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Great Britain should not have used Article 50 or negotiated about our divorce bill but vetoed every EU measure we could veto till they gave us what they wanted. We should not have declined the EU presidency which we were due to take up in 2017 but used it to freeze everything we could while until the EU came to heel. We might have droipped clear hints about leaving Nato too.
The backstop is not the biggest problem with Mrs May's proposal. The bigger problem is that it gives away £39 billion and then we have to rely on the EU granting us a trade deal, terms unknown, but certainly involving accepting a huge amount of EU regulations which we do not help write.
Better alternatives: Norway (not Norway plus) temporarily or a managed or unmanaged hard Brexit.
The key to understanding is that the backstop is not needed if Mrs May forgets her stupid promise that there would be no hard border between Northern and Southern Ireland. Mrs May should have accepted the Canadian option, which she said in the House the day before yesterday she was offered by Donald Tusk - and let the Irish chips fall where they may. I am sure they will still let her do this.
The backstop is not the biggest problem with Mrs May's proposal. The bigger problem is that it gives away £39 billion and then we have to rely on the EU granting us a trade deal, terms unknown, but certainly involving accepting a huge amount of EU regulations which we do not help write.
Better alternatives: Norway (not Norway plus) temporarily or a managed or unmanaged hard Brexit.
The key to understanding is that the backstop is not needed if Mrs May forgets her stupid promise that there would be no hard border between Northern and Southern Ireland. Mrs May should have accepted the Canadian option, which she said in the House the day before yesterday she was offered by Donald Tusk - and let the Irish chips fall where they may. I am sure they will still let her do this.
Forget the Irish border. It is not important.
No-one will erect customs barriers along it and if they did so, which both both Eire and the UK promise they will not and which they will not need to do (because technology can solve the problem without customs officers), that would not in any way infringe the Good Friday Agreement.
No-one will erect customs barriers along it and if they did so, which both both Eire and the UK promise they will not and which they will not need to do (because technology can solve the problem without customs officers), that would not in any way infringe the Good Friday Agreement.
‘Stop caring about the Irish border let’s have a hard Brexit. Managed or unmanaged, whatever.’
ReplyDelete...Says the single man sitting comfortably hundreds of miles away in another EU country.