Under our complex constitution recorded in Acts of Parliament, conventions and Parliamentary rules a government with a majority can do as it wishes with laws, taxes and government decisions subject to public opinion and Parliamentary debates and votes. It cannot give our sovereignty away without a referendum vote or a clear mandate from a general election win where the surrender of power was a well highlighted issue.
This government is not offering a referendum on its so called EU re set yet it proposes to surrender major powers. In the election Labour promised to respect Brexit, keep us out of the single market and customs union, and seek minor improvements for food exporters and travelling musicians.
Instead it proposes to surrender our fish for 12 more years, pay large sums to the EU and sign up to dynamic alignment of our laws which is similar to going back into the single market. Meanwhile there is no guarantee that we will be able to export more food, there is no reward for giving away so much fish, no benefit for sending them so much cash and no easing of restrictions on musicians.
Dynamic alignment of laws will damage investment in the food industry, in digital and in healthcare in particular where we are beginning to get advantages from avoiding their worst over the top rules. Joining their dear carbon tax scheme and locking further into their energy market will drive energy prices higher and speed de industrialisation.
This disastrous re set will damage growth and jobs, make the government even less popular, and is against our constitutional practice. The idea that the EU would seek to impose a big penalty on the next government tearing up any such Agreement should warn any decent government off signing it. It means the EU thinks the terms they are getting are so good they would deserve compensation for ending them. This government seems to see it as a necessary poison pill to try to lock us into a bad deal. I assume the next government will want to end this likely rotten deal as soon as they win the election to take office.