BORIS BREXIT DEAL 2019

To:     The Right Honourable the European Commission President Hon. Jean-Claude Juncker

From: Athinarayanan Sanjeevraja

Date: October 7, 2019

RE:     BORIS BREXIT DEAL 2019    

Suggestion: Hon. President, let me start paying my respects to you and through you to. It would appear patently clear that Mr. Boris Johnson doesn’t understand the basics of what the EU single market and the GFA are? Mr. Boris Johnson did not think through the process and implications of BREXIT from the EU. Mr. Boris Johnson understands none of the BREXIT issues since 2016 which make BREXIT unworkable. He promised to British people a frictionless invisible border. According to Mr. Boris Jonson customs checks in the UK warehouse are not frictionless. His BREXIT proposals argued Northern Ireland Assembly will decide whether to keep the regulatory alignment with the EU every four years. If the Northern Ireland decides not to keep an alignment with the UK what happens at the border? Even if the UK government doesn’t want to conduct checks, Republic of Ireland would have to conduct checks. Otherwise the goods didn’t meet the EU standards that could be imported from the UK and sold inside the EU single market. Will the regulatory alignment prevent smuggling? Where is the integrity of the EU customs union and the EU single market? A non-existent border or regulatory alignment alone would allow smuggling. If Northern Ireland doesn’t follow the EU rules, it would be rife with smuggling. Northern Ireland trade relationship with the UK is largely unworkable. Even it would make the UK worse than regulatory border between the UK and Republic of Ireland at the Northern Ireland border. Any BREXIT deal has to consider the legal status of the Irish-British border. I just wanted to highlight the EU withdrawal Act 2018 Section 10 (2) (b) explicitly commits “the UK not to create or facilitate border arrangements between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland after BREXIT day which feature physical infrastructure checks and controls including border post, that did not exist before BREXIT day and are not in accordance with an agreement between the UK and the EU.”  In case of no deal BREXIT, we have to be implemented border control in Ireland. We will be blamed for it. Hard border in Ireland is very unattractive for us.   

Hon. President, the GFA requires Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to be in the EU customs union at a minimum. We’ve already discussed couple of years back that constitutional position of Northern Ireland under the GFA could not be changed without the agreement of Irish people. Surely, this is not best plan. Mr. Boris BREXIT deal doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Mr. Boris Johnson is playing a game of incompetent. The UK has to honour the GFA it signed. BREXIT deal should be acceptable to the UK, the EU and international law. If Mr. Boris Johnson does not come up with a new suitable plan by October 31, 2019 that the EU Parliament agree on then by law, he has to write to the European Council President Hon. Donald Tusk and ask for an extension whatever the European Council agrees to. Let the UK to be in the EU throughout the transition period until the end of 2020. IMHO, there is no more chance new BREXIT deal can be agreed by the EU before October 31, 2019. As long as the UK is willing to follow the EU law, we would be happy to keep on extending the deadline. If Mr. Boris Johnson not asking for an extension to the BREXIT leaving date October31, 2019 or if Boris Johnson tries to leave the EU without a deal on October 31, 2019, or if he is tearing apart the fabric of 70 years of peace, he has broken the law and find himself in jail. The law was enacted in the month of September 2019 to force Mr. Boris Johnson to not crash out of the EU with no deal BREXIT. The UK Parliament signed a law that Mr. Boris Johnson was not allowed to no deal BREXIT and has to get an extension if there was no agreement between the UK and the EU. Mr. Boris Johnson has to strict to fulfill his legal obligation. If Mr. Boris Johnson defies Parliament again, the Queen must ask for legal advice on scolding Mr. Boris Johnson for sure. Mr. Boris Johnson has to resign. If Mr. Boris Johnson resigned, the next move would be for the Queen to appoint an interim Prime Minister as per the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliament Act, then to grant parliament dissolution and call for a general election. Mr. Boris Johnson is increasingly ignoring Northern Ireland, Scotland and probably Wales during the whole BREXIT process. The honourable path for Mr. Boris Johnson is to allow Northern Ireland to remain in the EU customs union if Mr. Boris Johnson doesn’t support second referendum or general election.

Hon. President, I most humbly request the EU to drawing hard lines for BREXIT to keep other member states from bailing. We should not make any more concessions for BREXIT. We should not allow the UK to overly cherry picks its BREXIT. We should not compromise our EU single market, EU customs union, and treaty that are guaranteed our standards. We should not deviate from fundamental four freedoms. We should not bow to the UK demands. We should not sign off any plan that creates a hard border between the Northern Ireland and the UK because the hard border will obviate the GFA, lead to renewal of sectarian violence, weakens the all-Ireland economy and integrity of the EU single market and the EU customs union. We should not want a hard border with Northern Ireland. We should not have to change the way we governs. We should not make major strategic error on BREXIT. I have been told many times any BREXIT deal should safeguard peace on the island of Ireland. Let the UK is at severe risk of breaking all norms. Indeed, Mr. Boris Johnson has violated many British norms. If the UK is heading for narcissistic nationalism then it will have to go backward. Our financial sector has been headquartered in London. We will move our financial sector headquartered to Paris or Frankfurt that will cause more unemployment and its tax revenue drop accordingly in the UK. The UK can no longer fund its NHS at its pre-BREXIT. BREXITERS lies nothing to help.  

Hon. President, Mr. Boris Johnson is not only challenging the EU but the Queen too. He is hardening his line to gain more electorate for the UK general election. He thinks that he is bigger than the EU 27, the Queen and above all. Boris BREXIT deal is the less likely to be accepted by the UK Parliament. Mr. Boris Johnson never to come up with any BREXIT plans that the UK Parliament and the European Parliament to be accepted. Either the UK Parliament has to find some way to reverse BREXIT or MP’s vote to oust Mr. Boris Johnson with no confidence or defeating Mr. Boris Johnson a general election. BREXIT is going to go on for years and years. Let’s give the UK long extension so that the UK understands the EU’s red lines. However, it is our obligation to protect our single market, our customs union, our four freedoms, our political institutions and our economic institutions. We should not be put all at risk just for BREXIT. Any BREXIT deal should not have catastrophic consequences for the cohesion of the EU. Better to wait. Time can resolve many things.     

Thank you very much for your kind attention Hon. President!

Respectfully yours,

Athinarayanan Sanjeevraja

Tamil Nadu

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