As the only person ever to have been elected for Ukip in a General Election, if I was in the House of Commons today I would not just vote in favour of Boris Johnson’s deal. I would do so cheerfully in the knowledge that this is pretty much what I have spent much of my adult life campaigning for.
Firstly, UK law will become supreme in the UK. No longer will we be under the jurisdiction of the EU courts.
Nor will we be bound by EU regulation. There’s none of Theresa May’s nonsense about a ‘common rule book’. We will be free to determine our own standards. Who knows, we might even start to use elections to decide such things, restoring purpose to our derelict democracy in the process?
Under Boris’s deal, the UK – including Northern Ireland – will have its own separate customs area, allowing us to determine our own trade policy.
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