RE: Deal done.25 Dec 2020 10:29
"Can you explain why the EU would have hindered EV uptake?"
Not directly hinder intentionally. Just not be as aggressive and determined as the UK now is. The UK wants to build it's own EV industries such as battery manufacturing, charger manufacturing, and a vast increase in green energy to supply EV's and keep their lifecycle carbon levels down. It want's to be able to use public money to back it all, to help spur investment from the private sector, but EU rules would hinder that.
With the EU it also takes a lot of red tape to agree something. All it takes is lobbying by the huge French, German and Italian car makers to prevent the EU moving aggressively.
As Boris said in his speech, for decades questions have been asked about the direction the EU was going in, with more and more control being taken by Brussels. When people vote for a UK Government, they want that Government to make the decisions that are best for the UK, but in many cases EU law overrules them.
The EU are controlled by Germany and France, Germany bullies because it's the biggest earner by far, and France just throws the veto card like a child throwing it's toys out of the pram. So the UK has got very little that it has asked the EU for, and has had many pieces of legislation enforced on it that are bad for the UK. Now that all goes in the bin and the UK can scrap EU laws that are bad for it, and bring in the laws that are best for it.
We'll soon have it verified as to whether it is a good deal or not, obviously not by the SNP that were moaning about it before even reading it just to push their nationalist agenda, but by Star Chamber. If they back it then it must be a good deal.
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