Brexit discussion thread XIV (Please read OP before posting)

Interesting article about the negotiations from a new book that one of the EU negotiators during the Brexit discussions wrote. It is very interesting that Johnson agreed to customs checks between NI and the UK but then 3 weeks later openly lied about it. But then we know Johnson will lie for his own good,

'Boris Johnson agreed in the final hours of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations that there would be customs declarations on goods exiting Northern Ireland to Britain, despite the fact that just three weeks later he told businesses in the North there would be "no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind…," according to a detailed new account of the protocol negotiations.

The former British prime minister also told Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the days leading up to the deal in October 2019 that the protocol would not just maintain the all-Ireland economy but "deepen" it.

Mr Johnson also explicitly accepted a role for the European Court of Justice in the surveillance and enforcement of EU single market rules for goods in Northern Ireland once the protocol took effect.

The revelations are contained in a new book by a senior EU official present throughout the five years of negotiations between the EU and UK, as Britain formally left the European Union and forged a new relationship.'

I don't know if it reveals anything we did not suspect, but the two faced approach of the UK is quite striking. They would be looking for solutions and agreeing that unicorns were not going to be caught, but in the press and parliament would be trying to portray a totally different situation and where they stood. But we know Brexit was not going to work the way it was sold.

Another tidbit at the bottom though,

'Mr De Rynck concludes: "Anyone speculating that the threat of no deal by the UK would panic the EU into throwing Ireland under the bus or change its position misread the EU. Yet Downing Street sources kept feeding reporters with that line."'

So we know where that position came from. It was Downing Street telling reporters what the EU would do and they ran with it. This has spread to, well we know where don't we.

Barnier is on the record as saying that Johnson and Frost knew exactly what they were signing up to. There was no confusion whatsoever, they understood perfectly what they were signing.

They are, until they aren't.

Its in Starmer's interests to let a series of events occur which demonstrate the folly of Brexit, blame the Tories, then reverse policy, once the opinion polls are set against Brexit in its entirety.

One such event occurred today, the BritishVolt company collapsed. A maker of EV capacitors, it was supposed to have attracted £2 Billion in investment and created 3,000 jobs. As it was, the investment never materialised and the Government were tapped for a 100 million bailout, which they didn't get. The 300 jobs that had so far been stood up, are gone.

And now, due to product content regs post Brexit, cars made within Britain will have to rely on British batteries being available to be built (combustion engines are basically dead already) and if they can't get them, it jeopardises whats left of car building as a whole.

But of course, a British battery operation isn't viable, because they can't export economically to the car builders in the EU, which it in turn needs to expand and be viable!!

The Brexit paradox, if you will. A slow unstoppable descent through the seventh circle of shite.

Don't those figures just extend the issues Britain has been having for decades but continually get glossed over? Much of that Venture Capital money is just being moved around on spreadsheets for dubious benefit, there is often very little productive gain from it.