EU sues UK over move to rewrite post-Brexit trade rules

I must have missed the part of my Business Law classes where one side can unilaterally re-write the provisions of a signed contract.

Without any clauses that allow it, it would seem illegal on its face.

It COULDNT be the case that BOJO is acting illegally to get out of a bad situation, could it? I mean the guy just looks so honest.....

But British unionists in Northern Ireland say the new checks have put a burden on businesses and frayed the bonds between the region and the rest of the UK.

Time to end this occupation and give Ireland back to the Irish.

This time the sly cosplaying Johnson didn't dare don a rugger shirt for playing the Northern Ireland Protocol, but he's clearly been caught trying to move the goalposts; and the adult ref across the Channel has blown the whistle on him and his pack of little Tory "chiselers", as the "Oirish" from Dublin would call them.

Whether a Brexiter or a Remainer, Great Britain membership of the EEC is/was never in GB political or economic interests or the block for that matter.

The late labour socialist Peter Shaw, in no respect a Little Englander, in over a minute, at an oxford union debate nailed the essence of why Great Britain should have rejected membership.

Peter Shore on the eve of the EEC Referendum   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C0EYPPhbNY

A true hero of social justice.

Today the EEC, now the EU has issued UK with a ultimatum.

A trade war, in the aftermath of unprecedented pandemic, a rolling 12-month inflation rate, highest since reliable records began. An escalating war in Ukraine, the brutality and carnage a ghastly daily media spectacle. A cost-of-living crisis, untenable energy costs for the most venerable across EU/UK communities.

And both the UK government and EU commission cannot find a compromise?

If the UK’s Northern Ireland Brexit bill was to reach the statute books, the whole withdrawal and EU-U.K. Trade and Cooperation Agreement could collapse.

The political implications would be stark, without exception.

The UK government has presented EU commission with a legislative paradox, breaking treaty law, then attempting justifying such actions through a domestic parliamentary circumvention.

Find a compromise, be smart.

UK, and Australia and Japan are best buddies to the US. They don’t need EU anymore.

Rodney - I would like to think that all democracies should be friends with each other. The authoritarian empires are serious and are playing for keeps. Now is not the time to allow petty bickering let us lose sight as to who our enemies are.

This problem was easy to predict from the very beginning, if the UK made commitments in the deal that it was not intending to uphold later then it should also deal with the consequences. This only talk about a worrying lack of ability to make and keep deals.

Find a compromise, be smart.

They did. It was in the Brexit agreement that was signed and took effect in 2020. You say that EU membership is not in the UK’s economic interest, but Brexit has crippled Britain’s economy. It is the only European nation except Russia that is predicting no economic growth - and Russia is under global sanctions and waging a ludicrous, unjust war.

Brexit was a stupid decision. Now the UK wants to break the law because it’s dawning on them how badly they’ve self-harmed the nation.

The news from Brexit always seems to be bad, have there been positive effects/results as well?

The news from Brexit always seems to be bad

I saw one interesting observation comparing Brexit with the financial crash of 2008. After 2008, some in the deregulation camp said deregulation wasn’t the problem - the problem was there was still too much regulation. Some hardline Brexiters are arguing we haven’t Brexited enough.

It’s not really washing.

All kinds of blame being thrown around. Nigel Farage is blaming Boris Johnson’s incompetence. I don’t know what he was expecting. At the time of the referendum, David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn were leading the 2 major parties.

Amazing that the Europeans haven't figured this one out yet.

Guess they want their cake and to eat it too.

A lot of globalist types seem to have a hard time understanding (or is it deliberate?) that Brexit is a different issue from Boris Johnson and the policies pursued by the UK government since the historic vote in 2016. Brexit was nothing more than the act of leaving the EU, which gave us a lot of opportunities to reshape our standing in the world. It is not the fault of Brexit if these opportunities are not being taken. Many Brexiteers are frustrated by the government's timidity. For remoaners to gloat about this is intellectually disingenuous.

Lord dartmouth

The whole Brexit campaign was a lie and also most people didn't expect them to leave the single market.

But watching the govt lie and lie just encourages our schadenfreude.

The whole Brexit campaign was a lie

There we go again. An unsubstantiated assertion. The complete opposite could also be asserted with more accuracy. Clegg told us all, for example, that the notion of an EU army was a silly fantasy. It is now moving ahead. We were also systematically lied to by Edward Heath's government when he took us into the Common Market. He flatly denied the possibility of a political union, even though everyone knew that that was what the project was all about from the beginning.

Express sister, I believe in many respects, at least democratically, the UK parliamentary system has a distinct identity and status, most importantly holds MP's to accountant,

My humble opinion is the process of political European integration undermines this element, to the point that enactment of laws/directives are decided by a chamber of commissioners that carried out an agenda in secret.

Tony Benn – EU Referendum – EU Empire – Democracy – Brexit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWnpbEMMsNw

Great Britain should never have joined.

Had this been the case we could not be having this debate.

Tony Benn another genuine socialist make the case and its undeniable.

Please give it a view.

One last thought, a mentor from college years, dropped this into my mailbox recently when I enquired about Jeremy Corbyn absence from the 2016 referendum debate, suggesting Corbyn has been never been a supporter of UK membership of the EU......

Jeremy Corbyn on the European Union, the Maastricht Treaty, the euro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xePVGuF_mw

None of this excuses Johnsons government from breaking Treaty Law.

This debate should, never the less, be widened.

Two ethical ministers and one attorney general have resigned because of Johnson's misdeeds and willingness to break the law both national and international.

This has never happened in the history of the UK.

Shades of the Weimar republic.

Britain inches towards dictatorship.

Leave the court of human rights, starts attacking the UN.

Beggars belief.

Today the EEC, now the EU has issued UK with a ultimatum.

There’s a small problem with your logic: The elected government of the UK reached an agreement with the EU which both sides signed. Good agreement or no, the designated representative signed the deal on behalf of the UK

Now Borris finds it inconvenient to keep his end of the deal. So he’s unilaterally “reinterpreting” it.

Thats not kosher.

The news from Brexit always seems to be bad, have there been positive effects/results as well?

In Scotland, it seems there has been an upswing in support for independence. (62% of Scottish voters voted to remain in the EU.)

Nemo, lets be clear the UK’s Northern Ireland Brexit bill is a breach of treaty law.

This fact is undeniable.

I am opinionating that Great Britain should never have became a member state in the first place.

The danger here is that Johnson could follow through with this bill. Then a possibility the entire withdrawal and EU-U.K. Trade and Cooperation Agreement could be repealed./collapse.

With all the repercussions to that would inevitably follow. Both politically and economically.

During the pandemic, the business had to be flexible for our customer contractual obligations to balance there accounts in full. To present a credit line at cost to be fulfil at a later date.

Pragmatism, through negotiation.

I think this stalemate can be broken.

The UK/EU can reach a compromise

The irony is that if Johnson's govt carries on this way it will be the British who will be the economic migrants.

Wonder if they will choose Rwanda

Are the really zero positive effects from Brexit?

I am opinionating that Great Britain should never have became a member state in the first place.

This is an absolutely valid opinion. I don’t happen to agree with it, but it has a lot of intelligent people of good will who subscribe to it. So I just wish to acknowledge your point.

However, the UK did become a member then decided to leave. This binding contract is a result of those decisions. When one party can unilaterally decide to vacate a contract because it is inconvenient to the current administration without consequences, International Law (such as it is) and indeed the very idea of contracts completely breaks down.