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A UKIP View of the Brexit Deal 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 Nigel Farage’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 * Boris Johnson 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.
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