Always blaming someone else

Yesterday, the Chairman of the Loyalist Communities Countil (LCC) published a letter in which the Loyalist (Unionist) groups he represents announced they have withdrawn their support for the GFA.

Oddly, the letter goes on to blame the EU, and only the EU for the siuation, not a Prime Minister who threw them under a bus in negotiating and agreeing on the NIP and the WA.

THis is very odd.

And nothing too that Parliament ratified the WA and NIP after the December 2019 election when it was clear that the NIP broke the UK Single Market as it kept NI in the EU's SM for some goods.

It was stated at the time, and was ignored. I have written about this dozens of times.

The time for complaining would have been 15 months ago, when something could have been done.

Its all very well blaming the EU for not talking to Unionist, or Loyalist groups, but then neither d the UK Prime Minister, nor seek approval from the NI Assembly, which it shoudl have done, instead took NI out of the EU when its electorate voted heavily to remain.

Not only that, John Major and Tony Blair warned that Brexit would undermine the GFA, and these were dismissed by the UK GOvernment, as well as the DUP leader, Arline Foster and Ain Paisley Jr.

And yet they wanted Brexit.

They accept that the Republican side don't want a border between NI and the Republic, and the LCC says they don't want a border between NI and Britain. And yet the border has to go somewhere, or there be no regulatory border at all.

There are and always were three choices, all apparently unacceptable, but one has to win the day.

As I have always said, you have to choose one but each choice has a heavy political price to pay. Johnson and Parliament chose the NI Protocol and a border in the Irish Sea, that it is beyond their capabilities to make it work, or just give up should surprise no one. Beacuse like always, as soon as Brexit is defined, it falls apart. But as Brexit now lives in reality, there is no cakeism, other than the belief you can have Brexit without any consequences, just hard choices, hard work, and endless negotiations.

If they were not prepared for this, they shouldn't have started.

And then there will be the reaction of the Biden Administration, I am guessing it won't long before Washington weighs in, and maybe even threatens Johnson.

Interesting times ahead.