UK will ‘reform’ Northern Ireland protocol if EU will not, says Rees-Mogg

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  1. Why does the UK need to reform a deal it negotiated and signed off on? If the deal is so bad, we shouldn’t have agreed to it.

    JRM also isn’t grasping how bilateral agreements work.

  2. This isn’t the ultimatum he thinks it is.

    The process isn’t working for us, the rest of the EU seem to be operating fine and dandy since our departure.

  3. “I’m not happy with the phone contract I got from EE. If they don’t agree to change it to suit me more. I’m going to break my phone! That’ll show them!”

    Tory logic.

  4. > “We signed it on the basis that it would be reformed. ”

    What? No, that’s not how it works. If it’s not fit for purpose, you’re not supposed to sign it, you fucking halfwit haunted suit. Claiming to have signed it *when you thought it was not fit for purpose*, just to get something past Parliament makes you an incompetent, idiotic, ideologue.

  5. A weaker and weaker attempt to distract from the chaos in the Tory party. With every repeat of this pathetic “do what I say or I’ll shoot myself in the knee” strategy, less people listen.

  6. Attacking the NIP it negotiated, boasted about and ratified simply doesn’t have traction with the English brexiter voter who couldn’t give a shit what’s happens in northern Ireland.

  7. > And the United Kingdom is much more important than any agreement that we have with any foreign power,” he told MPs.

    Prick.

  8. Election coming up, I presume. Mr. Rees-Mogg thinks the UK government needs to create a new conflict with the EU because other than fighting the Brexit fight his government doesn’t really have anything going for it. Unfortunately for him, that doesn’t really work if you keep *losing* said “fight” on your own terms. Sooner or later even those who support Brexit are going to blame you for failing to “win” (whatever that means).

    Trade in Northern Ireland now works better than in the rest of the UK because the UK government has agreed to exclude Northern Ireland from the problems and barriers to trade it has created for itself. Consequently, it is not affected by the structural drain on productivity and efficiency that leaving the single market inherently creates. And Mr. Rees-Mogg can’t have that, obviously, because it might prompt people to ask themselves whether leaving the single market was a good idea in the first place. No, they need to destroy the treaty that allows the UK to be outside the single market *and* fulfill its obligations under the NI political settlement and the GFA. Here is a politician who would break treaties, risk economic sanctions, destroy the NI peace process and destabilize his own country for temporary party-political gain. What can you expect, really?

  9. Just like moggy reformed his own investments just before brexit by moving his money to Eire.
    This tosser couldn’t fix the screwed up piece of paper the protocol was written on.

  10. A load of Hot Air, the man is talking through his hole, He is electioneering trying to stir the pot in NI, divert the attention off Boris’s party gate scandal. The reason why Brexit took so long to negotiate (3 years) was because of the Irish border, they couldn’t come up with a better solution than the protocol then. Just like the other shower of tosspots the DUP, he has no solution now for the “Issue”.

  11. Aren’t NI doing reasonably OK as a result of the Protocol.

    Besides, I don’t think you can unilaterally change a bilateral agreement without essentially breaching the contract and invoking its repercussions.

    In the end it would be worse for NI probably. I mean it would be easier to get goods to and from the UK.

    Smaller and smaller bubbles.

    But leaving that aside Jacob, **what about your lying and cheating leader**.

  12. How about a coin based border, when you cross, you toss a coin and you have 50/50 chance of being checked or just let through. *taps head*

  13. Kindo frelevant to me as I live two miles from the border – like all these nonsense arguments thrown around by the Tories/DUP is OK then what are you replacing it with? the only option is a hard border between North ans South which is contravension of the Good Friday Agreement, wildly unpopular in NI Ireland (and US). Probably we’ll here the good old ‘technological’ solution that was bandied around during Brexit which turned out to be as much hot air as the £350M. They’re all quick to condemn the agreement that THEY made, but have offered bugger all in its place. The country seems to be descending into the absurd. Maybe the PM didnt understand the problem, again. If I sent my kid to Eton I would be asking for a refund as they appear to come out as thick as pig shit.

  14. I really hope Sinn Fein win by a landslide in Stormont. Would be the biggest F U to the union since Nicola Sturgeon’s calls for indyref2.

  15. Gets pop corn out! – Waits for action – Finishes pop corn – Nothing happens – Well that was a waste of time!

    How about yous “Reform” it by implementing the agreement yous signed?

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