2022-03-24
Brexit is a work-in-progress - except that this term implies progress, whereas it appears to be going into reverse.
Of course it depends on whose viewpoint you are taking - from the EU's perspective it is advancing its agenda to break Northern Ireland away from the UK.
From this report it would appear that the EU is unilaterally tightening up the red tape to make it stupidly expensive to import goods from the UK across that border in the Irish Sea.
Will anybody in government get a grip on this situation, or will they simply string out the already interminable nonsense with more rounds of meaningless negotiations?
The EU have made their intent abundantly clear.
We should either pull the plug on the protocol and have done with it, or wrap up the province in a nice ribbon and hand it over lock stock and barrel with all its associated problems to the EU. The former is relatively easy, the latter probably unworkable, but there is no point in allowing this sore to fester any longer.
So Liz Truss, either pull the protocol now, or give the province a referendum on whether they want to stay in the UK or join Ireland and the EU, then act appropriately to grant their wish with all speed.
2022-03-25
Also of great interest is Lord Frost's recent speech at the Uiversity of Zurich on 15th March, surveying the UK's relationship with the EU:
CHURCHILL LECTURE BY LORD FROST OF ALLENTON
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