Saturday, 18 February 2023

Rishi Trying To Salvage What Boris Served N Ireland

For anyone even contemplating Boris Johnson making a comeback, cast a glance across the Irish Sea and have a look at Rishi Sunak desperately trying to salvage something for Northern Ireland after the dog's dinner that Boris Johnson served up as a Brexit deal.
Following Brexit, with Northern Ireland part of the UK and the Republic of Ireland in the EU, where there was previously just a border sign which said 'Welcome to Northern Ireland', there now needed to be a border where all goods from the Non-EU side entering the EU zone needed to be checked and up stepped
the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson who came up with the 'Northern Ireland Protocol' and persuaded his fellow MP's to vote it into effect, calling it 'a great deal that was oven ready' and one which he was 'proud to secure'.
Less than 12 months later he wanted to rip up it up and start again, blaming the EU for breaking the spirit of the thing by going to the trouble of actually implementing it, accusing the EU of acting in bad faith by applying the treaty in the form in which it had been agreed.
The EU warned that other nations considering doing deals with the UK should be wary because it might not keep its word, to which the only reply was to look at who they negotiated the deal with and say 'duh...ya reckon'?
Between mutterings that Northern Ireland is looking at the possibility of rejoining with its Southern Neighbour and Sinn Fein now running things over there, Rishi Sunak is running around to try and keep things together and the early signs are not only positive for Northern Ireland but with a softer Brexit than the previous numpties negotiated.
His plan is to send goods destined for the EU to Dublin and goods for the Northern Irish to Belfast which sounds sensible but doesn't resolve the problem of goods moving between the two which would still require checks at a border so far from being resolved but short of saying sorry EU and can we come back, it's not going to be easy so better get the coffee on, it's going to be a long weekend.

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