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One of the many dodgy claims about the UK-EU 'reset' is that the agri-food deal will lower the cost of living and especially of food. In fact, it is more likely to add to costs and prices. For a start, even if we had a food surplus to sell, it is not obvious how exporting more food to the EU is supposed to make it cheaper here. Moreover, the UK can already reduce barriers to allow cheaper imports both from the EU and, thanks to Brexit, from the rest of the world. At best, the reset will simply shift costs around - as explained by the Fresh Produce Consortium below. Finally, the reset will impose additional costs on the whole economy - not just businesses that trade with the EU. This includes higher energy costs as a result of aligning with EU policies on carbon taxes and emissions trading, which won't just hit the food and farming sectors. https://t.co/kwBCVG3CMJ

Since the date that Britain left the European Union (the single market and the customs union), the economies in the United States and the United Kingdom have grown by 19.2% and 15.7% respectively. The two biggest EU economies — Germany and France — have grown by 4.5% and 10.5%. Why would the Burnham Labour government want to tie us more closely again to the single market and the customs union? Britain’s exports to non-EU countries have risen to almost 60% of the total in the same period. Before they crow about today’s growth figures, they might want to consider the utter stupidity of their own EU policy.

'Separately, private polling reportedly showing growing support for closer EU ties, even in traditionally Leave-voting constituencies, is expected to strengthen Burnham’s hand and help persuade those ministers who represent Leave-voting areas they are safe electorally to change their minds.' I am happy to share with Number 10 the polling I did with Survation in Makerfield this past week. 80% of the PM's constituents believe the UK alone should decide regional development funds. 78% say UK alone should set VAT rates. 74% believe the UK government alone should set UK food standards. The devil is in the detail, and the PM is at risk of conceding powers to the EU that his constituents do not want to give away. https://t.co/VvXguIKFEa

This is not a reset. It is a resubjugation. On GBNews yesterday, I debated the European Movement on the leaked draft Joint Statement for the 20 November EU–UK Summit. The truth is plain: we will be required to align with EU laws we have no say in making. We will be supplicants – and we will have to pay for it all. Are we back in the EU in 20 years? No. Because we're going to win. https://t.co/T9RbV8NbUb #Brexit #EUReset #Sovereignty #DynamicAlignment

If you are a sane, rational person who can perform simple maths and cares about the economy of their country and the future of the people within it, then you should be livid with the government this morning. There is no part of the proposed EU reset terms, that you should be remotely happy about. The entire deal is giving the EU what it wants, and dressing it up as a benefit for the UK when it is anything but. - Promising to not deport EU criminals - Paying billions a year to build infrastructure in Eastern Europe - Subsidizing EU students to study in the UK, costing hundreds of millions a year - Putting UK laws in the control of the EU again, with no say at all from Parliament - Adding hundreds of millions of costs onto imports from non-EU countries - Making imported EV cars 30% more expensive, to help EU car manufacturers - Giving 80-100,000 extra youth visas a year, increasing competition and driving down wages for our unemployed youth - Stopping checks on imported agrifoods, increasing risk of diseases currently rampant in EU livestock entering the UK All of this with the reason of making exporting food to the EU easier, which we do virtually none of and never did, as we are an island that consumes more than it produces. It doesn't matter if you ultimately want to rejoin the EU or not. This isn't about that. This is about an atrocious deal and our atrocious government. Fight this with everything you've got.

Andy Burnham is currently engaged in the long, slow process of taking Britain back into the European Union The draft went round the 27 member states today. Under the food deal he means to sign in Brussels on November 20th: - The EU's rules on food safety and on animal and plant health become British law automatically, through a European Partnerships Bill written for the purpose. - When Brussels changes its rules, our law changes with them, and when there's an argument over what a rule means, the EU's own court settles it. - Britain pays "an appropriate financial contribution" towards the system, a figure nobody has yet been told - And European boats keep their access to our waters until 2038, as agreed last year. In return we get...very little. And what we especially do not get is any vote on any of it and no seat in the room where it's written. Annd that's just your first course. The rest of the summit menu links our carbon market to theirs and adds a youth scheme the EU wants set at 100,000 people a year or more. The government values the deal about £5bn a year, a little under 0.2% of the economy. There's craftsmanship in their shystery. We'll have membership re-brokered in pieces small enough that the controversy they rouse will be, initially, minimal. Burnham says his red lines on the single market, the customs union and free movement hold "for the duration of this Parliament", which is an oddly precise shelf life for a principle. He wants to "explore options" once the summit is over. But he also says he hopes to see Britain rejoin in his lifetime. Downing Street says that on free movement he is "not leaning either way". He is taking us back in with a member's obligations and absolutely no voice. It's an extension of the spirited of wicked, self-hating animus that drove SW1 to try to scupper Britain's original post-Brexit deals (and the result itself) as a method of what they considered appropriate vengeance on the electorate who robbed them of their status symbol. Progress would diverge from EU rules wherever doing so makes British food and goods cheaper or better, and replace alignment with mutual recognition deals with the US, India, Japan and the Gulf that leave our law in Parliament's hands. We'd cut the cost at our own border with risk-based checks on no more than 5% of food consignments from trusted partners.