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BJ on Today regarding the backstop:
“The obvious way to do it is to make sure that you have checks on everybody who breaks the law, but you do it away from the border,”
I read this as perhaps: Minimal (zero?) customs checks unless authorities have prior intelligence of a likely crime.
Yeah ... the EU are not going to be ok with that. The UK shouldn’t be ok with that. He was pressed on this, this is the best he could give.
This is so obviously not a workable plan, it’s quite insulting.
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That's the holy grail of all policing isn't it? Come down on everyone who breaks the law, leave everyone else well alone.
Astonishing no one has tried it before.
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I can't recall who it was, maybe Brigid Laffan? Anyway, the point she made was that prawns raised with the use of antibiotics can cause blindness in humans, but you get bigger yields of prawns so the practice continues. Such prawns are banned in the EU.
If the UK no longer applies the same phytosanitary regime (begone regulations!) then we may reap a cheap prawn dividend.
The real money would be in taking a lorry of prawns into the EU via Ireland, paying your duty online before you even set out - but declaring that they meet all EU phytosanitary standards.
They won't have been checked on ingress to the UK, and Johnson believes that the EU will accept zero checks on it's border, so they can be run straight into the EU 27 in order to make more profit for the importer.
As you say, unlikely.
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If only that had happened to Boris regarding the lies he told.
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...shipping your illegal arms to Ireland, exporting them under an eu licence...
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The Irish Border wasn't too impressed either
https://twitter.com/BorderIrish/status/1140330003877511168
What is the craic with the bin? Stewart genuinely talked about... a bin?
Meanwhile a mate of mine's partner got very heavily handed searched by UK border police after he was pulled out of a queue in Lanyon Place (aka Central station) to board the train to Dublin.
[passport checks on trains/buses are normal and allowed, being pulled out of a queue and strip searched just like that...not normal, allowed I don't know...]
Good start to the "take back control" if all the new border staff are getting on like that hoping it was just an isolate incident.
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So I had the misfortune to be drinking in a farage pub last night (the speaker, in Westminster).
There was a group of suited proudy boy ukip types there getting very excited and clearly having full bladders as they kept on going to the loos together with an alarming frequency. I can only imagine IBS causes dribbly noses too.
Farage rocked up with a bodyguard and the builders who were also drinking in the pub suddenly became more obviously right wing faces you see on antifascist websites.
The pub generally ignored him / them but there was the occasional phone youtube rendition of Kelis’s song Milkshake.
What was more fun was the chief sycophant – one of the bathroom regulars – who would go up to the bar and throw £60 at the staff and demand 8 gin and tonics. Whilst they were being poured, he’d down three quarters of the first one and then top it up with bits from the remaining 7 drinks and then hand them out to unsuspecting colleagues. Fascism clearly doesn’t pay.
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Spurious analogy is spurious.
Problem is, even once you've waited an extra day for the hob and plumbed it in, there's no gas coming down the pipes anymore because you've permanently cancelled the trade agreements with your suppliers.
Also, the hob took 3 months to arrive rather than a day, also because you've permanently cancelled the trade agreements with your suppliers.
Also, the hob, when it did arrive, was wildly off spec and previously would have been declared unfit to use, also because you've permanently cancelled all the trade agreements with your suppliers.
Also, there's no longer any food to cook on your new hob, also because you've permanently cancelled the trade agreements with your suppliers.
You could spend the whole day picking amusing holes in it.
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I don’t usually enjoy the Twitter snark contests, but that was awesome.
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Horse. Stable door. Bolted. It confirms though that the brexit party has nearly no checks on donated money.
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Tory members have lost the plot.
They would rather see there party break up and the u.k crumble and get there way witha clean break than compromise or see no Brexit at all.
I dont think the country is saveable against this kind of thinking.
This attitude extends to about one third of the public at least. When a significant proportion of the population no longer care about the country they live its lost. The country I was born in no longer exists.
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There is some chat on Slugger O'Toole, a local site, that BoJo may try to force through the "backstop" for Northern Ireland by a snap GE and then a referendum on the backstop only and for NI only.
As he doesn't really believe in Brexit, but just wants it to happen some way. I still am not sure how that will play out in reality though... and even if it works, is it possible constitionally?
All this cos Cameron (who started the Hostile Environment, though May really went for it when she implemented what he wanted) didn't have the guts to see off UKIP or let them have a few seats.