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Clearly none of the 27 members were consulted when the commission decided unilaterally to make a complete fool of itself and them by association. Does the bloc need urgent reform? Is the commission too powerful?
Clearly none of the 27 members were consulted when the commission decided unilaterally to make a complete fool of itself and them by association. Does the bloc need urgent reform? Is the commission too powerful?
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Yes - and the level of f****** arrogance they have. The bloc needs to be disbanded and reformed as a defence/
23:51 Sun 31st Jan 2021
shoota, you did say the bloc needs to be disbanded and should yayaya..... It didn't sound much like a suggestion, but obviously I have misinterpreted you; sorry about that. BTW, I don't think I'm particularly clever, but I do have a right to express my opinions as long as they aren't inflammatory or designed to incite hatred.
// Does the bloc need urgent reform? Is the commission too powerful?//
irrelevant: doesnt apply to us
with ursula von de leyens head explode like a scene from Scanner?
yes - you are on for that
will ursula say she wished to be german chancellor and angela can be commission head ?
will Barnier go into a nunnery ?
will there be valanches and horsemen running around wiv red glowing eyes....
so many questions so few answers
irrelevant: doesnt apply to us
with ursula von de leyens head explode like a scene from Scanner?
yes - you are on for that
will ursula say she wished to be german chancellor and angela can be commission head ?
will Barnier go into a nunnery ?
will there be valanches and horsemen running around wiv red glowing eyes....
so many questions so few answers
//irrelevant: doesnt apply to us//
But it very obviously does. What Frau von der Leyen (nearly) did last week would have had a profound effect on the UK and in particular NI. I notice she has now blamed one of her deputies. I don't know if she thinks it somehow gets her off the hook. In fact it makes it worse. Apart from the fact that it is a serious error of people management to publicly blame a subordinate for a serious error of one's organisation, there is the question of accountability. It is bad enough the head of the organisation taking a decision which is so clearly beyond her individual remit. But for the governance of the organisation to be so lax that a subordinate should do so is unforgiveable.
This episode is indicative of all that is bad about the EU. Power is vested in individuals to such a degree that they appear to lack the ability to determine what they can and cannot do. It took less than a month for them to unilaterally declare a key element (some might say the most important element) of the NI Protocol ditched. Simply because they ballsed up big time and were attempting to show everybody else who was boss whilst attempting to recover their position.
It demonstrates to me that the NI Protocol should never have been countenanced. It has placed NI (still part of the United Kingdom, remember) in an appalling position. It is effectively a supplicant zone of the EU and the border in Ireland is there for the EU to weaponise as and when it thinks fit (as indeed it was used throughout the Brexit negotiations). It was never made clear over the weekend precisely who would impose the border controls or how they would be imposed. Mr Higgins should have got on the phone to his EU Masters and told hem categorically that he would not do so and the EU had neither the resources nor the authority to do it themselves. Of course the situation may have been avoided entirely if the UK had told the EU just that instead of signing up to the preposterous Protocol. There would have been no Article 16 to invoke. Meanwhile, as a result of that agreement, the UK needs to gain the approval of the EU before moving military equipment to a part of its sovereign territory.
But it very obviously does. What Frau von der Leyen (nearly) did last week would have had a profound effect on the UK and in particular NI. I notice she has now blamed one of her deputies. I don't know if she thinks it somehow gets her off the hook. In fact it makes it worse. Apart from the fact that it is a serious error of people management to publicly blame a subordinate for a serious error of one's organisation, there is the question of accountability. It is bad enough the head of the organisation taking a decision which is so clearly beyond her individual remit. But for the governance of the organisation to be so lax that a subordinate should do so is unforgiveable.
This episode is indicative of all that is bad about the EU. Power is vested in individuals to such a degree that they appear to lack the ability to determine what they can and cannot do. It took less than a month for them to unilaterally declare a key element (some might say the most important element) of the NI Protocol ditched. Simply because they ballsed up big time and were attempting to show everybody else who was boss whilst attempting to recover their position.
It demonstrates to me that the NI Protocol should never have been countenanced. It has placed NI (still part of the United Kingdom, remember) in an appalling position. It is effectively a supplicant zone of the EU and the border in Ireland is there for the EU to weaponise as and when it thinks fit (as indeed it was used throughout the Brexit negotiations). It was never made clear over the weekend precisely who would impose the border controls or how they would be imposed. Mr Higgins should have got on the phone to his EU Masters and told hem categorically that he would not do so and the EU had neither the resources nor the authority to do it themselves. Of course the situation may have been avoided entirely if the UK had told the EU just that instead of signing up to the preposterous Protocol. There would have been no Article 16 to invoke. Meanwhile, as a result of that agreement, the UK needs to gain the approval of the EU before moving military equipment to a part of its sovereign territory.
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