,
8 tweets,
4 min read
Read on Twitter
Some lunchtime reading for you - a summary of the increasingly hardline anti-EU work of the Alternative Arrangements Commission, now available in French, Italian, Spanish, and German (but link here to the English version) prosperity-uk.com/wp-content/upl…
Now if you think, as I wondered, that the translations would mean trying to see things from an EU point of view - forget it. Before a discussion of the Irish border we have discussions of why this work is important for UK trade policy... 
There is still no answer from the Alternative Arrangements Commission as to what Geographical Indications have to do with the Irish border, but they have a lot to do with the ability to negotiate aUS trade deal. How to win friends in the EU...
This on the politics of Brexit is highly questionable and known to be so in the UK and the EU
And when we finally get to Ireland we're told that was the priority all along (if so, perhaps you'd discuss this first?). But nothing on the major proposal - that checks are fine just not on the border. Rejected by the EU, Ireland, business etc
Anyway, the proposals, and the fact they don't remotely satisfy EU and Irish concerns, are well known. We still even have the free zones to carve up Ireland even further.
As the EU knows these alternative arrangements proposals only reflect a small minority of UK expert opinion, however well funded they are to suggest differently. It is a big problem for the UK though that so many of our MPs believe this is a realistic compromise.
Anyway enjoy the French (prosperity-uk.com/wp-content/upl…), German (prosperity-uk.com/wp-content/upl…), Italian (prosperity-uk.com/wp-content/upl…) or Spanish (prosperity-uk.com/wp-content/upl…) versions. The Commission document pointing out the flaws will just be in English...
