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Sydney Nash Profile picture
@NashSGC
Sep 17, 2020 • 14 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Stuck in a queue at the border? Take a quick break at the #Brexit drive-thru.

What can I get you?
Brexit

Okay. And how would you like that?
Hard
Can you be a bit more precise?

Certainly. I want complete regulatory autonomy, no EU laws anywhere in this most united of United Kingdoms, and the same Brexit for all four nations. Got it?
Sure. Anything else?

Well, I’m told I shouldn’t threaten peace and security. Best add a side order of “respecting the Good Friday Agreement”.
Okay. I’ll see what I can do.

Come on. Chop-chop.

Just give me a moment….

….almost ready….
Alright, here’s what I can offer. I can give you complete regulatory autonomy and no EU laws, plus the same Brexit for all four nations, but you’re going to have to junk the Good Friday Agreement.
Tempting, but…some chaps have told me it’s dangerous, and it might rub some of those chaps across the pond up the wrong way. Try again.
Okay, how about no regulatory autonomy, but the same Brexit for all four nations, plus you get to respect the Good Friday Agreement, both the word of it and its spirit?
Absolutely not! I’m not some frites eating, Tour de France obsessive. I want my freedom. Back to the drawing board.
Okay. How about a different Brexit for one small part of the UK, the possible aroma of some EU laws in the air if the wind is blowing the right way, but full autonomy for everyone else & you respect the Good Friday agreement, and I'll throw in a consent mechanism for free.
Yuk! I said no EU laws, anywhere. What part of this don’t you understand? Isn’t there anything else on this menu?

Well, I have one order of no Brexit left.
Oh for goodness sake! Why can’t you just give me everything that I want?

Because its impossible. What part of that don’t you understand?
Nothing is impossible if you believe.

Well you need to stop believing and start deciding. What do you want?
Oh, just give me the last thing you mentioned.

The border in the Irish Sea?

Yes, yes, that one.

You’ve read the T&Cs?

Of course.

There’s no refunds.

Just give me the cake!
Umm. It’s a bit dry. Maybe I want option one after all.

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Sydney Nash Profile picture
Jan 8, 2023
“Take back control”. What an intoxicating proposal.

theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
It touches a deep desire, fuels an ambition, that grows into a demand, that becomes a rallying cry so powerful that it prompts a revolution.
Control is power. The power to influence and direct events. The power to influence and direct other people. And we want it.
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Sep 16, 2022
I’ve been struck by the strength of response by some U.K. commentators to some recent articles, particularly those in the @nytimes, and especially those commenting on the British empire.
@nytimes The expression of reasonable and well informed opinion has led some to brand the New York Times anti-British. This would appear to be an overreaction to say the least.
@nytimes Maya Jasanoff's opinion piece, which was subject to particular ire, did little more than state well known facts about the Empire...
nytimes.com/2022/09/08/opi…
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Sep 15, 2022
Good thread on what to expect with regards to NI under Truss.

I suspect we are going to have more of the same, but perhaps with slightly (slightly) less propensity to actively seek headlines about the EU than was the case under Johnson (a habit he couldn’t/never wanted to kick).
What will more of the same look like?

Little, if any, active negotiation.

No change in the fundamental positions of either the U.K. or the EU.

The continuation of grace periods, with the EU, for all intents and purposes turning a blind eye...
...On-going agitation amongst its opponents to scrape the Protocol.

Periodic reminders from Washington to London that the U.K. needs to behave.

And…
Read 4 tweets
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Sep 15, 2022
Seems to me this was almost inevitable under a Conservative govt. post Brexit, driven either by econ. constraints & pressure to find more ways to be competitive after market access was reduced, or a desire to prove the Brexit concept, or both.

ft.com/content/e5dac8…
That said, I struggle to see how removing the cap will increase growth, or address the real deficits in our econ. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Will removing the cap result in more rail links between major cities, particularly in the North, or in much needed repairs to school buildings around the country, or prompt major investment in health care to ensure we meet the challenge of an aging society? I'm not convinced.
Read 4 tweets
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Sep 14, 2022
Well worth reading this piece from the @BelTel

belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/viewpo…
@BelTel "[Y]esterday nationalist MLAs joined unionists and others in paying respect to someone who worked to make the world a better place".
@BelTel "In doing so they reflected the Northern Ireland so many of us know — a place where religious and political divisions are discreetly accommodated and respected between friends, colleagues and neighbours".
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Apr 22, 2022
It appears as though hard Brexiters are on maneuvers again, encouraging the government to make preparations to scrap the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.

ft.com/content/58a94b…
Hard Brexiters view the Protocol as evidence that Brexit is still not done, since it embeds in law the continuing application of EU regulations to part of the United Kingdom.
Unionists want to scrap it too. They believe it promotes an all-island economy at the cost of their place within the U.K..
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