The deal – which will grant EU fishers access to British waters for an additional 12 years – will remove checks on a significant number of food products as well as a deeper defence partnership and agreements on carbon taxes.
The UK said the deal would make “food cheaper, slash red tape, open up access to the EU market”. But the trade-off for the deal was fishing access and rights for an additional 12 years – more than the UK had offered – which is likely to lead to cries of betrayal from the industry.
The two sides will also begin talks for a “youth experience scheme”, first reported in the Guardian, which could allow young people to work and travel freely in Europe again and mirror existing schemes the UK has with countries such as Australia and New Zealand.
The government said it would put £360m of modernisation support back into coastal communities as part of the deal, a tacit acknowledgment of the concession.
tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
So that’s three deals that Starmer has now made with countries/blocs that the Tories promised they’d do and failed to deliver.
Really feels nice having a government that actually wants to govern.
tetris11@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
I still dont like him, but fair enough, he can push back against the needle at times and that should be praised.
echodot@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
That just seems to be how it goes in this country.
It starts with the Tories being out of power and Labour being in power, Labour do a bunch of things that piss people off and eventually this results in them losing power and the Tories gaining it, then you have about 10 or 15 years of the Tories utterly devastating everything because they’re a bunch of incompetent and corrupt politicians, everyone gets sick of that, votes them out and Labour back in. Labour remain in power until they’ve pissed off enough people again and everyone’s forgotten how bad the last conservative government was. Repeat.
The point is though if you actually look at the data, things do improve under Labour for all of the other bad things they do, they are better at politics than the conservatives.