The Irish protocol.

Presumably Britain could have either blocked or opted out of these 'ludicrous rules'. What you're saying is that the country your swear allegiance to is ludicris.

What is it with Irish Unionists and their litany of hapless own-goals?

If the GFA gave "the right of self determination for the people of ni as to whether they are part of the Uk or the Eu", then how come their vote to remain a part of the EU has been ignored?

Are you saying that Brexit itself is a violation of the GFA?

In that case, shouldn't unionists welcome the Protocol? Aren't those who oppose it making themselves the enemies of the Union?

Peregrinus, did you have a look at the UUP proposal paper yet? If so, thoughts?

With 1 google search i found that records show that the British government voted ‘No’ to laws passed at EU level on 56 occasions, abstained 70 times, and voted ‘Yes’ 2,466 times since 1999. That rounds out to them disagreeing with what was being passed by the EU 2% of the time. So there's a 98% probability that any EU law or regulation you have a problem with from the past 20 years was agreed by and very likely had input from the UK.

Surely the ludicrous thing here is that unqualified and inexperienced 21-year olds are permitted to drive young kids around despite not having the licensing and regulation that the UK has long considered should be required of staff drivers? Is a busload of kids of less importance, and deserving of less protection, than a carton of eggs being delivered to a supermarket?

But the decision to allow volunteers to do this wasn't an EU decision; it was a UK decision. The EU regulates employment conditions, but it doesn't regulate basic driving requirements; that has always been a member state competence.

Ouch!

Thats a complete misinterpretation of reality. The only time the UK was described as troublemakers was when people were talking specifically about farage and his ilk that were elected to the european parliament. The UK as an entity was never regarded as a trouble maker until the brexit duplicity and cakeism began after they triggered article 50.

Sefcovic's statement is completely aligned with what you've been told time and time again on this thread, but whatever helps you sleep at night, Downcow. I'm looking forward to seeing how you next shift the goalposts to try and claim victory when you're incorrect again.

I'm particularly impressed with your continued confidence, given that you haven't been right about pretty much a single thing throughout your Brexit predictions.

If you can find a single post of mine saying anything negative about continued extensions, I'd love to see it. There was a bit of a schebango when Britain tried to unilaterally make a declaration, they sold it as a great win to the usual Express reading types, got a stern talking to, had a pending legal challenge hanging over their head to ensure they act like grown ups going forwards.

Continued extensions are perfectly acceptable to me.....Alex Kane and several other Unionist leaning journalists have interpreted the continued extensions in much the same way as I have. A pretence from the British government to look like they're they're doing something about the NI Protocol; a sop to give the usual suspects among Loyalism time to peter out. How you can try and paint Britain remaining aligned with the EU indefinitely as a victory is quite perplexing.

I'd be quite content for current levels of alignment to remain indefinitely (the closer the UK remains to the EU the better as far as I'm concerned), though if I was a card carrying Brexit supporter, I'd be questioning what was the point given that it was sold as taking back control.

In the meantime, the party you profess to support are calling for greater North-South cooperation and the creation of a new North-South trade body (with Beattie stating he's ready for any criticism he may face while helping to make the Protocol work, fully expecting the cries of Lundy to spring up).... while Sammy and Dodds are saying, "well Boris has already broken every promise he's made, so why expect otherwise'. It seems that the leadership within Unionism don't share your confidence that the Tories are all that fussed about what folk in NI think.