Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "EU rejects renegotiation of post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland" video.

The UK will invoke article 16, and will then do whatever is necessary to protect the UK internal market.
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@desj2584 the one the eu is attempting to destroy between NI and the rest of the UK. That internal market.
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@florafauna5883 the joke seems to be on the EU, as its border in NI is leaking as expected.
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Stephen K I don't think they have much say in the flow direction.
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@Sphere723 the us is only concerned with GFA, the EU is putting that in serious danger, they should have paid more attention to what the loyalists paramilitaries might do.
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@gauloiseguy if that's what you, want so be it. Its not as if the EU does not deserve it.
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@Any Ideas? Article 16 of the northern ireland protocol.
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@irminschembri1081 if revision of history helps you live with the fact the the uk rejected the eu, than you can believe that the eu threw the uk out.
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@RickTheClipper I think you will find the eu are currently overfishing Irish coastal waters. Chlorinated chicken is specifically ruled out from uk food, but maybe we can ship it through ireland into the eu.
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@RickTheClipper uk food standards already rule out the sale of chlorinated chicken. It would require a change in these regulations, and there for the law, to allow such imports.
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@Tomas Lesko the eu needs to recognise UK standards, so goods can flow into NI.
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@RickTheClipper the uk is allowing eu products into the uk, but that will not last, particularly if the uk starts to apply tariffs to eu imports. Which I hope they do,as it will encourage local producers and level the playing field as the eu so much like.
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@RickTheClipper I don't mind a birder in the Irish sea, one between ireland and the rest of the EU. The border between NI and the rest of the uk will not work,because it is opposed by the loyalists.
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@Tomas Leskono need to explain, I understand the problem. The EU needs to recognise UK standards. It will not be the UK government that stops the border working, it will be the people in NI. My ideal solution is reunification, with the EU paying the £10 billion per year that it currently costs the rUK to support NI, plus the EU becoming responsible for keeping the peace between the factions in NI. That should keep the EU busy for a couple of hundred years. Unfortunately, the decision to reunify ireland is in the hands of the NI people, and they have so far failed to vote for it, not really surprising as they have effective eu membership, without any of its responsibilities and membership fee.
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@Tomas Lesko the percentage really does not matter much, as it will undoubtedly lead to a civil war in NI, most likely spreading to the whole of ireland. Not exactly in keeping with the sprit of the GFA, though once the eu takes responsibility for NI, the GFA will no longer apply, at least to the rest of the UK, it becomes an EU problem.
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That is the intention of the EU in the way it is trying to implement the protocol. Its worth looking at the number of border checks implement on other eu land borders. This suggests that the EU has an ulterior agenda in the way it is attempting to enforce the NI border. The UK will not reverse the brexit result.
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@setyeva0 there have been a number of election chances for the general public to express displeasure at the brexit referendum result, in each case brexit was supported. The uk is not going to reverse the result.
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@leighchapman935 the uk has left the eu get use to it.
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@patrickmccarthy3123 a problem shared is a problen m doubled. The EU's problems are only just beginning.
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@leighchapman935 so why are more checked demanded on this EU land border than any other.
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@leighchapman935 that is because the trade agreements the eu want with the uk would make the uk a vassal state of the eu. This is not consistent with being an independent sovereign third country.
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@denisphelan8987 as I have already pointed out, the eu only wants agreements with the uk that put the eu in control.
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@RickTheClipper we specialise in sarcasm, so yes it is very funny.
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@RickTheClipper we are not alone in our quest to regain sovereignty, I think Poland and Hungary are doing the same.
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@RickTheClipper tricky, when they have a veto on due Dec day decisions. Then there is the matter of creating two more borders.
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@corydorastube the contract was incomplete when it was signed, with much of the detail not defined. In any case it was a treaty and is therefore subject to change. The protocol has prevision for unilateral changes. It was predicted that the sea border would not be acceptable, anymore than the land border.
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@denisphelan8987 wrong the details of the protocol were left for later negotiation after the protocol was signed. It was essentially an untested framework. It could be argued that this is the direct result of the eu insisting on separating future trade agreements from the withdrawal agreement. It was Mrs May that allowed the EU to set this agenda, a serious political error, or simply an attempt to hobble brexit.
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@nickclarkuk it is much easier to screw the eu by changing or ignoring the protocol.
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@mottedreissig7874 whatever gave you the idea that we wished to rejoin, I certainly hope we never do. But since the EU refused to include future trade negotiations within the withdrawal agreement, and the details was not included in the NI protocol, you can expect further negotiations to continue for years, not least because, in the case of NI, a failure to do so will most likely break the GFA and return NI to its violent past.
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