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@wordmixrr
@midweshterner
Read the replies, and starting to think "cat lady" is gas lighting of the first order.
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"Other tea-and-milk drinking, left-hand-of-the-road driving, pub-going, dark-humoured countries are available."
'...we would miss Britain. We would miss the legendary British black humour and going to the pub after work hours to drink an ale. We would miss tea with milk and driving on the left-hand side of the road.' - the heads of the CDU, SDP, Greens, Daimler, and Airbus, in the Times
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Dismissing the Millennium Bug is fast becoming my preferred way to identify someone whose opinions run far ahead of their knowledge.
Personally I believe that this perfect storm of crapness is unlikely because economics will trump politics. I think No Deal is this year's Millennium Bug: that very quickly we'll have forgotten what all the fuss is about.
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'Irish sources say they have been informed via European capitals that British officials have been briefing against Ireland, hoping to diminish support for Ireland’s case" - so much for all the assurances since June 2016
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@AaronLChin
@Lollardfish
Ben Franklin too busy staring intensely at the light as he flicks it on and off to answer anything.
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@lonk_skonk
@Mr_Vokiman
@RayDeleon945
@Liv_Agar
That's just saying "it's what I'm used to, so it's better".
To a celsius user 0⁰ sounds cold, 32⁰ sounds hot, 40⁰ sounds very hot, 100⁰ sounds dangerous.
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Big boost for Port of Cork as Euro ferry group to double 'Brexit Buster' routes
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@JamesAndyBurke
@RichardDawkins
Given science evolved as a branch of philosophy I can only assume you're confused.
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@JP_Biz
@BBCr4today
I see Sajid Javid mentioned bringing the debate to Ireland too. Looks like we'll be needing the big teapot.
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@bobbt2417
@GregYerbury
@bbclaurak
Forgive me for asking, but wouldn't it have been useful to decide what the UK position was on the things to be discussed, before starting a strictly limited 2 year discussion period.
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@sonorous_biagio
@amazingspiderbi
@_FancyHat_
@TheSuzannahLee
Well, yes, but one of those writers advocated severely limiting the rights of Catholics, one was in favour of passive obedience up to the subject's life being threatened and one thought women's education should aim to make them good companions to men. Not the last word either.
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Hannan appears to think Article 16 automatically creates a hard border on the island of Ireland, and that's all you need to know about his level of knowledge on this matter.
A piece by my friend Lord Hannan - A vengeful EU is forcing a crisis in Northern Ireland | Washington Examiner
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Tell me you don't understand how Article 16 works without telling me you don't understand how Article 16 works.
A good way to start saving his premiership would be for
@BorisJohnson
to invoke Article 16.
Set in train, at last, the country leaving the EU as ONE United Kingdom.
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@PeterKGeoghegan
Its interesting that some from large countries cannot imagine a way of being a country that isn't a large country way.
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Coronavirus: Irish-developed kit that confirms Covid-19 infection in 15 minutes could be released in seven days. Will be for research first, but should go into use by medics generally.
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"At one stage, Barnier had to tell a group of European Research Group MPs that the health of cows could not be assessed by drone. It is clear from Barnier’s account that Johnson knew absolutely what he was agreeing to when he signed up to a border in the Irish Sea."
An interesting review by Jonathan Powell - ‘My Secret Brexit Diary by Michel Barnier review – a British roasting
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@garfieldfan420
Mental image of Domhnall Gleeson being asked to lean back to give a clear shot of the dalmatian.
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@redflag3rd
There's not a question of withdrawing it. Once the UK leaves the EU it's gone automatically. Access for services will definitely play a part in future negotiations but passporting is gone.
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@Sime0nStylites
@garvanwalshe
Nice thing about FPTP is the stability of government it provides.
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Trade Twitter, please welcome William Shatner to your ranks. He deserves it for explaining UK VAT from 2021 on!
No, it’s not fake news. Come January 1st if you ship to the UK; you are required to register with the UK Government & collect VAT for them at the point of sale no matter where you are. Here’s a link to the Gov.UKwebsite. How does someone forge that? 🤷🏼♂️
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Lo here I sit at Holyhead
With muddy ale and mouldy bread
All Christian victuals stink of fish
I'm where my enemies would wish
Convict of lies is every sign,
The inn has not one drop of wine
I'm fasten'd both by wind and tide
I see the ship at anchor ride
- Swift, 1727
Missed ferry. Stuck overnight in Holyhead. Completely resistant to my attempts to knock any craic out of the place.
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As a fitting tribute to the great Tim Brooke-Taylor, I suggest flying a giant kitten at half-mast on the Post Office Tower.
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@Effiedeans
So your logic is: Leo Varadkar by looking for guarantees that UK support the UKs Belfast Agreement is not being a friend of the UK. Sounds wrong, doesn't it?
Saying UK "should" harm RoI to punish Leo Varadkar sounds wrong in a moral sense.
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What I find *fascinating* is that the same people hot for British sovereignty don't see the slightest issue with goods entering RoI that contravene our regulations.
Sovereignty for thee and not me?
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@jackratcliffe45
@PeteNorth303
Pay a heavy price for pointing out issues around a peace treaty belonging to the UK?
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@andrew_lilico
Pascal Lamy the former DG of WTO says talk of no border on no deal is pie in the sky. I'd suspect he knows what he's talking about.
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Post-Brexit, Ireland is now the eighth largest exporter of financial services in the world, the eighth largest international banking sector in the EU and the fifth largest exporter of financial services in Europe.
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Interesting side-effect of Brexit checks and controls I hadn't realised: drivers cannot easily reroute for storms etc.
From a friend "One of the issues at weekend was lorries could not change their routes, for example,Dover ferry to the tunnel, or Liverpool to Dublin,transfer to Cairnryan. So they've been stuck, till ferries resume. Hearing many more pissed off drivers gonna quit UK, final straw"
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"We're not not trapped in here with the coronavirus. The coronavirus is trapped in here with us."
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@twigthewonder
@cjhumanrights
Ireland never signed the Protocol. Johnson did. Ireland wanted a proposal all in NI would accept. So did May...and her proposal was voted down.
It's clear that blaming Ireland is merely a form of denial, to hide that UK chose this path & no-one else.
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And worth remembering when UK figures say the NI Protocol is unworkable, that the outline of the NI Protocol came from the UK.
Two years ago today, the UK government set out its proposals for a replacement version to the ‘backstop’ Protocol.
It’s worth a re-read for what it says about what the first Johnson government was willing to accept for Northern Ireland, at least as…
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The problem with minister Theresa May's credentials as a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement not being taken seriously, is that she didn't seem to take them seriously quite recently. From "Brexit and Ireland"
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It's amazing the jobs that can be done from home these days.
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Besides the odd criticism that Varadkar pursued Irish interests (whose interests SHOULD he have pursued) we have, AGAIN, the airbrushing out of the fact that Enda Kenny set the policy "Ireland would not accept anything involving checks on the land border".
“And so we say goodbye to this strangely awkward and aloof Taoiseach who became a liberal pin-up outside Ireland — even though his final lesson was in the ruthless pursuit of naked national interest.”
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My reaction to reading the pictured text was horrified silence. This explains a lot about the 2020 cliff-edge concerns last week.
Boris Johnson's Brexit problems are only just beginning, says
@ClareFoges
rightly
Good column that contains a revelatory focus group finding by
@AndrewCooper__
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@yascaoimhin
@playingwithdust
Helps that one of the first things he did at the reunion was tell a story (and even more that he told the story again when Courtney Cox arrived).
(I turned off when Corden arrived.)
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@Nick_de_W
@TheScepticIsle
@anandMenon1
So your solution to delays at ports affecting EU imports is to import from non-EU countries that will face the exact same delays at the ports?
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@Natalie83875067
@archer_rs
Paperwork. Visa. Proof of means of support. Health Insurance. Complicated.
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With similar implications for Ireland's imports from UK, no matter how we would wish it to be otherwise.
The Centre for European Reform's Sam Lowe discusses post-Brexit trade deals: "Everything we buy from the EU will be more expensive than it was before, even if tariffs are zero, because there will be new customs procedures and new bureaucracy."
@AlexisConran
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@SamuelMarcLowe
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@roger_gilpin
@BrandonLewis
So you object strongly to the suggestion UK wants to scrap the protocol and then say you want to scrap the protocol? 🤣
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At the risk of being told I think the EU procurement scheme is perfect and the vaccine rollout massively successful, here's some facts on the AstraZeneca row.
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No. 10 confirm France is not in breach of TCA at present.
And policed its own waters by stopping a trawler without a licence.
But No 10 issue a swift corrective: ``As he set out before, if enacted, we believe they would be in breach.''
Okay cool, normal service resumes. But language matters... ends/
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@JamesAndyBurke
@RichardDawkins
Con? You think there's a philosophy conspiracy? Since 600BC? 😁
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@TracerPlace
@fascinatorfun
Except it obviously wouldn't be free, because a company would have to cover its costs.
The other issue is whether companies actually would deliver at cost or at whatever price it chose & thought the market could bear. (Thinking of insulin prices in US.)
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@JamesAndyBurke
@RichardDawkins
The word "science" was only coined in the 19th century. Before that it was known as "natural philosophy" a branch of (you guessed it) philosophy.
Facts all well documented, whether you like it or not.
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@DanielJHannan
The British Isles haven't always been geographically treated as a single customs area. 1922-1992. Ireland don't want that time back.
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Evergreen: "People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip".
British moral philosopher Sir Bernard Williams was born
#OnThisDay
in 1929. Arguably one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, he can be credited with reviving debate around moral philosophy by challenging utilitarianism and Kantianism
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@opusdeath
@sundersays
In the unlikely event they're right, they'll face collapse of infrastructure, cold and starvation.
Not exactly an advertisement for not getting vaccinated.
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This really should underline that the border was an Irish-led concern, not an EU-pushed one, that it happened under Kenny not Varadkar, that the SM is more important to EU (and Merkel) than sales to UK.
Of course, for many it won't.
Brilliant piece by
@JackHoJo
on the German-Irish relationship under Angela Merkel, starting with Enda Kenny drawing Xs across a map in the Bundeskanzleramt to demonstrate the border after the Brexit vote
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@Frances_Coppola
Sure as sweets are sticky Mr F will be outraged by the EU giving an extension OR by them not giving an extension come Hallowe'en. 🎃
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@nmrqip
In the political declaration section, point 5, signatories pledge to support arrangemebrs set up under the GFA.
Under strand 2 there are bodies whose work is to set up cross-border cooperation.
Their work is undermined if NI leaves the EU regulatory regime = failing to support.
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The hardest part of the project is moving Stranraer to Cumbria.
What's really impressive about the plans for a purported 'Boris Burrow' is the assumption about where the Stranraer to Larne route would start and finish...
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@KilclooneyJohn
@Bangordub
You're welcome. I was just one of the people working to ensure all systems worked properly when 31/12/99 became 01/01/00. It didn't work because of magic or because there wasn't a problem in the first place...but through hard work and planning.
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The brilliant man with such a deep understanding of Ireland that he predicted we'd have left the EU by now
It's all about what he wants to be true.
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@SteveSmith98
@DeclanFahy3
@tconnellyRTE
The zero tariffs and UK rulebook are both possible. But frictionless trade with EU and UK rulebook are not. The more the UK and EU deviate, the more friction. This is cause and effect, not some arbitrary EU rule.
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Cliff Taylor: Post-Brexit frictionless Border is a fantasy, unless NI have customs union with EU: via
@IrishTimes
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@Steve_Laws_
You'd have to be astoundingly naive to think any of them justify invasion of Ukraine.
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@gavreilly
Does he explain how multiple appointments makes the count of vaccines administered higher? Or is he suggesting there's people going around with one arm bigger than the other with Pfizer.
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Watch out, British people living in Ireland.
Not content with disrupting the lives of British people on the continent, some of your compatriots want to upend your lives too.
Since the Republic of Ireland is so malign towards the U.K. one wonders why we give its citizens special privileges: free access, voting rights, access to services and jobs. As foreigners surely they should be on a par with other eu citizens?
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@MazzucatoM
@JeffDSachs
Given Putin made a long speech about how Ukraine wasn't really a nation yesterday, what makes you think compromising on NATO (telling Ukraine it can never join, i assume) would make any difference?
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@burnbhoy
@AineMedievalDub
@Care2much18
I see you view equality for women as a gift of white men, not something women have as a right.
Very telling.
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@gjb70
@nick_gutteridge
"… we are not drawing up any plans for a border between Northern Ireland and Ireland full stop." Because Varadkar EXPECTS UK to live up to their plentiful assurances to protect the open border.
This writer thinks what is a challenge is in fact capitulation! Laughable.
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Spain has almost 55% of the population fully vaccinated.
España tiene casi al 55% de la población totalmente vacunada.
@OurWorldInData
vuelve a recoger el impresionante ritmo de vacunación al que avanza nuestro país.
Gracias a todas las personas que hacéis posible a diario este gran éxito.
¡Seguimos!
#YoMeVacunoSeguro
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@faduda
@GerardBrady100
This did it for me. Population of Ireland in 18th century just behind and tracking England, and then...
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@MattZeitlin
Also the fact that Charlie Chaplin not withstanding, male fertility also declines.
That 28-32 yo woman who wants kids should marry a man close to her own age.
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@JonGoodchild
@New_Westphalian
@andrew_lilico
Funny how Ireland has to make all the sacrifices to make Brexit work.
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@33mhz
@Hello_Tailor
I somehow imagine this was not what Milton was expecting when he dictated Paradise Lost.
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"The only region of the world where you will find sovereign states coexisting without border checks on the trade between them is the EU. There is nothing accidental about this, since eliminating borders was the great project of the EU" -
@kevinhorourke
"If a country chooses to abandon the customs union and single market arrangements... then border controls will return as an automatic consequence of that country’s choices. Its choices and no one else’s – it really is as simple as that" ?
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@9_volt_
@Trubshawe1
I love that it explains that men marrying women adds women to a Roman family.
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@markchopharris
You read the thread and THAT'S what you took from it? Negotiating tactic? You just don't understand this at all.
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@davidallengreen
Everyone focuses on the "bigger and more important country" but I like "one country cannot hold up progress." I visualise Tusk restraining the retort, "stop holding up progress then!"
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'"There are two kinds of European nations,” Kristian Jensen, the Danish Finance Minister, said last year, referring to Britain’s situation. “There are small nations and there are countries that have not yet realized they are small nations.”'
Once again the best thing on Brexit this week:
@samknightwrites
on Brexit in
@NewYorker
- why has so much of the UK press led its readers to personal and national economic disaster?
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@mjordo78
@Jimmyboy2018
@sjcsystms
@toryboypierce
£358 million (€428 million) repaid in interest by April 2017
We saved money repaying DK and SWE early - I'm sure the same would be true if UK if there were no penalties
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ERG: rejects backstop (temporary) for fear of being trapped, accepts Johnson deal (permanent) believing it can be superceded 🤷♀️
“The ERG voted in favour of the Protocol but Mr [David] Jones said that was on the basis it would be a temporary solution and be superseded by a UK-EU trade deal.”
Looks like the ERG have mistaken Boris Johnson’s Protocol for Theresa May’s backstop
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