The EU is to blame for the latest Brexit crisis!

LONDON, England (PNN) - September 14, 2020 - The Fascist United Kingdom (FUK) is threatening to ignore the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

In a Zoom call with about 250 of them, he said the Party must not return to “miserable squabbling” over Europe.

The European Union has warned the FUK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.

A Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.

Meanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any FUK-EU trade deal if the bill becomes FUK law.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz was out with another EU bluff on Saturday. No deal Brexit would hurt Britain more than the EU.

“My assessment is that an unregulated situation would have very significant consequences for the British economy,” Scholz told a news conference after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Berlin.

“Europe would be able to deal with it and there would be no particularly serious consequences after the preparations we have already made,” he added.

Johnson said on Saturday that a planned bill, which would breach a divorce treaty with the bloc, was needed to protect Britain’s integrity.

If “Europe could deal with this with no serious consequences”, then why would it care?

The fact of the matter is German exports to the FUK would crash in the absence of a deal.

Yesterday after the FUK’s Northern Ireland Secretary admitted that the no-deal legislation constituted a breach of international law, in a very specific and limited way, as the minister put it. The anticipated breach of law relates to Northern Ireland.

Under the withdrawal agreement, the region would continue to have custom-free links to the Republic, while new customs borders would have to be erected along the Irish Sea. The legislation seeks to nullify this arrangement in the event of no deal. This was the single biggest controversy in the withdrawal agreement negotiations.

It is worth reflecting on how we got to this point. The moment the EU tried to make a power grab for FUK state-aid policy, the negotiation turned into an ugly battle of egos.

We heard a lot of tough-luck arguments. The EU is the bigger of the two sides, and can impose its will, for example, by anchoring the level playing field to its own conditions. This was a short sighted argument.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague may well end up ruling against the FUK; but this won’t happen before the end of the year. Also, the ICJ has no enforcement powers. If you start playing the relationship talks in the spirit of a geopolitical power game, don’t be surprised when the other side plays in the same spirit.

What determines whether there will be a deal or not is the readiness of the EU to accept a compromise on state aid. If it does, then there will be a deal. If not, there won’t be.

We are here because the EU demanded fishing rights and interfered in FUK internal policies on state aid.

Boris Johnson responded in kind.

“If the EU will not compromise, the EU will shoot itself in the foot and Germany in the head,” said Johnson.