If others have bespoke agreements why can’t we?

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 Friday, August 20, 2021 - 09:30
If others have bespoke agreements why can’t we?

We well knew from the start, that Brexit would create a raft of new diplomatic headaches, that possibly the UK did not need; but neither did we!

by CARMEN GOMEZ

In 2017 Dominic Raab said “there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the Brexit negotiations.” Adding; “the EU`s draft document suggests broad agreement on most of what we want. And the three bones of contention are surmountable.”

Four years later he says “What we want is a bit of respect from the other side, a bit of flexibility, a bit of goodwill.”

It was always inevitable that if the British were the ones to break up the party, our spurned partners would punish them and us. Dominic Raab has attacked EU leaders for making the `offensive` suggestion, that Northern Ireland is not a proper part of the UK. Apparently a French diplomatic source said that President Macron had simply pointed to the fact, that it is divided from Great Britain by the sea. He is certain that the President knows that Northern Ireland is not a part of Great Britain.

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