[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

No, that’s not what I’m saying. As with everything, the devil is in the detail and we have been attempting to get the EU to understand the practical problems that have been thrown up by the way in which the EU is interpreting the Protocol. We have put forward many ideas, including trusted trader schemes, which have been shown to work effectively, but the EU is having none of it.

They are being awkward, plain and simple.

So we agreed to something we didn’t fully understand? Else surely the government would have known that this would occur?

The EU are playing to the letter of the law, nothing more, nothing less.