The Transition Agreement; a Massive Betrayal.

Well as more comes out of the 500-odd pages of the transition agreement, the more evidence comes out of the complete lack of "negotiation" that has been going on over the past two years.

We have no unilateral exit option (so no article 50 equivalent), we have signed over rights to our fishing grounds, Spain gets control of Gibraltar's airport, locked into the customs union and single market without representation in the EU, continuing primacy of the ECJ, parity on tariffs, compliance on standards, payment of £39Bn for no concessions, the list goes on.

The agreement is not Brexit. It  is a small step away for EU representation but all the other baggage remains. It's the smallest step the government could do towards leaving. It is not leaving because the majority of EU rules, regulations, laws, justice, etc. remain in place.

Basically it satisfies the smallest legal definition of leaving the EU organisations, but it does not remove the UK from the influence of the EU. Very fucking weaselly.

In fact the only thing we remove outselves from is the ability to have any influence within the EU. Remember the phrase "be careful what you wish for"? Thise deal represents that in spades.

It's as if the Government, Parlaiment and the Civil Service said "Oh you want to leave the EU eh? Well fuck you, we'll make it as difficult, as hard and possible and give you as little as we can get away with.

Rather than negotiate from the position of "fully out" and then get the EU to concede points in order for them to trade with us, the government and civil service teams have started from a "fully in" position and then conceded on every point in an attempt to stay as "in" as possible.

The best analogy I can think of is if an adult asked a child to move away from a plug socket and they moved a centimetre further away, but didn't move across the room just to spite the adult.

It just isn't a full exit from the EU.

It's not what I voted for.

And I just wonder, what concessions to leavers would the government have made had the vote been 52/48 in favour of remaining. Yep, fuck all. So why are remainers getting so many concessions in this deal?

The Elite are such sore losers...

Maybe the Brexiteer majority need to give the elite child a big fucking slap, top show them who is calling the shots. Let them get away with this and you can kiss democracy goodbye for ever.

How do you give them a slap? Don't vote for their representatives in Parliament. Vote someone else in. Anyone else, whether it's someone from UKIP, an independent, just anyone as long as it is not a current sitting MP.