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You would be best posing that question to Hugh and not me as he constructed the scenario. Why do you think they might follow the route Hugh suggested?

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No.

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Everyone calm down and stop taking pot-shots at each other.

This is closed for a bit to let everyone take a time out. Remember you're talking to actual people who you might well get on with if it wasn't for the anonymising nature of the internet.

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Open again

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Because it’s very easily to put in hard checkpoints at Airports and ferry terminals. As they do now

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That may be a genuine element for negotiation. If the N.I. Assembly agreed we they could say freedom of movement applies to eu and N.I. But not GB. Unless DUP block, which is fine.

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Slight flaw in the plan. There is no NI Assembly to agree anything.

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Donaghadee and Portpatrick are the same distance apart as Dover and Calais - they could try the same methods as they do now in the Channel.

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Footage finds Corbyn knocking the EU https://www.theredroar.com/2019/02/e...rthed-footage/

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It's the will of the people, they won't mind having their lives wrecked as long as they're free, that said Minford has made a career out of being wrong so let's hope his run continues a while longer

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Unless I have misunderstood are we saying that the border would be between the island of Ireland and the mainland? I think this was originally what the EU suggested but the DUP would lose their minds over it, makes it seem like Great Britain is a different country, so that's why the backstop applies to all the U.K?

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That's how I understand it too.

There are rumours going round that May is to call a general election soon. It's crossed my mind that she might think that a hard border is the only way forward to resolve the situation.

Obviously, the DUP would not be happy about this and would withdraw their support for the Government. Without their support she would lose her working majority and, particularly as her authority keeps being questioned, she possibly thinks that calling a GE will either end up with her receiving a larger majority to govern or she will lose and let someone else deal eith this.

I know that she said she wouldn't take the Tories into the next GE, but she has form for saying one thing and doing the opposite and may think that it's now got to the point of 'do or die'.

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It would also force the Tories to choose a new leader, if her previous claims of not continuing as leader into the next GE are to be believed? Yet there seems to be no appetite within the Tory party for anyone else to lead, an odd conundrum.

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Extending the backstop to all of the UK was an EU concession to help May sell her deal to the DUP.

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"Wonders what What a Special place in hell looks like for Brexiteers" - Donald Tusk.

What an absolute disgusting prick, up yours Mr Tusk and take your cancerous and corrupted empire with you, clown. :2up: - my vote to leave the corrupted EU, just got extra solidified!!!

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He did say those who promoted Brexit without a plan. Not Brexiters generally.

Although I suspect he is smart enough to know how it would be spun and decided he wanted that reaction.

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Brexiteers have not had a chance to promote a plan with a Remain led Government/PM and Civil servants, so he was talking absolute bollocks as usual.

He is a corrupted fool and total prick. Totally glad I crossed my box to leave that absolutely disgusting rotting empire AKA the EU!!!

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He didn't actually say that, that quote is probably a fake news site stirring things up. I would have agreed you if he had said that.