Brexit champion Nigel Farage admits that the pending withdrawal agreement is a good deal…for the European Union. For the United Kingdom, just the opposite.

In the Brexit back and forth, Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and her team essentially gave away the store, plus the farm and the fisheries,  to EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier with next to nothing in return. Given the one-sided outcome, Farage says it’s the worst deal in history.

In the June 23, 2016, referendum, the British public voted to leave or exit the EU and reclaim the country’s sovereignty, including control over its borders, Virtually the entire political and media establishment coalesced around the anti-Brexit or “Remain” viewpoint.

Leave Doesn’t Mean Leave?

May’s plan, which already gained the quick approval of EU top leadership, seems to be Brexit in Name Only or soft/fake Brexit, or even worse. That’s because the U.K. will lose its voting representation in the EU Parliament while still subject to EU governance if May’s plan goes through.

Speaking at the European Parliament where he is a member, Farage pointed out that the flawed deal “keeps Britain in the Customs Union and stuck with the EU’s rulebook.” See clip below.

Perhaps one of the world’s best orators who speaks without relying on a teleprompter, Farage also predicted that the British Parliament, the House of Commons, would vote against the deal when it comes up on or about December 11.

He again insisted that a no-deal outcome would allow the U.K. to effectively negotiate individual trade deals under World Trade Organization rules when the country officially separates from the EU on March 29, 2019.

May Receives a Message

Several vocal pro-Brexit members of parliament have sent a letter to Theresa May asking that she change course before the vote because the deal she is pushing makes “a no-deal scenario more likely.”

Based on current atmospherics and what the bookies think, most parliamentarians in the Conservative and Labor parties intend to vote down the deal, but never underestimate the ability of politicians to cave.

A devoted globalist, May supported the Remain side in the referendum, but upon taking office as prime minister, promised that Brexit means Brexit and she would honor the will of the people.

She also said that no deal is better than a bad deal.

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Westmonster published the letter, signed by Brexiteer luminaries such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, David Davis, which reads in part:

“But while respecting your efforts, we have grave concerns that your proposal does not take back control of our borders our money and our laws; does not permit us to negotiate new trade deals with the rest of the world; and does not safeguard our own precious United Kingdom…Being unable to leave the customs union without the EU’s permission would place the UK into a legal black hole. This is unprecedented in international treaty law.”

The authors also note that May’s plan requires the British taxpayer to fork over to the EU an estimated $39 billion and “hand the EU the keys to our destiny.”

For reasons that defy common sense, Northern Ireland would also be subject to more onerous EU rules than the rest of the U.K. under May’s agreement.

To protect British interests, this Brexiteer group also recommends that the short-from, so-called Brexit Political Declaration have the same legal effect as the complicated, EU-friendly Withdrawal Agreement itself. They also advocated a Canadian-style free-trade deal that would free Britain of the heavy-handed EU oversight and bureaucracy.

Writes UC Berkeley lecturer Bruce Newsome in Comment Central  about Theresa May’s EU manifesto:

“This is not a deal for Brexit – it’s another indefinite extension of EU membership…Worse, this extension of Britain’s practical subordination to the EU is indefinite, and is subject to the EU’s determination…Two-and-a-half-years have passed since the referendum, frittered away in indecisiveness and willful diversion into fake crises over fake issues, without readiness for full separation under WTO rules.”

Apparently as part of the prime minister’s national pitch, she and Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will meet in a live TV debate about the Brexit deal  two days before the vote.  Ironically,  Corbyn was also a Remainer in the referendum, but now claims he opposes the deal and his caucus will vote against it.

According to the Leave Means Leave organization, this sham face off amounts to a “A Remainer debating a Remainer on Brexit.”

According to polls, the British public overwhelmingly wants a full Brexit rather than May’s watered-down version, but she doesn’t seem to be listening. By any measure, the Brexit giveaway seems to be a full-on capitulation to the EU and a betrayal of the ordinary U.K. citizen.

With that in mind, and for most of those on this side of the Atlantic even without the necessary wonkishness to process all the details, it’s difficult to understand the following:

(a) how Theresa May and her inner circle of globalist paper pushers could be such horrible negotiators when they initially held most of the leverage,

and (b) how they could pretend otherwise while trying to sell the deal to lawmakers and the public.