[nomadking]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I don't believe the fear-mongers. There's no evidence that the EU would do this.

The EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier says the Irish backstop is "part and parcel" of the UK's Brexit deal and will not be renegotiated

Ultimately it is the EU insisting on the backstop. The removal of the backstop is contingent on the EU agreeing to any future deal.

RECALLING the Union's and the United Kingdom's intention to replace the backstop solution on Northern Ireland by a subsequent agreement that establishes alternative arrangements for ensuring the absence of a hard border on the island of Ireland on a permanent footing

So either we give in any EU terms or the backstop remains. We cannot unilaterally bring in a hard border.

Farage:-

He said Mrs May now realised the mistake made in agreeing to the backstop, adding: 'She signed up to something that no country - unless it had been defeated in war - would have signed up to.'

Juncker:-

Ireland's border is our border.

Not this side of it, or is it?

I don't get all the fuss about a hard border. We can't be tied down by threats from the IRA for all eternity. The Downing Street Declaration stated that any agreement(ie Good Friday agreement) had to be with "consent freely given". As the terrorist threats have continued there is NO "consent freely given", unless you want to redefine criminal acts such as mugging and rapes. IE Giving in after initial violence followed by just threats constitutes consent. Either the IRA has disbanded and disarmed or it hasn't?