- cross-posted to:
- news@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- news@beehaw.org
The draft U.K.-EU agreement is one of several being drawn up ahead of a May 19 summit.
Britain and the European Union are set to sign a formal declaration committing to “free and open trade” in defiance of Donald Trump’s tariff agenda.
A leaked draft seen by POLITICO promises a “new strategic partnership” between London and Brussels based on “maintaining global economic stability and our mutual commitment to free and open trade.”
It comes as Keir Starmer’s U.K. government is locked in negotiations with the Trump administration to try to get a carve-out from the U.S. president’s new tariffs.
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Trump will be the one to finally undo Brexit.
They weren’t doing this before? Why is it that Trump wants to the US to be treated fair, and now everyone is upset?
Yes please!! Resist this fucker! Destroy his self image and make him crumble into himself! We will suffer regardless so I pray that we at least get to watch KRASNOV get played for a fool! Wahaha
BREXIN PogChamp
BREENTER
One more agreement that wouldn’t have been necessary before Brexit.
Free. Commerce. Eu. Uk.
i’m still working on it, but i think it’s going to form an acronym that says “f.u.c.k. t.r.u.m.p”
Free Unions’ Commerce Konvention: Toward Reciprocal Unity in Market Practices.
Sooooooo, basically cancelling brexit without cancelling brexit, then?
Unless the new Treaty properly covers Services and hence includes Freedom Of Movement (which is required for suppliers in one country to freely provide services which cannot be remotelly provided in other countries), not really.
One of the biggest arguments of the Brexiters was to be able to get rid of Freedom Of Movement so that they didn’t have to accepts all immigrants from the EU (all of which with time ended up with the funny outcome that now Britain still gets as many immigrants coming in as they did when part of the EU, only now they’re almost all non-white something which the Brexiters - who are almost invariably racist - find even more distasteful).
I very much doubt that the current, New Labour, government who are maybe the most rightwing Labour government ever and have even been blowing a couple of far-right anti-immigration dog-whistles will be accepting the return of Freedom Of Movement.
It’s nice to see the UK and EU getting so integrated. I’m not an expert, so I’m wondering if this could be the closest their partnership has been in recent years.
Maybe they should form some sort of union between the two parties.
Gotta wait for Nigel Farage and other gammons to not be quite so much of a threat before that decision can be addressed properly.
In the meantime, things like this are the probably the best way to go about it.
There already is one, UK is free to re-join.
That’s the joke bro
Woooosh
How’s the view on Brexit in the UK these days?
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/half-britons-believe-brexit-has-been-mostly-failure-so-far
Still a lot of fascist idiots. Generally they are old, but that still a lot of people. Poll have changed more because Leavers are aging out, rather minds changing.
Eh… could be worse.
Oh it may well get worse. FPTP could give them power. Rarely does the power in party have a majority of the population support. Labour need to ditch FPTP for good of the country. But they won’t because they could win again, and it’s party before country.
People have moved closer to the middle from both sides, but the average has moved to it being bad.
