50 days on: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal
23/02/2021
Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.
One of the greatest political achievements of our time is at risk of becoming a casualty of a Brexit neither country voted for in the first place, writes Emma DeSouza.
The PM’s greatest ‘untruth’ was about the Northern Irish border – the honest route now is to let voters choose where it should be
The decision to breach trust again in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol, by acting unilaterally rather than through the agreed joint procedures, was in obvious contradiction with Frost’s subsequent appeal for good will.
Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?
Northern Ireland’s first minister has paid the price for believing the promises of the hard Brexiteers.
EU must continue to monitor and ensure that the British hold up their side of the bargain.
The prime minister has imperilled peace in Northern Ireland, and every day the economic fallout worsens.
It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.
The prime minister seeks to game and inflame a state of mind that rejects complex reality in favour of symbols and fantasy.
A summit crucial to the issue of climate change is instead mired in disentangling the mess of Britain’s exit from the EU
This summer has provided ample demonstration of the difficulties of the relationship between the UK and the EU.
The key goal of the government is to placate the right by sustaining foreign quarrels.
Special trade arrangements are crucial to peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland. Yet Brexiters in London refuse to see that.
Prime minister personifies British hostility to international democratic norms.
Downing Street has briefed the media that the British government is planning legislation purporting to give the UK the power to renege on the legally-binding Northern Ireland Brexit protocol.
We unionists who foresaw that Brexit would cause problems at the Northern Ireland border were ignored
14/05/2022
'I keep hearing my fellow unionists complaining that their anger over the existence of the Northern Ireland Protocol is not being recognised or taken seriously.'
Boris Johnson’s plans to shred the Northern Ireland protocol have no basis in law, economics or diplomacy.
Boris Johnson’s rotten regime has not covered itself in glory. / For an un-jaundiced sense of how post-Brexit – sorry Global – Britain is viewed from abroad as the wheels fall off Boris Johnson’s rotten regime, Italy is a good place to start.
The Northern Ireland protocol row shows the similarities between two former imperial powers intent on regaining lost glory.
Boris Johnson’s real scandal: Brexit
13/07/2022
Not before time, Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. The Guardian reports that Johnson’s leadership “toppled under a wave of sleaze allegations and failure to tell the truth.” But his real scandal lies elsewhere — with Brexit.
No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.
The Tories are upping their attack on our democracy, under cover of the leadership contest
19/07/2022
Deep within the Northern Ireland protocol bill, ministers are making a sinister grab for yet more unchecked powers.
The recent closure of the Charles Peguy centre is sad but hardly surprising.