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No UK PM could accept current EU demands, says Johnson

Published 09/12/2020, 12:16
Updated 09/12/2020, 12:20
© Reuters. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday no British leader could sign up to the demands the European Union are "currently insisting on", adding that while there is a trade deal to be done, the country would prosper without one.

"Our friends in the EU are currently insisting that if they pass a new law in the future with which we in this country do not comply ... then they want the automatic right ... to punish us and to retaliate," he said in parliament.

© Reuters. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street in London

"And secondly, they are saying that the UK should be the only country in the world not to have sovereign control over its fishing waters. And I don't believe that those are terms that any prime minister of this country should accept."

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2 points:- 1. the UK has chisen to leave the EU as we are perfectly entitled to. However the UK want to have access to the EU Market. That is a UK request to which the EU is open but only under certain conditions. It is disingenious to say that the EU is making unreasonable demands when all they are doing is reacting to the UK request to have the dlsame access we had previously but without any of the attached prevois obligations that we were willing to comply to. Leaving because qe dont want to comply is understanable but wanting back in without accepting to comply makes no sense. Mr Johnson jas failed to understand that “having cake and eating it” is not attractive to both sides of the negotiation. - 2 All the european countries (including the UK until now) have relinquished some form of control over their fishing waters. So the argument that we would be the only country in the worl to do so is hollow.
I didn't see Canada signing a deal that meant the EU could fish in its sovereign waters or that EU laws would be sovereign over those of the Canadian parliament. They are living in La La land
Did Canada request total open and unfettered access to the European market? I dont think so Mr Kinnear
he is 100% right in my opinion
He is right but only if he is wanting no deal!
he has not wanted a deal since his Greewhich speach a year ago...
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