5TH FEBRUARY 2021 THE REALITY BEHIND EUROPE MONTHLY £3.50 A UKIP view of the Brexit deal Neil Hamilton n an article for UKIP N e i l flourish for another five and a half ‘Partnership Council’ made up of UK Hamilton expressed the wishes of years, with Frau von der Leyen and EU representatives. A l o n g s i d e Imany UKIP members when he gloating that the EU has secured this, it has spawned of a raft of wrote his views on the EU Brexit deal “strong tools to incentivise” the UK to specialised committees. The document entitled, ‘This Brexit deal is better than continue allowing their trawlers into is also scattered with reviews after four remaining, but No Deal would have British waters after 2026. years on many aspects of the been best for Britain’. The “bribe” (as ‘Fishing for Leave’ agreement. We must be sure that this “A deal has been deal has been put it) of a £100m funding package is Council cannot abuse the reviews as an agreed and we are finally over the line. nothing more than a consolation effort. opportunity to return us to EU control. I am pleased that we are no longer British fishermen know that they are I had hoped that we’d cut ourselves subservient to the EU after 47 long being shafted out of the billions that free from rule by bureaucrats. years. But, Boris’s deal - though could be made if we opted now to In a spectacular Tory U-turn, Boris obviously a better outcome than reclaim 100% of our fishing grounds. has committed the UK fully to the remaining – is far from perfect. It is a scandal that Welsh fishermen European Convention on Human First, I must congratulate the Prime were allowed to land only of 10% of Rights. Strasbourg judges will retain Minister on some significant victories. the 83,000 tons of fish caught in Welsh the power to strike down British Acts Continued tariff and quota-free trade waters last year. We must correct this of Parliament. So don’t expect a stop brings a great amount of immediate injustice. to the rubber dinghies flooding across certainty to businesses. Second, No wonder ‘Fishing for Leave’ have the Channel or an end to violent freeing the UK from the palsied grip of called this a “pretty dismal deal”. The foreign criminals using legal loopholes the European Court of Justice is very Prime Minister has sacrificed the to avoid deportation. much something to be celebrated. fishing communities, granting free This is a devastating blow for those Third, the significant and lucrative access to our waters during the 5.5 who, like me, advocate a British Bill of agreements on the future of financial year transition. This will see foreign Rights to replace the Human Rights and legal services are very welcome. vessels allowed to fish up to 6 miles Act so we can truly get a handle on However, these all could have been from the coast. We have also achieved if we had left with UKIP’s extraordinarily committed 1/3 of our illegal immigration. preferred option of No Deal. I fishing stocks to the EU thereafter. Also, let’s not forget that unresolved understand the Prime Minister has a lot Make no mistake; this is not a good questions still remain in Northern on his plate, but I’m afraid, just like his deal for our left-behind coastal Ireland as well as Gibraltar and the last “oven-ready deal”, this one is communities. They were promised a Falkland Islands. tepid and needs more cooking. Brexit that would revive them but have Once again, today’s Conservative C o n s p i c u o u s l y, this deal was been thoroughly let down. politicians demonstrate their lack of released on Christmas Eve – a The theatrics of the Brexit the creativity and ingenuity that once notoriously good day for spin doctors negotiation and Tory HQ’s euphoric, made their party great. This aversion to to try to bury bad news. grandiloquent spin on this deal will any sort of calculated risk explains Just as Heath sacrificed the UK fool only those who want to be fooled. why this Government can never put fishing industry to get us into the EEC Examine the fine print and you’ll see the Great back into Britain. in 1973, Boris has betrayed it now and that, whilst better than remaining, Radical, unique thinking is what’s treated it as an expendable battalion in there is plenty of scope to return us to required to make Brexit the great the greater battle for a half-decent the European project through the back success it can be. Sadly, this trade agreement with Brussels. Our door. Government will miss many coastal communities will be unable to The Brexit deal establishes a opportunities Brexit will bring.”

INSIDE: Fisherman lose out again p 2 - Update on the Brexit Party p 2 - Gibraltar trapped by the EU p 2 – Omissions from the Brexit Deal p 3 - China now largest destination for Foreign Direct Investment p 3 – Brexit and the Lords 4 - EU version of financial stability p 5 – Policing problems in Belgian p 5 - G7 summit p 5 – Letters p 6 VOL 26 NO 6 UK Fisherman lose out again ollowing the deal agreed with taxes on exports of British fish to the of how each species of fish will be the EU over fishing in UK EU or by denying UK boats access to shared out between the UK and the EU Fwaters, yet again just as when we EU waters. during the transition. joined the EU 47 years ago the UK The UK fleet can expect increases in fishing industry has become the pawn The deal runs to more than 1,200 quota for 57 out of the 90 types of fish in the deal. pages, with a whole section and several caught in UK waters every year. Regaining control over UK waters annexes ‘Dedicated to Fisheries’. But quota shares for some species was a key part of the Leave campaign They have agreed that 25% of EU like Channel cod, of which EU boats in 2016. boats’ fishing rights in UK waters will (mainly from France) catch more than Now that the new UK/EU be transferred to the UK fishing fleet 90% each year, will remain unchanged. agreement - on trade and so much else over a period of five years. - has come into force, what does it This is known as the “adjustment What happens after 2026? mean for fishing? period”, giving EU fleets time to get After the end of the adjustment The deal basically is this: used to the new arrangements. The EU period in June 2026, there will be * EU boats will continue to fish in wanted it to be longer, the UK wanted annual talks to set the amount EU UK waters for some years to come. it to be shorter - it looks like they’ve fishing boats can catch in UK waters * But UK fishing boats will get a met somewhere in the middle, with an (and vice versa). greater share of the fish from UK end date of 30 June 2026. At that point, the UK has the right to waters. Under plans outlined in the deal, EU completely withdraw EU boats’ access * That shift in the share will be fishing quota in UK waters will be to UK waters. But the EU could then phased in between 2021 and 2026, with reduced by 15% in the first year and suspend access to its waters for UK most of the quota transferred in 2021 2.5 percentage points each year after. boats or impose tariffs (taxes) on fish * After that, there’ll be annual By 2026, it’s estimated that UK exports from the UK to the EU. negotiations to decide how the catch is boats will have access to an extra Tariffs could even be extended to shared out between the UK and EU. £145m of fishing quota every year. In other goods, but it would have to be in * The UK would have the right to 2019, British vessels caught 502,000 proportion to the economic impact of completely exclude EU boats after tonnes of fish, worth around £850m, the fishing breach. 2026. inside UK waters. There will be an arbitration system * But the EU could respond with The document also sets out details to try to resolve fishing disputes. Update on the Brexit Party xtract of ’s policy e n e rgy and resources to the other to a whole new level. Ewith his replacement of the Brexit pressing issues facing the nation. That * Please support us as we campaign Party with a name change to the is why we have applied to the Electoral in many areas for Reform, by renewing Reform Party. Commission to rename the party. We as a registered supporter. There is * With your support, we have want to be known as the party of much to be done. We need to get ready achieved a lot since we launched in Reform. The proposed name reflects for elections next year. We need your April last year. We rescued Brexit and the ambition: Reform UK. help. in so doing, restored some confidence * ... This year has reinforced the in democracy in the UK. need to take on the bloated institutions [Following receipt of the name change * will try to sell any and major vested interests. The House application, The Electoral Commission deal as a great deal, whereas we know of Lords, the BBC, the way we vote, has now accepted this name change to that No Deal is always better than a law and order, immigration, to name the Reform Party and Boris has bad deal. but a few. The Prime Minister making accepted a Trade Deal rather than a * It is now time though to apply our his own brother a peer takes cronyism no-deal. - Editor.] Gibraltar trapped by the EU pain reached a deal with the UK to joined the Schengen zone and will Gonzalez, just hours before the UK Smaintain free movement to and follow other EU rules, while remaining exited the EU. from Gibraltar from the 1st January a British Overseas Territory. The Rock voted to remain in the UK 2021. The deal was announced by the in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish To avoid a hard border, Gibraltar has Spanish Foreign Minister A r a n c h a workers go there daily.

PAGE 2 eurofacts 5TH FEBRUARY 2021 Omissions from the Brexit Deal Lee Rotherham he immediate standout elements costs or safety or business. It can fix the treaty constrains challenges when it are those which are not in the these, so long as it is guided by the is used – by doing so it effectively Ttext. The Services section has basic international standards (rather assumes that applying the been left paddling pool depth, though than more prescriptive EU ones). If the precautionary principle is bound to be to be fair it has never formed the deep changes that follow mean that a British right. This creates a loophole which end, even within the EU treaties. business gets a noticeable competitive could be abused to obstruct trade. It A l a r m i n g l y, the Northern Ireland advantage, then the Commission can may also prove a strategic disincentive Protocol still stands unfixed, save for apply redress. It still has to prove its to the UK exploiting emerg i n g some permissions allowing relabelling case, the penalty can’t be escalatory biotechnologies. Direct retaliation of goods from Britain to take place in but has to be of equivalent value, and a becomes difficult because any designated warehouses. As the review panel could find it in the wrong. response using the same excuse could Protocol was meant to be only a Collectively this provides a be more easily identified as an act of backstop this remains a defeat, though mechanism that allows the UK to bad faith. one locked in by Barnier’s self- d i v e rge from existing EU red tape interested insistence on sequencing where rules are more of a burden than The hidden architecture and the rolling incoherences of the an advantage, and particularly where May team’s strategy. non-EU commerce and universally- Another area of real concern we can Many other omissions, however, are applied costs are concerned. point to is the size and complexity of deliberate. Overall, the texture of the Importantly, it does so in a way that the architecture underpinning the treaty largely feels like an FTA. Lots of does not deter the UK from pursuing agreement. There will be no fewer than the elements could have been pulled reforms, since any EU retaliation is 19 new committees and four working from an EU bilateral that a country like both uncertain and clearly bounded. groups beavering away behind the Malaysia or the US might have signed. Better yet, I would also suggest that scenes, all in the mould of Brussels Indeed, the cynic is left wondering if the Commission may find it politically c o m i t o l o g y. Here the flexibility is the plug had been pulled in, say, embarrassing at times to challenge double-edged. These committees can October, how many of these sections regulatory diversion, because it would provide fixes to gaps that people would have been cobbled together as have to demonstrate the extent to overwhelmingly want to plug, like mini-deals. I suspect a lot, but that’s a which its own legislation carries finding a replacement system to EHIC secret for the EU’s archives in Florence considerable red tape costs. (a structure that the Spanish badly need and future memoirs of retired EU Furthermore, I suspect this will to more easily recoup costs of treating negotiators to ultimately yield. encourage the EU side to reflect on UK pensioners abroad). The problem There is an element of elasticity in regulatory burdens, and might some of the more contentious areas. encourage economic liberals within the arises when they go tonto, as they Contrary to what was being spun by EU institutions to pursue proper cost- inevitably over time will, signing up to the likes of Dennis MacShane, the benefit analysis of proposed laws. It programmes with political objectives Human Rights clauses do allow could even rejuvenate the aiming at ever closer union. reform. The text recognises the C o m m i s s i o n ’s wheezy regulatory This risk is compounded by the fact importance of the principles behind the review audit. If so, it would be a that UK money is already from 2021 European Convention on Human remarkable parting gift to the going into supporting participation, Rights, but does not require the UK to reformers within the EU27 if it did turn though the figure is expressed as a retain the calamitous Human Rights out this way. However, that’s an percentage (‘0.5% rising to 3%’) so the Act 1998. It merely states that if the optimistic take — Brussels rarely extent of our commitment is presently HRA is removed there should be some misses the opportunity to miss an unclear. However, the combination of a other domestic framework to replace it opportunity. largely blank sheet of programmes, – which might well be the mooted More of a concern is the retention of plus money that is now there and ‘Charter of Rights and Obligations’. the Precautionary Principle. This is not ‘needs to be spent’, risks generating a The Level Playing Field similarly so much of an issue on the UK side, but civil service cadre incentivised to keep includes a degree of suppleness. The it does raise the prospect of the rebuilding links to Brussels. UK can indeed go out and identify red Commission applying it as a Source: tape, whether to do with environmental protectionist tool. The problem is that www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk China now largest destination for FDI Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China up by 4% last year, making it the world leader replacing the USA. eurofacts 5TH FEBRUARY 2021 PAGE 3 Brexit and the Lords Baroness Fox elow Baroness Fox spells out each. Talk about showing contempt for the Internal Markets Bill, which would the Brexit Deal for the Brexit the importance of the issue. I did what have at least allowed some leeway to BWatch Organisation. I could with the measly time allocated. untangle the mess of the Northern “IT WAS A DAY I had long waited A few observations about the Ireland Protocol (more than any for – the final moment when Brexit debates on both days: the Remain feasible tweaking of a trade deal), could not be overturned – when an Alliance in the Lords is meant their crocodile tears and agreement with the EU would become absolutely NOT over losing, and still hectoring rang hollow. an act of parliament. No going back. do not have any clue as to why anyone Of course for Leave voters, the And I would be there, in the House of voted Leave in the first place, still issues of Northern Ireland, fisheries Lords – an extraordinary enough turn citing £350 million on the side of the and indeed far more in the agreement of events – physically in that very bus, the default assumption that people need to be resolved, and vigilance is chamber that had done so much to voted for sunny uplands and financial urgently needed to make sure Brexit is thwart Brexit. gain rather than principle and not undermined by trade Now was my chance to speak at a consistently mistaking demands for a r r a n g e m e n t s . But for now, I am historic debate. Except it wasn’t to national sovereignty as Little grateful that Brexit-Watch has given be. Even the paltry three minutes I had Englander sentiment. The fact the vast me a chance to share what I would been allocated as speaking time at the majority treated the loss of the have said on December 30th – an historic debate was snatched from me ERASMUS scheme for students as a exclusive version of the three-minute at the last moment. I, along with about tragedy was telling, as if the ending of speech I never made: another 30 peers, was culled from the one costly if worthy initiative used by ‘My Lords, I hate that we are being speakers’ list. The whips’ office was a minority of UK students should be bumped into a vote with no time for not interested in my pleading or the enough to make millions regret leaving scrutiny. We get 3 minutes each in this fact that I was the only former Brexit an undemocratic institution. debate – not even a minute for each Party representative in the chamber. It For what it’s worth, I had always long year of waiting for this moment. was treated as a merely administrative, been a fan of ERASMUS until I went Personally, I think the Government pragmatic solution to an issue of too to Brussels as an MEP. As a member of should have shown courage, and many speakers applying for slots. I the CULT Committee that walked away from the EU’s remain to be convinced there wasn’t a administered it, I continually heard preposterous demands and made a tad of political malice in the decision how ERASMUS was discussed as an clean break. (maybe I would cause trouble on the indispensable tool in inculcating values Already it’s clear: there are far too Government’s big day) but I endured of EU citizenship values in the many murky traps lurking in the detail. the loss (after some private tears of young. In other words it was openly And who can blame the DUP and frustration I confess) and instead discussed as a propaganda tool, SDLP for voting against an Agreement enjoyed the moment vicariously, hear, instrumentalising educational that allows Northern Ireland to be hearing loudly when at least Kate Hoey opportunity to embed EU federalism in partitioned out of the UK’s was allowed her say. She didn’t let European students’ minds. jurisdiction. Leavers down and made an excellent In the second debate, it was often However, credit to the Nobel Lord speech, packing-in loads during her Remainers who raised the issue of a Frost for at last breaking the invidious own three minutes. She and I stayed in shoddy deal for fishing to argue why political grip of the European Court of the House until the bitter end that day, the agreement should never have been Justice. and waited for royal ascent to be given. signed. They are right the fishing But: we need reassurance. What has Phew. Done at last. industry was sold out, quotas the UK signed up to, for example, in Irritated that I was forced to watch negotiated far short of what was relation to programmes such as from the side-lines, some promised, but the hypocrisy of those Horizon which seems to be regulated compensation was offered by the who would have been happy to remain by EU judges? And if the Deal is to be assurances from defensive Tory front- within the EU’s fisheries policy interpreted by a complicated benchers that at a specially convened suddenly discovering empathy for governance structure: who exactly will debate on January 7th, all those denied coastal communities was staff that Joint Partnership Council and speaking time on December 30th galling. Similarly, the plight of the its myriad specialised committees? would have more time to speak. Guess Union – so jeopardised by separate Can we at least be assured all their what – ever true to their word (!!!) at arrangements for NI – was raised by proceedings will be open to public that debate all backbench speakers m a n y. H o w e v e r, those same peers scrutiny and not conducted behind were all given a mere TWO minutes argued vehemently against Part 5 of closed doors?

PAGE 4 eurofacts 5TH FEBRUARY 2021 Brexit and the Lords These are such important questions determinedly used the ballot box time parliamentary sovereignty. YET we’re told there’s no time to and again, piling the pressure on Boris Johnston will need to look a n s w e r. So, who can blame Brexit politicians to finally honour the directly into red wall voters’ eyes, face voters, by now used to being sold referendum result. down coastal communities, and own all out, from being suspicious and asking - Voters succeeded against all odds. decisions taken, including the is this BRINO, another betrayal? They were up against the highest unsavoury parts of this DEAL. There are NO guarantees but echelons of technocratic establishment Parliament will need to ANSWER TO looking at the bigger picture, power – and many IN THIS PLACE – fishing communities and my former the Agreement - even in the small print who really believed they had the right colleague June Mummery and explain - seems to have prioritised sovereignty to overturn 17.4 million votes. Who – W H Y – while the UK may have even over trade - so I will reluctantly EVEN NOW – lack the imagination to regained control of its waters – it vote for it. see life beyond Brussels OR to see bartered away so much in This seems especially important IN Brexit beyond the narrow prism of a negotiations. THIS PLACE, where so many have GDP spreadsheet. YES, this Deal has huge limitations. sneered at sovereignty since 2016. I therefore welcome that this Deal Nevertheless, it’s the first democratic National sovereignty has been signals the anti-democrats have lost step towards CHANGING POLITICS maligned as parochial, xenophobic, (on Brexit at least) and see it as proof FOR GOOD. In Lockdown Britain, nostalgic nationalism - rather than the that a democratic movement really can that’s an enormous challenge; we need foundational basis for democratic change the course of history. every ounce of freedom, and a c c o u n t a b i l i t y. Worse, in dismissing Brexit was never a destination, but democratic spirit to rebuild society. But popular sovereignty as “populism”, too the start of bringing democratic if UK CITIZENS show the same steely many here have revealed a snobbish, accountability home. Now that’s a courage that they mustered to escape elitist disdain for the demos itself. reality - THERE’S NO ESCAPE. the EU’s clutches, anything is possible. In fact if it wasn’t for populist Indeed, this House may feel the democratic perseverance, there consequence of a mood keen to remove Source: www.brexitwatch.org w o u l d n ’t even be a trade deal to unelected law-making. GOOD. Baroness Fox of Buckley is a former consider. Full credit to Nigel Farage Meanwhile, no-one can now hide B rexit Party MEP (2019 - 2020); and the Brexit Party for offering voters behind blaming the EU for laws which director of the Academy of Ideas and a rescue vehicle. BECAUSE the only will now be made here, including so its think tank, Institute of Ideas; and a reason that Brexit is now a reality is many Henry VIII powers in this Bill, well known writer, broadcaster and due to those millions who which are an anathema to author. EU version of financial stability he EU’s answer to the financial The Eurozone finance ministers According to the Irish Finance Tproblem with the European agreed, on Monday 30th November, to Minister Paschal Donohoe, who chairs Stability Mechanism is simple, just upgrade the currency bloc’s bailout the meetings of the so-called upgrade the system. In other words fund. This will allow it to help out ‘Eurogroup’, “The [bank] backstop is give it more money! So much for a (bailout) failing banks, the system will a last resort. It’s a further safety net at stability mechanism be ratified next year. our disposal should we need it.” Policing problems in Belgian olice in Belgian are under scrutiny Wednesday the 13th Brussels-North streets were vandalised. Pfollowing the death in police station where it was reported that 500 According to the Belgian interior custody of Ibrahima B., a 23 year old people were involved. minister Annelies Verlinden, the Belgian on Saturday 9th January this The report stated that King violence was ‘unacceptable’ and has year, after a riot broke out. Philippe’s car was hit by stones, a promised to investigate the alleged The people’s riot took place on police station was set on fire, and police ‘misconduct’. G7 summit he upcoming G7 economic summit The seven members are Canada, This will be the first UK visit by Joe Tis scheduled to be held during June France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and Biden the new president of the United at Cabis Bay in Cornwall. USA. States of America. eurofacts 5TH FEBRUARY 2021 PAGE 5 LETTERS Tel: 08456 120 175 email: [email protected]

31st December statement me never to surrender ! Furthermore, it appears that the SNP In common with other prominent had asked if Monsier Barnier would Dear Sir, eurosceptics I have been called a engage in a photo shoot with Ms A lot of water has passed under ‘bastard’, a ‘Little Englander’, a Sturgeon, ‘for social media purposes’. Westminster bridge since I wrote ‘headbanger’ and even an ‘extremist’ Clearly an important issue for Ms personally to my 335 Parliamentary but, as the saying goes, he who laughs Sturgeon. colleagues in May 1992 pointing out last, laughs longest and what our Yet again her view of Independence the most alarming aspects of the political opponents described is that Scotland should be a one in Maastricht Treaty. a s e x t re m e is now, thank- twenty-eight member of the EU instead Today, when at 11 pm - midnight in fully, mainstream - and long may that of a one in four member of the UK. ‘the heart of darkness’ - we are finally last! In an Italian newspaper Le Corriere (and I believe, irrevocably) out of the I genuinely consider that at 2300 Ms Sturgeon expressed the wish that European Union I should be feeling this evening it will be entirely Scotland should, “join you again soon euphoric but, like Nigel Farage, my appropriate to raise a glass and toast as an equal partner as we face the feelings are simply those of relief that the restoration of Freedom & opportunities and challenges of the the nightmare we have endured for the Democracy for which we have all in future together”. best part of 50 years is finally ended. our various ways worked so hard. The term ‘equal partner’ leaves a lot Like so many others I would have I take this opportunity of also to be considered especially given preferred ‘No Deal’, but given the hand sending you my very Best Wishes for a Scotland’s position in Europe and its that Boris was dealt and given that Happy & Healthy New Year. small population, if it rejoins it will be ‘politics is the art of the possible’ I CHRISTOPHER GILL a rule taker with little influence on think that what we have got is better Wales decisions taken at an EU level. than we could possibly have hoped for It now appears that the SNP will be whilst our destiny was in the hands of SNP party priorities! using the May elections (if they go the ineffable Mrs May, or indeed her ahead) for a further push for predecessor. Dear Sir, Independence. Without my vote! The Trade & Cooperation Treaty is Having read the letter regarding DAVID MCGREGOR far from perfect and as far as Fisheries, Scottish Independence in e u ro f a c t s Edinburgh Northern Ireland and the future of 18th December, I would like to add the Financial Services are concerned following. EU dictatorship leaves a great deal to be desired. While the Covid crisis was raging in The S p e c t a t o r magazine has Scotland and the need for saving jobs, Dear Sir, described the treaty as ‘needlessly long investing in schools and protecting the We hear that the EU has warned it will and turgid in its prose: this document NHS, our First Minister had other tighten exports of Covid vaccine was not drafted by people who think priorities. produced in the bloc, amid a row with the law should be understood by all’ - According to recently released AstraZeneca over a cut in planned quite so ! information Ms Sturgeon and the SNP supplies. Now in my 85th year I may not live spent considerable effort with 25 AstraZeneca had informed the EU to see the full realisation of the letters and Emails over the last year to that it was falling behind on its supply potential that this new chapter in our interfere with the UK Brexit target because of production problems. island history offers, but, at least, from negotiations. The supplies of vaccine will be this moment onwards we will know (Scotland First l o w e r, slowing down the EU’s precisely where the buck stops and Minister) had been pestering Ursula vaccination drive. The European parliamentarians will, perforce, have to von der Leyen (President of the Commission’s answer, take it from the stop trying to pass it back to Brussels ! European Commission) and other EU UK’s supply, ordered before the EU’s. The real purpose of this letter is to o fficials in order to keep or allow The result of this action is that the say thank you to all of you have Scotland to remain inside the EU. EU cannot be trusted not to interfere befriended and supported me during It appears that SNP ministers have with contracts and businesses of what at times has been a lonely battle been holding discussions with EU companies in the EU or even the UK if against the forces of totalitarianism and officials and that Ms von der Leyen it gets a chance. to say how important that has been in refused Ms Sturg e o n ’s apparent DENNIS COLEMAN boosting my morale and encouraging request for a role in the negotiations. Manchester

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