Lee Anderson has slammed the Government with a 7-word put-down after it was reported that the EU is in search of a so-called “Farage Clause” throughout negotiations. Brussels is believed to be demanding a assure that the UK will compensate it if a future authorities pulls out of a Brexit “reset” deal that Sir Keir Starmer is at the moment making an attempt to succeed in.
Reform UK’s director of coverage, Zia Yusuf, stated: “Starmer is quietly dragging Britain back into the EU by the back door, betraying the 17.4 million people who voted to leave. The EU is demanding a ‘Farage Clause’. which would force the UK to pay punitive compensation if a future government unwinds Starmer’s deal after 2029.
“An EU diplomat stated it’s a ‘deterrent for Farage & Co’. Well, they’ll get a Farage Clause alright. The Financial Times reported that there exists a draft textual content of a pact on agriculture commerce aimed toward eradicating post-Brexit checks on farm produce, that requires any future UK authorities that renages to cowl the price of reinstating border and infrastructure controls sooner or later.
“A Farage Clause that immediately halts UK welfare payments to ALL foreign nationals in the UK (inc EU nationals).”
He added that Reform would additionally demand the return of cash paid to France to “stop the boats”.
Mr Yusuf stated: “Macron laughs at us as illegal boat crossings have broken new records EVERY year our treacherous governments have paid them our money. Our Parliament is sovereign.
“Nobody can bind future governments within the UK, together with and particularly international bureaucrats.
“It’s time this country had a leader who negotiated for British people, not for foreign courts and foreign governments. That’s what Prime Minister Nigel Farage will do.”
Mr Anderson quoted the submit and added: “And here it is.”
He then issued a seven-word slam: “The whole of our government are traitors.”
To his followers, the Ashfield MP then stated: “There is no other way of describing them.
“Or is there? Keep it clear.”
Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg present at first of the 12 months, the Prime Minister pointed to steps already taken to align with the EU extra carefully on agriculture and meals, including: “That’s the sovereign decision that we have taken.
“I think we should get closer, and if it’s in our national interest to have even closer alignment with the single market, then we should consider that, we should go that far.”
The Tories accused the Prime Minister of “surrendering our freedom” to appease his Labour backbenchers, and attempting to “undo” Brexit.
Sir Keir added: “I think it’s in our national interest to go further.
“What I would say about the customs union is that I argued for a customs union for many years with the EU, but a lot of water has now gone under the bridge.
“I do understand why people are saying ‘wouldn’t it be better to go to the customs union?’ I actually think that now we’ve done deals with the US which are in our national interest, now we’ve done deals with India which are in our national interest, we are better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment.”
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