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**Chris** · 11-09-2021, 10:21

If I might interject … obviously the labelling rules apply to third countries. That’s precisely the point the UK government wants to make.

A Brexit deal in 2020 was only possible with some sort of provision for Northern Ireland in it. The NI provisions threatened to derail the entire process so HMG accepted them. I think their reasoning was not that the protocol was as decent a compromise as was possible under the circumstances, but that it was an outrageous infringement on internationally accepted norms of sovereignty, to such an extent that they could keep delaying its implementation without loss of international support and without the EU enjoying the political commitment of its member states to take rapid legal action.

The endgame here clearly is the technologically driven, invisible customs border between RoI and NI that has been discussed at length in this thread, with compromise after compromise muddled through until it is possible to implement that.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,118	Re: Britain outside the EU If I might interject … obviously the labelling rules apply to third countries. That’s precisely the point the UK government wants to make. A Brexit deal in 2020 was only possible with some sort of provision for Northern Ireland in it. The NI provisions threatened to derail the entire process so HMG accepted them. I think their reasoning was not that the protocol was as decent a compromise as was possible under the circumstances, but that it was an outrageous infringement on internationally accepted norms of sovereignty, to such an extent that they could keep delaying its implementation without loss of international support and without the EU enjoying the political commitment of its member states to take rapid legal action. The endgame here clearly is the technologically driven, invisible customs border between RoI and NI that has been discussed at length in this thread, with compromise after compromise muddled through until it is possible to implement that.