Thread by @EmporersNewC

The NI protocol is what a Brexit supporting PM negotiated when we "held all the cards" in a situation where "we can choose the path we want".

The really funny part is when Brexit supporters blame Remainers for this for "fighting it in parliament".

Because had Remainers had not "fought this in Parliament" then they would have voted for the backstop.

Which they wouldn't accept either.

There is a limited number of solutions, and they all come down to one thing:

Brexit.

The people who don't want this will always point to a mythical unicorn mechanism to sort this out, because they cannot accept that Brexit is really the root of this.

Right now there is a scrutiny committee to discuss the non-acceptance of the reality of this in a country that refused to be honest about what was necessary when we implemented this decision.

In that committee there are MPs actually proposing further divergence, which will make this worse.

And to make matters worse, the vaccine programme is the thing that is cited as proof that there is benefit.

It's actually so painful I've been unable to watch.

Politicians who have been proved wrong time and time again in the last 5 years clinging on to the fools gold of the vaccine delivery.

It's going to take decades before there is any self realisation at this rate.

Bill Cash telling businesses now they need to sell to other parts of the world, because apparently British businesses don't think about expanding their markets unless politicians tell them to.

Businesses struggling with the problems the SAME politicians said wouldn't exist are now being told the solution is to stop doing what they were successfully doing.

Welcome to Brexit.

We may need to change the definition of the word "Scrutiny", if this is a Scrutiny committee.

Or change the name of the committee.

Now complaining about the amount of checks being done at the border.

Yes, the checks are a problem that Brexit has created and it's all a matter of where you move that problem.

Before the protocol they were talking about doing checks at the businesses, again this is messy and inefficient checks being done to solve the problem that Brexit has made.

Someone has just said they voted for the TCA because they believed there was going to be pragmatism and common sense.

Apparently it's possible to press delete on the memory of 2016-2019, before voting.

Lord Frost now saying that other country's experience of the EU is that when they sign a treaty they expect you to follow the rules.

He says this like it's a strange position to take.

We've apparently extended an initiative to countries "as diverse as Japan".

Oh gosh, we're an insular little country, aren't we?!

Anything that risks the work done in the peace process is a big problem for us.

Something Lord Frost might have suggested before he negotiated and signed a problem for us.

Good to hear there has been lots of support for traders to sell into our own market, but also tragic to hear we need support to sell into our own market.

Lord Frost telling us that if we can find solutions people will be happy to hear there are solutions.

We made this genius a Lord.

Medical approval sounds like a massive problem in NI.

Marcus Fysh joins the "scrutiny" group of Andrea Jenkyns, William Cash, David Jones, and Craig Mackinlay.

Lord Frost now saying we're going to put a middle finger to NI because of the ideological need to do trade deals, but it's not ideological.

Frost now saying we should ask the EU what measures the UK would take...

Or in other words, cast them as the bad guy and avoid the answer.

And not this intellectually devoid tantric Brexit orgy is finally over.

Which is one hell of a relief.

The general attitude was "There are great opportunities ahead".

If businesses are having a problem it's their fault, and they should listen to us.

We're not going to do anything pragmatic in NI because we can't do trade deals with the same rules that the EU apparently can do.

There was no sense of realisation and it's everybody else's fault.

What we saw in the European Scrutiny Committee today were MPs who spent their time encapsulating the spirit of Churchill.

Not the politician, the nodding dog from the commercial.