NI Protocol - Windsor Framework

[blup]

Do any of you actually realise that we have left the EU

To borrow the words of The Eagles we have checked out but haven't left, the UK is still subject to EU sovereignty specifically under the Windsor framework. If that is acceptable in principle there can be no objection to a customs union.

Blup

 

[Mottie]

Will you be growing any genetically-modified / high-yielding varieties on your allotment?

I'd love to grow some disease resistant high cropping vegetables. As soon as I can get my hands on them, they will be going in.

 

[Mottie]

We've been eating modified wheat since the '70s, thanks to Norman Borlaug, a clever chap praised on QI for feeding billions more people around the world.

And who can object to that?

 

[Brigadier]

I'd love to grow some disease resistant high cropping vegetables. As soon as I can get my hands on them, they will be going in.

Not toms though, you're drowning in those

 

[Odds]

And who can object to that?

I know of several people who can and do object but it's no use trying to tell 'em it's been like this since the idea of planting crops spread from the Levant. If we tried to eat bread from the original plant our teeth would break.

 

[Mottie]

Not toms though, you're drowning in those

Tell me about it!

 

[Justin Passing]

Can't yu grow proper food - you know, pizza, choc ices?

 

[Brigadier]

Tell me about it!
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You'll need to take the basket back to Tesco, and pinch a shopping trolley instead

 

[Odds]

MOTTIE'S MARKET - now open. Forget the French: Get 'em fresh!

 

[JonathanM]

The DUP have agreed to re-open Stormont in return for Westminster agreeing some changes in these rules.

No confirmation of the changes yet. But expected to be published soon.

Tory ultras might kick up a stink if it limits divergence.

 

[Odds]

The remote Larchfield Estate was used for the party's executive meeting to strike a deal. It was chosen for its security. Those attending weren't even given the location until three hours before it started. But what greeted Sir Jeffrey and others will have been familiar to many DUP politicians of a certain age: Crowds singing Loyalist songs, Union flags on poles and cries of "sell out".

It looks like they dusted down their protest placards from the last occasion, sallied forth and followed them...

...a talking head on the BBC news last night commented this would all blow over in an instant if the Customs Union was reinstated.

 

[JohnD]

...a talking head on the BBC news last night commented this would all blow over in an instant if the Customs Union was reinstated.

Blame Johnson and the Brexers.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Blame Johnson and the Brexers.

I thought he got brexit done

 

[JohnD]

Britain got done.

 

[JonathanM]

Pending the deal’s publication on Wednesday, it appears that Sunak has offered to keep Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) aligned with European standards if the DUP returned to Stormont.
It appears that the deal is a dusting down of proposals Theresa May made in 2019 to align rules for Ireland with those in the UK, thereby removing the need for what because known as the Brexit sea border.
This compromise was rejected by the Conservatives, whose policies were then shaped by convulsions about sovereignty, taking back control of British law and a clean break Brexit.

Northern Ireland: what is the power-sharing deal – and could it be blocked?

DUP approves post-Brexit legislation, meaning devolved government could soon be functioning again

www.theguardian.com