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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Is that right? The EU stuck the NI Protocol onto the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) which TM negotiated (bar the 4 year clause). The EU wouldn't discuss trade unless we completed the WA stage. So Boris was lumbered with that.
Sensible Tories always said that NI peace did not need the NI Protocol, which is a stitch-up to eventually detach NI from the UK and in the meantime make it as difficult as possible for NI to function constitutionally within the UK.
"Safeguarding measures" just don't cut it. The UK wants the NI Protocol to be renegotiated to remove the ECJ from marking its own homework. Additionally, the UK wants all customs formalities removed from trade between GB and NI because it just isn't working right now. The EU has offered to halve the customs paperwork which, I simply understand, is from 80 pages to 40 per consignment!
Pierre has the psychology exactly right.
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I'm afraid I'm not party to Pierre's views on the psychology at play here.
We held all the cards for the easiest trade deal ever, so I'm surprised at the need to renegotiate a fantastic deal.
Johnson should have learnt from the Paterson scandal that trying to change the rules during the game rarely works.
Marking your own homework neatly describes what he wanted to do in Parliament by appointing a new standards committee dominated by the governing party. The Single Market is overseen by the ECJ and that's why it is involved in Northern Ireland. That link cannot be broken simply because the right wing of the Conservative Party have an ideological aversion to it.
Here's some information on Article 16.
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Article 16 ain’t no weapon – it is a remedial tool.
It really is not something to ‘threaten’.
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In summary: invoking article 16 is not to be done casually or by mere oversight.
There are many substantive and procedural conditions to be fulfilled before it can be invoked.
And unless those conditions are met, then article 16 measures are not available.
Even when all the conditions are met, the scheme of the article and the annex is that there would be a collaborative review-and-consultation to the use of the measures.
All this is – or should be – obvious from the title of the article: ‘Safeguards’.
And not Reprisals.
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https://davidallengreen.com/2021/09/...ng-to-trigger/