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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I'd rather not fall out with the EU, but we can't put up with being pushed around either. We've been trying for some time to get an agreement to get the protocol working as it should and we've had nothing but obstruction. It is hurting the Northern Ireland economy, its businesses and even preventing Stormont from sitting.
We cannot go on like this, and in the absence of co-operation we have to do what is best for us. Our proposals do not affect the EU's ability to prevent the wrong goods getting in. They are simply being obstinate.
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The Northern Ireland Assembly is not running because the DUP are boycotting it, ostensibly because they don't like Johnson's Northern Ireland Protocol. The EU is not preventing Stormont from working.
If we fall out with the EU then we fall out with the US and we don't want to do either. Especially with rampant inflation.
The Protocol is actually helping the Northern Ireland economy - it's the only part of the UK apart from London to have shown growth. Perhaps the rest of the UK would have done the same if we'd stayed in the Single Market as Daniel Hanan said we would?