I am sorry but the Brexit war is not over. To down arms now would be to fail to get the job done.
The Withdrawal Agreement was and remains an awful agreement – this is now universally accepted, even by the Prime Minister. The new Trade and Cooperation Agreement is mediocre at best. These agreements may be described as stepping stones towards achieving our independence but they do not deliver it. Conservative Party supporters will no doubt roll their eyes reading this but hiding from the truth rarely yields good results. We must face up to facts so the problems created by the WA and TCA can be addressed.
There is a myriad of problems to address but the really big issues are Northern Ireland, fishing, and regulatory alignment with Brussels.
The Northern Irish Protocol, enshrined in the WA, threatens not only the separation of Northern Ireland from GB but also a domino effect across the union. It exists because the EU, together with Remainers in the UK and politicians in Ireland, weaponised the Irish border issue.
They falsely claimed a customs border on the island of Ireland would breach the Belfast Agreement. They denied a smart border could be created for customs checks and claimed any form of checks would result in a resumption of sectarian violence.
They did so even though the border on the island already provides a division between two countries, two currencies, two different tax regimes and two phytosanitary jurisdictions. They did so even though the EU itself published a report in November 2017 setting out how a smart border could be created. And now we have an example of how such a border might operate – the French have set one up at Calais to ensure the smooth delivery of goods to and from GB. There are no tailbacks of trucks on either side of the channel, a crossing at which trade dwarfs that between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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(4) Sturgeon crushed as ‘Brussels to block Scotland’s EU entry for fear of having Greece 2.0′
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