Your legislation explicitly gives your government the power to break the Northern Ireland protocol and is in itself a breach of the “good faith” clause for doing so.
The only conclusion one could possibly draw from this is therefore that this “offer” is made in bad faith and has only one purpose: to mobilize domestic voters and MP’s behind them and against the treaties this same government has signed and ratified. The UK government’s conduct is fundamentally dishonest and lawless.
Why should the EU renegotiate anything on those terms?
> Ellis emphasised that the government wants a negotiated deal with the European Union, telling the EU “our door remains open”.
But the government already has a deal with the EU, one they negotiated and then sold to the electorate as an “oven ready deal”.
Their inability to even recognise they made this mess is crippling their ability to fix it.
Add into that their threats to break their international agreements makes their negotiating partners less willing to come back to the table – why negotiate with someone who breaks their word?
The loss of moral authority of this version of the Tory party means there will be no resolution until a genuine change of government.
“But if you sit down to discuss it with us, we do only have the same mad bullshit to offer… “
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Your legislation explicitly gives your government the power to break the Northern Ireland protocol and is in itself a breach of the “good faith” clause for doing so.
The only conclusion one could possibly draw from this is therefore that this “offer” is made in bad faith and has only one purpose: to mobilize domestic voters and MP’s behind them and against the treaties this same government has signed and ratified. The UK government’s conduct is fundamentally dishonest and lawless.
Why should the EU renegotiate anything on those terms?
> Ellis emphasised that the government wants a negotiated deal with the European Union, telling the EU “our door remains open”.
But the government already has a deal with the EU, one they negotiated and then sold to the electorate as an “oven ready deal”.
Their inability to even recognise they made this mess is crippling their ability to fix it.
Add into that their threats to break their international agreements makes their negotiating partners less willing to come back to the table – why negotiate with someone who breaks their word?
The loss of moral authority of this version of the Tory party means there will be no resolution until a genuine change of government.
“But if you sit down to discuss it with us, we do only have the same mad bullshit to offer… “