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There already is the makings of a regulatory border down the Irish sea with checks on livestock etc. at Northern Irish ports. The DUP haven't had any problem with the concept of such a border until now and the backstop would merely increase the level of those checks to protect what Northern Ireland producers can sell on into the EU while at the same time maintaining full access to the GB markets. It's a win win for the North and as such has the overwhelming backing from the Ulster Farmers Union and local business leaders.
What I'm wondering though is that it may just be the border that doesn't exist but how will you keep up with Brussels Regulatory changes as part of the UK when attempting to sell produce and goods in to the EU?
 
If there's a border in the sea I'm getting a job lot of waterproof balaclavas in for the lads.
 
It is the Tories who hate that idea
I'm a Leftie and I don't like the idea. How can we be a United Kingdom with a border between us?
 
I'm a Leftie and I don't like the idea. How can we be a United Kingdom with a border between us?

We aren't a United Kingdom and never have been. We are England and a bunch of invade and conquered other countries.

A united Ireland would be entirely logical except that we deliberately moved a huge number of Protestant Scots to Northern Ireland who now, obviously, don't want to be part of a United Ireland. We really do know how to feck things up.

Basically we just don't play well with others.
 
We aren't a United Kingdom and never have been. We are England and a bunch of invade and conquered other countries.

A united Ireland would be entirely logical except that we deliberately moved a huge number of Protestant Scots to Northern Ireland who now, obviously, don't want to be part of a United Ireland. We really do know how to feck things up.
We really do know how to shoot ourselves in the foot but it doesn't answer the issue. No-one has known the answer to uniting Ireland. Make the Protestants move to England?

I believe in self-determination but that won't happen, meanwhile the EU have always known the Backstop and a border between us was never going to be an option because it tied our hands behind our backs.
 
Fair points, but answer me this. 4 towns off the top of my head local to me are literally full of eastern European immigrants. This is especially a problem in the two smaller town, in one of them they stand on the pavements all day long, shouting and roaring, very intimidating especially for women on their own, cheeky bastards too as I’ve heard of people catching them leaning on their cars etc when parked on the street. In another town the Romanians had to be chased out of it as they had been caught carrying out a spate of break-ins, the local catholic and the protestant churches were both done.

Now these people, the vast majority don’t seem to work, they but the government seem to be providing for them not a bother. Am I or is my local community racist for wanting something done about this blight?
We can get rid of any EU citerzens that are here and don’t work with current EU laws but we don’t. What makes you think things will change when we leave?
 
We really do know how to shoot ourselves in the foot but it doesn't answer the issue. No-one has known the answer to uniting Ireland. Make the Protestants move to England?

I believe in self-determination but that won't happen, meanwhile the EU have always known the Backstop and a border between us was never going to be an option because it tied our hands behind our backs.
Or bring the south back into the UK with devo-max for all. :smirk:
 
Or bring the south back into the UK with devo-max for all. :smirk:
:) I'm not sure the Irish would like that plan and I'm definitely not sure the British Army could take the Irish Army!
 
We aren't a United Kingdom and never have been. We are England and a bunch of invade and conquered other countries.

A united Ireland would be entirely logical except that we deliberately moved a huge number of Protestant Scots to Northern Ireland who now, obviously, don't want to be part of a United Ireland. We really do know how to feck things up.

Basically we just don't play well with others.
Oh, i thought Wilhelm van Orange was responsible for the protestant movement in ni?
 
We aren't a United Kingdom and never have been. We are England and a bunch of invade and conquered other countries.

A united Ireland would be entirely logical except that we deliberately moved a huge number of Protestant Scots to Northern Ireland who now, obviously, don't want to be part of a United Ireland. We really do know how to feck things up.

Basically we just don't play well with others.

TBF though the Irish did send quite a few of their own over to Scotland just to even things up. Without them we'd never have had the friendly rivalry between Rangers & Celtic. So it's not all bad is it ?
 
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TBF though the Irish did send quite a few of their own over to Scotland just to even things up. Without them we'd never have had the friendly rivalry between Rangers & Celtic. So it's not all bad is it ?

Yes. Yes it is.
 
We really do know how to shoot ourselves in the foot but it doesn't answer the issue. No-one has known the answer to uniting Ireland. Make the Protestants move to England?

I believe in self-determination but that won't happen, meanwhile the EU have always known the Backstop and a border between us was never going to be an option because it tied our hands behind our backs.

We have fecked it up so badly there is no quick solution, just workarounds. But abandoing our responsibilites now, as seems to be happening now, is a moral disgrace. The EU aren't responsible for this clusterfeck. The British are.
 
I don't think that's right,

It is though mate because the Good Friday Agreement is about the Island of Ireland.

It would undermine one side of the agreement because the people elected by the Unionists say they won't agree to a border in the North Sea. So if the GFA is the be all and end all when it comes to Brexit then the border has to be agreed by both parties in the North or the GFA is meaningless.

Again mate the DUP are saying they won't agree to that but the DUP don't speak for everyone in NI, at this stage i have serious doubts if their views even align with the majority of Unionists on the matter. The majority of people here voted to stay in the EU, including many Unionists.

To my knowledge there is nothing in the GFA about Northern Ireland needing to have regulatory alignment with Britain. No doubt because it was probably assumed that Ireland and the UK would always be members of the EU and the same customs union.

Also just so I know where you stand, you think that the UK shouldn't be allowed to leave the EU /CU/SM with all the territory it entered the common market with because of the GFA.

I think the British government should face their responsibility to uphold the GFA, however they decide to do that is fine by me as long as they do it.
 
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Fair points, but answer me this. 4 towns off the top of my head local to me are literally full of eastern European immigrants. This is especially a problem in the two smaller town, in one of them they stand on the pavements all day long, shouting and roaring, very intimidating especially for women on their own, cheeky bastards too as I’ve heard of people catching them leaning on their cars etc when parked on the street. In another town the Romanians had to be chased out of it as they had been caught carrying out a spate of break-ins, the local catholic and the protestant churches were both done.

Now these people, the vast majority don’t seem to work, they but the government seem to be providing for them not a bother. Am I or is my local community racist for wanting something done about this blight?
To counter your sweeping generalisations with my own, I've always found Eastern Europeans hard working and reliable and never any bother. A Lithuanian did our bathroom and Romanians did our bedroom, both to a high standard for a competitive price. The scumbags I've met have tended to be English council estate folk.
 
We have fecked it up so badly there is no quick solution, just workarounds. But abandoing our responsibilites now, as seems to be happening now, is a moral disgrace. The EU aren't responsible for this clusterfeck. The British are.
Nothing to disagree with there Wibbs.

The Backstop is no workaround though. The EU knew that with it in place there will be no one for the UK to trade with until if ever we negotiate trade agreements with either the EU or those few countries with no current agreements with the EU. We cannot even trade under World Trade Organisation Tariffs.
 
Aye, as a general rule it's usually safe to assume that people in mainland UK both care far less and know far less about NI than they should. Brexit has been a rather neat example of this, as demonstrated by the half-baked opinions on the issue that are still being put forward in this thread today.

Yep it's a real eye opener mate.
 
Nothing to disagree with there Wibbs.

The Backstop is no workaround though. The EU knew that with it in place there will be no one for the UK to trade with until if ever we negotiate trade agreements with either the EU or those few countries with no current agreements with the EU. We cannot even trade under World Trade Organisation Tariffs.

It is a shit workaround but short of remain, the only other vaguely moral possibility.
 
It is a shit workaround but short of remain, the only other vaguely moral possibility.
It's a trap!

If we're being moral about it then we either say the BackStop will apply to the whole of the United Kingdom or none at all, or we shall stay within thine tent, pissing.
 
We really do know how to shoot ourselves in the foot but it doesn't answer the issue. No-one has known the answer to uniting Ireland. Make the Protestants move to England?

I believe in self-determination but that won't happen, meanwhile the EU have always known the Backstop and a border between us was never going to be an option because it tied our hands behind our backs.

:lol:
 
You don't have to be young, old, left or right to know that Brexit is a moronically stupid idea.
Personally as oldies we never had it so good. We could even use our smart phones, data and all on the same rate.
 
I know mate don't worry - thats why I was laughing.
It's not as if I mind being laughed at, I got used to that. It was just on this occasion I was trying to be. :lol:
 
Would I be considered a fruitloop to say I hate Mrs May's clothing style? Her short jackets make her look horrendous.
Yeah you're spot on. Kinda like Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman meets Mary Berry...
 
Yeah you're spot on. Kinda like Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman meets Mary Berry...
Is it just me but does she walk like a man?
 
Personally as oldies we never had it so good. We could even use our smart phones, data and all on the same rate.

Of course. In my experience the people who were stupid when they were young were still stupid when they were old and those who were intelligent when young and were still intelligent when old, people's prejudices may change of course.
 
Is it just me but does she walk like a man?

Must be all those years of walking through wheat fields.

You know the government are in a bad place when they're spinning May clinging on as some kind of victory and its only because that's the biggest win they've had for months/all year.
 
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