First let's deal with Boris. For at least 30 years, probably for longer, he harboured the dream to become British Prime Minister. He hitched his ambition to what was once a rag-bag anti-EU minority. All were uncomfortable with the notion of the UK pooling its sovereignty to become part of a many times more powerful European alliance.
We booked the first-week-after-peak-season ferry to save on the outlay. After driving from Le Havre through the Massif Central we rolled into a windswept deathly quiet Sète the following day. We had arrived in the south of France.Like us back then, Boris runs a real risk of discovering that the planning and the journey were a lot more fun than the destination. The next four years will test his mettle.
In a very real way those horrible circumstances created by Covid made the notion of a No Deal Brexit too unpalatable to accept. In the end both sides sued for peace.Part of Brand Boris is his ability to rev up the support base. With the untidy mop of hair and phrases flowing from his lips, he is a much more engaging performer than his predecessors, Theresa May and David Cameron, or indeed the current Labour leader, Keir Starmer.
In the years when I knew Boris Johnson as a Brussels-based journalist, French was the working language of the press room. When Berlin’s influence increased through EU enlargement, Germany never pushed to have its language replace French in that No 1 position. In the mid 70s her father changed careers to become a significant Christian Democrat politician back in Germany. As a 19-year-old, Ursula was hurriedly shifted out of Lower Saxony because the Red Army faction was threatening to kidnap prominent figures and their families.
Her husband, Heiko, is also a physician with a family background that’s a German version of Cork’s merchant princes. The Brexit drama was entirely different. The EU intervened in word and in deed and Ireland was the beneficiary. If there were times during his 189 days as Taoiseach when Micheal Martin must have wondered if the gods were having a laugh at his expense, he now has reason to hope his luck has changed.
Throughout the Brexit negotiations, Brussels recognised Ireland’s likely vulnerability as the island behind the larger island. Biden’s kinship with Ireland – the friend of a powerful friend factor – will continue to be a subtle but useful asset in interactions with London and Brussels.
No licence fee to keep the over -paid Ray D'arcy and his cohort in the style to which they have become accustomed. Their arrogance towards those whose beliefs are other than their own is disgusting.
Both sides negotiated a fair Brexit deal, but Boris's endgame was a masterclass - amplifying fishing with talk of the Royal Navy and then trading fish for cars (rules of origin concessions) - straight out of Monty Python. If Von Der Leyen is so smart, why the vaccine delays?
In Blanchers town and Balbriggan!
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