The Brexiters signed a deal, lied about it, demanded that it be rushed through Parliament, changed their minds, insisted it be changed, and then decided that change wasn’t enough and the whole thing needed to be burned to the ground ✒️ IanDunt
Then things changed. In October 2021, Frost made a speech in which he demonstrated a damascene conversion to the exact opposite position to the one he adopted when he negotiated the deal. It turned out he had accidentally put Northern Ireland in the EU customs union. So now he had a new red line: the jurisdiction of the ECJ had to end.
That new absolutist position is now widely adopted by the ERG. Cash now says: “I don’t think there’s any other democratic country in the world which has got an arrangement whereby part of its territorial and constitutional jurisdiction is decided by another country.” Fabricant now says: “What has not been addressed… is that all goods made or grown in NI destined for GB will still have to meet EU standards and be subject to EU law… That would be unacceptable in any treaty.” Including, apparently, the treaty he voted for.
The DUP has at least been opposed to the protocol since the start, but even it has been moving the goalposts. In 2021, it published seven tests for the Government negotiation with the EU over the Protocol. They were largely about eradicating checks and facilitating GB-NI trade. That position has now become much more extreme.
We’ve come full circle, from insisting the Protocol did not put Northern Ireland in the EU’s customs system, to demanding changes to ease the impact of being in the customs system, to demanding that it leave it entirely. The Brexiters signed a deal, lied about it, demanded that it be rushed through Parliament, changed their minds, insisted it be changed, andThere are no principles here.
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