Somewhat unfortunate take on the Art10/State aid issue. It is obvious that that issue isn’t one that generates resentment in NI: because the core problem with it is its unpredictable and potentially serious application to GB.
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1434885291123355648
Moreover, it’s an area where subsequent developments have made the protection to the EU that it offers largely unnecessary (and to the extent it’s still necessary it could much better be resolved in other ways).
Treaties are to be complied with and promises to be kept: but there’s nothing wrong, if your promise now seems over the top in the light of what has since happened, in trying to get the promisee to agree to release you from it (or tweak it).
As discussed here.
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1433417463786573836
The problem is that this good point - on which in a rational world progress could be made - has been lost among the current government’s misconceived threats, and refusal to take responsibility for the consequences of the choices it has made.
It is hard to see how progress can be made - on this, or on improving the inadequate TCA - till we have a different government.
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