Flexibility & pragmatism work both ways. The obdurate hostility of the UK & its refusal to soften its rigidity on the "sovereignty mantra" on a multitude of what should have been purely technical & pragmatic issues injecting dogma into them, will provoke theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
rigidity in return.The UKG's propension to negotiate technical issues in the glare of the tabloids with public letters, making them political points, rather than working quietly in committees behind the scene is entirely counterproductive. As pointed out by @MatthewOToole2 there
are obvious technical fixes like agreeing alignment on rules for food, plants & animal origin products
https://twitter.com/MatthewOToole2/status/1356664145454788609?s=19.
Yet as pointed out, the UK rejected this in the nego& still does now (see weasel reply to O'Toole above) & then comes along bleating on "rigidity" it has itself caused. Thus provoking exasperation in return. A vicious circle.
https://twitter.com/mafevema/status/1358564731251019776?s=19
Countries all over the world sovereignly agree on equivalence of trade standards to trade more freely. Having put Frost in charge of the post deal EU relationship & Gove (a GFA hater) in charge of NI do not point to any willingness to be flexible. It will be felt on many issues.
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