{"id":726,"date":"2019-11-07T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=726"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:47:03","slug":"martin-howe-on-the-boris-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/martin-howe-on-the-boris-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Howe on the Boris deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Boris Johnson&#8217;s deal with the EU BRexit In Name Only? What kind of exit from the EU will a Tory party with an overall majority deliver? Important questions for anyone struggling to decide whether to vote Conservative to just leave already, or vote Brexit Party to send a message that we want as much Brexit as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Howe is a Queen&#8217;s Counsel and so likely to understand the deal as well as anyone. He was against Theresa May&#8217;s deal because it bound the UK into a transition period (backstop) until the EU decided otherwise. He is <a href=\"https:\/\/briefingsforbrexit.com\/this-flawed-deal-is-a-tolerable-price-to-pay-for-our-freedom\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in favour of Boris Johnson&#8217;s deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the deal looks a lot better than I had previously thought:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>it foreshadows a Free Trade Agreement under which the UK will be able to operate its independent trade policy, instead of the UK being locked into the EU\u2019s external customs tariffs&#8230;references in the PD to the UK aligning its rules to EU rules have been deleted&#8230;commitment to shadow the EU rules on competition and state aids in Theresa May\u2019s WA has been replaced with a more open ended commitment not to distort competition [similar to that seen in most FTAs, according to the Telegraph version of the article]&#8230;explicitly making clear the right of the UK to determine how it would respond to any invitation by the EU to participate in joint action in the defence field<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of these things you would learn from reading comments on Guido&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Howe is honest enough to detail the bad stuff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the long term subjection of the UK to rulings by the ECJ&#8230;the so-called transition period [during which] the UK would be subject to all EU laws, both those that exist now and those that are brought in during that period&#8230;financial obligations on the UK which go well beyond the UK\u2019s obligations under international law<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Overall, Howe thinks this is much better than Theresa May&#8217;s unacceptable deal, is not BRINO, but is worse than leaving with no deal. The question then becomes: is it still possible to leave with no deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Boris Johnson&#8217;s deal with the EU BRexit In Name Only? What kind of exit from the EU will a Tory party with an overall majority deliver? Important questions for anyone struggling to decide whether to vote Conservative to just leave already, or vote Brexit Party to send a message that we want as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}