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Keir Starmer's EU deal is a 'Brexit betrayal', Sarah Pochin claims
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May 19, 2025
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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Well, look, all trade deals are a balance
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You have to give stuff, they have to give stuff. And it's a matter of what you want
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If you remember back to the Brexit debate, Michelle, those people who are arguing for Brexit have, in effect, got what they said at the time
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Because you'll remember one of their arguments was, look, we actually have the same regulations about our food standards
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and sanitary and phytosanitary controls as the EU at the moment. So there's no way, the Brexiteers used to say, that they will impose border controls on the stuff that we want to export to Europe
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Well, unfortunately, they did. But now what we've managed to negotiate is saying to them, look, we have the same regulations
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Why don't we drop the border controls? And the EU's agreed to that
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And that's going to be worth millions to our exporters. because one of the things that the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee did after Brexit
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was to actually bring in all the exporters who were saying, we're having terrible time because our langoustine are being blocked at the border
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They then go off before we can get them into French restaurants. Our trade is being blocked and the food is going off
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Now, all of that won't happen now. That is a great plus
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Oh, Barry Gardner, yes, that's fine. We can get rid of some of these checks, as you're suggesting
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but people at home will be shouting out. But hold on a second, because the flip side of that was that essentially now we have to bow down to their rules
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their regulations, and we don't essentially have a veto on what those are
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But we don because we haven joined the customs union So at any stage let say the Why didn they align with our rules Why did we have to match theirs Well they have Our rules are actually the same That the point
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So we are aligned and we're simply saying because we're aligned, we don't need to do this
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But in the future, at any stage, if the EU were to suddenly lower their requirements
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on food regulations, we could say, uh-oh, no, sorry, we're actually going to now come out of this
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because you've changed the rules of the game. Do you share that optimism, Sarah, you
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This is absolute nonsense. I mean, Barry's talking about langoustine and getting them across the border
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Well, I can tell you that my constituents, you know, do not have enough money in their pocket to be buying langoustine
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or being in complete notes. You've had to say, Barry, my turn. This is an absolute betrayal of Brexit
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It'll come to no surprise to anyone watching this programme that I was an advent Brexiteer
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But Keir Starmer is taking us on a slow march back into Europe
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He is absolutely betraying the will of the British people. Keir Starmer has called this a win-win deal
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It's a lose-lose deal. He sold out the British workers with his Indian trade deal
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He sold out the farmers with his US trade deal. And now he has completely sold out the British fishing industry
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It is finished with this deal, let alone the fact that we will become closer aligned once again to the European Court of
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Justice, which we absolutely do not want. We have the best courts and the laws in the land in this
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country. We do not want to be aligned closer to them again. And all this talk about letting
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lorries through the border with Barry's langoustine on it without being checked. Well, that is just
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dragging us back towards EU regulation and checks that we don't want and red tape that we don't want
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Well, that's..
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