Exactly 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 knew exactly what they were signing & were signing from the same hymn sheet on how the #NorthernIreland Protocol.
Well until 1st February 2020 when 🇪🇺 took a very different view & took a much harsher, impractical interpretation.
#Newsnight
Well until 1st February 2020 when 🇪🇺 took a very different view & took a much harsher, impractical interpretation.
#Newsnight
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1447689939282448389
Here’s @LeoVaradkar talking to @bbclaurak on 27th January 2020 saying the exact same thing that @BorisJohnson was saying about how the #NorthernIreland Protocol should operate.
Sounds eerily similar to the 🇬🇧’s Command Paper from July 2021
Sounds eerily similar to the 🇬🇧’s Command Paper from July 2021
As the text #NorthernIreland Protocol was a broad legal blunt instrument to work this out required a lot of finessing in the Joint Committee.
Alas 🇪🇺 dragged their feet on appointing a representative & subsequently boycotted discussions to all intents & purposes.
Alas 🇪🇺 dragged their feet on appointing a representative & subsequently boycotted discussions to all intents & purposes.
Though the idea was to obviate the #NorthernIreland Protocol with the 🇬🇧-🇪🇺 FTA if it ever was to come into force it was intended to work in the manner described by the PM & Taoiseach, subsequently fleshed out in the Command Paper.
Unfortunately 🇪🇺 was more interested in using #NorthernIreland as a bargaining chip to try & lock 🇬🇧 into their legal order
As a result we find ourselves with a dysfunctional moribund treaty
There was so much potential but 🇪🇺’s protectionist proclivities got the better of them
As a result we find ourselves with a dysfunctional moribund treaty
There was so much potential but 🇪🇺’s protectionist proclivities got the better of them
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