Then the peace deal is already dead, and by his party’s choice.
The NIP is a legally binding agreement. The UK signed it. It can not afford to withdraw from it. It can not afford breaking it for much longer either.
Whatever laws the UK creates to nullify it are neither here nor there, because local legislation is never an excuse to not uphold your obligations under an international treaty. The EU won’t care and doesn’t have to care about what UK law says. It will simply note that the UK is in breach of the treaty and retaliate, probably with a progressive set of trade sanctions. As long as the UK does not formally withdraw from the TCA and the WA, which it can not afford to do, the EU will consider both of them binding.
But let’s not pretend that the object of this exercise is anything other than to destroy the political settlement. The party in question never supported it. Indeed, they supported a hard Brexit because they thought it would make the GFA untenable. The UK government doesn’t really care about the actual issue but supports them because it needs constant conflict with the EU to satisfy the hardliners in its own parliamentary party. Picking fights with the UK’s neighbours is just about all that is left to them.
The EU will slowly ramp up the legal, political and economic pressure,wait for this UK government to also fall apart under its own incompetence and then deal with its (with any luck non-Conservative) successor.
Couldn’t they have edited out the fart at the end? That’s pretty unprofessional.
The DUP supported this. They can absolutely choke on it before they threaten people with violent repercussions.
I may not have warm and fuzzy feelings or memories towards ireland, but for the life of me, I do not want my nieces and nephews to grow up in the world of violence that I did.
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Unionist MP threatens violence.
Just how the Troubles started in the ’60s
Then the peace deal is already dead, and by his party’s choice.
The NIP is a legally binding agreement. The UK signed it. It can not afford to withdraw from it. It can not afford breaking it for much longer either.
Whatever laws the UK creates to nullify it are neither here nor there, because local legislation is never an excuse to not uphold your obligations under an international treaty. The EU won’t care and doesn’t have to care about what UK law says. It will simply note that the UK is in breach of the treaty and retaliate, probably with a progressive set of trade sanctions. As long as the UK does not formally withdraw from the TCA and the WA, which it can not afford to do, the EU will consider both of them binding.
But let’s not pretend that the object of this exercise is anything other than to destroy the political settlement. The party in question never supported it. Indeed, they supported a hard Brexit because they thought it would make the GFA untenable. The UK government doesn’t really care about the actual issue but supports them because it needs constant conflict with the EU to satisfy the hardliners in its own parliamentary party. Picking fights with the UK’s neighbours is just about all that is left to them.
The EU will slowly ramp up the legal, political and economic pressure,wait for this UK government to also fall apart under its own incompetence and then deal with its (with any luck non-Conservative) successor.
Couldn’t they have edited out the fart at the end? That’s pretty unprofessional.
The DUP supported this. They can absolutely choke on it before they threaten people with violent repercussions.
I may not have warm and fuzzy feelings or memories towards ireland, but for the life of me, I do not want my nieces and nephews to grow up in the world of violence that I did.