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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
What I find perplexing is why you always side with the EU, despite their actions clearly being against the UK's interests.
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This was an entirely foreseeable consequence which iirc was discussed to the deaths, around the time of the referendum. It was summarily dismissed by many a Brexiteer as ‘project fear’
Don’t bring the jingoistic nationalism, it doesn’t wash.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I agree that the EU is treating the single market border between GB and NI the same as it would any other. It’s plainly daft however to claim there’s no basis for expecting different arrangements to apply to GB-NI. This is an internal issue for a sovereign independent state. The present solution ignores the sanctity of national sovereignty (which is of only incidental importance to the European Commission) in favour of the sanctity of the single market (which is of overriding importance to the European Commission).
Like it or not, the government strategy has clearly been designed to accept that situation only as long as required to actually get a deal signed, then undermine it on the calculation that nobody in the EU will really want to bring the whole treaty down over Northern Ireland.
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Which leads us back inevitably to the point that the U.K. agreed to this… it we were to break the treaties etc then it will cause many a country to raise an eyebrow
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
@MrM
Your head must be stuck somewhere other than in the sand.
You say the UK is no different from any other non-EU country. What drivel that is. You still doggedly ignore the unique NI/GB situation.
You should be rooting for the EU to interpret their rules in a pragmatic way that does not bring unrest to NI, which is about to happen.
I know what you’re going to say next.
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I’m advocating that the U.K. government upholds and implements the legally binding treaties it agreed too.
We’re Great Britain, remember ? We don’t need the EU’s help, remember ?