Political relations between UK-EU

Ban-jani said:
Whilst I find the latter part of you post humorous, I don’t think we were flapping, if the UK government had done the same I’d have said exactly the same. The GFA is sacrosanct.
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Agreed. Dublin was always going to put the mockers on it though. The advantage of having the Commission making these mistakes is it allows member states to drop in and get it reversed in hours, whereas if a Govt makes a mistake it can take days or weeks for them to admit it, let alone reverse it.

Also, it makes Dublin look good to the people in Northern Ireland, bank a bit of political capital.
 
Ban-jani said:
Spanish Foreign Minister lost her head on Newsnight, Faisal Islam absolutely panning her.

He seems angry at her responses. Telling her “UK developed this vaccine and clearly has first dibs” ... yes he said first dibs.

She almost screams at him in response... oh dear getting ugly.

Lost her head completely. They’re so rattled.
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She was probably saying “what the fuck does ‘dibs’ mean?!”. Suspect it doesn’t translate easily into Spanish.
 
Ric said:
She was probably saying “what the fuck does ‘dibs’ mean?!”. Suspect it doesn’t translate easily into Spanish.
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I thought “dibs” was a north west slang term but Faisal Islam trotted it out.

Made me find a new found respect for him.
 
Interesting snippet...

‘It’s also my understanding that Michael Barnier was instrumental in ensuring the situation was resolved promptly. And was far from satisfied - read pretty livid - that the situation with Article16 came about in the first place.‘ @independent_ie
 
BobKowalski said:
Agreed. Dublin was always going to put the mockers on it though. The advantage of having the Commission making these mistakes is it allows member states to drop in and get it reversed in hours, whereas if a Govt makes a mistake it can take days or weeks for them to admit it, let alone reverse it.

Also, it makes Dublin look good to the people in Northern Ireland, bank a bit of political capital.
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Somehow the Republican Irish government and DUP were united today.

Interestingly Johnson called Ireland tonight, according to the BBC, to reassure them the UK are trying to calm the situation and won’t do anything to disrupt the GFA.

Well done EU, you’ve made Boris Johnson the adult in the room.
 
Have to say I'm concerned to see what pans out now.

It's AZ saying that the EU isn't due any of the Oxford Vaccines currently in the UK, UK Govt generally hasn't said anything.

If the EU seize the Pfizer vaccines that Pfizer aren't saying are for the EU and are to be shipped to the UK, I dread to think what state diplomatic relations would be in.
 
Ban-jani said:
Somehow the Republican Irish government and DUP were united today.

Interestingly Johnson called Ireland tonight, according to the BBC, to reassure them the UK are trying to calm the situation and won’t do anything to disrupt the GFA.

Well done EU, you’ve made Boris Johnson the adult in the room.
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@mancity2012_eamo read this.

Luckily my government and yours are behaving like adults, sadly, the EU are not.
 
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