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Old 05-11-2021, 21:51   #2931
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Re: Britain outside the EU

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
"We are dealing with ideologues. You cannot reason with them."

Disappointing that agreement has not been reached and yet more pressure on Johnson.


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There is an equally idealogical commitment to the European project within the Commission - after all it was their reckless idea to hitch the Northern Ireland peace process to the entire treaty bandwagon in the first place, and their insistence on nonsensical provisions about the movement of refrigerated meats within the territory of a sovereign country that has got us where we are.

They are using strong words right now, but they have good reason to be uttering dark threats. If the UK invokes Article 16, it will have taken a legal measure within the provisions of the treaty which the EC will have no option but to challenge legally … and that process could take quite some time to see through. It’s all very well them complaining about Lord Frost et al being idealogues, but what’s really eating them up is the fact that triggering Art.16 might just give the UK as much breathing space as it needs. The EU will either have to fight it out, and lose all control over its precious market controls in the meantime, or else come to terms in order to salvage something.

They really don’t want the UK to trigger Art.16, while I suspect the UK really does. All else is theatrics.
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