Re: Hmm
What is your point? That Northern Ireland would make negotiations difficult was clear from the start. That negotiations require the agreement of all parties is also clear. It was also clear that both the UK and the EU wished to keep the Good Friday Agreement, which directly affects the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Personally, having seen some of the consequences of the troubles, I'm pleased that both parties decided peace was so important.
It's not bad faith to point this out. The backstop was one UK proposal, which the EU was happy to go along with, the NI protocol another.
It is sympomatic of the naivety of many brexiteers that the inability to resolve a dilemma, which consists of contradictory issues, is somebody else's fault rather than an unreasonable expectation. While this might make for great electioneering, it has proved to be a terrible negotiation strategy. Though, rather than admit this, Lord Frost decided that it was the equally predictable lack of focus in government that led him to resign. Who could have thought that such an overtly political opportunist like Johnson would drop the issue as soon as possible?
But some people never learn, which is why so much faith is being placed in the next potential leader of the Conservative Party…