Not sure how to feel about today's Windsor Agreement.
On one hand I'm happy that Rishi has agreed to some sensible compromises and his party, on the whole, seem to be swallowing them.
On the other hand, given how similar these compromises look to the ones Theresa May proposed, it's a travesty how much time and resource we've wasted to get here. The headbangers were so detached from reality that we had to endure Boris and all his BS before they realised that empty rhetoric would get us nowhere, because, shock horror, it's not 1870 and Westminster doesn't run the world anymore.
To give one small example that I know well - medicines thankfully now, as of today, only need an MHRA (UK) license to be available in Northern Ireland. The 'oven ready' deal had left us in a position where my last company spent thousands of man-hours and millions of pounds working out how to legally supply medicines to N Ireland, and eventually re-working supply chains. Multiply that work across every drugs company and I dread to think of the total cost of that regulatory uncertainty across the last few years. All wasted resource that could have been put towards something more sensible. And now all redundant work because we've finally reached a sensible compromise.
Ah well, at least there might be food in the supermarkets now. Hope you're all enjoying your bloody sovereignty and how easy it's been to control illegal migration since we did everything in our power to piss off the French.
On one hand I'm happy that Rishi has agreed to some sensible compromises and his party, on the whole, seem to be swallowing them.
On the other hand, given how similar these compromises look to the ones Theresa May proposed, it's a travesty how much time and resource we've wasted to get here. The headbangers were so detached from reality that we had to endure Boris and all his BS before they realised that empty rhetoric would get us nowhere, because, shock horror, it's not 1870 and Westminster doesn't run the world anymore.
To give one small example that I know well - medicines thankfully now, as of today, only need an MHRA (UK) license to be available in Northern Ireland. The 'oven ready' deal had left us in a position where my last company spent thousands of man-hours and millions of pounds working out how to legally supply medicines to N Ireland, and eventually re-working supply chains. Multiply that work across every drugs company and I dread to think of the total cost of that regulatory uncertainty across the last few years. All wasted resource that could have been put towards something more sensible. And now all redundant work because we've finally reached a sensible compromise.
Ah well, at least there might be food in the supermarkets now. Hope you're all enjoying your bloody sovereignty and how easy it's been to control illegal migration since we did everything in our power to piss off the French.
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