2 negates 1 in my case--I wrote fucking papers on the GFA (although my memory is rustier than I thought on the details) and used to be able to quote from various EC/EU treaties, but at the moment I'm just trying to ignore it because there's nothing I can do and "our" side are so resoundingly incompetent I'll just end up despairing again

So yeah, your last para is on point, it's fatuous annoying nonsense that makes the UK look terrible and I've basically given up defending its existence now

We might be better off as Little England, at least some of the imperialistic crap would be proven false. Actually, even that's a false hope I suspect :-(