Pinned
Once you’ve decided you want a hard Brexit & a soft Irish land border that policy is leading you to one place
- Had I known this I would have drunk a gallon of Negronis last night & stayed in bed today rather than standing in a windswept harbour watching civil servants directing lorries to actual Border Control Posts.There is no ‘Irish Sea Border’. As we have seen today, the important preparations the Govt and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…
- ‘We’ve entered into a legally binding international agreement by mistake’Tomorrow’s Telegraph front page: “Brexit deal never made sense, PM to tell EU” #TomorrowsPapersToday Read more: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…
- Boris Johnson is going to be horrified when he grasps the details of the deal agreed by Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson : “There's no question of there being checks on goods going NI/GB or GB/NI because... we're part of the same customs territory and it's very clear that there should be unfettered access between Northern Ireland and the rest of GB." rte.ie/news/uk/2019/1…
- Ulster Bank economist Richard Ramsey suggesting it's now a pretty safe assumption that the Protocol has boosted food manufacturing in NI: food & beverage output amongst NI manufacturers has increased by 18.3% since Q1 2021, x2.5 the comparable growth rate amongst UK firms.
- Irish govt confirms it will give NI students access to ErasmusAfter the #Brexit vote, we committed to never leave the Irish citizens of the North behind again. I spoke with @SimonHarrisTD about how students in Northern Ireland will continue to have access to #ErasmusPlus despite the news earlier that the U.K. will no longer participate.
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- Well done to Oxford & Cambridge on reaching the rowing finals. Once again the UK's other universities have simply not applied themselves to this important national competition.
- A consensus across Irish life today that John Hume was a moral giant who, at personal cost, made peace his life’s work. So it’s easy to forget that while doing this work he was subject to a years-long campaign of vilification in the pages of Ireland’s biggest selling broadsheet.
- Simon Coveney has told the Seanad that Edwin Poots order to stop the sea border checks is a breach of international law & is more about politics than an effort to find compromise.
- Tusk: ‘If the UK offer is unacceptable for Ireland, it will also be unacceptable for the EU. I realise that for some British politicians this may be hard to understand. But such is the logic behind the fact that Ireland is the EU member while the UK is leaving.’
- H&W set to be nationalised (the nation is Spain.)Spanish shipbuilder Navantia in exclusive talks to buy Harland & Wolff theguardian.com/business/2024/…
- A cameraman colleague has been attempting to use customs processes to get his kit back from GB to NI. Readers, it has not gone smoothly despite the involvement of a major logistics company.
