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jfman 06-09-2019 18:39

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36009137)
I would have "cried" because the EU's perfidious plan was to punish the UK for its impertinence by carving NI off.

It’s hardly a punishment. It solves the main concerns in Northern Ireland about security and cross border trade. They’d still live under a Union Flag and UK law. Meanwhile GB can get on with Brexit.

Sephiroth 06-09-2019 18:43

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36009139)
It’s hardly a punishment. It solves the main concerns in Northern Ireland about security and cross border trade. They’d still live under a Union Flag and UK law. Meanwhile GB can get on with Brexit.

Your logic is clear and not contradictable. But to my mind and no doubt most others this "punishment" cannot be allowed. The EU must not be allowed to dictate to us.

nomadking 06-09-2019 18:48

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36009139)
It’s hardly a punishment. It solves the main concerns in Northern Ireland about security and cross border trade. They’d still live under a Union Flag and UK law. Meanwhile GB can get on with Brexit.

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That means that goods coming into Northern Ireland from elsewhere in the UK would need to be checked to see if they meet EU standards.
It would also involve a temporary single customs territory, effectively keeping the whole of the UK in the EU customs union.
These arrangements would apply unless and until both the EU and UK agree they are no longer necessary.

jfman 06-09-2019 18:53

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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36009141)

Yes, that's the implementation thanks to the DUP.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36009140)
Your logic is clear and not contradictable. But to my mind and no doubt most others this "punishment" cannot be allowed. The EU must not be allowed to dictate to us.

The UK could conceivably collapse anyway with no deal.

nomadking 06-09-2019 19:06

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36009142)
Yes, that's the implementation thanks to the DUP.

l.

:confused:

jfman 06-09-2019 19:08

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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36009144)
:confused:

I don't really see what's complicated.

Damien 06-09-2019 19:09

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36009135)
At which point we will most definitely have gone through the looking glass and on towards the second star on the right.

I still can’t shake the feeling that they’re up to something. They had the Lords all set to talk it out and then called it off. They must have seen some way they think they can argue Boris is still acting legally if he acts as he has said he would. I thought they had reached an understanding over the calling of an election, but seemingly not. So what .... ?

Apparently the opposition (to the government) promised not to use a guillotine motion to quicken the bill if the Tory Lords didn’t filibuster.

nomadking 06-09-2019 19:26

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36009145)
I don't really see what's complicated.

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This was 2015. Few people had even heard of the word Brexit. It was a year before David Cameron called the referendum, two years before Theresa May declared “red lines” over the UK’s withdrawal. It was three years before she agreed to the Irish border backstop as an option and signed the withdrawal agreement that triggered a breakdown in Westminster.
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The Irish government persuaded the EU to make the backstop a condition of

the UK’s withdrawal.
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The Irish goal was to get the border into a legally binding withdrawal agreement – Dublin’s point of maximum leverage – rather than future trade relations, when Dublin would struggle to be heard.
How are the DUP responsible for any of that?

Sephiroth 06-09-2019 19:28

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36009142)
Yes, that's the implementation thanks to the DUP.

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The UK could conceivably collapse anyway with no deal.

You have departed reason.

jfman 06-09-2019 19:34

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36009149)
You have departed reason.

There's increasing chance of Scottish independence and a border poll on the island of Ireland as a result. That is undeniable.

nomadking 06-09-2019 19:37

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36009150)
There's increasing chance of Scottish independence and a border poll on the island of Ireland as a result. That is undeniable.

Any issues of the backstop and problems getting medicines and food would be there for Scotland and NI, as it has to come through England.

pip08456 06-09-2019 19:47

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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36009151)
Any issues of the backstop and problems getting medicines and food would be there for Scotland and NI, as it has to come through England.

And if Scotland go independant we could stiff them with a border.

nomadking 06-09-2019 19:53

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Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 36009152)
And if Scotland go independant we could stiff them with a border.

According to the Remainers, we would have no choice. They keep going on about this and that about borders.

jfman 06-09-2019 19:56

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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36009151)
Any issues of the backstop and problems getting medicines and food would be there for Scotland and NI, as it has to come through England.

England will have solved that problem by then. They can cope with adverse weather, militant French unions, after all...

nomadking 06-09-2019 20:01

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36009154)
England will have solved that problem by then. They can cope with adverse weather, militant French unions, after all...

What's to solve? Their problem, not ours.


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