BobKowalski
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The Internal Market Bill triggers confrontation with the EU, reopening what everyone thought was a settled debate on the Withdrawal Agreement with a GE fought over getting the WA ratified, and making any future deal unlikely. In effect we have gone back to the autumn of 2019.
The Bill also opens a second front with London confronting Edinburgh and Cardiff over what was again settled debate on devolution by taking back devolved powers and will no doubt fuel Scottish nationalism even further. It also reopens division in NI as we are back to the Irish border question which has to be either in land or in the Irish Sea. We have had four years of talking about, thought we had it resolved, but now that we have reneged on our agreement we are back to endlessly talking about it. The potential for sparking old troubles is obvious.
Finally we have our third front, the pandemic, which hasn’t gone away and Is a strain on everyone as we fight to keep it in check.
After four years of this never ending shit the question is how do we resolve this never ending shit? We are out of the EU and there isn’t any option of getting back in, not that the E27 would be open to it even if there was an option. We drop out of the EU economic comfort zone in less than four months and hard transition onto the cold comfort of WTO terms and lose the security, data, regulatory frameworks within which we currently operate. The disruption of which will fuel nationalism in Scotland and potentially Wales. There is also the potential of EU sanctions being levied for breaking the WA but we will leave that aside for now to concentrate on what will happen.
Then there will be the diplomatic fallout as relations with Dublin especially and the other major Capitols will be sub-zero and the rest of Europe isn’t going to best pleased with all this palaver during a pandemic.
So we have an external front, the EU, an internal front, other countries in our Union and a health front that, ironically requires a degree of international cooperation to combat successfully.
The question is how does the UK resolve the conflict on these three fronts? Can the UK as a state realistically survive fighting on these three fronts simultaneously? Why are we fighting on three fronts rather than concentrating on the common threat, the pandemic? What is the strategy? Is there a strategy?
The Bill also opens a second front with London confronting Edinburgh and Cardiff over what was again settled debate on devolution by taking back devolved powers and will no doubt fuel Scottish nationalism even further. It also reopens division in NI as we are back to the Irish border question which has to be either in land or in the Irish Sea. We have had four years of talking about, thought we had it resolved, but now that we have reneged on our agreement we are back to endlessly talking about it. The potential for sparking old troubles is obvious.
Finally we have our third front, the pandemic, which hasn’t gone away and Is a strain on everyone as we fight to keep it in check.
After four years of this never ending shit the question is how do we resolve this never ending shit? We are out of the EU and there isn’t any option of getting back in, not that the E27 would be open to it even if there was an option. We drop out of the EU economic comfort zone in less than four months and hard transition onto the cold comfort of WTO terms and lose the security, data, regulatory frameworks within which we currently operate. The disruption of which will fuel nationalism in Scotland and potentially Wales. There is also the potential of EU sanctions being levied for breaking the WA but we will leave that aside for now to concentrate on what will happen.
Then there will be the diplomatic fallout as relations with Dublin especially and the other major Capitols will be sub-zero and the rest of Europe isn’t going to best pleased with all this palaver during a pandemic.
So we have an external front, the EU, an internal front, other countries in our Union and a health front that, ironically requires a degree of international cooperation to combat successfully.
The question is how does the UK resolve the conflict on these three fronts? Can the UK as a state realistically survive fighting on these three fronts simultaneously? Why are we fighting on three fronts rather than concentrating on the common threat, the pandemic? What is the strategy? Is there a strategy?