We came to this agreement three years in. If you want to negotiate for this country the kind of deal that Greece got under the EU, that is what we are doing, because we have arrived with deals made that put us at an uneven keel with our trading partners, and this is unacceptable. You do not have the policy opportunity to renegotiate this. The only thing you can do is reject it outright.
This deal privatizes the profits and socializes the risks, and we are tired of it.
The cozy relationship that those of us who were here at the beginning witnessed from these three gentlemen and industry—about how they were part of the negotiation, and “We worked together on this and that”, while the MPs from other sides of the aisle did not have the ability to see that agreement before it was signed—is shameful.
The way, Mr. Ritz, that you spoke—