Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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"what are they? well, its the importance of free movement, and of course we have said we want to control movement from the EU, er its the err, the membership of the single market entails accpting that free movement, it also entails accepting the jusidiction of the European Court of Justice, these are exactly things that people voted to reject, when they voted to leave the European Union, and so i have accepted that we can not have that membership of the single market, because to do it, would mean accepting things that the voters have said they dont want, but what we can do, I belive is to get a really good trade agreement with the European Union, in terms of access for our business to their single market and of course for their businesses to our market"
as you see I included the entire thing, you can check that yourself 12:00-13:05. So there is no "quote mining" thing possible here.
So where do i start with this one?
listen up Theresa
Free Movement of goods
Free Movement of capital
Free Movement of Workers
Free Movement of Capital
we got that?
no it does not come from Jurisdiction of the ECJ, Norway does not fall under that either. Its the EEA agreement treaty you see.
Every one else, Norway, Lichenstein and Iceland access this using EFTA. of course that leaves the question where does Switzerland get it then? - well the answer is they have bi-lateral agreements, but are still subject to the EFTA courts. so the answer is No it comes from EFTA.
Did the votes say they did not want free movement, did they say they wanted freedom of the ECJ even, well no the question was "should the UK leave the European Union" the answer to that was yes, dont try to pretend people answered a question that was not asked.
but as you can see they are all about free movement, which is something she is saying she wants later on, free movement of goods for example
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The voters said they wanted to leave the European Union, that is it.
It is not unreasonable to interpret this as a wish to "take back control" particularly from the ECJ and over immigration policy.
Obviously when negotiating with the EU and drafting legislation it is necessary to pay attention to detail but when trying to explain the general principles of your negotiating position on Brexit to a wider audience an obsessive attention to fine detail can be counterproductive.