[jfman]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Ah yes the EU, weren’t they the ones that didn’t want a hard border on the island of Ireland? The staunch defenders of the Good Friday Agreement?

http://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-e...eland-12202656

It's why the protocol is there, just nobody expected them to invoke it first. The UK partition of the island of Ireland represents the gaping hole in the Single Market in both directions.