[Sephiroth]

If only it were that easy to fix the Northern Ireland thing. The DUP is the problem as we all know - and they opposed the Good Friday Agreement at the time. And they still sort of hate the Nats.

There's no hard line the Guvmin can take with the DUP for fear of loyalist terrorism. There's no incentive for the Guvmin to give ground to the EU because it plays into the Nats' hands and the UK will eventually lose NI - sooner rather than later.

So, the Guvmin is up shit creek. As a bystander, the choice I have is to (a) support interpretation of the NI protocol that NI is part of the UK Customs regime and that we should be free to supply supermarkets without more than one sheet of customs paper; (b) to let the ECJ run its writ in NI as regards Single Market whilst agreeing with the EU to their light touch customs proposals.

I now favour (b) just to get things done. Whether or not Sunak has the cahunas to get on with that I can't judge at this stage - he might have. Something must give because the DUP are *******s and need to be sidelined.