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Britain agrees on Brexit deal with EU; May's opponents vow to thwart it

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By Guy Faulconbridge and Elizabeth Piper

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It is a failure of the government's negotiating position, it is a failure to deliver on Brexit, and it is potentially dividing up the United Kingdom

The Brexit vote result, for better or for worse, already divided up the United Kingdom.

Your party is responsible for this.

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If I had been eligible to vote in the June 23rd EU Referendum, with the benefit of hindsight, and strategically from a business/financial, personal wealth objective, remaining a EU member would have been the obvious choice.

However, from personal experience, business, budgets and balance sheets, and the accumulation of personal wealth does not bring equal measures of the satisfaction gained from freedom of contentment.

The EU, its Institutions, and Parliament key goals and agenda is Federalism. The democratic will of the peoples/citizens will play second fiddle to a values structure that would favour the few. Economic insecurity is growing alarmingly, real wages are stagnating, living standards for the majority falling fuelling rising inequality.

Coupled with a refusal to reform and restructure the European Union broken economic model, low productivity growth through excessive regulatory barriers to competition.

The EU Commission relentless push towards a Federalist superstate is not and will never be in UK political, democratic or economic interests.

I am of the opinion, politically, a clean break is best for all.

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Many interesting things happened yesterday regarding Brexit.

First, it was announced that there had been the highest drop in EU workers (132,000) in the UK since records began. The total number of EU workers in Britain is now 2.25 million.

Second, there had been the highest wage growth (3.1%) in the UK in 10 years. Unemployment also contiued to drop to its lowest in decades (4%).

Third, Angela Merkel calls for a real EU army. Nick Clegg said that there was never going to be one.

Leaving is already proving beneficial and I agree that a clean "No deal" break is best.

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The DUP has ruled out any deal that treats Northern Ireland differently.

Odd, then, that they seek to block abortion and same-sex marriages in the 6 counties. The rest of the UK has it, so Arlene and her dinosaurs are already treating NI differently.

Anyway, dividing up the UK is fine with me. About time Ireland was a nation once again.

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Jeremy will fix this mess.

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Pretty much any Brexit deal is going to be voted down, because Brexit is unworkable bollocks and little else. I expect the next week to be full of headlines about how Bojo and Rees-Mogg have a far more Brexity but completely undefined plan, and how Corbyn thinks he could negotiate a better deal. All of them, and May, share one trait: they couldn't negotiate their way out of the corner of a room.

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If as Boris Johnson says, the agreement will leave Britain as a vassal state, then we may as well dissolve the UK Parliament permanently, as they'd no longer serve any purpose.

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@Toasted Heretic - the DUP, along with any other Political Party that tries to to force upon the local inhabitants, one Religious belief or another, is clearly living in the Past / Dark ages. Politics and Religion should never be mixed.

A United Ireland, is a completely separate matter, which will probably eventually be resolved after our lifetimes - assuming of course, certain hot heads don't try to reignite the Troubles again.

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@UlsterBoy - I agree. Politics and religion should never be mixed but you know as well as I do, when it comes to NI/6 counties that's not the case.

As for a a 32 county Ireland, I thought it would never be a possibility but, since the GFA, despite the fringe die-hards (be they republican or loyalist paramilitaries) there now seems a glimmer of hope. Of course, it must be inclusive and it must be the will of the people. Unionists should not be made feel like outsiders in any new configuration. Their culture (as confusing as it is to some outsiders) has to be taken into consideration.

I don't think the likes of Johnson & Rees Mogg give a damn about NI/6 counties, so if they continue to wail and stall it will not benefit anyone in these islands.

Nobody wants to see the troubles flaring up again, that's a given.

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