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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Gollum Cummings said today that the UK always planned to ditch the NI Protocol anyway, if he's proven to be telling the truth heads need to roll imo
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The NI Protocol was only in the event of absence of a deal with the UK as a whole. In theory if the EU was ever intending on acting in good faith, it wouldn't never have been needed in the first place, which it wasn't whatever way you look at things.
There was never going to be a mass movement of items not approved by the EU from GB to the EU via NI. Even if there was, there is nothing illegal about that.
Ireland depends heavily on goods coming from or through the UK.
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The EU has released its plan for a reduction of post-Brexit checks on goods and medicines arriving into Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.
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The new plan, which seeks to calm a long-running dispute over a key part of the Brexit agreement, would remove about 80% of spot checks, the EU said.
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So that's doing Ireland more of a favour than GB or NI. Why didn't the EU agree to that in the first place?