Thread: Britain outside the EU
View Single Post
Old 21-02-2023, 20:56   #4824
1andrew1
cf.mega poster
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 14,255
1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze
1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze1andrew1 is cast in bronze
Re: Britain outside the EU
Good analysis from Robert Peston on the decision that Sunak needs to make.
Quote:
Johnson’s Northern Ireland Protocol Bill may be what blows up Sunak’s attempt to reform the NI Protocol.

On the one hand, the EU won’t do a deal with him if he doesn’t scrap it. On the other, Johnson, Braverman and other Tory Brexiters are saying he must permanently keep it as a reserve power with which to pummel the EU. In the end Sunak will have to choose between the Johnson-led Tory faction that loathes him, but which he can ill-afford to provoke, and an EU that looked to him to be a welcome break from that anti-EU faction.

If he isn’t strong enough to choose, which conceivably he isn’t, these Protocol negotiations will go back into the slowest of all slow lanes, and there’ll be no resumption of devolved government in NI any time soon (and the UK’s trade relations with the EU will remain massively sub-optimal sine die).
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1627972209015750660
1andrew1 is online now   Reply With Quote