#LizTruss threatens #EU with #Article16. It’s more likely she’ll send #cheese to #NorthernIreland
Liz Truss: the queen of cheese once warned that Brexit will seriously harm the UK. Now it seems she is to be the instrument of that harm.
Sorry, everybody. I tried to take Liz Truss seriously but I couldn’t.
The woman who got upset about the amount of cheese the UK imports, and then signed a deal to export it to a country that is mostly lactose-intolerant, has been appointed as the lead negotiator on Brexit after Lord Frost quit.
Frost had been the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator but quit after the deal he negotiated proved unworkable – particularly with regard to the Northern Ireland protocol. He said Boris Johnson had only agreed to the protocol in order to “get Brexit done” and had known it could not possibly work.
Now, Truss has been handed the gargantuan task of making it work – before a hard border is set up between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
And people have been laying bets on how long it will be before she triggers Article 16.
For clarity, Article 16 of the NI Protocol says that the UK or EU may take safeguarding measures – without agreement with the other side – “if the application of the protocol leads to serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist, or to diversion of trade”.
Any changes would be restricted to what is strictly necessary in order to remedy the situation. And if the UK invokes it, the EU may retaliate if its own rights and obligations are prejudiced by those changes – triggering a catastrophic cascade.
And Thicky Lizzie threatened to trigger it straight away:
Ah, how sweet. Liz’s first threat to trigger Article 16.
No doubt the first of many. https://t.co/XxBHsBGi1d
— Buck Frexit! 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌎🐟FBPE #GTTO #PR (@Beany_1) December 21, 2021
Apparently she thinks this is a great way to take the Prime Minister job that Boris Johnson will soon be relinquishing:
Liz Truss threatening article 16, which would result in punitive tariffs on UK exports. But Liz Truss is prepared to do any damage to UK trade, if it means she will become next PM after Johnson is pushed out. pic.twitter.com/BGL4GeCvzk
— Henrik 🇪🇺 Free Ukraine. (@br_nning) December 21, 2021
However, there are doubts as to her ability to do the job:
I just read that @trussliz ' appeared to believe that Yorkshire Tea is grown in Yorkshire'
😂😂😂😂😂😂— Jen Wood – est optimum simpliciter (@unojen_wood) December 21, 2021
And this brings me back to the headline.
How long do you think it will be before she tries to apply a cheese-based solution to the problem?
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