Johnson government legislates to rip up Northern Ireland protocol

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Maroš Šefčovič, commissioner for Brexit, warned that legal action begun March 2021 against the British government for breaching the protocol and the "good faith" obligation of the Withdrawal Agreement would be restarted, along with further legal moves.
53% : The bill gives the British government authority to apply state aid and VAT sales tax rules in Northern Ireland, without reference to the EU.
51% : Brexit was, from the first, an attempt by sections of the British financial oligarchy to undercut and steal a march on its major competitors within the EU single market by ripping up in the UK regulatory restrictions on profitability that were bound up with EU membership.
50% : ERG members view ditching the protocol, in the words of one of its unnamed members, as "the last part of Brexit and we have to make sure we have fully taken back control."
45% : On Monday, the UK government published legislation to drastically and unilaterally alter the Northern Ireland protocol component of the Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union (EU), setting Britain on course for legal battles and trade war.

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