It weren't me Sir, honest
Lord Frost is now blaming the previous negotiators for the mess of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Apparently they made such a mess of it that by the time he took over there was nothing he could do, honest.
This ignores the fact that once the Conservative Party had decided on the red lines which included leaving the Single Market a border between the UK and Ireland became a certainty and that the current NIP was the bright idea of his boss Boris Johnson.
What really made the NIP such a mess was the Conservative party’s takeover by the Brexiteer ultras, who not only wanted nothing at all to do with the EU but hoped to bring the whole thing down. Northern Ireland is a small price to pay for that fantasy.
A Norway style Brexit, which is what the country was promised would have been easy, smooth and hardly noticeable, expect for the fact that the UK would be irrelevant and powerless in Europe, but then it is now anyway.
But it wouldn’t have driver shortages, skills shortages, threats of violence in NI, vet. tests and all the rest. Lord Frost and his government and party own it all.
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