How can the PM be held accountable for something not within their "gift". Parliament has 3 times turned down the "deal". The EU Parliament has to approve any changes. Strange that Parliament and the Remainers have never said what is acceptable to them in a "deal". They are the ones looking like they don't have a plan.
As long as the EU recognises we are prepared to leave without a "deal", leaving the backstop issues firmly in their court, then the EU should be prepared to make the "deal" simply that of regulatory alignment until the end of 2020. After that point it would be no different for them on Nov 1st 2019 as things stand.
Of course central to that is the UK convincing the EU we are ok without a "deal". The UK courts would have jurisdiction within the UK, the EU courts inside the EU. The only people in the UK Parliament likely to object to that is Labour, as they want the "deal" to be
worse than it currently is.
From the Political Declaration.
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It will be underpinned by provisions ensuring a level playing field for
open and fair competition, as set out in Section XIV of this Part.
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Does that mean we always have to follow them on everything, including tax rates, or does it it mean they have to follow any changes we make? Take a wild guess. The EU, as usual, will make it mean whatever they want it to mean.
Eg The "chlorine-washed chicken" issue is a competitive edge one, not a food safety one. Chlorine washing is used in the EU for salad and vegetables, so it's not unsafe and deemed safer than blasts of air and water as the EU insists on for chicken.
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It's not consuming chlorine itself that the EU is worried about - in fact in 2005 the European Food Safety Authority said that "exposure to chlorite residues arising from treated poultry carcasses would be of no safety concern". Chlorine-rinsed bagged salads are common in the UK and other countries in the EU.
But the EU believes that relying on a chlorine rinse at the end of the meat production process could be a way of compensating for poor hygiene standards - such as dirty or crowded abattoirs.
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Chlorine does reduce the bacteria on chicken, although by how much is disputed - the World Health Organization has highlighted that studies on the effectiveness of chlorine treatment give mixed results.
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