Brexit is a process not an event. Unwinding 40 years of subserviance is not done quickly. Boris being an ignorant idiot botched the exit. The much maligned May DID finally understand that the best exit route was via remaining in the EEA but could not get a vote through Parliament to achieve it as both Remoaners and the ultra leave idiots voted against it. Another culprit is of course Nigel Farage – a man who ran a party with one aim but had no plan on how to achieve. Those with knowledge regard any idea of rejoining the EEA as pointless now. Do not forget that around 70% of the regulations of the EEA are actually global regulations that the UK can be involved with formulating and we would apply anyway.
The EEA was always Peter Hitchens’ preferred option. It made sense to me at the time though I have grown ever more suspicious of any supranational body.
I am not sure it’s fair to say Farage is a culprit – I think he played his part and it was up to others to deliver, which was unlikely to happen. If Reform are elected they might be able to chip away at it but as you say it will take decades, as will unwinding all the other crap we’ve done since 1945 – which is why it won’t happen.
As I remember it, Cameron stepped down almost immediately and then Johnson and Gove knifed each other in the back trying to take his place. So although technically they weren’t in power, it was only because they were so utterly incompetent they couldn’t take the reins when they were being handed to them.
I don’t have much time for Brexit justifications.
We’ve replaced EU migrants with Afghans and Africans. We’re as regulated and bureaucratized as ever. Perhaps worse because we’re even more fanatical about NetZero. We followed the same covid tyranny. And where previously Brits could live and work in the EU now we can’t even turn up with our passport; we have to get travel authorisation beforehand.
It’s an absolute disaster and any defence of it is just unresolved cognitive dissonance. In my view.
Johnson and Gove jumped on the bandwagon. I don’t count them as people trying to sell Brexit.
We are in the shit but that is not because of Brexit. It’s part of a wider, deeper malaise that leaving the EU gave us a chance to move away from. A chance we have not taken and probably never will.
I love Europe. I’m European. My wife is Italian and my mum was German. But I don’t think that “ever closer union” is good for any of us. I once thought that the EU could represent a way to help
preserve European civilisation and culture but that didn’t seem to be working out.
So a country on the brink of bankruptcy, is going to pay huge sums to a corrupt organisation that is going bankrupt and falling apart at the seams!
Sir Traitor.
2016 Vote Brexit – Brexit Denied
2019 Vote Conservative Get Communism
2025 Vote Labour . . .
The problem with aligning our standards with the EU standards is that it will change the standards with every country we do business with. It’s simply another EU trap, one that will tie us to further bureaucratic meddling. It is ok to say that goods entering the EU should meet a standard but dictating how those standards are achieved by interfering with UK laws and processes is another noose around our necks.
The DS did a great article on Venezuela today, in many ways what happened there is similar if not more destructive than the over bureaucratic EU. But interference is the way commies function.
Starmer is setting one hell of a precedent here. All the things he has just done. Against his manifesto, and against what the people want. Reform are going to be able to do so much, because they want to.
He knows he hasn’t got long …. he’s a man in a hurry to do maximum damage before he’s ousted.
Anything he agrees should be rescinded by the next Government (hopefully a Reform one).
Words fail to encapsulate the incompetent that is Starmer.
Starmer looks to want to put the UK into the position of having rules to obey, but not being able to have any say in what those rules are. It’s like someone living under the control of a Local Authority not being allowed to elect who sits on that authority. Oh, wait a moment…