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if global britain's first act is to walk away from international financial contributions it is just not a serious prospect.
because then you can get on with your ambitions for full economic financial political and military integration.
make it easy for us to go so that we can get on with pursuing our freedom and independence prosperity and our future in the world not in the eu.
and then she wants another two years transition period which will take us up to five years from the referendum during which case nothing much changes on immigration the laws don't change and she has made one very very very dangerous concession which is talking about an eu treaty on security and defence.
two thousand and nineteen we will leave the commission we will leave the council we will no longer have members of the european parliament.
and what she'll end up with is a withdrawal agreement whereby we leave in name but we do not leave in reality.
the second reason of course is mrs may who simply doesn't have a clue.
fifteen months already after the referendum nothing much has changed.
but mrs may has made some very serious and dangerous concessions already.
she has neither the courage the will nor the resolve to actually see these so called negotiations through.
you're going to do everything you possibly can to make it as difficult as possible to delay it as long as possible so that either we end up with a very very bad deal or we reverse the decision of the referendum.
and there are two main reasons for that.
we will continue to be bound to your military ambitions.
you can create your united states of europe.
today's resolution offers hope in the context of northern ireland where it speaks of northern ireland staying in some form in the internal market and customs union.
i believe the majority of people in northern ireland who voted to remain would support today's proposal and it would fit in with theresa may's proposal to exclude any physical infrastructure at the border. those who represent northern ireland must be clear do they want a hardening of the border will they accept a harder border or do they support a unique solution for northern ireland that will avoid a hardening of the border
however the key to a harmonised and hateless divorce lies on the basis that both sides recognise their mistakes and do not blame it all on the other side.
in my opinion there is space for improvement in that respect on both sides of the british channel.
you have not given one iota.
go back and understand what negotiation actually means.
can i remind everybody that there was an agreement between both parties to keep those details confidential and it has taken individuals in this parliament to divulge them and to criticise the united kingdom for not being forthcoming. well i have got more faith in my politicians that abide by confidentiality agreements than i have in a number of the individuals in the parliament this morning.
it quite clearly appears to be that this parliament wants to erase the united kingdom from the flag but it wants to keep everything that the united kingdom contributes be it money be it defence forces be it knowledge whatever it might be.
one of my political colleagues back in the united kingdom during the referendum campaign made a very very strong statement which is the united kingdom should not be a star on somebody else's flag'.
well if you want that go back to the negotiating rules.
a number of people have referred to the lack of clarity of documents coming from the united kingdom.
it means giving a bit to get something back in return.
it is all very well holding twenty seven member states together in terms of unity but quite frankly what we are seeing now is a facade and theatre from parliament in terms of the negotiations.
but maintaining the new dynamics of the negotiation process depends heavily on whether the uk prime minister's speech in florence will be translated into new negotiation positions and concrete proposals as soon as possible.
we need reassurance that bureaucratic burdens will be avoided. we also need to avoid the risks of incoherence and distortion in the interpretation of the withdrawal agreement and we need to see respect for the fact that the situation of northern ireland is unique and deserves to be treated in a unique way. we all want to reach that deep and special partnership that ms may has called for and which is in the interest of all european citizens but lack of progress
now would delay the whole process of the negotiations.
michel barnier said in his introductory remarks that fifteen days and one negotiation round separate us from an important meeting of the european council that will debate and decide. that meeting will be a chance for the european leaders to take stock of the results so far and decide whether to expand the negotiating mandate allowing for parallel discussions on the future agreement and the transition.
accelerating the pace of meetings has to go hand in hand with progress on content.
to minimise the damage we now need to do three things.
it was their mantra for more europe more centralisation more socialisation which led to the referendum in the first place.
i would like to remind you not only him but all british people are leaving this parliament and these are the last advocates in this parliament who are in favour of competitiveness of decentralisation and of self responsibility of a country for its debts.
and it was their inflexibility on the immigration issue which gave the arguments for the johnsons and the farages to swing the results towards brexit.
and here is a message to london they should really get their act together and come up with a stable and unified government to face this commission in this critical phase.
anything else is a betrayal.
i think it is you that is inciting violence sitting in this chamber.
she is incapable of saying yes' or no' because she has never worked in business.
the uk said yes' to leaving the single market and the customs union so you should just cut a deal on a free trade agreement. but you can't.
last but not least the financial settlement is also one of the key issues on which sufficient progress must be made before moving to the next phase of the negotiations.
what actually matters is the position paper presented at negotiations as an official position.
a certain new momentum has recently been instilled into the negotiations.
european parliament resolutions are valuable for the council. as i noted earlier there are still fifteen days and one round of negotiations to go.
no doubt positive words have been said but we are still awaiting concrete proposals.
a transition could be welcome in easing the impact of the withdrawal and mitigating the uncertainties affecting citizens and businesses but again in order to be able to consider transition in good time we need far more clarity than has been provided so far.
but a number of issues remain open and there is not yet any satisfactory assurance that these rights will be implemented in a consistent manner on both sides of the channel. turning to ireland and its unique situation both sides are certainly close in terms of principles and continued support for the good friday agreement and what could be achieved within its framework and
indeed it is on the basis of this assessment that on twenty october the european council will consider the state of play in these negotiations and how to move from there.
the matters under discussion are serious ones with an impact on the rights of millions of citizens on the budget of the union and on the continuation of peace in ireland.
we can manage eu migration;
they said in the eu we can't control our borders!
well she's not talking for me nor the millions who voted to stay in and still want to stay in.
they are in control and she is too weak to deal with them.
may's florence speech has left more waffle fudge and half eaten cake on the table than is good for anyone's cholesterol.
they said that the eu stops us making trade deals but we have over fifty international trade deals now.
they say they have a plan for ireland but so far nothing.
prime minister get a grip or pack your bags and leave now.
so where is the vision for brexit?
we have millions of eu citizens who need clarity now with a stand alone agreement whatever the negotiations deal.
brexiteers constantly blame brussels for their own failings.
but let's be frank with one another what seems unacceptable to some is that in certain cases britain might be outvoted.
let us respect the democratic vote and do just that without further delay.
let me conclude with a few words on democracy.
in the twenty first century more than ever size matters.
as your prime minister explained the decision to leave the european union is a statement as to how you want your democracy to work.
on the one hand this european parliament was elected by and is accountable to the very same people who elect your national parliaments.
but if we want to be fair to those same citizens let them or at least those people who have been elected to represent them have the last word on this story.
if we want to limit the inevitable damage that will be caused by this lose lose situation we should waste no more time and negotiate in good faith.
you know where we greens and the european free alliance wanted your country to be to remain at the heart of the european union.
british citizens come to see me every week to alert me to the damage that will be inflicted on your healthcare system or on the quality of research in your top universities where so many eu nationals are working day in day out.
while we accept the result of the referendum this decision will produce no winners.
in her florence speech theresa may said that the united kingdom has never felt totally at home in the european union.
such a sentiment is echoed by many people by the majority of young people who still consider themselves european by people living in our diverse and multicultural cities and of course by those european citizens who have chosen for reasons of love work or study to make the uk their home.
he was complicit in the biggest lie in the history of british politics and with his tory cronies he has used brexit as a power grab for himself.
personally i have never felt less at home in the uk since the vote to leave the eu.
mr president as we debate the brexit negotiations here in strasbourg back in manchester foreign secretary boris johnson is preparing to deliver his speech to his party conference.
if brexit is a divorce then we are the children of the divorce and the process is a painful and troubling one.
we need less of the public speeches and more engagement where it matters most around the negotiating table. i think that over a period of time around the negotiating table trust can be built and we can come to conclusions that are satisfactory to everybody.
it really is about time the uk government pulled itself together they should be clarifying their position and negotiating properly.
they should be accepting the view of the scottish and welsh governments that the uk needs to be in the single market and the customs union for the transitional period and indeed permanently. for once the british government should put the country first before the party.
it can't agree amongst itself what it wants from the divorce settlement from transitional arrangements or from a future relationship with the european union.
show leadership on content.
we need clear results
they did not explain to us what leaving the european union really means.
first of all the british government has to understand that cherry picking is over. what we saw through the summer break was the british government presenting a lot of new ideas but with these ideas they showed that they want to keep ties they want to keep contact.
that is the result when you do a brexit.
in; two thousand and nineteen otherwise the consent of the european parliament is not guaranteed.
on reading johnson's attacks against his own prime minister he shows that the british government is trapped by their own party quarrels and political contradictions.
and please no more speeches.
actually ms may i am sad to say is not worldly enough to recognise that when you face up to a bully the one thing that you do not do is try to appease them.
it was a voice of national self determination that cannot and will not be stopped.
not a dickey bird. in fact previously we heard that the rule of law must be maintained and it is quite extraordinary to realise that this union is prepared to turn a blind eye.
mr president whilst we debate the really important issue of brexit i think european citizens those that do take any interest in what happens here will be stunned that mr juncker comes here for his one appearance in the strasbourg session this week and there is absolutely no mention made of the dramatic events that have taken place inside a european union member state that is allegedly a modern democracy.
indeed the calls would be that the united kingdom must go before the european court of human rights and yet you don't even want to talk about this.
one of the reasons why i always wanted brexit was because i thought the system of law making whereby the commission has the sole right to initiate legislation was something that would in fact damage and in the end destroy any concept of national democracy.
we saw women being dragged out of polling stations by their hair old ladies with gashes in their foreheads. it was the most extraordinary display and what do we get from mr juncker today?
i've called it anti democratic but never in my fiercest criticisms here did i think that we would see the police of a member state of the union injuring nine hundred people in an attempt to stop them going out to vote.
i have heard you saying that she is being conciliatory that she is being grown up that people are happy with what she said.
she is begging you to give her a transition period and there is no guarantee that you will do it so i do actually agree with the criticisms that i have heard around the room about the mixed messages coming out from the uk government.
brexit was an act of liberation.
if we can't reach a sensible deal on trade and everything else then we are simply leaving and reverting to wto rules'.
six months in which bridges could have been built between those who voted to leave and those who would have preferred to remain.
a foreign secretary who is the main cause of the prime minister's preoccupations;
six months that could have paved the way for a meaningful conversation about our common future;
michael gove who is too busy selling pigs' ears to china to make any meaningful contribution to the process;
well good luck having an intelligent conversation with someone like that.
but all we have seen in the past six months is chaos a prime minister who is so preoccupied with her own position that she cannot focus on these negotiations;
a house of commons leader who said yesterday that the uk will take back control of its borders its money and its laws in two thousand and nineteen denying the idea of a transition period;
stop your party political games and come to the table as a serious united and credible negotiating partner.
so please our friends in london be serious.
that is your mistake.
unless we have a change in the direction this is heading we are heading for a crash.
at its heart this proposal goes against the belfast agreement the parliament is mandated to protect and defend. the belfast agreement is clear northern ireland is a full part of the united kingdom and we entered into the then eec as one united kingdom and we will leave the european union as one united kingdom.
it is a huge mistake and today i have heard nothing new.
let me make it very clear i will not accept any attempt by anyone in this parliament to use brexit as an excuse to break up my country.
they bore the brunt at a time when the other party leaders represented on both sides in this house who are now that the lead parties in northern ireland stood on the sidelines and did nothing to help to bring peace in northern ireland. in fact they have messed it up big time which does not make the situation we have today any easier. shortly after those ceasefires by calling for northern ireland to remain in the single market and the customs union with the rest of the united kingdom
i suppose this hope is based on the fact that maybe after the conservative party conference has finished this week there may be some movement in the conservative government.
it is also growing increasingly obvious to everyone where the blame lies for this the chaos the confusion and the divisions within the british government a government which is now a minority government having lost an election on a platform of going for a particular form of brexit that the public did not support.
mrs may's florence speech was not so much to improve and clarify her positioning for the negotiations with the twenty seven it was to improve her negotiating position within the british conservative party and it has clearly failed even to do that.
the motion for resolution before parliament hopes that progress can still be achieved by the next meeting of the european council only two weeks away.
the british government did not put a single position paper on the table at that meeting. here we are six months after triggering article fifty and we have no agreement on the issues in the first phase of those negotiations despite david davis rightly or wrongly accepting the sequencing that was proposed for those negotiations.
this is just not good enough.
mr barnier you will recall the very first meeting of the negotiations one year after the referendum.
they are still at loggerheads they are still divided and sometimes i wonder whether they don't even want to move on to the second phase of the negotiations because they do not yet know what kind of relationship they want to secure for the future.
there is indeed another negotiating round.
let's also be clear that paying what you promised to pay is not a punishment it is also about keeping your word.
and does all of that show to other countries that you want to be a trusted partner in future negotiations?
some of us would like the same one but that is not on the table.
so we have to ask whether walking away actually makes this a serious relationship.
aiming and continuing to say that no deal is better than a bad deal or no deal is okay is not a serious outcome.
the devil will be as always in the detail but the taxpayers of the eu twenty seven should not pay for the british decision.
in florence she struck an optimistic tone on the future relationship between the united kingdom and the union. when it comes to brexit we still cannot talk about the future without real clarity.
this is because the condition of article fifty and the mandate given to us by the leaders of the eu twenty seven are very clear we first need to agree on the terms of the divorce and then we will see if we can half lovingly find one another again.
i am pleased that prime minister may and her team recognise that the uk has financial obligations which it must respect.
ms may touched on a range of extremely important issues terrorism climate change the refugee and migrant crisis global free trade organised crime and territorial aggression issues so challenging so dangerous and so complex that we can only solve them together.
despite the clarity the message never seems to get through.
fourth the discussion in the uk itself seems to be entirely unaware of what the eu is saying.
indeed the uk made a serious diplomatic effort to split that unity.
the uk side when it responds does so in vague all too often unfocused language or makes complaints of inflexibility or punishment.
madam president anyone following the relationship between the european union and the united kingdom since the brexit vote will be struck by a number of factors.
is absolutely needed.
' so i can tell you it was a shock to come to belfast because the reality is that the problems are not over.
there is peace due to the good friday agreement but there are still these tensions.
our proposal is very simple let us recognise this collectively;
my second worry is about citizens' rights.
parliament and council not parliament only but parliament and council for once and i have never seen it before i have to tell you in my political life are going beyond national differences and considerations of party obedience and are really defending together with the negotiator the interests of the citizens in all twenty seven member states.
well when it comes to collectively securing the rights of eu citizens living in the uk the uk authorities tell us it is not possible they don't know them and they don't know where they
they are loving the conflict and the tensions and they are for me contradictory to what the united kingdom is and has been for europe.
in the negotiations we need to be counterparts but in the future we need to be partners.
that means that this is time for negotiation more than agitation.
mr president abraham lincoln famously once said you can fool some of the people all of the time; you can fool all of the people some of the time;
but you can never fool all of the people all of the time'.
well the british people are no longer fooled that the eu wants to negotiate a fair brexit agreement or even negotiate at all.
when president tusk says the uk can't have its cake and eat it what he actually means is the eu wants its cake our cake the morning croissant afternoon tea and finishing it we're taking a pound of britain's economic flesh washed down with a glass of subsidised eu chianti.
a lot of time has been lost and we now see a more positive dynamic.
for this reason it is very important that the message that comes from this parliament is clearly heard and understood.
a positive conclusion of the first phase of the negotiations is possible but we are not yet there.
the parliament is and will be open and constructive in its assessment but we are and will be equally firm on our principles.
the positive principle of direct effect of the agreement must be underpinned by an effective mechanism which allows the court of justice to ensure a consistent interpretation of its provisions.
second as we are safeguarding existing rights and not discussing future uk immigration rules we will not accept to depart from any of the current provisions in particular about future family members of eligible citizens that should have the same rights as current family members about the declaratory nature of documents about the need to avoid any burdensome administrative procedure and on the possibility to export social benefits.
on ireland our resolution is extremely clear and on financial settlement it is extremely important that the now shared principle apparently that all commitments made by the uk during its membership of the union shall be honoured is implemented fully and consistently.
so as we say in the resolution unless a major breakthrough takes place next week the european council should postpone its assessment of sufficient progress.
by stating this obvious element we are not closing a door.
we are pointing out a way forward that is fair for both the eu and the uk.
in this respect we have to be clear on the transition.
my committee has received a large number of petitions expressing grave anxiety about citizens' rights in a post brexit era. they all have something in common they are all the result of the insecurity people feel that they have been thrown into
due to a very unclear withdrawal of the uk from the european union.
some of them have tens of thousands of signatures.
from also the perspective of the conference of committee chairs let me just express that there is an immense task we are all aware of in front of us for all the committees.
i know how important it is that realism and pragmatism is allowed to inform and shape the debate and the negotiations and we are lucky to have an excellent negotiator in michel barnier.