{"id":659730,"date":"2022-05-18T08:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=243679"},"modified":"2022-05-18T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T08:59:35","slug":"the-northern-ireland-protocol-is-in-tatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/18\/the-northern-ireland-protocol-is-in-tatters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Northern Ireland Protocol is in Tatters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The routinely dishonest BoJo claimed categorically that his Brexit deal would not put a border in the Irish Sea. He insisted that businesses in Northern Ireland would have unencumbered access to markets in England, Scotland and Wales, saying with typical bombast that the Irish Sea trade border would exist \u201cover my dead body\u201d. However, BoJo, in his haste to show he could \u201cget Brexit done\u201d, signed an agreement with the EU, binding in international law, which required the Irish Sea border to be there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/18\/the-northern-ireland-protocol-is-in-tatters\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/18\/the-northern-ireland-protocol-is-in-tatters\/\">The Northern Ireland Protocol is in Tatters<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/18\/the-northern-ireland-protocol-is-in-tatters\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The routinely dishonest BoJo claimed categorically that his Brexit deal would not put a border in the Irish Sea. He insisted that businesses in Northern Ireland would have unencumbered access to markets in England, Scotland and Wales, saying with typic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659731,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659730\/revisions\/659731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}