A state of constant warfare
Be it the Northern Ireland Protocol, red tape or asylum seekers the government’s policy is clear. Creating a permanent state of low level conflict serves its purpose to create not a clean break from the EU but one where it, in some form or another, bears responsibility for what is going on, or more accurately what is going wrong.
The NIP, which was Boris Johnson’s own invention to get the deal done, becomes an EU border down the Irish Sea. Breaking it and undermining it is therefore patriotic.
Brexit red tape at the border becomes EU red tape, the UK waiving all checks at the borders which it is committed under international law to end, become free and open borders and therefore patriotic.
Tearing up the agreement to return asylum seekers to other EU countries was not a mistake, we can just throw them out anyway and that is therefore patriotic.
Even if the EU, were to agree to everything the British government wants, another demand would be found to make sure that foreigners are to blame and anyone blaming the Government is therefore unpatriotic. But a constant state of conflict with foreigners is not good for UK trade, business, influence or power. So cui bono?
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