Charlie Sweet
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Should have been a basic general knowledge test before anyone could vote. If you don't understand what a bloody border is then you shouldn't be able to vote on a border issue!
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Should have been a basic general knowledge test before anyone could vote. If you don't understand what a bloody border is then you shouldn't be able to vote on a border issue!
Excellent report below from Tony Connelly (an Irish journalist who's covered every aspect of the Brexit negotiations) on how we got to the Thornton House meeting between Johnson and Varadkar and what's happened since. The nuts and bolts of the possible new customs arrangement are explained for idiots like me. It's basically back to the future for Johnson, who's having to pick up the ideas of the May Deal on aligning two trading blocs, but applying it solely to NI rather than the whole of the UK.
Brexit: Injury time winner or fatal gambit?
The Thornton Manor encounter between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar may go down as the meeting that decisively altered the course of Brexit history, or it could be consigned to the annals as a worthy but doomed gambit.www.rte.ie
Tony Connelly is IMO easily the top journalist covering Brexit in these islands and has been from Cameron landed us in this crisis.
davek
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I looked for his comment and other Irish journalists like Denis Staunton just lately. A welcome change from the clueless partisan Little Englander hacks who are, in effect (and as Paul Mason describes them), "government stenographers".
We were not voting on the Irish border it will be now down the middle of the north Irish Sea - as the EU used this border business as a polictical weapon to stop the democratic vote the EU have a history of overturning referendums.....
Oh, but you were.
You just didn’t know it.
That much is very clear to you now.
It is just a pity you never bothered yourself to do a bit of research into tthe issues and problems surrounding voting in favour of Brexit.
The problems with the British imposed border in Ireland were always going to delay or hopefully even halt the march to Fantasy Island a.k.a. Sunlit Uplands.
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EU have used it as a polictical weapon to stop Brexit.....end of
points @ Joe and lol
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How have they?
No way. The way I see it @Joey66 has been roundhousing all the Irish lads out across the Atlantic. Few lads waking up with broken bones this morning. Take no prisoners Joey.
Carl O'Ancelotti
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Wrong again. Brexit was agreed 2 years ago before it the DUP made a phone call to Teresa May and threatened to bring her government down if she went ahead with it. If you want to blame anyone for stopping it cast your anger at them and the ERG group that supported them.
Wish it had been the 'end of'.
Blimey Joey - before free movement there were borders for example between France and Belgium and Holland and Germany - these were manned by customs and police, not the military. Used to make holidays exciting when I was growing up.
Are you really saying a border is only hard if it has soldiers?
The Hodos/Bayansenye border crossing between Hungary and Slovenia (2007).
The checkpoint at Barragem de Saucelle straddling Portugal and Spain (2005).
This checkpoint is located in Melgaco at the border between Portugal and Spain.
The border passing at Colle del Piccolo San Bernando between France and Italy (2007).
The checkpoint at Tunnel Routier du Fréjus on the border between France and Italy (2005).
The Warneton border crossing between France and Belgium (2008).
The Mulhouse checkpoint on the border between Germany and France (2005).
The checkpoint located in Aachen, Germany, on the border between Germany and Belgium (2007). Photos by Josef Schulz
EU needs to be ‘flexible’ on border issue, says Swiss politician
Micheline Calmy-Rey, former Swiss president urges consideration of ‘pragmatic’ options
Bluerover
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Actually that requirement should apply to all votes including General Elections.
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