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UK 🇬🇧 - 🇦🇪🇸🇦🇶🇦🇴🇲🇯🇴🇧🇭 GCC FTA
Reports are coming out in multiple news outlets, that the FTA between the UK and the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is about to be agreed imminently.
This will be another great Brexit benefit if achieved.
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ICYMI, here is a selection of independent views on the Chagos handover...
1⃣ From @RUSI_org - "The UK’s surrender of Chagos is a symptom of strategic ineptitude" (1/3)
rusi.org/explore-our-researc…
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The Chagos surrender is beyond belief. Why are we paying a foreign country up to £30bn to take an asset that belongs to Britain? Why are we damaging our long-term national security? Starmer looks like a man with a bizarre and pointless fetish for self-mutilation.
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ANOTHER STARMER SLOW CLAP
The EU are saying that the UK-US deal does not in their eyes conform to WTO rules, and that their agreement with Starmer earlier this week requires the UK to comply.
They want the UK to cancel the US deal too.
politico.eu/article/uk-accus…
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DAMN
The Chagos injunction from the High Court has been lifted. Starmer is yet again about to sign it all away to Mauritius for nothing.
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UK 🇬🇧 - 🇧🇭🇯🇴🇴🇲🇶🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪 GCC FTA
The UK Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, says that the next trade deal to be signed will be with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which will be coming down the track shortly.
Another deal we couldn't do without Brexit.
bbc.com/news/articles/ce802r…
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This is such a disgraceful lie.
Domestic producers have to pay through the ETS (emissions trading system). Importers looking to replace those now uncompetitive producers with the same cheaper goods from overseas, pay CBAM (carbon border adjustment mechanism).
Both UK and EU have ETS and CBAM schemes, but the EU ETS costs more and the majority of revenue goes to the EU budget.
So UK importers will not face UK CBAM through this deal with the EU, but they will face a higher cost ETS. So they will be *worse* off, not better off.
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"We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for & died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born."
Roger Scruton
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UK BETRAYAL BY STARMER
There we have it. The UK has conceded everything, and gained nothing.
Given away fishing rights for another TWELVE years, for the pleasure of being able to also give away other things to the EU as well.
There is *NOTHING* here of value to the UK.
BREAKING: The UK-EU deal via @AlbertoNardelli
*Keir Starmer has made a major late concession on fisheries to allow the EU TWELVE YEARS ongoing access to British waters on status quo arrangements. They will now expire in 2038. UK had originally sought just a four year extension.
*In return the EU has not time-limited the SPS deal, although the UK will still have to accept dynamic alignment.
*UK will also join Erasmus+ in another win for the EU.
*But the EU will remove barriers to allow British visitors to use e-gates within the EU and will work to ease travel for for artists, a win for Starmer to fix two of the most obvious Brexit impacts.
*EU says it will work swiftly to explore British participation in its defence fund. Language there is limited.
*The rest of the documents are commitments to work on future deals, ie on a youth exchange scheme, rather than finalised arrangements.
Full story >>> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The Labour sellout narrative on fish this morning is that they are just extending what the Tories agreed to.
The Tories agreed a tapered reduction every year for six years. If Labour were just extending that, then EU access would continue to taper every year.
They're lying.
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Once again, Boris nails it. Starmer is a stunned mullet.
newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/dat…
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Labour backbenchers are, through their scripted responses in the Opposition Day debate, giving away the game on what the Labour Party has signed up to with the EU:
- A Youth Mobility Agreement
- Dynamic Alignment on SPS Goods
- ECJ Oversight
- Alignment on CBAM
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This is what I like to see.
The @RSPCA_official coming out to bat for hard-won Brexit benefits on higher animal welfare standards, and telling the kneeler-in-chief Keir Starmer to not sacrifice them at the upcoming UK-EU Summit.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05…
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The cost of betrayal is getting higher.
For the UK to get the privilege of being able to pay to defend our EU neighbours, France wants more access to our fishing waters and Spain wants Gibraltar.
How about, just maybe, we tell them no. Just an idea.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…