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Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[-] rah@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

And you you did suggest a meaning, when you openly interpreted the article as a good benefit of Brexit.

I initially interpreted the article differently to you but I didn't make any explicit suggestion of what "dynamic alignment on EU food standards" means. You did and continue to.

So you invested that meaning to make your rather pathetic point about the deal matching some Brexit benefit.

I don't even understand what you're claiming here. I haven't made any point about the deal "matching" some brexit benefit, whatever that means.

I made a very clear pretty close to ELI5 maybe 10.

I'm not asking for you to explain anything. I'm expecting you to back up what you're saying with references to information elsewhere. This is how rigorous debate and communication works. This is basic stuff. If you can't back up what you're saying then don't bother saying anything, you're just making noise.

Unless you have some source which clearly states that "dynamic alignment on EU food standards" relates to domestic sales then to me, what you're saying is just an unverified guess. An opinion. Of no value. Noise.

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