“That’s what happened on Friday, which should not have happened.
“And I think lessons have been learned as a result of that, and it certainly won’t happen again.”
A Spanish minister and supporter of the Chief Commissioner took to channel 4 news saying the implementation of article 16 was an accident. This wasn’t an accident as it went through a procedure and was cleared by the commission before it was publicly published.
The only reason for removing Article 16 was due to the diplomatic backlash from Boris, and ministers from Northern Ireland and Ireland. Though the EU Commission has done their best to pass blame, this really could be the straw that broke the camels back for the Irish.
Perhaps the Irish EU exit (Ixit) could be next, before the other front runners of Italy & the Netherlands.
Be interesting as then the EUs whinging about hard borders and only land borders with the UK, would be gone. Bonus for us, which means the current NI in/out farce could be brought to an end.