Buffoon sends a letter to Brussels
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https://www.ft.com/content/a507c8b4...egmentId=3d08be62-315f-7330-5bbd-af33dc531acb
The FT's George Parker reports from Manchester
This is what we have learnt from Boris Johnson’s new Brexit plan:
1. The proposal will create two borders. A new regulatory border for manufactured goods, agriculture and food on trade between GB and Northern Ireland and a new customs border between NI and Ireland
2. The DUP’s concerns about the regulatory barrier will be addressed through the promise of “consent” – via the Stormont assembly – and that old favourite, cash. Mr Johnson is offering a “New Deal for Northern Ireland”, which could be measured in billions of pounds.
3. Mr Johnson’s plan to remove the need for physical customs checks on the Irish border is a familiar mix of “maximum facilitation” methods and “alternative arrangements” – an approach previously rejected by the EU. Technology, trusted trader schemes, customs checks in factories are not seen by the EU as a sufficient protection against cross-border smuggling.
4. Mr Johnson is really serious about taking NI out of the customs union. His team say it’s the bottom line. It also makes getting a deal, based on these proposals, much harder. The prime minister has made it clear that he will not accept an expected EU counter-proposal to revive the idea of a “Northern Ireland-only backstop” that would see only NI stay in the customs union.
5. The first hurdle for Mr Johnson is whether the EU takes his plan seriously enough to engage in serious talks. Number 10 is hoping that it goes into Brussels’ famous “tunnel”, where lawyers and civil servants work in secret to try to come up with a compromise.
If the EU rejects it out of hand, Mr Johnson will start preparing for a no deal exit.
Brussels thinks a more likely outcome is that he will be forced to extend the Article 50 Brexit process and that an election – or second referendum – would follow. Then we’ll be back talking about all this again in a couple of months’ time.
https://www.ft.com/content/a507c8b4...egmentId=3d08be62-315f-7330-5bbd-af33dc531acb
The FT's George Parker reports from Manchester
This is what we have learnt from Boris Johnson’s new Brexit plan:
1. The proposal will create two borders. A new regulatory border for manufactured goods, agriculture and food on trade between GB and Northern Ireland and a new customs border between NI and Ireland
2. The DUP’s concerns about the regulatory barrier will be addressed through the promise of “consent” – via the Stormont assembly – and that old favourite, cash. Mr Johnson is offering a “New Deal for Northern Ireland”, which could be measured in billions of pounds.
3. Mr Johnson’s plan to remove the need for physical customs checks on the Irish border is a familiar mix of “maximum facilitation” methods and “alternative arrangements” – an approach previously rejected by the EU. Technology, trusted trader schemes, customs checks in factories are not seen by the EU as a sufficient protection against cross-border smuggling.
4. Mr Johnson is really serious about taking NI out of the customs union. His team say it’s the bottom line. It also makes getting a deal, based on these proposals, much harder. The prime minister has made it clear that he will not accept an expected EU counter-proposal to revive the idea of a “Northern Ireland-only backstop” that would see only NI stay in the customs union.
5. The first hurdle for Mr Johnson is whether the EU takes his plan seriously enough to engage in serious talks. Number 10 is hoping that it goes into Brussels’ famous “tunnel”, where lawyers and civil servants work in secret to try to come up with a compromise.
If the EU rejects it out of hand, Mr Johnson will start preparing for a no deal exit.
Brussels thinks a more likely outcome is that he will be forced to extend the Article 50 Brexit process and that an election – or second referendum – would follow. Then we’ll be back talking about all this again in a couple of months’ time.
..... or a couple of years, or .......
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Are you expecting a reply from Brussels ?
Looks like his letter is getting the response he intended.
So the blame game is being ramped up -Gove talking in commons today.
All this panic in the press about what will Johnson do is all unecessary we know what he will do:
extend article 50 and then blame the EU, parliament, the courts, remainers.
and the silly brexiteers will believe the sht and be jumping up and down screaming 'its not fair, we want no deal now'
All this panic in the press about what will Johnson do is all unecessary we know what he will do:
extend article 50 and then blame the EU, parliament, the courts, remainers.
and the silly brexiteers will believe the sht and be jumping up and down screaming 'its not fair, we want no deal now'
Climb into his ditch?
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Where is his ditch ? Does he own it outright or is it supplied by HMG to him as PM ?
The EU are as expected holding firm, since the very principles of the organisation are at stake - quitters have never seemed to understand this!
(I'm surprised the EU haven't told the UK to 'go do one' by now!)
Therefore it is becoming increasingly obvious that there is only one way out of the mess...
A confirmatory referendum with two options...
1. Leave with a no deal (now we know how we would leave)
2. Remain (and step back from the abyss)
(I'm surprised the EU haven't told the UK to 'go do one' by now!)
Therefore it is becoming increasingly obvious that there is only one way out of the mess...
A confirmatory referendum with two options...
1. Leave with a no deal (now we know how we would leave)
2. Remain (and step back from the abyss)
Like his 'on the verge of fusion' establishment, his ditch is more than likely funded by the EU in regional aid...
Set aside land I believe they call it
Buffoon is a notorious liar. He didn't say where his ditch is. Perhaps he hasn't got one. Or perhaps there's one in the garden of his wife's house (that she won't let him in).
Do you remember when he promised to lie in front of the bulldozers at Heathrow?
He lied, yes, but not in front of bulldozers.
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So what happened with him and the bulldozers at Heathrow, did he chicken out, or have they not got there yet ?
Damn right he does as well as the whole Brexit clusterfeck.
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