Observations

EU is ready to go to war over what amounts to a rounding error in its accounts

The EU has already started legal action against the UK over the Northern Ireland Protocol, despite the EU Commission having invoked Article 16 itself in January, before a public outcry forced it to recant.

0.2% of imports in any national or international table of statistics amounts to no more than a rounding or margin error. In almost all countries around the world, the EU Commission’s bureaucrats would be laughed out of the negotiating room for suggesting that its enormous Single Market is in any way threatened by a minuscule amount of cross-border traffic from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.

Consent isn’t a word readily understood in dictatorial Brussels

Despite the absurdity of its position as demonstrated by the hard numbers, the EU seems perfectly happy to jeopardise the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland and to deny democratic consent to the people living there. Consent of all the communities in Northern Ireland was absolutely paramount in the negotiation of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement. It was a pivotal issue, yet the ideological EU has been happy to ride roughshod over it in order to punish the United Kingdom for voting to leave its empire.

Hundreds of new EU laws are being made which apply to Northern Ireland, yet neither Northern Ireland citizens, nor the Northern Ireland Assembly, nor the UK Government have any say over them whatsoever.

The EU created this mess, the United Kingdom will now have to clear it up

Even this, however, is not enough for the autocratic ideologues in Brussels. Now that they have declared emphatically that the Protocol cannot be renegotiated – despite the Protocol itself saying that it can – the Government must act.

With half of the EU Commission already having packed their bags for the long summer holiday, we suggest that the UK Government must respond this week with an ultimatum to the EU Commission.

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