The Irish protocol.

Give over. You were berating the EU's discussions of triggering Art 16 over Astra-Zenaca as a massive, needless overreaction. Now you are berating them for not reacting to something the UK haven't actually yet done.

Speaking of which, what commitments have the UK broken with regards to the WA and/or TCA, bearing in mind they sought for and were granted a temporary extension across quite a number of aspects of the WA?

The Clock is not ticking on our membership of the single market. The Choice the UK will eventually force if they continue in this manner is "No Border" or "Single Market".

"Single Market" is the choice that will be made.

Nate

And why would threatening the UK now not be anything other than a catastrophic mistake too? It would be seen as escalating the standoff and bringing the EU down to the UK's level. Frankly, the UK is damaging itself more and more by continuing to behave in the way that it does.

When you actually look at what happens, the UK unilateral actions have in essence been:

• announcing, well in advance of the deadline, that they were "unilaterally" extending various deadlines or previous extensions
• quietly applying, just before the deadline, and most importantly in line with the agreed protocols, to the EU to mutually extend the deadlines before they expire
• announcing triumphantly as the 11th hour arrives that they've somehow forced the EU into giving them something.

If they were really that confident in triggering Art 16, they'd have done it by now, quite frankly.

Your hopes for the future may be getting the better of you I think.

I don't think FT or any British newpaper are the oracle when it comes to looking into the crystal ball for what will happen if/when UK take another larger step in salami-slicing the NI Protocol.

The English language (US)/UK media (all of it, even the "quality" stuff) has never had a great rep. for reporting on the internal going ons in the EU or other EU member states afair. I doubt it has somehow improved now UK is not an EU member any more.

Why should we leave one of the best things that happened to us because the Brits screwed. You do realise that FMC's will be thinking of leaving if Irexit takes place.

The physical violence erupted because of the years of suppression and oppression inflicted with the threat of violence. The might of a sectarian bigoted statlet controlling housing, education and employment in their favour. It was always always going to go up in flames if responsible governments sat on their hands and responsibilities.

It did go up in flames.

Yeh the 'relative safety of the north'...if you were part of a religious bigoted sectarian statelet where almost 4000 people died and countless more were inured and had lives destroyed when the ruling govenment ignored what that religious bigoted sectarian state was doing.

You are indicative of why there will not be proper inclusive remembrance, you refuse to admit the poisonous toxic state your forbears built.

In the south we are dealing with and have dealt with what happened here after independence and partition and have confronted it and laid the blame where it belongs, with the government and the church who fostered and ignored what was happening.

The Unionism you represent is a long long way behind.