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I seem to remember the pre-Referendum, (but brexit) NI Secretary Teresa Villiers,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Villiers
several times refused to answer the vexed question of the status of the NI/Eire border if the UK were to leave the EU. She seemed to think that there was nothing to be discussed.Well, she was right - there is nothing to be discussed, as there is no answer for it other than stay in the EU. That's literally it, as far as answers go (or EU in all but name).
It's what Frances Coppola refers to as the Greek Trap - the EU states when we've made enough progress, we have zero say, and to make sufficient progress we must first solve the Irish border problem.
I suspect that is why Moody's, in their credit downgrade of the UK, stated that they felt we would not get a deal.
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I seem to remember the pre-Referendum, (but brexit) NI Secretary Teresa Villiers,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Villiers
several times refused to answer the vexed question of the status of the NI/Eire border if the UK were to leave the EU. She seemed to think that there was nothing to be discussed.
One would have thought that with 40 years to work out the details of leaving the brexitters would have ready answers for such matters.
Of course Villiers is an ex-MEP, and represented a Westminster constituency that along with NI voted to remain.
Hear that noise? It's the will of the people being ignored.