Remember this, if nothing else.

DAG says:

"Remember the test of sovereignty is being able to enter into international agreements, not to break them deliberately."

THe EU is a rules based organisation, so once it was told of the IMB, it said it would give the UK Government until 30th September to remove the clauses that broke the WA and international law, or they would start legal proceedings.

Yesterday was the 30th September.

The Government passed the latest stage of passing the bill into law, but whipping its MPs into breaking the law.

So, this morning, the EU announced it was starting legal proceedings.

It matters much that the reasons the UK Government has given for needing to break the terms of the WA are, in a word: bollocks, and no clause in the Bill addresses the imaginary food blockade of the EU.

The EU Commission will give government one month to respond it says. Meantime the Commission ‘stands by its commitments’ (this is a jab at Boris Johnson) and ‘will continue working hard to ensure timely implementation of withdrawal agreement’ says president von der Leyen. Ursula von der Leyen says provisions are "breach of the obligation of good faith laid down in the withdrawal agreement". If adopted "full contradiction" of Irish protocol.

Naughty Nigel Farrage said: "The “oven ready deal” was an international treaty — for the EU Commission, that is like the Bible.

Whilst the EU always acts in bad faith, all they are doing today is asking Boris to keep his promises.

It should never have been signed in the first place. "

What he means is that any deal with the EU should never be signed, but he seems to have forgotten he withdrew his party's MPs from any Tory held seat that sitting MP said would support the WA and WAB. And when he says the EU always acts in bad faith, he misspoke, as the EU always acts in good faith, and expects, in the case, the UK to do so too. It merely wants the UK to honour it's obligations itself negotiated, agreed, ratified, Johnson got re-elected on the promise of implementing the WA, oven ready deal.

But sure, the EU is acting in bad faith.

Wanker.