COMMENT: Starmer stays a Remainer and can capitulate on Brexit | Politics | News | EUROtoday

It’s an previous naval tactic to “make smoke” – to intentionally generate smoke from a ship’s funnel – to be able to attempt to conceal your place or intentions from others. This is an excellent analogy for what Labour at the moment are doing, attempting to cover a serious give up to the EU, on every thing from fish to changing into a passive “rule taker” as soon as once more – while intentionally speaking robust on Defence.

Arch Europhile Sir Keir Starmer – ‘Mr Second Referendum’ himself – has been working carefully with our European NATO allies, particularly France and Germany, to strengthen European solidarity in defence of the courageous Ukranians, of their battle with Putin’s barbaric Russian regime. (A regime which even mercilessly targets extremely correct cruise missiles on youngsters’s hospitals).

This elevated co-operation is now resulting in a UK/EU Defence pact, which is being formalised at a serious summit, happening immediately. We are nonetheless awaiting the exact particulars of this deal.

However, years of private expertise in coping with the EU have taught me at all times to learn the small print.

However, in a usually cynical ploy, Starmer can be utilizing this concentrate on defence as camouflage – that smokescreen I discussed earlier – to attempt to divert the British public’s consideration from main capitulations elsewhere, within the hope that no person will discover.

At this “Surrender Summit” – for that’s what it truly is – Labour appear set to make main concessions on continued entry to British territorial waters by overseas fishing fleets – particularly these of France and Spain.

In return for permitting the British Defence trade entry to a supposed new EU €150 billion rearmament fund – one thing I agree with in precept however I’ll truly imagine it after I see it – President Macron is outwardly demanding main concessions on fish.

This, despite the fact that we left the EU and it’s bonkers Common Fisheries Policy (by which thousands and thousands of fish had been thrown again into the ocean, typically lifeless, yearly, to be able to adjust to EU fishing quotas). This is a complete betrayal of our fishing fleet and subsequently one thing Labour will need to keep away from discussing, in any respect prices.

Similarly, they’re additionally on account of give up over “dynamic alignment” – in sure areas equivalent to veterinary science and meals requirements, which finally impacts all of us as customers however particularly our farmers.

Dynamic Alignment has its clue within the identify. In layman’s English it signifies that if the EU’s detailed guidelines change in these areas we mirror their adjustments routinely, no matter Parliament’s opinion.

In different phrases we turn into, as soon as once more, a passive “rule taker” – routinely actioning the EU’s rule e-book – despite the fact that we voted peacefully and democratically to Leave it.

This is the really atrocious a part of what Labour are as much as; surrendering our rights to self-government, underneath a smokescreen of attempting to speak robust on defence, amongst each the media and the general public.

In quick, if we’re to return to being an EU rule-taker, what was the purpose of getting a referendum within the first place? How might Labour betray us like this ? Because Starmer stays a Remainer, that’s why – and he at all times, at all times will.