The gap is getting greater between the Govt agreed deal and the reality of that deal on the Gov’t.
The EU are being dragged along.
Best shitshow everrrr
> The combination of Stormont elections and a potential Conservative leadership challenge makes a speedy resolution to the Protocol issues unlikely, alas,” he said.
So essentially, what is happening is that UK party politics, specifically infighting within the Conservative party, make it impossible for the UK to implement the deal it ratified two years ago. Note that this is *never* a valid excuse for not upholding your obligations under an international treaty. If the UK had a problem with this it should never have signed the deal. If it still has a problem with this it should withdraw from the WA and the TCA. It can’t, of course, because without the NI protocol that is part of the WA there is no legal alternative to a land border around NI, which would destabilize the latter. And in yet another twist, its government can never admit that particular fact because it has to escape the blame for the inevitable fallout if the political settlement in NI falls apart.
Frankly, the EU does not need to care about the fact that the UK government is mired in scandal, or that its ministers can not politically afford to uphold the treaties their parliament has ratified. It does not need to care about the “gap” between what the UK has promised to do and what it wants to do. None of this changes the UK’s obligations. The UK must implement the treaty as signed, or face the consequences.
Perpetual brexit, except punters in the brexit homelands don’t care about the NIP.
It will all be about a leadership race if bojo gets the tap on the shoulder, which I think he’ll be glad of so he can go back to writing about Shakespeare.
The protocol is toast. It’s principal failing being that it, largely, works.
There always needs to be an “enemy at the gates” to keep their supporters fired up. Hence it’s always cast as the EU being unreasonable when they’re actually being incredibly patient.
With an inexperienced ideological zealot in charge this is quite a good outcome. Better than expected.
I.e. gap between what UK agreed to implement and what it now wants to implement?
It’s really simple. We want a border but not a border. How hard is that? There has to be a real hard border. But there mustn’t be a real hard border. I don’t know why the EU are making this issue so hard.
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Let’s get it right.
The gap is getting greater between the Govt agreed deal and the reality of that deal on the Gov’t.
The EU are being dragged along.
Best shitshow everrrr
> The combination of Stormont elections and a potential Conservative leadership challenge makes a speedy resolution to the Protocol issues unlikely, alas,” he said.
So essentially, what is happening is that UK party politics, specifically infighting within the Conservative party, make it impossible for the UK to implement the deal it ratified two years ago. Note that this is *never* a valid excuse for not upholding your obligations under an international treaty. If the UK had a problem with this it should never have signed the deal. If it still has a problem with this it should withdraw from the WA and the TCA. It can’t, of course, because without the NI protocol that is part of the WA there is no legal alternative to a land border around NI, which would destabilize the latter. And in yet another twist, its government can never admit that particular fact because it has to escape the blame for the inevitable fallout if the political settlement in NI falls apart.
Frankly, the EU does not need to care about the fact that the UK government is mired in scandal, or that its ministers can not politically afford to uphold the treaties their parliament has ratified. It does not need to care about the “gap” between what the UK has promised to do and what it wants to do. None of this changes the UK’s obligations. The UK must implement the treaty as signed, or face the consequences.
Perpetual brexit, except punters in the brexit homelands don’t care about the NIP.
It will all be about a leadership race if bojo gets the tap on the shoulder, which I think he’ll be glad of so he can go back to writing about Shakespeare.
A good summary by CGP Grey about this whole issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Yv24cM2os
The protocol is toast. It’s principal failing being that it, largely, works.
There always needs to be an “enemy at the gates” to keep their supporters fired up. Hence it’s always cast as the EU being unreasonable when they’re actually being incredibly patient.
With an inexperienced ideological zealot in charge this is quite a good outcome. Better than expected.
I.e. gap between what UK agreed to implement and what it now wants to implement?
It’s really simple. We want a border but not a border. How hard is that? There has to be a real hard border. But there mustn’t be a real hard border. I don’t know why the EU are making this issue so hard.
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