Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "" video.

  1. I don't know what the UK was honestly expecting, the EU was never going to give us a deal as good as we had in the EU and even if we get something like a Canada style deal, that is far worse than what we had in the EU. If we look at the last 3 or so years, the EU In the first phase of talks had three objectives: 1. Getting the UK to pay any outstanding commitments. Boris Johnson initially said they could "go whistle" but has since agreed to pay £39bn. 2. Keeping the border in Ireland completely open. Boris Johnson caved in and agreed with the EU’s preferred option, in the process undermining the territorial integrity of his own country. 3. Maintaining the rights of EU citizens in the UK. Boris Johnson agreed to this, including for any citizens who come to the UK during the transition period. In other words, just to get to the trade talks, the UK had to cave in on almost every issue. And during this first round of negotiations the UK had 2 PMs, 3 Brexit secretaries, two foreign secretaries and 31 ministerial resignations. The EU’s red lines for the trade talks include, but are not limited to: 1, Access to UK fishing waters 2. A level playing field These are not opening negotiating positions to be bartered away. Either the UK will cave in, or there will be no FTA and considering the EU is getting much tougher now the UK is out, I suspect we are going to see a lot more last minutes caves-ins from the UK near the end of the year because the EU has a lot more clout over these talks now.
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