The grownups have taken over in Washington DC, with Joe Biden getting on with overseeing hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccinations, getting the US economy moving, and ignoring the low moaning sound emanating from Combover Crybaby Donald Trump. This has begun to impact on the antics of alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his pals, and especially his Brexit negotiator David Frost.
Biden takes a particular interest in the Northern Irish peace process: any action that he perceives as endangering all those years of progress and stability meets with his disapproval. And ahead of the G7 summit at Carbis Bay in Cornwall, Bozo and Frostie have discovered that the disapproval has been ratcheted up to the max.
One would not always take the Murdoch
Times on trust, but today’s
FT has a lead story so similar that it confirms US irritation at the UK Government’s attempts to play fast and loose with a Brexit deal they signed less than six months ago. Attempts to ignore the provisions of the Northern Ireland Protocol will not get past Joe.
While the
FT tells readers “
Biden to pressure Johnson on ending bitter Northern Ireland stand-off … US fears for peace deal”, the
Times goes much further: “
US President ordered rare diplomatic rebuke for Government over Brexit customs row”. Do go on.
“
Yael Lempert, America’s most senior diplomat in Britain … said she had been told to take the step of issuing London with a démarche, a formal diplomatic reprimand seldom exchanged between two allies … Government minutes … reveal that Frost was told of Biden’s ‘great concern’ over his stance in a tense encounter at which [Ms] Lempert was said to have ‘slowly and gravely read her instructions … aloud’”. There was more.
“
She warned that the increasingly bitter dispute … over the protocol was ‘commanding the attention’ of Biden before his first bilateral meeting with Johnson today … the US ‘strongly urged’ Britain to come to a ‘negotiated settlement’, even if it meant ‘unpopular compromises’ … the US was increasingly concerned about the stalemate on implementing the protocol. This was undermining the trust of our two main allies””.
And the pill Frost and Bozo will have to swallow? “
She said that if Britain accepted demands to follow EU agricultural standards, Biden would ensure that the matter ‘wouldn’t negatively affect the chances of reaching a US/UK free trade deal’”. Biden intends to raise his objections both in private with Bozo, and in public at the G7 summit.
Accept EU rules? But Brexit was all about taking back control! How dare those meddling Yanks stick their bugle in to OUR dispute with the dastardly Eurocrats! But while the likes of Nigel “
Thirsty” Farage and his fellow Gammonistas work themselves into a state perilously close to spontaneous combustion, they need to bear one thing in mind.
The USA is a signatory to the Belfast Accords. So Joe Biden is duty bound to take any threat to the peace process seriously, and indeed act upon it if he deems it necessary. The EU will stand behind Ireland. And Bozo and Frostie will do as they are told.
As an EU member state, the UK had clout. Now, as it isn’t, it doesn’t.
Sad, really.
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6 comments:
Madame Speaker Pelosi made the same point about the Good Friday Agreement ages ago – e'en before the Fanta Menace then occupying the Awful Office got his marching orders – so one can only imagine that Bloody Stupid Johnson thought “I'll ignore that, it might go away” and blundered merrily onwards and downwards.
As an aside, the shitvert immediately below this article on my fondleslab carried the strap line “Simple Trick To Eliminate Rats Without Lifting A Finger”, which has me wondering whether it’s effective against other kinds of vermin, such as Tories.
It would do us all a favour if Bozo, Orange Face and Sleepy Joe all fucked off into history and left the Irish to re-unite themselves.
Sooner or later Hibernians will have to come to terms that they are a historical tragic contradiction, an unwanted irritant, both sides hated by the transAtlantic Anglo Saxon establishment, useful only for internal UK and US political cynicism.
If Sleepy Joe had any real interest in a peace process he'd dismantle and remove warmongering US military bases in Britain and around the world and dissolve the US Empire. All instead of wittering on about the nonsense of an "Irish heritage".
Meanwhile, you can count on the British and Yanks to continue their eternal fuck ups. It's all they've ever done, and there's no sign they'll change any time soon.
According to the Mail and Express Tory MPs think the best way of cementing the "Special Relationship" is to call Biden senile. What could possibly go wrong?
I have this evening warned POTUS via Twitter not to trust a man who combs his hair with a balloon.
@Steve Woods
You just made me snort Brown Drink down my nose. Jolly well done!
*Stands, applauds*
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