Joe Biden on Brexit and the Internal Market Bill
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To clarify, this is Biden stating his opposition to a UK Government bill that, in the event the EU effectively refuses to license the mainland UK to trade with Northern Ireland, tells the EU to get bent. It is something of a controversial bill, addressing a problem that arose by assuming good faith on the part of the EU, not something they've shown a great deal of, in my opinion, in the course of negotiations.
Like the EU, Biden seems to see the way forward for Northern Ireland as being broken away from the UK, presumably for later integration into the Republic of Ireland - whether the citizens of Northern Ireland want it or not.
Is the man just trying to pander to Irish American votes at this point?
The citizens of Ireland don't even want irish unification because they don't want a sizable protestant minority causing issues.
The only people that want Irish unification are the plastic paddies in the US. And they support the IRA. So I have no idea who this is supposed to be pandering to.
You appear to have answered your own question:
Might just be Biden scrabbling around for every single vote he can get.
The UK's position on this shouldn't be about if. The UK shouldn't be having a conversation about it at all. The UK should be allowed to conduct trade within it's own borders without regard to the EU.
They unwisely signed an agreement which requires them to control trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland for goods which are considered "at high risk" for being exported. Then the EU decided that all goods were at such high risk, and as a result the UK is proposing breaking the agreement (the Withdrawal Agreement, not the Good Friday Accords)
"High risk for being exported"
pbbt.
"There's a high risk that you could sell this for money and compete with me. Can't let you do that, Star Fox."
I swear, the UK's negotiation position needs to be "Eat Shit And Die".
That does actually appear to be a pressing fear for the EU, one of the reasons they have been so insistent on "regulatory alignment" - i.e., the British agreeing to subject themselves to EU regulations.
They're very worried about having to compete with a country right next door that's no longer hobbling itself.
That's what the UK Government bill is intended to address, yes.
Yes, and despite Pelosi and Biden's claims, telling the EU to "get bent" does not violate the GFA. It is not the UK which has proposed a hard border; it's the EU which has threatened one. If Ireland enforces a border, that's not a violation of the GFA by the UK