“Taking back control of borders with a points based system of immigration.”
Until January 1st Britain has the legal right to return illegal immigrants to their Country of Departure (Dublin Regulation). Now we won’t. Plus, because we won’t have a system in place to check the contents of every lorry entering the UK we are going to have to “wave them through” just to keep the ports from grinding to a halt:
“Making our own laws and regulations.”
As one of the earliest members of the EU Britain was one of the ‘Big Three’ decision makers, with over 90% of EU Laws being identical to UK Laws. Plus, as a member of the EU Britain had the Right of Veto on any proposal – not only to Opt Out (e.g. we opted out of adopting the Euro) but actually prevent proposals from being passed. Now we will have NO SAY in the EU rules we will still HAVE to conform with in order to Trade with the EU without incurring tariffs.
“A British regulatory framework will be able to better exploit the fourth industrial revolution and avoid EU protectionism.”
WTF? Do you really think Britain is suddenly going to become some vast Manufacturing hub capable of taking on China, India and the USA? Reopen the coal mines, re-establish the Steel Works, re-thread the looms ‘oop ut Mill’? We have NOTHING that other countries can’t already source elsewhere, and more cheaply than we could hope to offer.
“Controlling trade policy, leading to new and better agreements such as the Japan FTA and joining the CPTPP.”
If we want to Trade with the EU (our largest Export destination at 49%) we will HAVE to conform to EU Standards and Regulations of face Tariffs getting applied to our Exports. The new Trade Deal with Japan heavily favours Japan – one old one increased UK GDP by £2.6 billion, the new one by only £1.5 billion. As for joining the CPTPP – Do you even know what that is? The ‘Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership’ is a conglomerate of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam (which does not supersede our new Deal with Japan or arrangement with Singapore). How much is that going to be worth to us?
“An independent sanctions and human rights regime separate to and more progressive than the EU’s.”
Back in 2016 the United Nations published the result of their 2 year study of the ways the UK Government treated disabled people – ‘The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: UK implementation’. It was utterly damning. The British Government response was “We strongly disagree with your findings” and nothing happened:
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: UK implementation
This is getting lengthy. I’ll break it here and get back to you.