Keir Starmer has just delivered a devastating blow to Brexit that has fishermen and sovereignty advocates across the United Kingdom seeing red.
Britain’s Labour Prime Minister unveiled a new “reset” deal with the European Union that critics are calling nothing short of a betrayal.
And the concessions he made have left Brexit supporters absolutely stunned.
Starmer surrenders UK fishing rights for more than a decade
At a press conference alongside European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, Starmer claimed he was “moving on” from “Brexit battles,” insisting the deal would put Britain “back on the world stage.”
But the details of the agreement tell a far different story – one of surrender rather than strength.
According to the Daily Mail, “Sir Keir said the agreement was a ‘win-win’ that would bring down food prices and revive exports. However, there are already massive concerns over the price the UK has paid in return for smoother trade.”
The most shocking concession? EU fishing boats will now have guaranteed access to UK waters for the next 12 years. This came after French negotiators ambushed Starmer’s team at the last minute, demanding far longer guarantees than the four years originally offered.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch pointed out that 12 years of fishing rights would be three times longer than the Government originally proposed.
“We’re becoming a rule-taker from Brussels once again,” she warned.
Brexit champion Nigel Farage didn’t mince words about what this means: “It would be the end of the fishing industry.”
Farage took to social media to express his outrage: “Labour have well and truly sold out our fishing industry, all in the name of closer ties to an ever-diminishing political union.”
The EU gets control, the UK gets the bill
The fishing rights giveaway is just the beginning of Starmer’s Brexit betrayal.
Under the deal, Britain will have to accept Brussels’ agricultural rules and make “an appropriate financial contribution” to the EU’s sanitary systems.
While UK defense firms will gain access to a €126 billion EU-wide weapons fund, British taxpayers will have to pay millions for the privilege of participating.
Perhaps most concerning for those worried about uncontrolled immigration, Starmer has signed the UK up to a “youth experience” arrangement giving millions of Europeans rights to live, study, and work in Britain for up to three years.
Nicholas Lissack, a Brexit supporter, criticized the deal on social media: “Keir Starmer has just handed Britain’s sovereignty back to Brussels. Under his ‘reset’ deal, EU fishermen gain access to UK waters for the next 12 years. It’s a staggering betrayal of our fishermen. This isn’t a reset. It is a surrender, a shameful sell-out of Brexit.”
Open borders by another name
Political commentator Darren Grimes highlighted concerns about the youth visa program: “Keir Starmer’s Brexit betrayal is complete. No cap on EU ‘youth visas,’ 80 million eligible today, 150 million if candidate states join, 12 more years of selling out our fishing waters. He’s flinging the border wide open and handing our sovereignty back to Brussels.”
While government officials insist the youth visa program would be “capped and time limited” and wouldn’t compromise efforts to crack down on immigration, critics remain deeply skeptical.
The Labour government claims the deal would see checks on lorries taking food to the continent lifted permanently – ending the so-called “sausage wars” – and supposedly boost the economy by £9 billion by 2040.
In a move to appease fishing communities devastated by the deal, ministers have announced a £360 million fund. But for many coastal towns and villages whose livelihoods depend on fishing rights, this will be seen as a mere pittance compared to the sovereignty they’ve lost.
The Brexit promise abandoned
When the British people voted to leave the European Union in 2016, regaining control of UK waters was a central promise of the campaign. Fishing communities, which had suffered for decades under EU quotas, were particularly vocal supporters of Brexit.
Now, less than a year into his premiership, Starmer has effectively handed back control of those waters to Brussels for more than a decade.
For Brexit supporters, this represents not just a policy disagreement but a fundamental betrayal of democracy itself – the will of the people being slowly but surely eroded by a Prime Minister they believe never truly believed in Brexit in the first place.
The timing of the deal couldn’t be more significant. As the UK continues to struggle with economic challenges and the Labour government faces growing criticism over its handling of various domestic issues, some see this EU “reset” as Starmer’s attempt to divert attention.
But if early reactions are any indication, this move may have backfired dramatically, uniting Brexit supporters from across the political spectrum in opposition to a deal they see as surrender disguised as cooperation.
