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The Wonderful Logic of Nancy Pelosi
Here is a pretty pickle. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has stated that she will fight against any US-UK Free Trade Agreement because of the Irish border. Yet some in the European Union have indicated that they will compel the Irish government to enforce the EU’s border and harden it up to protect the single market from the dangers of American goods in the event of a trans-Atlantic deal.
The great scare is that chicken washed in chlorine or hormone-treated beef might enter the EU single market via Ireland. Like a zombie apocalypse, this would somehow spread as far as the Ukrainian and Turkish borders, infecting all citizens of EU-occupied Europe with American standards. Quelle horreur! The consequences for Europe could be dire; lasagna might actually be made with beef.
So it would seem Speaker Pelosi is fighting on the side of those who want to protect the EU from the ravages of … American products?
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I found this post helpful in trying to wrap my head around Brexit and the politics and economics of the Irish border:
https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2019/08/julian-brazier-how-johnson-should-try-to-get-the-backstop-dropped.html
Thanks. I found the comments to be very interesting. I was trying to read every last one until suddenly the page refreshed and left me with no way to find where I left off reading, even though I remembered the phrase where I left off. But still, it was interesting.