Caroline Bell

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About Caroline Bell

Caroline Bell is a pen name. Caroline is a political analyst and former civil servant who has briefed government ministers on Brexit.
22 03, 2023

How the Stormont Brake con is critical for the imposition of direct EU rule on the UK

Brexit-Watch|

By Caroline Bell – 3 minute read IT HAS TAKEN ME a few days to see the true anti-democratic scale of the Windsor Framework. The fact new EU regulations rather than domestic legislation will implement the framework first set alarm bells ringing. Surely domestic legislation would follow to put the new Protocol rules into effect? [...]

21 03, 2023

Dynamic alignment in plain sight – the economic risk of the Windsor Framework

Brexit-Watch, Trade & Economy|

By Caroline Bell – 3 minute read SOME MPs are claiming that giving the EU consultation rights on new UK legislation in the The Windsor Framework is nothing at  all to worry about, because it relates to “only 3% of UK law”. One cannot trust that figure given the Government’s complete misrepresentation of the Framework [...]

17 03, 2023

Undoing Brexit by the back door – The Windsor Framework explained

Brexit-Watch, Trade & Economy|

By Caroline Bell – 9 minute read The rebranding of the Northern Ireland Protocol as the ‘Windsor Framework’ is perhaps one of the biggest political con tricks of the Brexit years. Rather than removing administrative burdens and trade frictions between Great Britain and Northern Ireland created by the Protocol, the Windsor Framework tinkers with bureaucratic [...]

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