Former MP George Galloway has said that the European Union is seeking to keep Britain locked to the bloc via an extension to the transition period, MR Galloway claims that Brussels officials are living “in denial” over Brexit after top EU officials urged a two-year delay to the exit.
Mr Galloway went on to warn that the EU wants the UK to stay in the bloc as a way of forcing Britain to help bailout the European economies badly damaged by the coronavirus crisis.
This comes after Mr Barnier criticised the UK for setting what he claimed the EU seen as “unrealistic deadlines and demands” for a post-Brexit deal, he also demanded a “lump sum” payment to the EU budget if the Prime Minister was forced to extend the Brexit deadline beyond the end of this year.
Downing Street has already ruled out extending the Post-Brexit transition period time and time again.
Mr Galloway made his marks during an interview with RT, the host told said to the former MP: “The talks aren’t going very well between the UK and EU before the UK leaves on the 31st December. The EU wants to delay that date for another two years because of coronavirus.
“But the UK seems to be moving full steam ahead, pandemic or no pandemic. It seems to me like a divorce case where one spouse is begging the other not to move out yet even when the divorce has been finalised by the courts!”
Mr Galloway responded: “Beautifully put! We are like Steve McQueen in the Great Escape, we are out of there at the end of the year.”
“This is the denial in which the EU is living. That somehow we will stay for another two years and help to shoulder the burden of the EU’s economic collapse, of course.”
He continued: “Well we won’t do it! The people won’t stand for it, the government won’t agree to it. We are leaving.
“If the EU negotiators want to compound the critical intensive care state of their economic situation they have in the EU by starting a trade war with us just because we have the temerity to leave them, I’m afraid they will suffer from that more than we will.
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