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If one follows the debates in the HoC, and being Lent,and in need of penance, as I have over the last three days ,the following is obvious. 30% accept the WA whatever its flaws and compromises. 30% reject the WA because it does not create the clean break with the EU that they believe in 30%...

Legislation needs to be passed. The Speaker of the House was very clear on that... And Tommie here also. The votes of yesterday and today are only moral victories,and have no force. As of today,there are 12 working days before the Crashout. Bluntly they are now out of time. The EU council is...

The EU had a low threshold for granting an extension, even so ,it is not met.

Yes. But that does not make it so. I would expect that an open ended extension will be sought. . I would doubt that the EU will play ball. A short term up to end June is more feasible.

Its not the only thing he has to his credit... But I'm not bragging.

Tommie , you do appreciate the RT channels aim . ?

They will indeed, but it will be the lorries landing from the ferries in Roscoff and Cherbourg. Since that is typically one ship per day on average,and they will probably prioritize these inspections, it will increase delays ,but not by much. They might even do the inspections at sea during the...

It never ceases to amaze me, or amuse me, that you and a few others including OG continue this dialogue of the deaf continually insulting each other. It is not enlightening for anyone

Now in the very short term this can work. But even if all lorries coming from Rosslare were checked to ensure their containers were opened in the RoI ,it would not take much enterprise to put the goods into different lorries and drive directly from Cavan to Belfast and the Liverpool ferry. It...

Exactly!. The result is chaotic. The WA deal has been rejected twice. It must be viewed as dead. The "no deal off table" vote today will have one of two outcomes.. accept that no deal is a desirable outcome,or insist that no deal is unacceptable. If the former ... Fine , WTO etc in 2 weeks...

We in the RoI get badly hurt. However you in NI will be even more badly hurt, the mainland UK will not know what has hit them, Mainland Europe will have a range of responses from ..Its a setback, to non event, depending on their geographic position... But we have been over this ground before...

No..Two centuries actually. Read your history. . Its funny but we have an affinity with the Scots, the Welsh,even the Cornish and of course the NI. folk I have family living in the UK.. 2 brothers and a sister, and of course cousins,nephews and neices so no I do not hate the British...

Except apparently even the key pro Brexiteer ,Mr Johnson does not know what what these terms are and imply and needed lessons today in parliament. What I do agree is that Brand UK is being humiliated, but not by the EU ,but by the ineptness and crassness of the proposition, that one could be in...

What about ..accept our standards, or we are not interested in trading with you, that is the essence of trade which is free. Contrast that with , we want to buy parts of your country and we are going to pay you with Indian Opium,.. and if you don't like it we will let our steam gunboats...

No. I cannot see that final scenario happening. Yes the" no deal off table" will probably pass, but seeing how confused the debates are, even that is not assured. But there is no possible way she can bring back a WA which has been defeated twice. So bluntly there is no time.

The EU cannot legally give a 21 month extension.. unless the UK has European Parliament elections. To have a state still inside the EU,which does not have parliamentary representation,would bring the new EP of July into disrepute. If the UK attempted not to have these Elections, then it would...

Have been watching ,listening to the parliamentary debate and vote. What planet are they on?. A vote for " no deal off table " is illogical , unless it is followed by a revoke Brexit vote. Otherwise the crashout is inevitable Any vote for extending Article 50 potentially puts off the evil...

That women has succeeded in keeping an assembly in operation, a feat beyond her colleague in NI

Ahh.. but the people of Ulster ARE my people,and it is my country My Grandfather was born in Antrim. . Just as I see Tommie as a fellow Irishman. But yes I have no control or influence on how the UK votes. As a further aside Sammy Wilson in the HoC, stated, correctly that at the time of the...

Just another of these exasperated facts. The ERG made a comment today that they would be guided by the DUPs assessment of the Cox interpretation.,on the grounds that they speak for Ulster... Well that is highly contestable. The DUP has at most 10 of the 18 MPs . The Province of NI voted...