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EU presses UK to resubmit Brexit plan as end-game looms

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By Marc BURLEIGH

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Does the UK Government proposals for a new Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in reference to customs procedure represent or constitute a hard boarder?

In the event of a no deal the physical presence of aa controlling infrastructure will become far more pronounced.

Scroll down the element five in Johnson missive.......

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/836029/PM_letter_to_Juncker.pdf

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Sorry Border, not boarder!

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For a moment please peruse Michel Barnier, European Chief Negotiator Oral evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee 

Barnier refuses to give his definition of a what constitutes a hard border.

Barnier whole political methodology is a duplicitous game of charades. Is there a serious suggestion that the GFA in any danger or the threats of a return to sectarianism justified because of a small number of customs posts? ........I suggest the political reality is Ireland is being used as leverage. A UK economy outside of EU regulatory customs authority would constitute a existential threat.

Take Johnson deal. the alternative is not worth contemplating

http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/northern-ireland-affairs-committee/the-land-border-between-northern-ireland-and-ireland/oral/77724.html

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Is there a serious suggestion that the GFA in any danger or the threats of a return to sectarianism justified because of a small number of customs posts?

Yes.

It's another form of a hard border.

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Clarified and interpret precisely the definition of a hard border. Between seven and ten Customs posts cannot remotely be described as a hard border in relation to a clearly visible national frontier, protected by armed guards.

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This whole "hard border" talking point is simply propaganda from the remainers. There is no need for a Trump-style wall between a EU and non EU country, if neither wants it. I.e. there is no wall between Norway and Sweden... you just drive across a white line on the road, and if you don´t like that you don´t have to paint it either. Paperwork in regard to goods can be filed off-site.

In addition to that, the chants that Northern Irish peace is being preserved by pulling down walls is ludicrious, seeing the number of "peace walls" inside Northern Ireland, which are maintained precisely to preserve the peace between the two population factions.

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It is noticable that the Trump and Boris haters (same group, they take their opinions from the corporate media), seem unable to write about the political figures without name-calling.

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there is no wall between Norway and Sweden

So perhaps we should have a Norway-style arrangement. I think a lot of people would be fine with that - although not the ERG mob.

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If one revisits August 2017 position paper, April 2017 Guidelines for the Article 50 negotiations, the context of September 2017 Guiding Principles and then Michel Barnier oral evidence to the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee sorry I am unable at present to link documents, there is one overriding statement. Michel Barnier …. “I am a politician, just like you, so we can always beat about the bush a little. I do not like physical borders. I do not like trying to define them either. I am a politician, you have to understand that.”

The border is an irreverence, the reality, the unassailable overriding factor is maintaining EU’s legal order, its Single Market and the Customs Union at any cost, Ireland's economy, even the GFA/Pease Process.

If UK were to leave without a deal on the 31st October and subsequently/abruptly disengage from EU regulatory/legislative framework, within twelve to eighteen months UK would have a huge competitive advantage right on EU doorsteps.

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Boris Johnson is lounge lizard, bounder and a cad. Problem here is these character flaws are getting in the way of the importance with the business at hand.

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It's waste of times and leave the EU with no deal if the EU idiots didn't accept the latest proposal. That's it.

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The European Commission is adamant that, as they stand, "the UK proposals do not provide a basis for concluding an agreement".

What is the matter with the EU? Take the deal and move forward. It’s as if the European ruling class is intentionally trying to subvert democracy in the UK. Brexit was voted on in a free and fair election. Does Merkle and Macron truly want to thwart democracy? It’s unconscionable.

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NAFA and most other trade blocs throughout the world have hard borders. Just do it.

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