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24 Feb, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Frost replacing Gove to front 🇬🇧 Govt's relations with 🇪🇺 has provoked a lot of debate about leadership, accountability and coordination of #Brexit in Whitehall

But similar questions need urgent answers 🇪🇺 side too

New blog post
jonworth.eu/brexit-coordin…
This draws on analysis of changes 🇬🇧 side by @jillongovt @Brigid_Fowler @rafaelbehr @NickCohen4 @Mij_Europe

It examines the impact of @MichelBarnier stopping, and what @MarosSefcovic can now do, and asks if @ClaraMartinezAl will continue
How the EP is struggling for coherence draws on discussions I had with @aphclarkson

On NI Protocol issues it looks at accountability and Art 16, based on work and comment by @tconnellyrte @eurocelt & @KeohaneDan, and draws on comment by @simoncoveney
Re. all UK solutions to problems it examines ideas from @StephenFarryMP, and debates I have had about border preparedness with @ColdChainShane @pmdfoster & @Joe_Mayes

@eltonofficial on 🎶🚛🔊 and @TerryReintke on Erasmus+ and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 get a mention too
Brexit issues might not be a priority, 🇪🇺 side, and I understand that. But that does not mean the problems an inherently unstable TCA (and its interface with the NI Protocol) are going to go away.

🇪🇺 needs some answers, and quickly.

/ends

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25 Feb
I'm worried. It strikes me that if ERG, Foster, Gove and Frost stick to their current approach (demanding NI Protocol abolished or Art 16 triggered) *and* the work to do the required checks in NI from 1 April doesn't happen... it's a matter of time before UK Govt triggers Art 16
It won't happen before end of April, because triggering it before the European Parliament has even ratified the TCA is too dangerous (even for the political geniuses in 70 Whitehall), but once that's done... what's going to stop them?
Labour wants Brexit problems to go away. It's not going to mount a defence of the NI Protocol nor demand the work on the ground gets done

So discontent will grow, accusations of bad faith will be flung at the EU - with no-one UK side to balance them
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24 Feb
It's the sheer brazenness of the Gove (backed by Foster) approach to "grace periods", & asking for them to continue until 2023...

As if it's self evident that UK is not going to be ready anytime soon... to do what it agreed to do when it signed TCA just 2 months ago!
Really, what has *changed*?

Unionists *that the 2020 WA and NI Protocol sold down the river* are annoyed? Consider me shocked.

That the EU actually thinks what's in a Treaty ought to be complied with? Can't be having that!
Or that vdL's faux pas on Article 16 and vaccines means the EU now has to change its approach to the texts it has agreed with the EU? Come on, that's not serious
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24 Feb
Conclusion from the complete absence of reaction to this - on Twitter and directly on my blog - is that serious pieces like this on UK-EU relations, if not written by a think tank, now just sink without trace

jonworth.eu/brexit-coordin…
Maybe I should pitch things like this to an organisation like @UKandEU - but then editorial processes and timetables come into play, but I guess I need to stomach that
And I am pretty sure I am not the right sort of person to work for a think tank, and founding my own makes no sense (we don't need more EU think tanks anyway)
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Jon Worth Profile picture
23 Feb
A quick thread about Provisional Application of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA)

When the TCA was agreed, the text stated that the Provisional Application would apply until 28 February, but this was not long enough for the EU - and the EU wanted to extend
The *Proposal* for a Council Decision that would then set the negotiation mandate was made public by the European Commission on 10 February - you can find the PDF here

ec.europa.eu/transparency/r…
Only once that Council Decision is adopted can the EU then request that the UK agrees the extension of Provisional Application at the EU-UK Partnership Council (the TCA stipulates that the Partnership Council can extend Provisional Application)
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21 Feb
From today onwards, for the rest of my time on Twitter, I’m *never* going to tweet about bridges or tunnels crossing the Irish Sea

And I’d really encourage you to do the same
This likewise applies to cablecars, teleporters, floating tunnels, hydrofoils, hovercraft and blockchain powered drone ferries!
And hyperloops. Obvs. In fact no comments on hyperloops *anywhere*, including across the Irish Sea!
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21 Feb
Corbyn would be a better leader of the opposition than Starmer right now

He dislikes what the Tories do and how they behave and would actually *oppose*

Starmer is instead contorting himself by trying to tell people what he thinks they want to hear
I’m no Corbynista. He was a poor politician in many ways in my view, and Labour is better off with him being gone. His inability to deal with antisemitism in the party is reason enough it’s better he’s gone
*But* on UK politics Corbyn knew what he wanted, and knew where his ethics were

On Hancock behaving unlawfully he’d demand Hancock resign

He’d tear into the supposedly pro-business Tories for a Brexit Deal that kills small businesses
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