Bojo really doesn't understand!!

[Judi_bk]

 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g7-summit-2021-johnson-and-macrons-barney-on-the-beach-as-sausage-row-sizzles-jbsc3jtf8

"mmanuel Macron enraged Boris Johnson yesterday by telling him Northern Ireland was not a full part of the United Kingdom as the “sausage war” with the European Union deepened at the G7 summit in Cornwall.

The two leaders clashed when Johnson complained that the EU’s interpretation of the Northern Ireland protocol would prevent cold meats from being sent to the province from Britain after the end of the month. “How would you like it if the French courts stopped you moving Toulouse sausages to Paris?” Johnson said.

The French president claimed that it was “not a good comparison because Paris and Toulouse are part of the same country”, according to a UK government source."

[Lmj19]

EU law specialist Catherine Barnard has reminded us that the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement allows either party to “suspend obligations” under that treaty in the event of breaches of earlier agreements. For non-lawyers, that means impose trade sanctions for breaches of the withdrawal agreement of 2019, which contains the protocol.

But Prof Steve Peers adds detail to that analysis ... “the TCA is a separate treaty from the withdrawal agreement, which continues to apply between the UK and the EU. The withdrawal agreement has its own rules on dispute settlement. I have used them as a point of comparison for the TCA dispute settlement rules. As we’ll see, there’s a link between the two treaties: a failure to comply with a ruling relating to the withdrawal agreement can lead to retaliation under the TCA.

<<The basic idea is that if the parties have a complaint, they first of all enter into consultations. If the consultations don’t lead to agreement, either side can trigger arbitration. If the arbitrators rule that one side has breached the agreement, in principle that side has to comply with the ruling within a reasonable period. If it doesn’t comply by the deadline, the winning side can invoke *proportionate retaliation* against the losing side by withdrawing benefits under the agreement. If the losing side later complies with the ruling, the winning side has to stop suspending those benefits. If there’s a dispute about whether the losing side has fully complied with the ruling, or whether the retaliation by the winning side was proportionate, or what is a reasonable time to comply with the ruling, the arbitrators can decide that too.>>

We are just at the beginning of all that! We need consultation and arbitration before retaliation. This will all take quite some time, both sides are digging in - got to Save Those Sausages...

[Drax]

Bojo isn't the only one that doesn't understand 

How can the sale/transportation of goods from one country to another upset a peace agreement? 

[frankie]

Having many friends in NI I can see how important the Peace Agreement is to them.  None of them want to go back to the days of street battles but at the moment it is on a knife edge.  The Marching Season (always a potential for unrest) is just around the corner and everyone is holding their breath.
This must be sorted as a matter of Urgency!

[Lmj19]

I loved Ursula Von Der Leyden saying the agreement was written in English so the British could understand it. Apparently Boris still doesn’t.