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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not at all credible to true believers
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .or had achieved sufficient grades to be considered for admission as a student, Staff selection was a lot more rigorous
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The only comfort, if it could be called that, is that the sufferer is mostly unaware. Although my wife recollects that her mother was extremely frustrated at the early stages,when she still had plenty of cognitive function.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes you do need to spell it out,and with such a slovenly approach to referencing you would have had a short stay in my department.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    My sympathies, my mother in law had the same condition.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Don't underestimate the level of competence of fellow pedeleclers. Some of us went beyond the second level. As a matter of interest the entire MP3 music compression theory is German, the VLC software French, the majority of high grade CAD software also French. The prowess of Silicon Valley has...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Since that is obviously a quote, it should have a reference.
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    Thats good in a way. Extra production means more energy usage, more pollution. Anyway we are stuck in a middle of a transition. The rapid industrial development of China could not continue,. The car industry ,one of the major world industries is transitioning out of diesel and into electric...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Thats good then?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It might come as a surprise,but we are a country of laws. A gentleman's agreement is not law. Had your province a working parliament and working parliamentarians, they would have brought a small matter to the fore. Yes it is an oversight, but it is the kind of thing that your representatives...
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    Addendum to the NI trawler saga. Both skippers pleaded guilty this morning to illegal fishing,the judge recommended leniency. They were given the probation act ,no fine , and their boats are chugging back to Co Down as I write . Meanwhile the Irish Minister for Fishing has undertaken to...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That may as well be, but that is not what the score card currently says. My concern is that in selecting various amendments of dubious effectiveness, the main deal is being ignored. It is not sufficient that there be a consensus, it is necessary that the MPs vote.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Now fingers ,that you are an amenable mood, perhaps you might identify any instance where I have been "adding irrelevant comp!ications". As has been said before , to every complex problem there is a simple solution... But it is usually wrong.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    With odds like that it might be worth while putting a few Bob on no deal. The factual situation is that a no deal crash out is currently the only legal option with 20 working days to go.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Exactly, which is why I have been very careful in my selection of words. Cairnryan has plenty of land around it for customs inspection.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    One little item which will have escaped attention on mainland UK , but I am sure will excercise Tommie, is the arrest and detention of two NI trawlers in Dundalk Bay. There was a long standing Voisinage or neighbour agreement allowing allowing RoI and NI registered boats to fish for...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Would it not have been more productive to remove the word backstop. ?,And replace it with guarantees. The guarantee in question being that there would not be a physical border reinserted on the island of Ireland.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The only surprise here is that it is a surprise. I referred some two years ago to the aggravation being experienced by non UK people working in the NHS at the time of the referendum. Many of the younger more mobile professionals,making a decision that when their contracts expired they were...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I agree with you.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    This intransigent dictator?. Is it the chair of the ERG or of the DUP?.