It is not possible, as law, to say that the Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 are of no great importance. Or to claim they are consistent with the removal of a the border in the Irish Sea.
The regulations create a very clear border, which is undeniable as law.
Movements of goods, internally within our country that today take place freely in parcels will become ‘illicit movements’. The Windsor Framework is the Protocol Parliament rejected many years ago. It creates a GB/NI border – with powers of seizure to goods movements in violation of it.
I have not, in my experience, ever seen such a momentous constitutional change done in effective secrecy via a King Henry VIII power.
The silence of those who also know this, is deafening
18/7/23
The Death-Knell of Sovereign British Democracy in London!
RIP: It is with great sadness and some anger that we in Northern Ireland, UK mourn the passing of one we loved so much: British Sovereign Democracy.
Democracy was noted to have been failing for a number of years, as a number of toxic Parliamentary maladies were evidenced to be at work within Democracy's hidden organs. Poisoned Protocol, deteriorated it's health, and brought on a further debilitating destabilising condition called Windsor Framework.
Democracy, this great friend of all freedom-loving British citizens in Ulster was recently seen to go through phases of absence in daily political life, total lapses in negotiations with E.U. conditions; until just last evening, while enduring yet another…