Keir Starmer's EU deal is a 'Brexit betrayal', Sarah Pochin claims

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Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has hit out at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's newly signed deal with the EU, branding it "absolute nonsense".Speaking to GB News, the representative for Runcorn and Helsby claimed that the agreement with Brussels marks a "complete betrayal of Brexit".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Well, look, all trade deals are a balance. You have to give stuff, they have to give stuff.

00:07And it's a matter of what you want. If you remember back to the Brexit debate, Michelle,

00:12those people who are arguing for Brexit have, in effect, got what they said at the time. Because

00:18you'll remember one of their arguments was, look, we actually have the same regulations

00:23about our food standards and sanitary and phytosanitary controls as the EU at the moment.

00:30So there's no way, the Brexiters used to say, that they will impose border controls on the

00:36stuff that we want to export to Europe. Well, unfortunately, they did. But now what we've

00:42managed to negotiate is saying to them, look, we have the same regulations. Why don't we drop the

00:49border controls? And the EU's agreed to that. And that's going to be worth millions to our exporters.

00:56Because one of the things that the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee did after Brexit

01:01was to actually bring in all the exporters who were saying, we're having terrible time because

01:07our langoustine are being blocked at the border. They then go off before we can get them into French

01:14restaurants. Our trade is being blocked and the food is going off. Now, all of that won't happen now.

01:20That's that is a great plus. Oh, Barry Gardner. Yes, that's fine. We can get rid of some of these

01:25checks, as you're suggesting. But people at home will be shouting out. But hold on a second,

01:29because the flip side of that was that essentially now we have to bow down to their rules, their

01:34regulations. And we don't essentially have a veto on what those are. We don't because we haven't joined

01:39the customs union. So at any stage, let's say the EU... Why don't they align with our rules? Why did

01:45we have to match theirs? Well, they have. Our rules are actually the same. That's the point.

01:50So we are aligned. And we're simply saying, because we're aligned, we don't need to do this.

01:55But in the future, at any stage, if the EU were to suddenly lower their requirements on food

02:02regulations, we could say, uh-oh, no, sorry, we're actually going to now come out of this because

02:07you've changed the rules of the game. Do you share that optimism? Sarah, you?

02:13This is absolute nonsense. I mean, Barry's talking about langoustine and getting them across the

02:18border. Well, I can tell you that my constituents, you know, do not have enough money in their

02:22pocket to be buying langoustine or being in complete notes. You've had to say, Barry, my turn.

02:27This is an absolute betrayal of Brexit. It'll come to no surprise to anyone watching this

02:32programme that I was an advent Brexiteer. But Keir Starmer is taking us on a slow march back into

02:39Europe. He is absolutely betraying the will of the British people. Keir Starmer has called this

02:44a win-win deal. It's a lose-lose deal. He sold out the British workers with his Indian trade deal.

02:51He sold out the farmers with his US trade deal. And now he has completely sold out the British

02:57fitting industry. It is finished with this deal, let alone the fact that we will become closer

03:03aligned once again to the European Court of Justice, which we absolutely do not want. We have

03:09the best courts and the laws in the land in this country. We do not want to be aligned closer to

03:15them again. And all this talk about letting lorries through the border with Barry's langoustine on it

03:20without being checked. Well, that is just dragging us back towards EU regulation and checks that we

03:27don't want and red tape that we don't want.

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