The government wrongly thinks removing some non tariff barriers to EU trade would boost UK growth. It is more likely to boost EU exports to us more than our exports to them, subtracting from our GDP. The UK already runs a huge trade deficit with the EU
The government sounds keen to align us with EU food regulations. They have failed to notice we only export 15 bn euro of food and drink, with whisky an important part, whereas the EU sells us Euro 51 bn or more than three times as much. The UK keeps high tariffs on food items we import from the EU which limits our consumer choice and keeps the import prices high. Reinforcing this by forcing us to accept all their new rules on food would reinforce the trend we suffered in the EU of losing food market share as regulations including insufficient milk quota and beef bans left our unprotected market on to a surge of imports.
The idea that the UK should once again give its fish away is a disgraceful proposal. Our fishing grounds gave been overfished for 50 years thanks to EU membership and the decision to put off taking back control of our fish to 2026.We should cut the total quotas allowed next year, ban the foreign ultra large trawlers and allocate more quota to the UK industry. Government should make capital available to build a bigger fishing fleet in UK yards.
We do not want a re set which makes us subservientb to the EU again. We should not accept their laws or out ourselves under European Court jurisdiction. We should not allow freedom of movement for the under 30 s. We should rebuild our food and fish industry as we need to produce more of our own food.
The government should not make May 19 Surrender day.