Brexit discussion thread XIV (Please read OP before posting)

Have you read any of the Protocol? Who told you that its purpose was to "maintain the status quo"?

The NIP was specifically made to preserve the GFA and keep the common all island economy "All island and in the SM".

The EU and Ireland couldn't care less about extra costs at an English supermarket chain.

The rather small UK can follow - ALL - the rules of the EU market or get lost. Wein the 🇪🇺 EU is not missing much.

Lars :)

PS! Don't for a minute believe the EU will hit on the island of Ireland. The EU will use peaceful means much longer than your patience.

But when it acts, the EU can stop half the English export - and fairly fast eliminate the GBP.

The inability to supply certain medicines to their NHS Hospitals and GPs in the NI (I think they followed the Art 16 procedure for this already, i.e. notified the EU of the issue and after discussion came to an agreement before the month was up, hence it never came into play?)

The UN, the US and pretty much any and every dispute arbitration entity, would take a very dim view of the former colonial power: Britain trying to use the GFA, NIP as leverage over Ireland.

The UK were members of the EU and would know full well the regulatory regimes the SM operates. So i don't buy this nonsense that they didn't realize. And if by some bizarre reason they actually didn't know, WHAT were they doing the last several years as Brexit was looming?

UK products are not "effectively frozen out of the NI market" - or at least not because of "excessive red tape". But the complication of supplying certain products to NI - such as chilled meats - was envisages, and clear, easy-to-understand rules put in place. The UK government helped draft those rules, is currently pretending they never knew anything about them, and leaving individual import-exporters to figure out which ones they want and/or need to comply with.

And, by the way, those very same "chilled meat" rules apply to imports into GB. I cannot bring them into GB from France in my campervan fridge because of the exact same regulations, copied by the UK government from the EU rule book and pasted into UK legislation.

Except, of course, I can bring any old crap into GB, because the rules on chilled meat imports are not being enforced. So if I can just get my slightly dodgy horse-meat across the channel, Johnson and Frost think I should be able to label it as Best of British and send it, unchecked, to NI on the back of a promise that I've done everything by the book and cross-my-heart-and-hope-noone-dies never in a million years thought someone in Dundalk would buy it from that shop in Newry.

Learning how to use copy/paste it seems. Unfortunately they haven't heard of Find/Replace yet:

UK forced to reopen sensitive Ukraine trade pact after errors in text | The Independent

The UK government knew full well what they were signing up to. Full well. I've had enough of their deceit and lies.

I'm beginning to think myself that they actually had no idea whatsoever.

To sign up to something with the intention of not honouring it would actually require effort and forethought.

Johnson & Co just want a quick win and then move onto getting the next big win in the bag with the minimum of effort required.

They are also prioritising/ favouring the unionists in NI. The majority in NI seem to be fine with the protocol (in addition to the majority having been against Brexit in the first place).

This stuff about protecting soldiers who killed innocents in NI is also disgraceful, and couldn't have been brought forward at a worse time. Again, this is something the unionists want to see.

Unionists are always on the wrong tack though. Brexit was bad for the union, and so it was counter productive for them to support it, and indeed prop up the Tory government. Now that we have the protocol, they should support it as it effectively keeps the union jack over their heads. If the protocol is brought down, all bets are off, and a United Ireland may well be hastenened.