I read that breaking international law is a great negotiating move by the UK government, or we're stopping Ireland starving (study some history) and I get the nasty politics, but question:

For goods coming into the UK from the Republic of Ireland, where are our border checks?

Sorry if we're getting back to 2019's alternate arrangements farrago, but what is the big UK government vision here? How are they stopping the checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain? Because we went through this before, and there was no other answer.

In the context of very real differences of opinion in Northern Ireland the suggestion that the EU want to stop GB food exports is petulant childishness. Not a real issue, just something that sounds good to London media and those who hate the EU. And there are real issues.

It is not widely known that the Northern Ireland Protocol in the context of Brexit disrupts both North-South and East-West trade. The former through restrictions on services trade, the latter through checks on goods trade.

Johnson and his government chose in treaty for Great Britain alone to leave the single market for goods and customs union, leaving Northern Ireland in, as opposed to a backstop for the whole UK. His choice, confirmed by the voters, which he now doesn't like.

So that question again - you pass a domestic law to break international law, but what then? What is your magic solution to Northern Ireland that doesn't involve problems? A Free Trade Agreement reduces new barriers to trade, it does not eliminate them.

And that's this government's planning in a nutshell. Some great idea that if properly scrutinised isn't a great idea after all, because it doesn't actually address the big issue, and in the mean time causes considerable damage.