Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "EU warns against UK bid to change Northern Ireland Protocol" video.

This is what happens when the UK leaves the EU without a plan.
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@aib0160 This does not change the fact that you left without a plan, and in fact is a disaster for your economy.
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Because the EU holds all the cards.
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Sadly, the international community will not view such actions in the same light - Washington and Brussels have made it quite clear.
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Does the UK make a habit of signing international agreements is finds intolerable?
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@robertwhite3059 I would if you could export it.
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@robertwhite3059 London's financial trading is slowly shifting to New York, Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid.
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@alangardner8596 The agreement is an international agreement, no matter how you try to riddle it. It was the UKs fault that it was not signed sooner. It argued with itself for years as to what kind of Brexit it wanted and then put a deadline on trade negotiations. The UK held out until the 11th hour, in the belief that the UK would cave in when it went down to the wire - it didn't. That leaves the UK stuck with an agreement that does not fulfill many of its promises. It is quite possible the deal will never be ratified, but unlikely. The EU will never go to WTO because the economic consequence would be intolerable - that bluff was called in December.
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@alangardner8596 I'm certain that the UK cannot do without the EU. I've never seen this reduced figure of 12% before - this must reflect a switch away from UK products that is greater than I anticipated.
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@alangardner8596 I understand that it is very important for Brexiters that the UK is seen as 'very important'. The trouble is, internationally, it is not currently seen as 'very serious'. Your post exemplifies that. The figure from before Brexit was 46% and not 12%. Everybody in the EU is selling less to the UK since the referendum, because of sterling, the up to 20% COVID-19 related collapse in the UK economy last year and because suppliers are seeking new markets away from the UK. Since January, the price of cars is likely to have risen due to increased paperwork required just to export to the UK, making them less affordable. It is quite possible also, though I have no evidence to support it, that the production of cars is down due to COVID restrictions at manufacturing plants. Where do we see it going? We shall see trade between the UK and the EU continue to decline with many Small and Medium Size Enterprises in the UK going to the wall. In Europe, SMEs will find new markets within the Single Market, filling gaps vacated by the UK. They will do much better by comparison.
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@alangardner8596 Yes, the UK is not in the EU, that is why you buried in too many regulations and paperwork - when you were members the Single Market was an extension of your local market. Now you are confined to Britain. So the problem is not the EU, the problem is Brexit. When you trade with the rest of the world you will still have the same problems of paperwork, quotas and tariffs. Brexiters never seem to understand that.
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@alangardner8596 Well of course, that is quite natural. Trade follows the path of least resistance, most particularly for SMEs who just don't have the resources to deal trade with the EU anymore. Most of them will go to the wall. That was one of the reasons Brexit is a bad idea, but to say so would have you branded a 'scaremonger'. I take it the penny has not dropped that Brexit was a con yet?
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@aib0160 Again, if you had bothered with a plan, if people had voted upon that plan, you would not have had MPs and parties arguing over what type of Brexit you voted for. The UK will not tear up the agreement, that bluff was called last December. If it were left to the UK and the RoI to resolve the border issue, the UK would merely steam roll over Ireland and the Irish would just have to put up with it, and probably leave the EU or the SM - neither of which the Irish people voted for - and to the detriment of the Irish economy. We know that when Brexiters talk about sovereignty and independence they do not take into account that others value their sovereignty and independence too. As Sajid Javid stated on TV one Sunday morning, 'the tail cannot be allowed to wag the dog'. That's lovely, Sajid, thanks. The EU is not weaponising the border. The border is an issue the UK never considered and it is a problem for which it has no solution, undermining the 'we hold all the cards' mantra that English nationalists were seduced by. Brexiters never considered that the EU would stand by a small member state in relation to an 'important' country like the UK, failing to understand that the EU is made up of 'small states', and one departing state that does not know it is small. The Irish also wiped the floor diplomatically in Washington, so much so, that British diplomats have been told to 'copy the Irish' in terms of winning friends and influencing people in the United States. The border issue does not have and never had, anything to do with the free movement of people between these islands. The problem is the movement of goods and the anger Irish people living on the border would have in relation to checks because of a vote held on another island. Now we can see the anger of Unionists in Northern Ireland, Brexit supporters, as borders are being placed in the Irish Sea. We can see the UK is not implementing all it is supposed to, and that Boris's claim that there would be no paperwork is another Boris lie. We can see how the DUP are desperately trying to undermine the Irish Sea checks because their supporters are deserting them, deserting them because they made the strategic error of blindly supporting Brexit even after being sacrificed by the Tories. But if you're a Brexiter, you blame the EU.
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@robertwhite3059 And what does the UK have?
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@robertwhite3059 It has none, Robert. Zip.
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@robertwhite3059 You need to broaden your sources of information. Irish fishermen are bemoaning the loss of access to UK waters and with the quota for rest of 2021, but nobody else is. I notice also that British fishermen are 'moaning' the loss off access to EU markets, so no fishermen seem to be happy with the current situation. The Irish fishing sector is worth about as much to the Irish economy as the British fishing sector does to the UK economy. In Ireland, we are not distracted by such minor issues, unlike your own country.
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@robertwhite3059 You only left the EU 6 weeks ago, lets take a look at where the UK will be as a financial centre in a decade or so.
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@robertwhite3059 You can be quite sure the EU will be around in a decade, but we cannot say the same for the UK. In any case, will almost certainly not be around in 25 years from now, while the EU will probably have evolved into a two speed bloc.
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@robertwhite3059 Yes, but your news is from British sources, designed to shape your thinking - rather like propaganda. It keeps the sheep in order, and distracts from the calamity going on around them. It is very effective.
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@robertwhite3059 Sorry, what am I to watch in the EU Parliament that suggests anything? If watching a Parliament was indicative of any thing what would the House of Commons tell us?
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