Although it’s sad that we can’t even have a White man as Home Secretary because of diversity and feminism, Sajid Javid is actually an improvement on Amber Rudd.
The National Action-banning, coal-burning Rudd is a diehard Remainer who loves the EU, and would have voted in favor of Theresa May’s plan to have a “customs partnership” with the EU, a way of sabotaging Brexit by the backdoor. Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg described May’s plan as “completely cretinous”, “impractical, bureaucratic” and “a betrayal of common sense”. It would essentially be equivalent to staying in a customs union, and the very antithesis of the British public’s expressed wishes to take back control, in the 2016 referendum.
Under the customs partnership plan, even after Brexit, Britain would have to keep collecting tariffs on the EU’s behalf at ports and airports, with a share of the cash passed on to Brussels. If Britain chose to set different tariffs from the EU, traders would need to claim refunds for goods that stayed in Britain.
The alternative “maximum facilitation” plan, supported by Brexiteers, is to use new technologies and things like trusted trader schemes, to minimize border checks rather than eliminate them entirely.
Yesterday (Wednesday) the government’s Brexit “inner cabinet” met to discuss the customs ideas. This group of eleven was split down the middle. Sajid Javid replaced Rudd who was sure to have been on the side of May and the Remainers. And Javid came out against May’s customs partnership plan, swinging the vote so that the committee went 6-5 in favor of the “maximum facilitation” alternative.
In today’s news, Theresa May has admitted that the customs partnership plan is dead, after being “shocked” at the strength of opposition to her idea.
We still have the problem of the treasonous, unelected House of Lords members doing all they can to derail Brexit. The solution here is to abolish the Lords, and replace it with an elected upper chamber. In going against the wishes of the 17.4 million who voted for Brexit, the Lords has signed its own death warrant.