Unusual development.
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David Trimble threatens legal action against UK Government over Brexit backstop
Lord Trimble said that he and others are planning to initiate judicial review proceedings over an alleged breach of the Good Friday Agreement.
The former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party - currently sitting in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer - said the proceedings would demand the removal of the protocol on Northern Ireland from Prime Minister Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement.
He said that the backstop should be replaced by alternative arrangements set out in a report entitled A Better Deal and A Better Future authored by Eurosceptic Conservative MP Steve Baker and published by the Global Britain group.
A spokesman for Lord Trimble was unable immediately to provide an explanation for the claim that the protocol breaches the Good Friday Agreement.
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/p...ction-13951871
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Originally Posted by jfman
Fish!
Considering the £600bn trade between Britain and the EU (and the rebate!), there’s a lot of emphasis on something in the we net loss in small hundreds of millions once you factor in what we fish in EU waters.
I can’t help but think it’s purely emotive. “It’s our fish”. Just as they say in Scotland “it’s oor oil”.
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Exactly. Emotional more than rational.