Re: UK backing down on the NI protocol
Originally Posted by
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I don't think breaking the GFA could be interpreted as a "breakdown in communications" by anyone.
The government are perfectly in their own right to extend the grace period if they wish, it seems to me the EU got mighty upset and it was them who came back to the UK to try and resolve a permanent solution. The UK unilaterally extending the grace period would be politically damaging to the EU because it would expose them for causing the problems in the first place, as it has done.
Indeed, the british are neither grateful nor graceful.
Quote:”UK-EU talks aimed at resolving Brexit’s Northern Ireland protocol are “constructive” but “significant differences remain”, No 10 has said.”
The NI Protocol is part of the Withdrawal Agreement which Johnson has called his “oven ready deal”. This is the agreement Iain Duncan Smith didn’t want to scrutinize, when he stated that Members of the House "had more than 100 hours in committee over the last 3 and a half years ... If there is anything about this arrangement that we have not now debated, thrashed to death, I would love to know what it is."
How can there be any problems? Implementing the NI Protocol should be the easiest thing in the world.
Or – perish the thought – was johnson lying through his teeth just to become PM?