In the wake of the Trade Deal …

1) There was Frost outside my window on New Year’s Eve (right).
2) The UK has signed an additional deal with Spain to uphold Gibraltarians’ rights.
3) We have removed VAT from sanitary products in the UK, as we tried to do several years ago.
4) Instead of two parallel immigration systems – freedom of movement within the EU but a more restrictive system for the rest of the world – the UK will have a unified, fairer and more responsive system.
5) We have banned pulse fishing in our waters.

This is getting better and better.

Tom (and others) on the Trade Deal

Here is Tom’s piece on the deal that was finally achieved on Christmas Eve, after almost eleven months of negotiation, including the seven key points that illustrate the way in which it encapsulates the decision of the British people four and a half years earlier:
No more freedom of movement.
Freedom to strike trade deals, of which there have been more than sixty so far.
EU law has ceased to apply.
The ECJ has no jurisdiction.
No alignment with EU rules.
UK laws will be enacted solely by our own sovereign Parliament.
We will no longer fund the EU.

Sadly, Tom wasn’t able to attend Wednesday’s debate in person as he was self-isolating again. However, there were just a few exceptional speeches and here is one, by Michael Gove, exposing the absurdity of die-hard Remoaners voting for a “No Deal” Brexit and of Sir Sneer‘s presence in the previous Shadow Cabinet. Now the UK can get on with rebuilding our fishing fleet. We have allocated £100 million to this over the five and a half years of the deal, not the ten to fourteen years the French wanted.