Yesterday's man Duncan Smith can threaten all he wants but it wont get him far. It's like he's shouting in an empty room and just taking one foot out of his mouth to be replaced by the other.
Citizens rights - there has been no concrete proposals about what rights EU citizens will have after Brexit. Not only is the Home Office sending people back to their country even though it breaks EU laws - UK treatment of foreign nationals 'could colour' MEPs’ view on Brexit - Amber Rudd has been found in breach of UK law by deporting people against the rulings of the courts, If Amber Rudd can't explain why she defied the courts, she should go. No wonder the EU negotiators are perplexed by what the UK wants on Citizen's rights.
Financial settlement - as long as the UK are in the EU, including during the transition period. There has been no information to say what May offered but reported that it was £20 billion. Well she'll be at odds with Johnson, Gove and Rees Mogg who continue to claim that the EU cost the UK the EU £17.5 billion per year (£350 million per week). No wonder the EU sit there bemused b when a Tory government person opens their mouth. What it is like behind closed doors can only be gauged by the EU's reaction.
The island of Ireland - under the Good Friday Agreement there is free movement of goods, capital, services and people throughout the island, as cross border institutes show. EU citizens, whether that be in the north of the island - Irish passport holders - or the south can reside anywhere on the island. As EU citizens they come under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. In relation to the ECJ the Northern Ireland Act 1998 makes reference to the ECJ in scrutiny of Bills.
Scrutiny and stages of Bills
Reconsideration where reference made to ECJ.
The May government has not put forward any concrete proposals to deal with the border issue. They haven't put forward any concrete proposals to deal with Irish citizen rights of those residing in the north of the island. They haven't explained to the UK population when they will amend the Northern Ireland Act to take out the role of the ECJ.
It is plainly wrong for anyone in the government to say that the ECJ will not have jurisdiction over the UK as they will in the north of the Ireland. As it is plainly wrong to claim that when the UK leaves the EU it will not be part of the single market or customs union - as they will in the north of the island of Ireland. It is becoming increasingly clear that the island of Ireland will have special status and the Tories silence on this reality - gaining more and more ground within the EU as the only viable option to preserve the Good Friday Agreement as it stands - is down to needing the DUP politically, who are venomously against such a special status deal as they were/are against the Good Friday Agreement. The Tories ambiguity on this issue is driven by their political survival.
Iain Duncan Smith: Brexit. Why the Government must prepare for no deal now.
Yesterday's man Duncan Smith is oblivious to these realities. And incredibly says about the CBI - "Instead of listening to the bleating of the CBI, we should recognise that further delay is not in our favour". I thought the Tories wanted to take back 'control' because 'that is what business is telling us' and 'we listen to business'. That is unless business -CBI -are not on message. The Institute of Directors wants access to the EU through EFTA while the City wants 'passporting rights' for access to the EU - even if it needs paying for. Yesterday's man will claim they are all 'bleating' for their own sectional interests.
"In conclusion, any agreement must not bind future Governments. While, clearly, any UK Government will wish to cooperate with the EU as an ally, areas of foreign policy, such as defence, border control, judicial authority, agriculture, fisheries, environment, energy, trade policy must be fully returned to the UK. A series of binding side deals would be unacceptable".
But most of what Duncan Smith talks about, will not imply to the north of the island of Ireland as there are cross border institutes. His silence on this and contradictory mutterings show he obviously doesn't know his backside from his elbow. He shoots from the hip in an attempt to sound tough instead it just makes him look weak and full of wind.
The Tories are in a mess and the open civil war over Brexit will damage them politically. They are on borrowed time.
Citizens rights - there has been no concrete proposals about what rights EU citizens will have after Brexit. Not only is the Home Office sending people back to their country even though it breaks EU laws - UK treatment of foreign nationals 'could colour' MEPs’ view on Brexit - Amber Rudd has been found in breach of UK law by deporting people against the rulings of the courts, If Amber Rudd can't explain why she defied the courts, she should go. No wonder the EU negotiators are perplexed by what the UK wants on Citizen's rights.
Financial settlement - as long as the UK are in the EU, including during the transition period. There has been no information to say what May offered but reported that it was £20 billion. Well she'll be at odds with Johnson, Gove and Rees Mogg who continue to claim that the EU cost the UK the EU £17.5 billion per year (£350 million per week). No wonder the EU sit there bemused b when a Tory government person opens their mouth. What it is like behind closed doors can only be gauged by the EU's reaction.
The island of Ireland - under the Good Friday Agreement there is free movement of goods, capital, services and people throughout the island, as cross border institutes show. EU citizens, whether that be in the north of the island - Irish passport holders - or the south can reside anywhere on the island. As EU citizens they come under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. In relation to the ECJ the Northern Ireland Act 1998 makes reference to the ECJ in scrutiny of Bills.
Scrutiny and stages of Bills
Reconsideration where reference made to ECJ.
The May government has not put forward any concrete proposals to deal with the border issue. They haven't put forward any concrete proposals to deal with Irish citizen rights of those residing in the north of the island. They haven't explained to the UK population when they will amend the Northern Ireland Act to take out the role of the ECJ.
It is plainly wrong for anyone in the government to say that the ECJ will not have jurisdiction over the UK as they will in the north of the Ireland. As it is plainly wrong to claim that when the UK leaves the EU it will not be part of the single market or customs union - as they will in the north of the island of Ireland. It is becoming increasingly clear that the island of Ireland will have special status and the Tories silence on this reality - gaining more and more ground within the EU as the only viable option to preserve the Good Friday Agreement as it stands - is down to needing the DUP politically, who are venomously against such a special status deal as they were/are against the Good Friday Agreement. The Tories ambiguity on this issue is driven by their political survival.
Iain Duncan Smith: Brexit. Why the Government must prepare for no deal now.
Yesterday's man Duncan Smith is oblivious to these realities. And incredibly says about the CBI - "Instead of listening to the bleating of the CBI, we should recognise that further delay is not in our favour". I thought the Tories wanted to take back 'control' because 'that is what business is telling us' and 'we listen to business'. That is unless business -CBI -are not on message. The Institute of Directors wants access to the EU through EFTA while the City wants 'passporting rights' for access to the EU - even if it needs paying for. Yesterday's man will claim they are all 'bleating' for their own sectional interests.
"In conclusion, any agreement must not bind future Governments. While, clearly, any UK Government will wish to cooperate with the EU as an ally, areas of foreign policy, such as defence, border control, judicial authority, agriculture, fisheries, environment, energy, trade policy must be fully returned to the UK. A series of binding side deals would be unacceptable".
But most of what Duncan Smith talks about, will not imply to the north of the island of Ireland as there are cross border institutes. His silence on this and contradictory mutterings show he obviously doesn't know his backside from his elbow. He shoots from the hip in an attempt to sound tough instead it just makes him look weak and full of wind.
The Tories are in a mess and the open civil war over Brexit will damage them politically. They are on borrowed time.
