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Originally Posted by Hugh

But if you have a treaty, any "leeway" should be under the terms of the treaty, not unilateral action (by either side) - otherwise, what is the point of (any) treaty?

I’m sorry if you found my humour "nasty", it was not intended to be - I was just pointing out that you tend to have an extremely partisan view on these things, and trying to do so in a light-hearted manner.

Yeah - right.

I'm sure that a lot of people (52% at least) would agree with me that notwithstanding the terms of a treaty, if real difficulty arises when the treaty is implemented then the other side could be more sympathetic and helpful than they are being. Friendship obviously counts for nothing because they have no friendship for the UK - only intent on punishment.

You surely can see that.



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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I'm sure that if the UK had requested it, an arrangement could have been found. Instead, David Frost has donned BoJo's Perfidious Albion cap and proceeded with intent to breach an international treaty.

It's a flawed strategy as we need to build our goodwill to try and add to the Brexit deal eg to make it easier for our musicians to tour Europe, a sector where we enjoy a balance of trade surplus.

Are you sure about that, Andrew? Very little if anything has come out as to what Frost has been doing and the outcome of any talks he's held with the EC.

On your point about making it easier for our musicians to tour, etc - it's a worthy aim but I wouldn't bet on the EU giving us any concession in that regard. But musicians can wait while we get the real difficulties with the NI Protocol sorted out. After all, we are only asking for an extewnded grace period so that we can eventually comply with the treaty.