OI!! @LiamFox, STOP LYING!!
A Northern Irish MP just pointed out that the new #TradeBill will create a border in Northern Ireland. Fox said that it included a proposal to avoid that. Yeah, but Jacob Rees-Mogg's amendment makes it impossible for the EU to accept it!!!!
A Northern Irish MP just pointed out that the new #TradeBill will create a border in Northern Ireland. Fox said that it included a proposal to avoid that. Yeah, but Jacob Rees-Mogg's amendment makes it impossible for the EU to accept it!!!!
Explanation:
#TradeBill had a customs arrangement whereby the UK would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU so there wouldn't need to be a hard border in Northern Ireland thus protecting the Good Friday Agreement. The Mogg amendment says the EU must do it for the UK too or no deal
#TradeBill had a customs arrangement whereby the UK would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU so there wouldn't need to be a hard border in Northern Ireland thus protecting the Good Friday Agreement. The Mogg amendment says the EU must do it for the UK too or no deal
The EU has already said no to that. So Jacob Rees-Mogg and his ERG extremists have just put a poisoned pill in the #TradeBill which not only pushes us towards No Deal, but threatens to rip up the Good Friday Agreement.
