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13 Mar, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Staggering hypocrisy (like on vaccines exports) of Johnson on the NI Protocol exposed by the BBC.
Just 4 days after Johnson's triumphant signing of the WA, the Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) produced an analysis of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill .
bbc.com/news/amp/uk-no…
DExEU report was clear: "Goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will be required to complete both import declarations & Entry Summary Declarations because the UK will be applying the EU's custom code in Northern Ireland"
This means "additional documentation required on all agri-food goods moving from GB to NI to ensure that they comply with the necessary regulations," including "Export Health Certificates for products of animal origin, fish &live animals & phytosanitary certificates for plants
The sole way to avoid this would have been to enter into a Sanitary & Phytosanitary Agreement like the New Zealand or Swiss one. Below summary of the NZ SPS Agreement. The UK refused to even discuss a SPS deal
A leaked Treasury report surfaced in the GE19 campaign. It said  "The Withdrawal Agreement has the potential to separate Northern Ireland in practice from whole swathes of the UK's internal market"
So the fundamental impact of the NI deal was well known in government despite the fact that PUBLICLY they still denied the existence of a border between NI & GB. Today they continue to feign outrage about the direct & WELL KNOWN consequences of the deal described as a triumph.
They blame the EU for the deal THEY AGREED in full knowledge of its impact. What is @Keir_Starmer doing not pointing all those lies out???A whole PMQ should be devoted to relentlessly exposing Johnson's contradictions, evasions & lies on the NI Protocol.
But nothing is said & the government is getting away with it. @Keir_Starmer what a massive disappointment you are.

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DAVID FROST 02/2020:
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Quietly, a Vote Leave prime minister and chancellor have accepted that so-called project fear was right all along.
m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/brex…
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10 Mar
Thou hypocrite, @borisjohnson first cast out the beam out of thine own eye
& then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Last tweet of the day on the UK vaccine posturing 1/
@nyt notes that "The EU exported 25 million doses of vaccines produced in its territory LAST MONTH to 31 countries with BRITAIN (Pfizer)& Canada the top destinations".2/
"Practically speaking, ban or no ban, Britain is not exporting vaccines authorized for use at home. The country has said it would be prepared to give excess doses to Ireland, though only after it was done with its vaccination efforts at home" 3/
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Hello Brexiters criticising "SELFISH EU" : 174 shipments of millions of vaccines manufactured in the EU to 30 other countries since 30/1/21
Meanwhile shipments to other countries by US & UK are still zero: YES, ZERO 00000000
This doesn't stop our PM giving morality lessons to others & stating in his Munich speech that "we in the UK have kept the flame of cooperation alive". 🤣😅
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3 Mar
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I completely agree that mediation - rejected by the complainants- nor arbitration of such a matter would have been right. As she said she could not intervene to bring them about to "thwart the natural course of the investigation"
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