The Scottish Government likely howling into the night sky with this moderate and sensible proposal.
Like asking the axe-wielding lunatic in your bedroom nicely to brush his teeth.
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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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I suspect the government is just going to go “banana republic” and not bother with any border checks. Double down on the cheating & lying...
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If the Brits refuse to operate the UK of GB&NI's new internal customs border then;
1) They'll be in breach of the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland they already agreed with the EU.
2) They'll likely have breached the Good Friday Agreement.
3) The EU would have to insist that Ireland operate an external customs border with Northern Ireland.I can see why the Conservative and Unionist party isn't keen on accepting that it has agreed to two separate customs territories in their Union but it has.
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@neddie I will now call Bojo Jo-Ey Bananas and the other one Dominic Mad Dog McCummings
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Remarks from our negotiator Michel Barnier.
Who even knows what the Brits are up to any more? A brutal rupture of relations with the EEA isn't something that any political party or campaigning group has ever proposed and very few people even in England will think it's a good idea or have envisioned it in 2016.
What is to be done?
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What are the Brits up to indeed.
Kowtowing to Amerikka mostly it seems. One of their own in No.10 these days after all. As Springsteen sang "born in the USA..."
Only renounced US citizenship four years ago due to "absolutely outrageous" US tax obligations after sale of his north London home.
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What is to be done?
just need tae get yersel a cheeky wee crack pipe, iwrats
fire up a rock, you'll be feelin like superman in nae time
ye kin see it works a treat for thon matt hancock boy, eh
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Dominic Mad Dog McCummings on the crystal meth, nae doot
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get yersel a cheeky wee crack pipe, iwrats
If KRAKRATS does appear and start posting intermittently, incoherently and at great length I grant CCE full power of life and death. I'll be hunched under that overhanging rock - @urchaid knows where - hunt me down and make the call.
Disposal of my mortal remains should be by the Jain sky burial method. Preferably eagles, goshawks etc, buzzard OK just keep the gows and scurries off, yeah?
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Seagulls. I used two words as a nod to French where two words are used depending on whether they're physically menacing 'goéland' or not 'mouette'.
I had a Jain colleague a few years back who was devout and spoke about his religion with great humour and a degree of surreality. I once danced with him and Celtic's Green Brigade in the sunshine.
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Still about half a million Jains in India, they cant all be sitting under trees waiting for the fruit to fall of its own volition can they?
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My pal had some pretty fruity views about child labour.
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Downing Street has been accused of reopening the door to imports of chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef, after a leaked memo instructed ministers to have “no specific policy” on animal welfare in US trade talks.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/06/uk-accused-u-turn-animal-welfare-us-trade-talks
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Trigger warning: Daily Express website.
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A triple threat of Brexit, tightening budgets and unchecked expansion has seen the rankings of UK universities in an international league table slump for the fourth year in a row.
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The UK “cannot keep negotiating forever”, ministers have said as fishing industry leaders warned a breakthrough in EU trade talks by a July deadline now looks impossible.
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Interesting use of the term "negotiating" there.
Shorthand for signing up to an agreement; then turning around and flouncing out of what's been agreed, citing unfairness; then threatening to shoot yourself if the other side don't give you everything you asked for.
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The Brits are going for it. Best start stockpiling food and warm clothes.
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Best start stockpiling food and warm clothes.
Well, at least the Covid lockdown has meant I'm getting through my original Brexit stockpile so my December one will have a longer shelf-life. Small comfort though.
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The best writing on the Great Mistake comes from Ireland in my ever so humble opinion.
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“We are open to the participation by [non-EU countries], provided they make the request and, secondly, they commit to providing updated and regular information to the website … The UK has not made such a request to participate.”
A UK government spokesperson said: “The UK is no longer part of the EU, and therefore we would not expect to be included in a map representing member states.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/16/dismay-uk-fails-join-eu-scheme-revive-tourism
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Four years since the Great Mistake. The Great Unravelling has only just begun I reckon.
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Four years ago we're sat at the barge coffee place looking at our shoes and the sky.
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There's a new campaign to try to retain some form of associate EU citizenship, please sign up and share:
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The DUP’s Sammy Wilson asks about plans to put border controls at Larne in Northern Ireland.
Johnson claims there will be no new customs infrastructure because under the Northern Ireland Protocol it is clear that Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
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They're all quite mad.
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They're just trying to ignore all rules on borders.
Same as the UK have consistently ignored illegal levels (set by the EU) of pollution for decades
The UK of Banana republic?
Collapse of law and order?
I mean if we don't follow the rules on borders, why should anyone follow any rules?
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