Director of the Centre for Migration Steven Woolfe has launched a blistering attack on the UK-EU reset deal, branding it a "scam" and a "lie" that serves "the interests of elites" whilst ignoring ordinary Britons.Speaking to GB News, Woolfe expressed fury over the agreement struck between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and EU leaders, which was announced yesterday at London's Lancaster House.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00And your thoughts?
00:01Well, I think this is a fantastic day for hedge funds and large corporations that back the companies in this country,
00:06mainly U.S. and big corporations that want low-skilled workers being paid low-skilled wages.
00:11It's a great day for those people who hate democracy and the EU, particularly those in our big cities,
00:17because Starmer's giving them an extra 15 minutes or savings whilst they go on holiday in the lines and queues
00:23to get into those countries.
00:25But it's also a bad day for those people who believe in our democracy,
00:29because preferable single-finger is being put up to the poor, the working class,
00:34those who demanded change in this country.
00:36As for this argument that we're going to get lower food, poppycock.
00:40Absolute nonsense.
00:41Inflation on food in the EU was higher over the past five years than it is in the UK,
00:46and that's driven by international demand of very high energy costs, which this government is enhancing.
00:51All in all, this is a scam.
00:54It's a lie.
00:55And I'm generally regarded as being very calm, but this is making me furious.
00:59But once again, we're seeing a political elite looking after themselves and saying,
01:04I'm taking care of my own and ignoring the people of this country.
01:08Nothing good is coming out of this.
01:09And this idea, 6 billion, what is it?
01:12He's turned around 90 billion, Darren Jones, who said he's going to give us into 2040.
01:166 billion a year.
01:18That's less than half the cost that we're spending on immigration hotels in a year.
01:23And, of course, by the way, he is not kidding.
01:26I can feel his fury.
01:28I can feel it radiating my direction across the table.
01:31It's not you.
01:32Obviously not you.
01:33It's only, what is it, eight minutes past six?
01:36We've got a long way to go, I can tell you.
01:38Of course, you mentioned costs.
01:40One of the key things is we don't know the true amount of the costings, how much we will have to pay for some of this stuff.
01:47That detail has not yet been made clear.
01:50I think it will be quite eye-watering sums.
01:52I don't think it's going to be a good thing when we do get those figures.
01:54I can tell you that.
01:55Anyway, Zoe, your thoughts?
01:57Well, I think there's a key point in there, which is that actually what this deal is,
02:00is opening the door to further negotiations and further detail has to be ironed out.
02:05And while I don't think this is a particular celebration for people like me who believe that we should have remained in the EU in the first place,
02:11I do think there are some good things in here for businesses.
02:13So, for example, businesses that produce cheese, other kind of businesses across the country that struggled with imports post-Brexit,
02:20will now hopefully have more ease selling their products in the EU.
02:24I think there's also some good stuff there to do with potentially security.
02:27You know, if we can get access to that criminal data again that was shared by the EU,
02:31hopefully that can go some way with a raft of other measures to helping us get a grip with our borders.
02:36But I do have to say, I think it's quite right that there are a number of details in this that have yet to be hashed out.
02:42You know, the true cost of things, where things will fall.
02:45I don't believe this is a slight for democracy in the same way that Stephen does.
02:48I think when people voted for Brexit, a lot of people, you know, we didn't have a specific Brexit in mind.
02:53Nothing had been agreed.
02:54It was in or out.
02:55We did not have a, you know, that oven-ready deal that was spoken about.
02:58So, a lot of people who did, you know, vote to leave, this potentially wasn't the arrangement they wanted.
03:03I mean, even Nigel Farage has said this wasn't the Brexit he wanted.
03:06So, I think we have to be in this new age of global uncertainty,
03:11where our relationship with NATO and the US and that defence practice looks a little bit more unstable now.
03:17I think we have to be willing to adapt.
03:19And I think we have to admit that there were things that came with Brexit that weren't what people voted for and weren't what people expected.
03:25I think we have to admit that there were things that came with Brexit that weren't what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for and that was what people voted for.