On a thread of utterly bonkers comments on the BBC website, this one stood out for me.
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While we are still in the EU the EU should not be putting its efforts into making it difficult for us to leave. After all, we are still paying our subs for membership and expect the service we would get from any other membership club such as a golf club.
Barney has just told Theresa to “do one, love”
A good hammering in the Rugby at the weekend and the job is oxo
No deal Brexit has gone from 3-1 to 5-2 over the course of the day.
That’s imperative put the whures back on their box.
Still don’t think it’ll happen, I think the govt will fall before it does, but you never know.
Some of the Irish rugby team are pro Brexit.
Juncker is speaking with forked tongue. There may be no renegotiation of the withdrawal text but, if the UK crashes out, there will be a hard border re-established and it will be at the insistence of the EU.
“this is not the house of commons colleagues, this is the European parliament”
I don’t get what you mean. No deal means there has to be a border. That’s a given. The UK has spent two years negotiating an agreement on withdrawal, the door is there for them, all they have to do is walk through.
What do you mean about a border at the insistence of the EU?
You just said it there - no deal means a hard border.
Juncker’s remarks today are being trumpeted as suggesting that the EU won’t allow it. Of course they will - they have to.
Ear to the ground was a level too high for her
That’s like something Nigel Owens would come out with.
He said the withdrawal agreement, specifically the backstop, will not be renogotiated. No?
Correct.
So what do you mean by forked tongue and the EU insisting on a border?
Because if the deal dies the backstop dies with it.
It is therefore inevitable that the EU will instruct Ireland to impose full border checks for goods and services.
Have you tried putting your thumb up your hole Theresa?
The EU won’t instruct us. We are part of the EU. If the EU unilaterally withdraws then there is a frontier between the EU and not-the-EU in Ireland.
Everyone understands that from the outset. It was identified early on as a priority that there be no hard border in Ireland. That’s why the negotiations have been so focused on trying to avoid a border at that frontier. I don’t get your viewpoint, you are implying that juncker is being disingenuous, how is he?