Posted on 06/15/2021 3:46:46 AM PDT by Libloather
Joe Biden will be hoping he can end the ‘sausage wars’ between Britain and the European Union as he meets Boris Johnson for the first time today.
A trade crisis has deepened after the UK government threatened to ferry British meat into Northern Ireland without any checks.
Under the agreed Northern Ireland Protocol, UK farmers may be barred from sending certain chilled meat products west across the Irish Sea.
The clock is now ticking on the disputed trade between Britain and Northern Ireland as a post-Brexit grace period is due to end on June 30.
In the US president’s first overseas visit, aides said he will stress the need to ‘stand behind’ the protocol and not put the Good Friday Agreement at risk.
The issue has threatened to overshadow the Prime Minister’s first meeting with the president and his hosting of the G7 summit, which begins on Friday in Cornwall.
The Times reported that the president – who is intensely proud of his Irish roots – took the extraordinary step of ordering the United States’ most senior diplomat in London, Yael Lempert, to deliver a demarche – a formal protest – in a meeting with Brexit minister Lord Frost on June 3.
The newspaper reported that Government minutes of the meeting said: ‘Lempert implied that the UK had been inflaming the rhetoric, by asking if he would keep it “cool”.’
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Babylon Bee ?
he should put kamala in charge of the bangers.
Not likely.
Jeffrey Toobin is working on something explosive.
I thought the author might be Toobin, pulling another fast one.
I can picture the author and editor snickering like school boys as they wrote the headline.
I give them props, but they did miss some opportunities.
The sausages in question are largely the “Banger” variety. A lot can be done with that.
Geez! Doesn’t anybody knock anymore?!
Wasn’t this sort of the plot in Yes Prime Minister when James Hacker becomes PM?
he meets (meats?) Boris Johnson for the first time today.
Beats meat?
There’d be none left for the rest of us after she got done with them.
At least none that I’d touch.
Yeechhh....!!!
Written by Jeffrey Toobin.
Jeffrey Toobin Reporting.
Headline full of innuendo.
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