It is now clear the EU is Hostile to anything the UK does

 First they wanted us to reverse the referendum decision of 2016 as others had done previously (see Ireland - twice). Then they discovered there was some backbone (Except Teresa May et al). To deliver the democratic decision (a concept completely alien to the EU) an unsatisfactory Withdrawal Agreement (remember the name Sabine Weyend it will re-appear - as an unaccountable bureaucrat she famously said the price of Brexit was Northern Ireland - words that will, I hope and expect will haunt her to her dying day. Then we have the Covid19 pandemic. The EU wants transparency they said. Then they said we will invoke regulations to prevent vaccine exports (prohibited under WTO rules). Now they say they want reciprocity - haven't seen much of that in any negotiations with them. What reciprocity means to them is that since they (EU) have made such a mess we should all suffer equally to get them out of the mire!. Talk about stinking fish! Which brings us back to Sabine Weyend - it was, of course, she who prolonged negotiations with Astra Zeneca seeking a better price - which is a bit difficult because it was being sold at cost (the insistence of Oxford University). Now Weyend and von der Lyen are Merkel's placed people - are you getting the message. This has become a cover for the German Empire of Europe where they stay in the background and allow those pompous French to think they are driving the bus! In the meantime many thousands of Europeans will die because of the EU's incompetence. The UK is being asked to share those deaths for the same reason. Saving the face of EU bureaucrats is apparently more important than the lives of ordinary people. And going back to the Withdrawal/Trade Agreement could someone explain to me how if you are in perfect alignment (as we are) so far as regulations and sanitary conditions are concerned why stuff is finding it so difficult to get into Northern Ireland if it is not for the anality of the EU. What happens to that French truck that has English mud on its wheels? (no need to answer as you know!) Neither agreement can survive under those actions.