Ding ding ding! Sir Keir Starmer may have lauded it a ‘landmark’ deal but his agreement with the EU has gone done like a bucket of cold sick with the UK’s most senior Brexiteers. Former prime minister Boris Johnson is the latest to take to Twitter to lambast the move – and the gloves are well and truly off. In a fiery pitch, BoJo scorns the PM’s ‘appalling sell-out of a deal’, blasts Starmer for sacrificing Britain’s freedom to ‘do proper trade deals’ and concludes tersely: ‘Two-tier Keir is the orange ball-chewing manacled gimp of Brussels.’ Tell us what you really think!
Unleashing a vitriolic tirade on Sir Keir, the face of the ‘Get Brexit Done’ campaign picks apart the agreements on fishing, free movement and food standards. In the pugnacious post, Boris dubbed today’s UK-EU deal as ‘hopelessly one-sided’, remarking curtly: ‘It combines the vassalage of Chequers with the surrenderism of Chagos.’ Ouch. His fury didn’t stop there – with the former Conservative party leader declaring:
Most bizarrely of all he has agreed that Britain will once again be paying countless millions of pounds into EU coffers – for the privilege of becoming the non-voting punk of the EU Commission! What have we got in return? Wishy washy EU promises to get rid of some of the vexatious and unnecessary bureaucracy that they have been using against British travellers and business – but no real guarantees that this will be enforced and above all no real guarantee on frictionless trade between GB and Northern Ireland, which should be entirely a matter for the UK and not the EU.
This deal is hopelessly one sided. It combines the vassalage of Chequers with the surrenderism of Chagos. Starmer promised at the election that he would not go back on Brexit. He has broken that promise as he broke his promise on tax. This deal should not be signed, should not be ratified and should never come into force and if it is the next Conservative government should kick it out forthwith.
For his part, Sir Keir has claimed his deal had gotten the UK ‘back on the world stage’ and is a ‘win-win’ for Britain. Now it’s a waiting game to see just how much voters agree…
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