If the EU genuinely cared about the Island of Ireland they would set up a preferred trader system for the major corporations to eliminate the unnecessary paperwork. It is a simple and obvious solution which shows that they still want to punish us.

One more point

I do agree but the UK government needs to take a huge share of the blame for this.

The EU, by its very nature, was never going to play ball. It literally sees Brexit as a direct threat to its existence and events of the last few months have done nothing to assuage that fear/paranoia.

There never was, at least in the short term, a workable deal with the EU. That much was obvious to anybody with even the most basic understanding of how the EU functions. All the evidence in plain sight. The way in which other referendums were ignored or forced to be re-run and so on.

Which is fine. That is what it is and why we needed to be on the outside. Where Johnson and co have f***ed up is even contemplating this nonsense whereby goods going from the main-land to Northern Ireland are subject to any controls whatsoever. Utterly unworkable.

Heaping all the blame on the EU is like blaming a wild dog for biting and snatching at things. That is its nature. The real idiot is the one who thinks he can pat it on its head and then expect it to abide by an agreement not to be a c***.

We need to simply accept that a deal is not workable and move on from there. As we should have done in the first place. And the blame for that lays solely with Downing street. Brussels is full of s***c***s but so what? That is what they are and have never pretended to be any different.

Edited by Matov (04 Mar 2021 3.43pm)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Italy and EU block vaccines to Australia:

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This is a dick move. Given we are outside of the EU and therefore not subject to their "protectionist EUroNationalist scheme"... sorry, "export transparency scheme", I would be happy to request AZ send 250k from our factories to our *actual* friends and allies in Australia (as opposed to the belligerent tossers on our doorstep our political class claim are our "friends and allies")

Edited by davenotamonkey (04 Mar 2021 4.59pm)

Evil.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Is Scottish independence a matter for the rest of the UK to decide upon then?

If the Scottish vote for independence do we get to look to jail their leaders?

Edited by Stirlingsays (09 Mar 2021 5.34pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Times ten.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)