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Come on then nothing. I couldn't give a toss what the EU think, we are leaving them, so why would I care what to tell those idiots?

What point of, I have already said what I wanted to say about NI, did you not understand ?

It's not an issue that some Remainers make it out to be.

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Can we have another general election as the tories got in and I didn't want them to win. NO because thats how democracy works.

The same goes for Brexit.

On another thing some idiot on facebook made me laugh by saying Toys 'R' Us and Maplin went under because of Brexit, what a crock.

They've been strucggling long before Brexit.

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As some try and understand the Irish situation, the USA looks less and less likely a candidate for a British trade deal despite our lobbying.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-steel-tariff/

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If the DUP withdraws its support then we will have another election.
Strange that Toys'R'Us in the Eurozone is still trading but is closing down in the UK. Hmm.

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The term desperation takes hold with some remainers, they want to selfishly believe failure is due to Brexit when it's not, just to prove their invalid points, that we needed to stay, when we do not.

Note that Toys 'R' Us in America is also suffering I believe.

5 Reasons they suffered.... And not one of them mentions the 'B' word...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43210854

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The DUP is not going to withdraw it's support, it's desperate wishful thinking, one of the major reasons, they don't want a Corbyn led Labour Party in power, he has to win more votes as well and they will not under Corbyn and his Antisemitic/Racist/Socialist/IRA supporting cohorts.

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Don't forget that May's speech referencing "citizens of the world and of nowhere” was seen intentionally or not to appeal to anti-semitic elements.
The DUP will only withdraw its support if there's a hard border between GB and NI. It's likely that the Government would fall before this stage making their withdrawal unnecessary.

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Again, wishful thinking on your part Andrew.

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Not wishful thinking, i'd rather have Theresa May in power but with her brextremists exiled to La La Land than JC in No. 10. But without a solution to Ireland and Gibraltar for that matter, the future of the Government is not looking good.

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How do you answer the Ireland dilemma? The easiest way that works is to remain as is or Bino. (Brexit in name only)
- Hard Brexit with our own trade deals means a hard border with Ireland... which all parties have said they won't have.
- Technological solutions don't exist.
- Having NI under EU rules means a hard border between GB and NI whcih is unacceptable, particularly to the DUP.

I appreciate that like many Brexiters, you may wish to put this question in the too-difficult pile or say the dog eat your homework. Theresa May doesn't have this option.

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Well we could 'give Ireland back to the Irish' as the Macca sang !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaO4XeHhwo8
(strangely not one of his hits, nice melody as you'd expect, but people just didn't like the lyrics !)

They've been nothing but trouble from either side of the divide. Theresa might lose her majority, but hey ho...

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in a quote from Andrrew "Donald Trump has risked a transatlantic trade war by revealing he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on all steel imports"

We could have done with a similar thing a few years ago, but our lot are too soft and unwilling to 'upset' people :rolleyes:

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Or maybe we realise we'd just get tariffs back, which would and start a global trade war which benefits nobody ? I'm sure the Donald did 'thinking' on this.

Mrs T has ensured we have no manufacturing industry left, so we've not much to put tariffs on.

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It would certainly hurt the UK if The Donald imposed steel tariffs on all steel imports to the US, but if that's what he is going to do it would affect us whether we are part of the EU or not.

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Yup. We also need to see if we're excluded from the tariff as it's not clear yet. Rumors are Trump's cabinet have advised him either not to impose tariffs or to exclude their closer trade partners but from what we've heard so far that advise hasn't been taken.

If we are included though I would say it's a warning of how difficult it's actually going to be to strike up a fair trade deal with a protectionist US government.

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The steel tariffs will cover the UK as well.
https://www.ft.com/content/d8c3812a-...a-4574d7dabfb6

I've read that most US steel imports are from neighbouring countries with Canada being the most likely impacted. Some European companies will benefit as they have mills in the US but if countries respond by blocking US imports in other areas such as drink then world GDP could suffer.

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May's about to make her speech defining what she envisions the future relationship will look like.

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If Theresa just mentions the five general principals again that won't cut the mustard. There's only so far that the can may be kicked down the road!
We're now twenty months down the line and the Government needs to define how it will square the no hard Irish border situation with striking its own trade deals.