“There’s a Reactivated Forcefield of Tensions Here”: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Tim Wilson
"... Brexit has sharply refocused a harsh and unforgiving spotlight back on the contested identity of the province."
"... Brexit has sharply refocused a harsh and unforgiving spotlight back on the contested identity of the province."
"The UK fishing industry is hugely disadvantaged by the current allocation of catches in the UK’s territorial waters."
"... everyone may ... get ... those funny ideas the Brits had in 2016."
"In the awful chronology of Theresa May’s humiliating negotiations, the EU’s Transition demands stand out as the point when it made clear its intention to dictate rather than negotiate."
"Even Jacques Delors, the 94-year-old former European Commission president and architect of both the post-Maastricht EU and the euro, made a rare public intervention, warning that the lack of solidarity in the face of the virus posed a ‘mortal danger’ to the EU."
"...he embarks in negotiations with a superstructure nearing dislocation."
"The difficulty in carrying on with face-to-face trade negotiations is not the main issue. ... Much more important is the possibility that the transition period may be extended beyond the end of this year."
"... following the transition period, tourists will be allowed to travel to the EU for 90 days out of 180 without a visa."
"Today, the ECB is powerless to stop this. They don’t have the tools nor the expertise. And they won’t even after they get the reforms they believe they need. It is bankrupt now and it will need external help to survive."
"It would be difficult to prevent both Paris and Berlin from using the E3 format as part of their own struggle for power against other EU member states."
"It is quite shocking that the new German president of the European Commission calls for zero dumping, when her own country is one of the world’s biggest dumpers of goods onto world markets."
"Rappelle son opposition de principe à toute perspective qui aboutirait à réserver un sort spécifique à la question de la pêche, sous la forme d’un « Brexit » sectoriel, dont les premières victimes ne manqueraient pas d’être les pêcheurs de l’Union..."
"We can now introduce our own welfare standards, to stop live animal exports, and revive local slaughterhouses, with strict inspection regimes."
"There are still resistant elements in our midst, which foreign opposition could rely on to frustrate our exit from the European Union. It is clear that lessons have been learned; lines have been redrawn in preparation for an invisible warfare, an insidious confrontation with those opposed to Brexit both domestically and internationally."
"It really is time to walk away from this increasingly ludicrous institution."
"The Court of Justice has repeatedly shown its contempt for democracy."
"The removal of power over one’s circumstances, together with the creation of ongoing financial dependence, is poisonous for a body politic. It saps motivation and breeds resentment."
"Many people oscillate between the two views of democracy depending on the issue at stake."
"Coronavirus isn’t the issue. ... It’s its effect that matters."
"Please shoulder your pens!"
"The EU is an anti-democratic beast whose only modus operandi is to impose its ideas and will on EU member states."
"So, when the EU says that not everything can be agreed by 31 December 2020, that is fine. The only constructive way out ... is to agree what can be agreed, and find an equitable transition for those issues that remain."
"We are leaving the EU. Why on earth would there be any ‘as if’ for any EU directive?"
"So, Boris Johnson has now won the election with a very comfortable majority ... Corbyn has lost decisively, and Jo Swinson was not even re-elected."