OT: The NI border and the vaccine fuss

Could have just been a negotiating proposal. As I recall, talks went on and a way round was found, so the idea was dropped. Mind you, from what I read in the papers, there are real issues importing stuff into NI for NI use, at the minute. But I don't know more than that.

All sorts of odd things. Including flour.

Who knows, it was so confusing I doubt he understood it himself. It was a bit of psychology I think to try to get some traction on the slug like EU decision making machine. If the world was ending the news would go out three months later. Brian

If the world was ending in one months time the news media would run on speculation from "experts" for 3 months.

No.

The EU tried to enable Article 16 of the NI protocol, which was a heavy handed attempt to prevent the UK from importing Covid 19 vaccines produced in the EU.

The expression 'shooting oneself in the foot' springs to mind.

It was the EU backed by the BBC that was doing it of course. And it was designed not to smooth things, but to make things very difficult. So it was 'only what we deserved'

God those Eurocrats are petty, vindictive, and, it seems, murderous swine.

No wonder Blair is for them...

If you listen to supermarket ads on the radio, they are now saying 'May vary in Northern Ireland'.

I know that there are big problems at the moment, but ads that have been run nationally have often stated variations for NI for many years.

And just HTF could it do that?

It could, however, attempt to stop any exports it wants to. Or indeed imports to it.

If only BoJo saw the error of his ways as quickly as the EU did in this occasion. Rather than waiting until it is getting on for too late.

It's all Project Fear, of course. None of it is actually happening.

I only found out today that many of the NI goods problems are being caused because huge numbers of items that should be exempted are not, as the list of goods that need to be controlled has not been prepared due to a dispute between the negotiators.

So yes, it is caused by Brexit, but is only such a problem because that list has not been agreed and signed off.

I am amazed at the cognitive dissonance that is still maintaining that the EU are nice chaps and better at running things and are our friends.

The EU *does* have the power to prevent EU producers from exporting to the UK under the provisions of Article 16.

Does make you wonder what they've been doing the past 4 years. Other than the Tory party fighting themselves.

Replying to yourself? Or just a problem reading and understanding in general?

There also seem to be intimidation of "border inspectors" by the unionist paramilitary as a result of NI having different rules to the rest of the UK. These inspectors are no longer at work.

Certainly not the right response, but maybe understandable when the GB/NI internal UK trade is being badly affected by unnecessary restrictions on goods that are not supposed to be restricted.

No, just aproblem understanding your verbose rambling.

Says the one who thinks a country can prevent another from importing. Short of operating some sort of blockade.