Northern Ireland protocol

Let's deconstruct this claim by the Conservative & Unionist Party

https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1695464121653719401

Reminder

1. The David Cameron government argued against rule taker status

2. Vote Leave including Vote Leave NI leaflets argued against the supremacy of EU law

This is an absurd take. The DUP have been Eurosceptic since opposing the EEC in the 1970s and all the DUP MPs were some of the first to sign up to the @BetterOffOut campaign in the noughties as well as campaigning to save the pound & reject the EU constitution in their manifesto

https://twitter.com/SJAMcBride/status/1578814922242547714

MD of Walker’s Shortbread, : “Since Brexit, we’ve found the documentation required for mail order to be excessively onerous in relation to value of goods and it is been no longer viable to continue mail order business with Northern Ireland.” telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… @benhabib6 @CatharineHoey @JimAllister @SteveAikenUUP @pmdfoster @HCH_Hill @His_Grace @BeattieDoug @NigelDoddsDUP @J_Donaldson_MP @BenLowry2 @SJAMcBride @DavidGHFrost @DCBMEP @danielmgmoylan

Conservative & Unionist Party manifesto pledges:

2017: "our determination to defend the integrity of the United Kingdom
and to strengthen the Union, bringing the peoples of the United Kingdom together."

@trussliz @BrandonLewis @BorisJohnson @CJCHowarth @SteveBakerHW 2017: Our laws will be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, and interpreted by judges across the United Kingdom, not in Luxembourg.

Brexit Protocol Dispute Spells “Trouble” For Northern Ireland, Undermines 24-Year Peace Agreement – The Organization for World Peace

#AE22
@HocGfa @RepRichardNeal @RepPeteKing @USRepKeating @DavidJonesMP @CJCHowarth @SteveBakerHW @trussliz
theowp.org/reports/brexit… @JimAllister @CatharineHoey @benhabib6 @HCH_Hill @DavidGHFrost @DCBMEP @DanielFerrie @MarosSefcovic @HocGfa @vp @SecBlinken @vonderleyen @guyverhofstadt @michelbarnier @ValedeAlmeidaEU @fedeinlondon @J_Donaldson_MP @SteveBakerHW @andrew_lilico @danielmgmoylan @SteveAikenUUP

https://twitter.com/RichardBullick1/status/1502052408406519809?t=verTV2GxPBMf4k6lz8ku7Q&s=19

NI Protocol: Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister @edwinpootsmla outlines that without the grace periods in place the number of commonhealth entry documents to be processed for GB-NI trade would rise from 2,500 per week to 12,500 per week

The Irish Tea border Protocol requirement for customs declarations for parcel deliveries & Internet shopping fun the rest of the UK.

A thread on issues with the Northern Ireland protocol

1 of many FSB NI on the NI Protocol "Last week, one FSB member whose business is a long-established luxury food emporium, reported that over twenty suppliers in GB have stopped sending goods" fsb.org.uk/resources-page…

Irish government to introduce further checks on livestock crossing the border from Northern Ireland

If we can conduct checks on milk tankers & sheep crossing the border (at the points of origin & destinations) without a physical frontier then why can't we do the same for sausages, cheese & flatscreen TV's?

My thread on ditching the backstop for Alternative Arrangements has got rather long. Here is a condensed version starting with recent comments by the Irish EU Commissioner stating checks will happen away from the border

https://twitter.com/Kilsally/status/1150883219358638081

The Alternative Arrangements Commission proposals

https://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1151776816341893120