Posted on 12/24/2020 4:48:51 PM PST by MtnClimber
The Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union concluded on Thursday, Christmas Eve, with the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen calling a press conference and boasting the EU got a “good deal” out of the years of negotiations.
Update: Boris Speaks
Speaking from Downing Street on Christmas Eve, Prime Minister Johnson announced the agreement of what he terms a “comprehensive, Canada-style free-trade deal” — an agreement that Mr Johnson has been seeking since the beginning of negotiations, which the European Union had said was impossible to strike.
“I’m very pleased to tell you that we have completed the biggest trade deal yet, worth £660 billion a year,” he said, continuing that the deal would protect British jobs by allowing “UK goods to be sold without tariffs and without quotas in the EU market, which will if anything allow our companies to do even more business with our European friends.”
Mr Johnson implied that the deal, which he said was 500 pages long — not 2,000 as previously claimed — and which as yet must be passed in the House of Commons, fulfils completely the June 23rd, 2016 vote to leave the European Union.
He said: “And yet, what it achieves is something that the people of this country instinctively knew was doable but which they were told was impossible: we’ve taken back control of our laws and our destiny, we’ve taken back control of every jot and tittle of our regulation in a way that is complete and unfettered.”
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You should not have to sign a deal to gain your freedom.
Really hope this works out for our Euro friends. Texit next?
Finally Brexit has been hammered out.
Even Theresa May might be quietly applauding.
From what I understand of the process, it was like trying to herd feral cats while standing at a dog pound.
Making deals is giving up a piece of your country.
Can you say Iran?
US stimulus bill ***5,593-pages...
momentous EU/UK trade deal, involving 27 nations & 24 languages, now only around ***500 pages, according to Boris and not the 2,000 pages BBC and the rest of the FakeNewsMSM were claiming yesterday!
Ours is 12 reams....and it goes to how many....about 600?
UK will have thousands less hurtles blocking every facet of life.
Perfectly said.
AllRedStatesExit would be good.
Did Boris hold up a “Peace In Our Time” sign?
BoJo sold out the UK. He should have gone “no deal” a long time ago. That’s what the UK voted for in 2016.
later
Praise YHVH (God) !!
Dude, Brexit was hammered out and the UK left the EU on 31st January 2020.
This is about a trade deal between the EU and the non EU member the UK
5w% of the voters in a non binding referendum voted leave. There was no follow up question on what type of leave.
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