The long draft EU UK Treaty reveals once again a UK government that thinks negotiations with the EU are about taking dictation of theit terms. So often there does nit seem to be anyone speaking up for the UK.
Facts4eu have set out sone of the detail and implications of this latest give away. I have asked the Minister in the Lords to set out high high the financial cost if this deal will be for Gibraltar. How much will the handling charges be? What excise tariffs will be imposed by joining the Customs Union? What will be the compliance costs of all the EU regulations to be imposed? How much money will be given to the adjacent area of Spain in levelling up funds?.Which other taxes will be raised? What impact will thus gave on the Gibraltar business model where lower taxes and sensible regulation have helped create prosperity. The Minister had no reply on the total costs. When I buy something I expect to know the price before I say Yes, it is good value.
The government claims there will be no loss of sovereignty.How come? If Gibraltar has to accept EU laws whenever they add or change them, and put taxes and charges at their demand, surely that is a material loss of sovereignty?
The only good thing about the Treaty is the get out clause. Future governments of the UK and Gibraltar may need a unilateral exit without penalties. The Opposition in Gibraltar is understandably concerned about the role of Spanish officials in controlling entry into Gibraltar in future. The UK government should be concerned about EU and Spanish leverage over the airport. Our crucial military base needs free access for military personnel and materiel, where the small print of the Agreement needs careful testing.
March 6, 2026
The barrage of idiot actions is relentless.
We have the most incompetent people in the country negotiating for us, taxing us and imposing laws upon us.
This simply can’t go on. Something is going to give.
The sooner the better….
March 6, 2026
Indeed – but we likely have 3 more years prob. under Rayner, Streeting, Miliband, Mahmood the odds suggest – in that order. My money is on Rayner she needs to cash for her stamp duty error after all. Streeting is too right wing for the party voters and will not even win his seat back, Miliband’s net zero lunacy is now widely recognised as lunacy by the unions & all but the BBC/Sakara types and a few humanities and art graduates, Mahmood even thinks £40k bribes to encourage even more illegal migrants to come is a good plan!
March 6, 2026
an election will not fix this, the rot is far deeper.
March 6, 2026
Yep.
March 6, 2026
The highest taxes since the war and still rising with fiscal drag and minimum wage rises (another back door tax increase), appalling public services, dire defences, energy at 4 times the cost of what it should be & yet still they need to borrow even more money to waste!
March 6, 2026
Surrender, Surrender, Surrender. The daily barrage of giveaways from this incompetent spineless government.
We are a laughing stock on the world stage because we have no military and we pursue the ruinous net stupid road.
Reform will hopefully pulk out of these one sided agreements making clear no penalties will we paid.
Is there no way to be rid of these Marxist cliwns.
March 6, 2026
Your ‘solution’ will finish Britain off for good.
March 6, 2026
They’re not incompetent: they’re on a mission to make it impossible for this country to function as an independent, Sovereign, nation state and they’re implementing it very effectively. The Uni-Party has been doing it for decades; Two-Tier has just turbo-charged it, to reverse Brino.
1. Destroy the borders and a sense of nationhood
2. Destroy independent military capability
3. Destroy independent energy security
4. Destroy food security
5. Wreck the economy
March 6, 2026
The more one sees of this appalling Starmer, Reeves, Miliband, Lammy, Phillipson, Mamood… government the more convinced I am that they are not just incompetent and dim but they do actually want to damage the interests of the UK, its citizens, the economy, defence and its tax payers as much as possible – whenever and wherever they can.
I see that Mamood wants to encourage even more asylum claimants to arrive by paying then £40,000 if they fail and leave. We need deterrents to stop/restrict the flow Shabana not yet more incentives to get here – surely this is obvious to anyone other than this government and all governments from Blair’s on. Heads you win & tails you win £40,000 about 4 years of tax for an average UK worker. The doom-loop agenda continues and speeds up.
March 6, 2026
She is empowering and enriching her own people.
Why are you surprised?
March 6, 2026
The government claims there will be no loss of sovereignty.How come? If Gibraltar has to accept EU laws whenever they add or change them, This labour government are really taking the Brits for complete idiots you’ve got to be bloody dim to not realise Starmer and his bunch of misfit muppets is getting us back into bed by the back door into the EU and putting two fingers up to the millions that voted us out of the dreaded EU club, the British people can only take so much and that would be the edge for liebour if they continue down this rocky road
March 6, 2026
same as the UK/India so called trade deal. its mostly about UK issuing vast numbers of visas for Indian nationals to come here.
our rulers are traitors.
March 6, 2026
If the British “negotiators” originate from the British Establishment they won’t be speaking in our interests: they never have since the Foreign Office Senior Civil Servant, Sir CON O’Neill – what an appropriate name! – led Heath’s treacherous “negotiations” to take us into the EEC.
Unfortunately when it comes to Gibraltar, Two-Tier has the appalling Windsor Treachery to use as justification ….. and the Not-a-Conservative-Government was responsible for that example of “not acting in the UK’s interest.”
I expect he’ll be giving away the Channel Islands next, and then maybe the Falklands.
March 6, 2026
We know this Labour administration is eager to remove the last vestiges of empire from Britain’s control. That is what the Chagos give away is about, it is what the Gibraltar give away is about, the unsubtle use of the word treaty to put quasi legitimacy on matters ignores the most basic legal point. Gibraltar is British thanks to a treaty signed with Spain the Utrecht treaty of 1715. The EU is not a sovereign entity with whom any legally binding treaty can be signed, the EU is a bureaucracy.
The next give away will be the Falklands.