UK Relationship reset confirmed between London and Brussels at 1st UK-EU Summit - According to the UK government statement on the agreement, which follows the first ever UK-EU Summit, it is intended to “support British businesses, back British jobs, and put more money in people’s pockets”.

The UK and the EU have announced a new agreement governing the relationship between the jurisdictions, some nine years after the Brexit referendum split the two apart.

According to the UK government statement on the agreement, which follows the first ever UK-EU Summit, it is intended to “support British businesses, back British jobs, and put more money in people’s pockets”.

The statement further says it “will help make food cheaper, slash red tape, open up access to the EU market and add nearly £9 billion to the UK economy by 2040”.

The gains are primarily built on a deal covering food and respective emission trading systems. For example, the deal is intended to make it easier to export food from the UK to the EU – such as sausages, an item that caused much difficulty when trying to find agreement on the status of Northern Ireland for trade purposes following Brexit; NI remained in the single market as a result.

The UK government confirms that Brexit caused significant rupture to supply chains leading to a “21% drop in exports and 7% drop in imports seen since Brexit”.

Other parts of the agreement concern travel of people and pets. Talks will progress about sharing facial image data. UK travellers will be able to use eGates when arriving in the EU. Pet passports will be introduced for cats and dogs visiting the Continent.

UK firms will be able to access a EUR150bn fund set up to finance defence contracts.

And the two have agreed to cooperate on a youth exchange scheme to facilitate younger people living and working in each other’s jurisdiction.

The big give from the UK side has been to sign a 12 year agreement to allow continued access to UK waters by the EU fishing fleet.

However, neither side has committed to further removing barriers to cross-border trade in financial services. And details of the commitments touched on in the agreement are yet to be worked out.

The UK government statement is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-secures-new-agreement-with-eu-to-benefit-british-people

The joint statement issued through the European Council is here: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/...25/05/19/eu-uk-summit-2025-outcome-documents/

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[Made In Wales]

Lmao Bongs eat shit. Dragged kicking and screaming back to mommy EU in all but name.

So when are you going to blow up Parliament?

I won't but I can see the crazy Lefties doing this.

I don't fancy spending the rest of my life in Prison being arse-raped to hell and back on a daily basis, and buying a shit ton of Semtex in bulk from my local B&Q would definitely concern the staff.

 

[Quindoll]

>slash red tape, open up access to the EU market and add nearly £9 billion to the UK economy by 2040
Generally good, maybe too optimistic

>The UK government confirms that Brexit caused significant rupture to supply chains leading to a “21% drop in exports and 7% drop in imports seen since Brexit”.
That's grim.

>Other parts of the agreement concern travel of people and pets. Talks will progress about sharing facial image data. UK travellers will be able to use eGates when arriving in the EU. Pet passports will be introduced for cats and dogs visiting the Continent.
Not a fan of surveillance, but eh. The pet issue and eGate thing seems relevant for commuters or people for their vaccation. Generally I don't see the issue here either.

>UK firms will be able to access a EUR150bn fund set up to finance defence contracts.
Kinda a good thing. The UK is in NATO anyway. So them going for it should allow some money, some work and some jobs to be maintained, created in the UK

>And the two have agreed to cooperate on a youth exchange scheme to facilitate younger people living and working in each other’s jurisdiction.
Also pretty decent. I want people to use their youth to see different aspects of the world. Or was this a major issue in the past?

>The big give from the UK side has been to sign a 12 year agreement to allow continued access to UK waters by the EU fishing fleet.
Fishers were lifted up as issue for the Brexit and then thrown under the bus since the EU only limited their fishing quotas by 25 % for 5 years. But their contribution to UK GDP seems rather low. But dunno. Sucks for them.

>However, neither side has committed to further removing barriers to cross-border trade in financial services. And details of the commitments touched on in the agreement are yet to be worked out.
Big issue. London is still a financial center. Wonder how much France is hawish on this aspect in the negotiations.

I mean. I am not an expert on British sentiment. But I saw the few points of the US-UK trade deal. And the sentinent from here seemed to have been that the US was the clear winner in those trade negotiations. But correct me if I am wrong.

This seems balanced in contrast.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

And the two have agreed to cooperate on a youth exchange scheme to facilitate younger people living and working in each other’s jurisdiction.
Also pretty decent. I want people to use their youth to see different aspects of the world. Or was this a major issue in the past?

A nigger coming to Eu illegally can land in Germany, be classed as an illegal in Germany, then move to the UK to work legally for four years. It's a loophole for the Eu to send all of their illegals to the UK, who then make them legal through "youth mobility".
It's money laundering for people.

>The big give from the UK side has been to sign a 12 year agreement to allow continued access to UK waters by the EU fishing fleet.
Fishers were lifted up as issue for the Brexit and then thrown under the bus since the EU only limited their fishing quotas by 25 % for 5 years. But their contribution to UK GDP seems rather low. But dunno. Sucks for them.

Before 'Brexit' which happened in name only, fishermen were held to standards of fishing, IE, not to overfish. We kept to quotas to allow the fish to replenish without us scraping the sea dry. Once we hit our quota and stopped fishing, the spanish and french would come in and fish the fucking sea dry. That will happen again.

The Brits should be the only ones allowed to fish in our waters because they're ours and we look after them. We are environmentally and ecologically sound when it comes to fishing. The Eu doesn't give a fuck though.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Enjoy a Guardian writer smugly gloating about this

https://archive.ph/iNAhM

Euphoric recall. Or more likely PTSD. It was like we were in a time warp. Back in the madness of the Brexit years. When otherwise sensible people lost all sense of reason. And when the mad became madder still. The days of betrayal and surrender. When our closest allies for the previous 70 years became our deadliest enemy. Time to stare them down. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. We take no shit from anyone.
Keir Starmer’s EU reset went to the wire. Of course it did. Every negotiation with Brussels always does. It’s in the terms and conditions. There was no way the EU was going to give away something on agricultural standards without getting something on fishing in return. You don’t want to encourage other countries to believe they will get a better deal by leaving the EU. Even by the time of the final communique there were still plenty of loose ends. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Remember that? Argh!


Still that didn’t stop some of the Brexit lunatics from voicing their opinions long before even an outline of a deal was announced. They already had their narrative. This was a surrender on an unforgivable scale. Daniel – unbelievably now Lord – Hannan was writing on X that Britain had become Europe’s very own gimp. Squeezed into a black leather jump suit with a ball in our mouth. Sometimes you wish Danny would keep his fantasies to himself.
Then there was David – unbelievably now Lord – Frost. What is it about Brexit that led to so many people who had objectively made British citizens less well off getting promoted to the upper chamber?
Frosty the No Man was desperately trying to rewrite history. Again. He has been doing that for more than five years now. Our very own Lady Macbeth trying to wash away the blood. Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiator whose whole life is now devoted to trying to uncover the person who negotiated such a bad deal. He was trying to persuade himself that he had always known his fishing deal was rubbish but that the EU would cut him some slack now because they felt sorry for him. The man needs help.
It’s as if every Brexiter has had a memory wipe. Has no recollection of how deals are made. That the essence of any negotiation is give and take. That there need to be rules which both sides are obliged to follow. But this was also too much for Boris. He went mad on gimp masks too. God knows what you might find in his internet search history. Let’s hope Carrie hasn’t been keeping tabs on him. Here was how the world worked. Britain was at the top, telling every other country what to do. Anything else would be a total betrayal of our sovereignty.
Come late Monday morning, a deal of sorts had been negotiated and António Costa, the president of the European Council; Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Keir Starmer were ready to face the media at the Lancaster House press conference. Costa went first. Trying to put everyone to sleep. He has the air of someone who has grown used to the fact that he seldom says anything interesting. It’s how he got the job. Everything was marvellous, he mumbled. This was a new chapter.
Von der Leyen was slightly more animated. She was pleased the EU and the UK had reached solutions. We were entering a new era of post-Brexit relations. A security and defence partnership. A deal on energy, fish and food. The youth experience scheme. Downgraded from a youth mobility scheme. A sop to the Brits. On no account should anyone think the UK had backtracked on free movement. Better to think of overseas students living entirely in virtual reality.
Then came Keir. Flushed with success after his trade deals with India and the US. This was a triumph. No return to the single market or the customs union. But the next best thing. A reminder that British fishers sell more than 70% of their catch to the EU as we don’t like the ones they are selling. It was time to look forward to the future. To move on from the same stale old fights.
Though it was the past the British media wanted to interrogate. Hadn’t we surrendered to the EU? We had sold out our fishers. We had become a nation of rule-takers. Brexit derangement syndrome had gripped the broadcasters. Keir gently reminded everyone he was creating jobs, facilitating trade and growth.
Even after nine years, it was still too soon to say the obvious. That Britain had voted to make itself poorer. That Brexiters had radicalised themselves. No one had been insisting we leave the single market and the customs union during the referendum campaign. That had only become a truth some time later. So all Starmer was trying to do was to make the country just a little bit better off. You’d have thought from the reaction that this was a major schism.

GB News could barely contain itself. The Tories were threatening to undo all this, the reporter quavered. Er … How exactly? They aren’t about to win an election any time soon. If ever. As if to prove how unserious the Conservatives have become, Kemi Badenoch chose to call a press conference in a broom cupboard in the afternoon. Just to embarrass herself. The broadcasters could barely be bothered to cover it as the sound continued to cut out. We could have been underwater. Not waving but drowning.
Priti Patel went first. Luckily for her she was totally inaudible. She will appreciate this in later years. Then came Kemi, declaring that Starmer had broken her five golden rules. Rules that even her own MPs don’t know or care about. Rules that even the Victorians would have thought nuts. Most Brexit voters now think Brexit was a bad idea. They just want things to return to how they were without anyone reminding them that they had voted for it.
We ended with Victoria Atkins and the fish. Vicky had a pet hake who was determined to gasp out his manifesto. “I, Harry the Hake, do solemnly declare that I will live and die British. I would rather be left to rot on the jetty than be fed to some Frenchie or Kraut. God save the queen. Sorry, king.” It had been that kind of a day.

Brought to you by ex-heroin addict John Crace, also known for his tendency to claim female journalists he doesn't like get their stories by sleeping with people.

 

[Quindoll]

A nigger coming to Eu illegally can land in Germany, be classed as an illegal in Germany, then move to the UK to work legally for four years. It's a loophole for the Eu to send all of their illegals to the UK, who then make them legal through "youth mobility".
It's money laundering for people.

Is there already something out for the requirements?

Before 'Brexit' which happened in name only, fishermen were held to standards of fishing, IE, not to overfish. We kept to quotas to allow the fish to replenish without us scraping the sea dry. Once we hit our quota and stopped fishing, the spanish and french would come in and fish the fucking sea dry. That will happen again.

The Brits should be the only ones allowed to fish in our waters because they're ours and we look after them. We are environmentally and ecologically sound when it comes to fishing. The Eu doesn't give a fuck though.

I have no clue about fishing. Is there an easy overview to see comparisons?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Is there already something out for the requirements?

I have no clue about fishing. Is there an easy overview to see comparisons?

I don't know if you're genuinely innocent, or a reddit fag trying to "source?!?!?!" and "ackshually".

There doesn't need to be requirements out to know what will happen, because it happens now with extra steps, this new deal just removes those steps from illegal to legal.

 

[Snekposter]

My country (Wales)

You're not a country. You're an internal administrative division pretending to be a country despite not having a lick of autonomy, sovereignty, or control over domestic affairs. A US state is more of a country than Wales is.

Lmao Bongs eat shit. Dragged kicking and screaming back to mommy EU in all but name.

So when are you going to blow up Parliament?

I hear that's planned for November 5th.

 

[Made In Wales]

@Morethanabitfoolish - ah, The Grauniad...

https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/guardian-advertising-downturn-hole-12m/

I guess that Brexit's been bad for them as well...

Guardian Editor: 'Brexit is wrong and anybody who disagrees with me is Hitler!'
Also Guardian Editor: 'Why am I at risk of being sacked?'

 

[Made In Wales]

You're not a country. You're an internal administrative division pretending to be a country despite not having a lick of autonomy, sovereignty, or control over domestic affairs. A US state is more of a country than Wales is.

I hear that's planned for November 5th.

Here's why Wales is considered a country:

Separate Identity:

Wales has its own culture, language (Welsh), and traditions, and many Welsh people strongly identify with their Welsh national identity.

Autonomy:

Wales has a devolved (shit) government (Senedd) with powers over certain areas like education, healthcare, and transport, giving it a significant degree of autonomy within the UK.

Historical Recognition:

Wales has been recognized as a country by its inhabitants and many others for centuries, and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) classifies it as a country.

Principality:

While Wales was once ruled by princes, it was eventually unified with England, but it has maintained its separate identity as a country.

While the United Kingdom is a sovereign state, Wales is recognized as a distinct and separate country within that union.

We also have the best national anthem of them all as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNgfQQQNfk8

We're a great country, sadly run by mongs.

 

[Snekposter]

Here's why Wales is considered a country:

Separate Identity:

Wales has its own culture, language (Welsh), and traditions, and many Welsh people strongly identify with their Welsh national identity.

Autonomy:

Wales has a devolved (shit) government (Senedd) with powers over certain areas like education, healthcare, and transport, giving it a significant degree of autonomy within the UK.

Historical Recognition:

Wales has been recognized as a country by its inhabitants and many others for centuries, and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) classifies it as a country.

Principality:

While Wales was once ruled by princes, it was eventually unified with England, but it has maintained its separate identity as a country.

While the United Kingdom is a sovereign state, Wales is recognized as a distinct and separate country within that union.

We also have the best national anthem of them all as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNgfQQQNfk8

We're a great country, sadly run by mongs.

I guess we better call Texas a country then, and may God have mercy on us for feeding their equally sad delusions.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

I guess we better call Texas a country then, and may God have mercy on us for feeding their equally sad delusions.

Iirc Texas has a higher GDP than England, with about thirty million fewer people than England to boot.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Guardian Editor: 'Brexit is wrong and anybody who disagrees with me is Hitler!'

Pretty much the norm. John's churned out a second one along the same line, the comments section on this is hilarious for containing people who claim that Kemi is the result of people who would have voted for Mosley, a fellow known to adore black women, and that Keir is a hardened Brexit supporter.

https://archive.ph/pjzAW

As the Brexit Nostalgia festival – AKA the Earnestness of Being Unimportant – eased into its second day, Keir Starmer prepared to give a statement to the Commons on how his deal only marginally tinkered at the edges of the Brexit agreement reached by Boris Johnson and Frosty the No Man five years ago. Sorry, that should have read the deal that completely reset Britain’s relationship with the EU paving the way for years of growth and plenty. Or, as the Brexiters put it, the greatest betrayal since the last one. Take your pick.
The Labour and the Tory benches filled up in anticipation. Government backbenchers primed to take full advantage of a rare vaguely good news story. The Tories? They were there to refight the past. Because that has worked so well for them. A new YouGov poll showed the Tories in fourth place. Behind even the Lib Dems. Though Kemi Badenoch won’t be happy until she has steered her party into fifth. A bit more climate denial and the Greens could overtake her.


Mind you, Kemi was not wholly alone in her desire to explore the Tories’ existential futility. The Unbearable Lightness of Their Being. Priti Patel was there on the frontbench, urging Kemi on to new levels of stupidity. Only that morning, Priti Vacant had toured the broadcast studios with her own peculiar brand of insanity.
Britain was suffering “the indignity of being a rule taker”, she said. She wouldn’t be happy until the UK had no trade deals with anyone. Better to be poor than to be subject to any joint regulations.
Then there was Victoria Atkins. The final member of the three who had embarrassed themselves at a press conference the day before. Vicky is quite good at wide-eyed innocence, though you suspect she may secretly be a bit brighter than KemiKaze and Vacant even if she tries to keep it well-hidden. She has the look of someone on whom it has dawned that the “surrender” narrative is a crock of shit. But she just can’t help herself.
Vicky had come to the Common with her pet fish. Harry the Hake. With his eyes bulging and gasping for breath, Harry was a dead ringer for Mark Francois. He had a story to tell about one of his friends: Gary the Gurnard. Gazza would rather die than be caught by a Spanish trawler and be eaten by a foreigner. And now Starmer had made it easier for him to be caught by a British trawler and eaten by a foreigner. It was the thin end of the wedge. Of lemon. Gazz – like many fish – was gutted. RIP.
Meanwhile, Starmer gave the impression of a man living his best life. In his usual dour kind of way. He’s not a man given to many displays of emotion. But the EU deal was his own personal hat-trick, after the India and US deals. And he wasn’t going to hear it from anyone that these were anything less than seismic, gamechanging agreements. The EU deal reset was the deal of the century. Business and industry had fallen on it. Like people dying of thirst in a desert. The Tories had said these deals could not be done. It just turned out that they were the party who couldn’t get them over the line.
Up stepped KemiKaze and we were immediately whisked back into the Brexit past. Where Tory failures get rewritten as blue-remembered triumphs. The fishing deal was nothing less than a surrender, she said. Momentarily forgetting it was the same deal that Boris and Frosty had negotiated. Ah, yes, she said. They had purposely negotiated a rubbish deal to wrongfoot the fiendish Europeans. The plan had always been to strike it out after five years and agree the deal they had always wanted.
For a nanosecond or two, you could see the light begin to dawn on Kemi. That the script she had in front of her was garbage. That the country had moved on. People wanted a better deal with Europe. They just didn’t want to be reminded they had voted for a worse one. That there was no Platonic ideal of Brexit. No land of plenty. And it wasn’t as if she was about to reverse any of this if the Tories somehow found their way into government. There would be no prizes for more red tape.
But then KemiKaze remembered she had nothing else and felt obliged to continue. It was a very public embarrassment. Even Vacant and Vicky didn’t know where to look. Starmer barely graced her with a reply. The Tories just weren’t serious. Her MPs rather agreed. They began to slip away in droves. Led by the usually ever loyal Desmond Swayne and Chris Philp. Soon Kemi only had a miserable Mel Stride and Alex Burghart for company.
There were a few diehard Tory Brexiters – Bernard Jenkin, Francois and Esther McVey – keen to die on the hill they had spent years climbing. But they just looked lost. Pitiful really. Moaning about young people getting experience of other countries. There was something sad and defeated about them. Xenophobia on autopilot. Just going through the motions because that’s all they have ever known.
Most tellingly, there was no sign of Nigel Farage. He knew only too well there was no mileage for Reform in this. Immigration is now all that matters to him. So he allowed his half-witted deputy to fill in for him. Dicky Tice is so challenged he can normally only talk in mindless alliteration – Bungling Brussels Bureaucrats – but now he could only manage to repeat the word “Surrender” a few times. He sounded pathetic. Out of time. The world had moved on.

Archive doesn't capture the comments section, here's some winners.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/20/kemi-badenoch-surrenders-to-the-brexit-nostalgia-festival#comments

The agreement to negotiate on a few areas that are not a huge benefit in terms of GDP would be welcome if not for the fact Starmer has built it up to be something huge and then reinforced his red lines in SM, CU and FoM. E Gates are not happening any time soon and in any case await the EU esta and biometric checks, most of the rest is agreement to negotiate on certain areas that Allegedly will benefit the U.K. by 9 billion in 2040. Meanwhile we lose 150 billion a year due to red lines. Yet these small changes have got the Brexiteers incandescent with rage. Trouble is Starmer is as brexiteer, if he wasn’t he would realise go for the big prize the SM rather than left overs

The thing is that Kemi Badenoch and other ideologically driven politicians on the extreme right of politics are so convinced that they are right that nothing short of ultimate utter humiliation at the polls will ever be enough to persuade them that they are stark raving bonkers, and even then they will probably find a publisher somewhere also ideologically insane enough to stroke their incredibly thick skinned vanity and willing to waste paper printing something as vacuously vapid as '10 years to Save the West'.

Sales of Lettuce Liz Truss's bizarre and deluded call for a new Crusade have apparently been so low that it was remaindered faster than Meghan Markle's children's epic, 'The Bench' and her husband's replacement parts manual 'Spare' neither of which managed to dupe more than 8,000 intellectually challenged Brits to part with dosh they would more usefully have used on a bag of National Trust branded manure.

Badenoch is of course merely a product of letting your party be dictated to by a membership made up largely of people who would have been at the front of the queue to join Sir Oswald Mosely's Blackshirts in the 1930s.

The UK electorate has swung decisively away from the utter folly of Brexit and were Labour to announce a new referendum to test public opinion in favour of rejoining the single market and customs union on the tenth anniversary of the single most disastrous decision ever made in our democratic history I think this would be treated with acclaim and provide those who regret massively not bothering to vote last time because they foolishly assumed there weren't enough racists or stupid semi-literate twats in the country to scupper the best trade deal Britain has ever had, the opportunity to at least start to repair the damage they allowed the Tories to cause.

Badenoch will never thankfully trouble us as PM.

Yes - but we need to realise and ask ourselves just who are being 'betrayed' over all of this.

Given the referendum was a roughly 50/50 affair, and many of the Faragists will have since died or changed their minds, then do we really care if they feel betrayed?

Sovrin-tea, surrender, betrayal and fish. That is all they have left.

know a guy who is an escapee from one of those weird evangelical cults.

He told me about how the supreme leader of the cult came over from the US to stay in the UK and was hosted by his UK counterpart.

One evening he was caught red-handed in bed with his host's wife.

Most of the members refused to believe the evidence of eye witnesses, claiming that he had been set up by Satan. They carried on their merry way, believing.

Brexit is a bit like that.

The complete ignorance of Tory politicians about the EU, what it is for and how it works got us into this mess in the first place. Now they just look stupid and ill-informed. No wonder their opinion poll ratings are plummeting.

Meanwhile Farage's bubble will last as long as immigration is an issue and if it comes down te public will move on to other issues. And now Reform control a number of councils and two mayoralties they will be held accountable for their actions. They will no longer be oursiders to the sysytem.

Labour have struggled partly because of a series of mistakes. But they will survive. The Lib Dems, Greens and nationalist parties are well-established. They want to put the errors of Brexit behind us and that is what the public clearly wants. They all made mature comments to yesterday's news.

The Tories are dead, nothing sensible to say. Those who lead them are living in the past. Their time has been and gone.

A rare glimmer of sanity

I remember that after the referendum, Starmer and others were very precise about the limits of what powers could be repatriated under the mandate of a Leave vote. Now, it seems powers can flow in the opposite direction—without even the need for a referendum.

 

[Snekposter]

Iirc Texas has a higher GDP than England, with about thirty million fewer people than England to boot.

Yeah, and Russia has a GDP on par with New York, but I don't think we want those guys to be in charge of anything.