Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
This is the withdrawal agreement that the EU negotiated with the UK, taking into account the red lines of the UK's leader. So it's not "they" it's "we" who have made the conditions.

To me it sounds more like lack of agreement on our side than intransigence on theirs. They might be thinking: we did all we can but the UK clearly want to leave whatever.
Consider that earlier this year the only vote for a positive arrangement to leave was the so-called Brady amendment.
It was never put to the EU.

Consider that back in 2018, Tusk offered a comprehensive FTA similar to Canada and Mrs May came up with Chequers which had the Facilitated Customs Arrangement.
It was a complete dog's breakfast and would have been impossible.

So I agree our Govt was more complicit in where we are now.

Mrs May should never have agreed to the 2017 December protocol. It fist introduced the idea of NI being treated different and was then flatly rejected by the DUP.