Boris must deliver Brexit so the EU needs to ditch backstop or we’ll leave with No Deal
Bin backstop
THE Government has one job: Get us out of Europe.
And if the EU wants us to do that with a deal, it needs to ditch the backstop. No ifs, no buts. No time limits, no get-out clauses.
The only way we leave with an agreement is if the backstop is consigned to the dustbin of history.
It’s worth remembering why this Brussels-laid trap would be so damaging to Britain.
It would come into force if we couldn’t sign a free trade agreement with the EU in the second phase of negotiations.
And if it was signed into the first agreement, the EU would have absolutely no interest in working with Britain on the second phase.
We’d be tied to EU rules, unable to sign trade deals with other countries, and forced to choose between leaving the EU and keeping the Union together.
Brussels would have us over a barrel.
The PM has warned Europe that the backstop has to go or we’re not even going to come back to the table.
The Eurocrats and their puppets have made clear that they’re not interested in negotiating in good faith.
Perhaps Boris’s show of strength might bring them to their senses.
Just not right
THE new Justice Secretary hasn’t made a brilliant start.
Calling for celebs and the rich to be given anonymity when they’re arrested is simply wrong-headed.
Not only does it effectively create one justice system for the great and good and one for everybody else, but it could mean witnesses don’t come forward.
We’ve seen case after case where, once a suspect is named, other victims have broken their self-imposed silence.
And above all that, it’s only when justice is open and transparent that the public — and the media — can hold the police and the CPS to account.
Both have made horrible errors over and over again in high-profile cases; if cases were just anonymous files making their way through the system, those flaws would never be exposed.
We have sympathy with those wrongly accused. But anonymity isn’t the answer.
Air strike error
BA’s pilots are taking their passengers for a ride, and not in the way they’re meant to.
We get it’s a tough and stressful job.
But with captains raking in an average salary north of £150,000 and a pay offer above inflation, the threat to disrupt thousands of families’ summer holidays for a few extra quid is unacceptable.
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Do they think the public will be sympathetic? The refusal to confirm when they are planning to strike is just an extremely sour cherry on top.
BA’s slogan is “To fly, to serve.”
Time their pilots remembered it.
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