‘EU don’t want us - they want OUR MONEY’ Brexiteer Labour MP blasts Juncker’s demands
REPEATED calls for another referendum on Brexit will lead to the European Union giving the UK a “bad deal”, one Labour Brexiteer has warned.
Ronnie Campbell: Juncker doesn't want UK to have a good deal
Ronnie Campbell, MP for Blyth Valley, hit out at the Lib Dems’ call for another vote on the terms of the EU divorce and lambasted former Labour leader Tony Blair for railing against the referendum result.
Speaking to Express.co.uk from the Labour party conference in Brighton, the self-described 'full-belted outer' also took a savage swipe at the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker after ruling out single market and customs union membership.
He said: “I don’t believe you can be in the single market and customs union and be outside the European Union, so I’ll wait and see what happens.
“It’s all in the air because they don’t know what the final outcome will be, the problem we’ve got is that Europe, especially that Juncker doesn’t want to give Britain a good deal.
Ronnie Campbell blasted Jean-Claude Juncker over his approach to Brexit
That’s what they’re after, the money – they don’t want us, they want the money
“Because he knows he’s got all these people shouting like Blair and the Liberals shouting that they want a referendum.
“And he’ll be saying ‘oh well they want a referendum, we’ll not have to give them a good deal – we’ll give them a bad deal and the people will reject it and they’ll have to stay in the union, we don’t want Britain but we want your money’.
“That’s what they’re after, the money – they don’t want us, they want the money, that’s proven when they said €100bn.”
The comments come after Mr Juncker added to tensions between the UK and the EU by insisting Britain would “regret” Brexit.
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Addressing MEPs earlier this month, he said the referendum result marked a “very sad and tragic moment” for the EU but vowed to “keep moving”.
He insisted “Brexit isn’t everything” in another savage dig at the vote to leave the bloc, which was backed by 17.4million people.
He said: “March 29 2019 – that will be the day when the United Kingdom will leave the EU.
“This will be a very sad and tragic moment in our history we will always regret this and I think that you will regret it as well soon if I might say.”