Gina Miller Enables Internal Market Bill

Ah.. so the government legal note cites Gina Miller case as their justification for the treaty nose thumbing! pic.twitter.com/txfLwfErK5

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) September 10, 2020

Time To Walk

 

Brexit LIVE: Boris Johnson told to walk away as EU threaten legal action - 'Go to hell!'

https://t.co/NL9sQrdmet

— James (@JamessReality) September 10, 2020

Boris Prepares For No Deal Brexit - Deadline 15 October 2020

NEW: 🚨🚨🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🚨🚨🚨UK planning legislation to override key parts of #brexit withdrawal treaty and Northern Ireland protocol - a potentially HUGE move in negotiations; major ructions in Whitehall - my latest via @FT
https://t.co/UU3VT2Yeta

— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) September 6, 2020

Boris has set 15 October as the absolute final deadline for an agreement or confirmation of a no deal Brexit. As such, in order to be prepared and to show resolution, legislation wrt the internal market is being prepared. 

We shall see...

Talks Stuck

 

EU refuses to discuss UK 'room papers' on fisheries as Barnier's 'parallelism' doctrine takes talks to the brinkhttps://t.co/khmlOCD2Uj

— Bruno Waterfield (@BrunoBrussels) August 31, 2020

The only way to unstick these talks is for the UK to walk away, not just threaten to walk away but actually WALK AWAY!

Deadlines Slipping in The EU

 

Here we go. Informal discussions in EU about a potential second Brexit European Council after 15-16 Oct. Growing recognition deal might not be ready by @MichelBarnier Oct deadline. As I've always said, on smthg this imp for both, real deadline was always going to be shy of 31 Dec

— Mujtaba Rahman (@Mij_Europe) August 26, 2020

Frost Speaks

 David Frost, UK Chief Negotiator, said:

“We have just concluded the seventh round of negotiations with the EU.  As I said last week, agreement is still possible, and it is still our goal, but it is clear that it will not be easy to achieve. Substantive work continues to be necessary across a range of different areas of potential UK-EU future cooperation if we are to deliver it.

“We have had useful discussions this week but there has been little progress.

“The EU is still insisting not only that we must accept continuity with EU state aid and fisheries policy, but also that this must be agreed before any further substantive work can be done in any other area of the negotiation, including on legal texts.  This makes it unnecessarily difficult to make progress. There are other significant areas which remain to be resolved and, even where there is a broad understanding between negotiators, there is a lot of detail to work through. Time is short for both sides.

“We have been clear from the outset about the principles underlying the UK approach. We are seeking a relationship which ensures we regain sovereign control of our own laws, borders, and waters, and centred upon a trading relationship based on an FTA like those the EU has concluded with a range of other international partners, together with practical arrangements for cooperation in areas such as aviation, scientific programmes, and law enforcement. When the EU accepts this reality in all areas of the negotiation, it will be much easier to make progress.

“We will continue to work hard to reach an agreement.  Chief Negotiators and their teams have agreed to remain in close contact over the next two weeks before the next Round in London in the week of 7 September.”

No Deal - WTO Brexit

 

Barnier: 'Those who were hoping for negotiations to move swiftly forward this week will have been disappointed. I'm disappointed, concerned and surprised. Once again UK negotiators haven't shown any real willingness to move forward on issues of fundamental importance to the EU.'

— Nick Gutteridge (@nick_gutteridge) August 21, 2020

Whether Barnier likes it or not, if the deal is not agreed (subject to ratification) by the end of this month the UK will walk away from the talks and move onto a WTO Brexit footing (with all of what that implies as to how we interact with the EU in the remaining months of this year).