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If readers are expecting the United Kingdom to become a free, independent and sovereign country at the end of this year they are going to be sorely disappointed.

Current UK Government policy is not to deliver this.

It almost does not matter what happens in the off-on, on-off trade talks between the UK and the EU - a possible trade deal is only half the story. And a trade deal with the EU is not Brexit, it is what the words imply: a trading arrangement. On this we expect a grand fudge - “a soft, sweet, crumbly substance” - in the coming weeks, but in some ways this hardly matters.

Any absence of a trade deal is, however, highly relevant to extricating the UK from its current BRINO Brexit, as we shall explain.
Brexit isn’t trade. Brexit means a fully free, independent and sovereign country

The current nature of Brexit is embodied in the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration. This abomination was drawn up by the EU and agreed by the disastrous Remainer Government of Theresa May. The Withdrawal Agreement (WA) was subsequently signed with just one amendment by Boris Johnson on 24 January this year.

The Political Declaration (PD) contained some small amendments – just enough for Nigel Farage to stand down half his Brexit Party candidates at the election. The WA and PD came into force at 11pm UK time on 31 January 2020.

We have attacked it consistently ever since, in articles far too numerous to mention.

We further attacked the Withdrawal Agreement after Boris Johnson secured just one change – to the Northern Ireland Protocol – and we have published detailed research and legal arguments on it throughout this year.

So why is it that the British people do not know they will be an EU colony on 31 December 2020?

The fact that the majority of the British public are unaware of what the legal status of their own country will be after 31 December – when we are supposed to be finally free of the EU’s shackles – is down to many factors. Here are three key ones.

  1. Boris and politics

Firstly, Boris Johnson was facing a Remainer-dominated Parliament when he negotiated a revision to the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. This had to be done at speed because of a personal promise he made to deliver Brexit by 31 October 2019 “or die in a ditch”. It was, in effect, a rush job that he hoped to get through Parliament. He failed, so he went to the country in December and secured a massive majority.

The problem he then faced was that just because he had a more balanced Parliament this did not mean that he could call out the Withdrawal Agreement as a dog’s dinner, because he himself had advocated it so strongly. And so he signed it in January.

  1. The media and institutions

The three main broadcast channels – the BBC, Sky News, and ITN are all pro-Remain. The majority of the print media are all pro-Remain. (The Express, parts of the Sun, and parts of the Telegraph are the exceptions.) The country's main institutions are pro-Remain, up to and including the Church of England for heaven’s sake.

The British public has therefore been subject to a bombardment of Establishment propaganda which started before the EU Referendum and has continued ever since. The Establishment – insofar as it finally had to accept that Brexit was happening, wanted the closest alignment possible with Brussels. This is what the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration delivers, so they were therefore not about to call it out for what it is.

  1. COVID

It is a simple fact that our news has been dominated by the COVID crisis from just four weeks after the UK ostensibly left the EU on 31 January. Dominated is perhaps the wrong word. The news has been saturated in Coronavirus.

There were periods when Brexit – the most significant change to the United Kingdom’s constitutional status in almost two generations – barely got a look in. This is a shocking abrogation by the broadcast media over the past eight months, who no longer seem able to report on more than one topic.
Here is why the trade agreement is relevant to a true Brexit

The Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration, which define the nature of Brexit as we have explained, were predicated on the EU acting in good faith in the prompt negotiation of a trade deal with the UK.

The EU has patently failed to use its best endeavours in fulfilling this obligation and is therefore in material breach of the Agreement. This gives the right to the UK Government to rescind the Agreement and it must do so before 31 December 2020.

We have set out all the legal arguments in previous articles, many of them prepared with the advice of top legal experts. In our next article we will summarise all of these for readers, MPs, and for the Government.
The Government ignores the WA and PD and resumes trade talks immediately with the EU

Instead of rescinding the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration, the Government announced yesterday that intensive talks are to resume immediately, seven day-a-week.

ieuan 7 Oct 22
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So much for the October 15 deadline. I have long been convinced that the U.K. government and the E.U. are stonewalling and delaying, to de-moralize the British people, with the ultimate goal of capitulation to globalism, the New World Order and One World Government.

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