Boris Johnson Raised The Issue Of Northern Ireland Export Forms With Jean-Claude Juncker

Boris Johnson Raised The Issue Of NI Export Forms With Jean-Claude Juncker. And Then Agreed To Them.

He was fully aware that the issue of export forms would be problematic back home, but signed it off anyway in order to secure the agreement with the EU.

Boris personally raised the controversial issue of businesses having to fill in export forms on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in a phone call with European Commission Juncker on the morning the Brexit deal was agreed.

Juncker insisted that the matter could not be renegotiated. Shortly afterwards, in a follow-up call, Johnson agreed the deal, thereby accepting the need for the forms.

...Strictly speaking, the forms do not constitute customs checks, but are an administrative procedure also required to meet international obligations, for example to prevent the illegal trade in endangered species. The measures are also used to assess whether foods exiting or entering could put citizens at risk.

But the requirement for businesses sending goods between Northern Ireland and Great Britain has emerged as one of the most controversial aspects of Johnson’s revised withdrawal agreement, with the Democratic Unionist Party and Labour going as far as suggesting that they constituted invasive checks between two parts of the UK.

DUP Brexit spokesperson Sammy Wilson said the need for declarations was a “clear breach of UK government commitment in Joint Report of 2017 to allow unfettered access to GB market for NI businesses”. He said it represented a border in the Irish Sea and that no Conservative MP should support the deal.

On Monday, the Brexit secretary Steve Barclay faced embarrassment after he initially claimed that Northern Irish businesses sending goods to Britain would not have to complete the forms, before later clarifying that in fact they would.

most likely true - and the same numbers and percentage in the UK and the US.

What is needed is a very strong voice like in Poland or Slovakia - we don’t want this kind of Muslim. We have our Tatars (Lipka Tatars like Charles Bronson’s ancestors) and they assimilated. We don’t want Moslems.

And to answer people who claim racism -
1. Islam is not an ethnospecific religion - there are white Moslems and black/brown Christians.
2. I like to cite South Asians in the UK — Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims — all are ethnically and “racially” the same. They also speak variations on Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu) or Punjabi. Yet the differences between the communities integration are stark: Muslims are 5% of the general population but 35% of the prison population, they are lesser educated and more prone to violence. In contrast Hindus and Indian Christians are about 6% of the population but practically nonexistent in British prisons - and if they are it is for white-collar crimes (financial wizardry etc.). Sikhs also are under-represented in prisons. These non-Muslim communities have higher average education and working ethic and don’t cause problems to the wider society.

The problem is not “brown people” but Islam

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