What They Gonna Do Here?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56381046
....put us on the naughty step? PMSL!

[ichkeria]

The UK is in breach of the agreement it signed so I don’t think this is an unreasonable move by the EU.
The EU acted precipitately over imports some while ago but quickly reversed its decision and admitted its blunder.
The UK appears to be trying to pick a fight with the EU: this may be a smart move politically on its part but it cannot reasonably complain about the reaction from the EU

[Paigntonian]

Let it go to court. And let's stand up for ourselves. For once.

[Old_Geezer]

Wasn't aware that the EU knew what "good faith" meant.

I'd have thought they were on enough sticky wickets not to start trying to bring legal proceedings on something like this. ECJ or no ECJ. Folk in glass houses, etc..

Maybe they should opt not to ratify the Brexit agreement and we can all revert to no-deal/WTO. Then they can create as many bad faith delays, controls, and tariffs as they wish. Perhaps invade UK fishing grounds as well, for good measure.

[New Judge]

//The UK is in breach of the agreement it signed so I don’t think this is an unreasonable move by the EU.//

Unfortunately the EU has not yet ratified the agreement so until they do I don't really see they have much of a case.

[Togo]

//The UK is in breach of the agreement it signed so//

So ... ?
Is that the "agreement" that UK gave them a bit of extra time to sign because "the virus" had slowed them down and they weren't ready? Have they yet signed it?

[Togo]

Snap.

[Togo]

Civil serpent. " Mr Johnson we have head honcho of the EUSSR on the dog. She wants to send signed copies of the agreement over that were done and dusted yesterday by the other lackies".
Boris. "Tell her to do one, ... in short sharp jerky movements".

[jourdain2]

All the above ..... 'exactly', to quote N. J's favourite comment. :)
No-one could accuse the EU of acting in good faith, given the last few years shenanigans, and daft of Boris to have tweaked May's protocol and thought that with goodwill it could be worked around. I hope all now understand that 'goodwill' is not in the EU vocabulary in any language. much better to threaten to withdraw completely and go WTO. Can't be much worse - and I'm now buying lovely Scottish seafood which I couldn't get before, by the way.

[Khandro]

ichi: //The UK is in breach of the agreement it signed so I don’t think this is an unreasonable move by the EU.//

At the moment the UK is in breach of nothing, get your facts straight.

[New Judge]

I'm afraid this demonstrates perfectly why my preferred option - "No Deal" - was far and away the better in the long term. These niggling (hope that word passes the "woke" police) interruptions to our business will continue for so long as we have any agreements with the EU. They have fabricated the perfect weapon with which to demonstrate to its remaining 27 members the trouble in store for them should any of them follow the UK and leave.

Quite why any UK politicians should see the UK's single market broken simply in order to protect that of the EU beggars belief. The Northern Ireland protocol was a folly of epic proportions and it will haunt the UK for so long as it exists.

[Sunk]

Not sure why we enter into agreements, only to break our word.
It is one thing to Govern the UK by u-turn, but in international agreements our word is our bond. If the rest of the world begin to think we routinely renege, go back on our word and act in bad faith, then they will be wary of doing future business with us.

[ichkeria]

Indeed.
The fact that the EU Parliament hasn’t ratified the deal yet is neither here nor there when it comes to what the UK government is doing here.
And a No deal would have been ten times worse for N Ireland.
I want to hear the DUP’s idea for a Brexit they would actually support and which is achievable in the real world

[New Judge]

//And a No deal would have been ten times worse for N Ireland.//

How so?