Our Brexit negotiations have been ‘incompetent’ and ‘inept’ – Yorkshire Post Letters

IT came as no surprise that our MP – Robert Goodwill – is now pleading with his own government to negotiate a trade deal to permit the continuation of our shipment of fish products to the European Union after the transition period ends (The Yorkshire Post, September 5).

Surely this is not the first time he has realised this simple fact? At the same time he considers that the European Union should give way and withdraw from the Common Fisheries Policy.

This might be desirable, but Mr Goodwill should remember that the UK is negotiating to leave the European Union; the EU is not negotiating to throw the UK out of the EU! The negotiating cards are stacked firmly on the side of the EU in this regard.

I do not want to re-enter the ‘shall we leave the EU’ debate, the case was always flawed. We were promised a ‘world beating’ trade agreement, apparently all on one piece of paper! The German car industry would force the EU to cave in to our demands, and other nonsense. I try not to use the word ‘lies’.

It would seem that the new dawn would have Michael Gove wearing a Cross of St George tabard, flying a winged horse over the skies of Yorkshire!

After four years of the most inept, incompetent negotiation where does this leave us with a few scant weeks of negotiation to go? Even now the current Prime Minister keeps changing his mind on the objectives, to the consternation of Brussels and his own people.

Only this month have the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) issued information on ‘Placing manufactured goods on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021’. Read the title carefully, it does not cover Northern Ireland, this is even more complicated!

From: Mike Ridgway, Ghyll Wood, Ilkley.

IT was recently reported that Michel Barnier the chief negotiator from the EU in Brussels in discussions about sovereignty and fishing rights was quoted that Britain can have full control over their waters, but not the fish inside those waters.

I wonder how the urbane and solid upright Frenchman would react to a reciprocal response that France can have their land...but not the wine producing grapes that are grown on that land?

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James Mitchinson