From last night
We can't fail to understand that what we've agreed to is to keep NI fully aligned, in the absence of any other agreement, as a 'backstop'. We can't honestly think that the rest of the EU would possibly accept the idea that we would just have to make a bit of an effort at this for a while and then we could do what we wanted. We are beyond delusional.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 6.html?amp
"EU to reject Theresa May's call for Northern Ireland 'backstop' to be time limited"
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... toms-union" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Hard Brexit Tories pressure May over customs union
Johnson, Gove and Rees-Mogg deride PM’s plan and demand minimal transition period"
Edited to add - one of our moans is 'how dare they suggest we divide NI away from the rest of the UK' but nobody is saying that. So far as the EU is concerned the question of whether we use the backstop just in NI or in the whole of the UK is a matter for our sovereignty and nothing to do with them, but if we do keep just NI aligned then we are chosing, as our sovereign decision, the consequences that follow for having a border between NI and the rest of the UK.