Liz Truss warns EU she may have ‘no choice’ but to alter NI protocol https://t.co/ugLMZf9cCF
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 12, 2022
This afternoon.
A UK Foreign Office spokesperson said Britain’s foreign minister Liz Truss has told European Commission vice president Maroš Šefčovič that the Northern Ireland protocol was “the greatest obstacle to forming a Northern Ireland Executive”.
According to the statement, the Foreign Secretary told Mr Šefčovič that the European Commission had “bore a responsibility to show more pragmatism and ensure the protocol delivered on its original objectives.”
Via RTÉ News:
The spokesperson said that Ms Truss had “reiterated that the UK’s proposals to fix the protocol, including green and red channel arrangements, backed up by a bespoke data-sharing system, would ensure the removal of trade barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland while protecting the EU single market.”
Ms Truss had said the current EU proposals would “take us backwards, by creating more checks and paperwork.”
The UK has signalled that it is preparing legislation to unilaterally dismantle parts of the protocol.
The DUP has said it will block efforts to establish a new Assembly and Executive unless the UK takes action to radically change the protocol, something the EU has said it will not do.
UK ‘no choice but to act’ if EU not flexible on NI Protocol – Truss (RTE)
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So bored of the protocol. Just tell the DUP to suck it up.
Just place the border where it lies
And that means where the UKs territory ends and the EUs begins
Then if Ireland decides it wants to become one by agreement by both sets of Irish people on the island of Ireland we have no border
But it takes two sets of sectarian nuckleheads behaving like adults
The british just haven’t a clue. ‘ bespoke data-sharing system’? Look at the mess with GVMS alone – a data system that isn’t working and causing so many problems for the movement of goods into and out of the UK.
The EU are getting rightly fed up with Bumbahole Boris and Ms Trusst.
So the UK wants to antagonize the US (on one of the few issues of bipartisan agreement putting the kibosh on hopes for any trade deal), potentially start a trad war with the EU – which they will lose (the UK has no food security an practically everything it manufacturers and exports has masses of EU component parts – think Nissan Qashqai’s & so the UK is very vulnerable to tariffs / quotas etc.) and ignore the democratic wishes of the people of Northern Ireland. Genius. One might almost think this was a distract and deflect ruse. Perish the thought.
On the trade issue the EU will use the National Defense argument (WTO allowable) which the US uses to justify its Chinese steel and solar tariffs as the UK has form on SPS management (BSE and Foot and Mouth were both imported into the Single Market from the UK previously).
It’s amazing that Truss is being touted as a replacement for Johnson, well it would’ve been, a few years ago, when we had governments that had to pretend to be Democratic. She’d be a good match for Von der Layen, two politicians promoted, by other politicians, far beyond the limits of their abilities. Truss was humiliated by Lavrov, when he exposed how ignorant & stupid she was, Von der Layen has actually managed to make that dipso Juncker look competent, despite being drunk for half of his tenure.
tories – never not at it..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1524468683254468609
imagine what you’d get if you crossed that braindead Tory Muppet with that gormless perjurer and Irish exports stats man Andrew Bridgen – their collective IQ wouldn’t rise above room temperature – can you imagine being that shamelessly pig ignorant about a part of your own country – even Dale (who is hardly a leftie felt embarrassed for him) but no he kept digging Karen Bradley style – Tories actually seem to revel in their own manifest incompetence and ineptitude