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Sorry Tommie, I don't know .. but I hope.

Under the disaster of a no deal Brexit, .. I would expect there to be checking starting by 14 Feb. . It would take that length of time to see and respond . If there is no evidence of the UK side renaging on the current free travel,free trade ,then the honeymoon might last longer, but the first...

Sorry Woosh, but the common travel area and a physical border are two separate things. There is and was a physical border for the checking of all goods up until the EU single market. All the lorries moving north and south were checked. There were que at custom clearance stations and a well...

Not as old a Jesus, but old enough to remember the black and white minstrel show on the black and white telly ...not coloured telly, and to have an elder sister who collected the Robinson Golliwog badges from jars of marmalade. Can we not just put this topic to rest. My advice was given in good...

Wool attracts moths, .. so are you now accusing him of wooly thinking?. See how easy it is to offend someone when they want to be offended..

.. just after they have come from the person next bed?

Sorry not everyone has my eclectic musical tastes... .. look up on YouTube video references to a 1990 poem/ song Forest Tongue .. you got the nerve .. .. . I think you win then get the point.

Not sure but it is conceivable that Aer Lingus could be affected. It is majority owned by BA.

I did.. and yes , I am very concious of the song .. AND YOU CALL ME COLOURED?.

The common travel area is a local concession organised since the 1920s and is operational between travel originating and terminating between the RoI and UK. It predates the EU and still remains. The greatest threat to it was the Ryanair insistence on passports as the only acceptable travel...

As before, I prefer not to make comments about British politicians, but your analysis is spot on. She did gain the position because of a commitment. I think it was an unrealistic option from day one. But it does show tenacity. There is a grudging admiration for her regarding Brexit .not that...

That is indeed good news. I do assume it requires the containers to be bonded and customs inspectors just check that the seal has not been broken?. Chateau is a slightly grand interpretation, but in the spirit of goodwill I will accept it.

GDP is an interesting concept... Were I to grow a few lettuces in my garden or my wife to darn or knit a pair of socks,or bake a loaf of bread, it would not contribute to GDP. However, if I bought the lettuce,or the loaf, or paid someone down the road,for sock darning it would. So every trip to...

The scenario I am suggesting would be a consequence of there being a hard border on the island. In the case of the Deal , that would not happen, so I do welcome that Deal. I would even more welcome a scrapping of the Article 50 letter. ,But one cannot have everything.

Well I did not introduce the topic..read back and you will find that it was our northern friend Tommie who did. You might choose to believe that the troubles part 2 will not re emerge . But neither I , John Major, or the head of the PSNI share that optimism. Enough time has now elapsed that...

Like I say my only information is newspaper articles. But there is sufficient information that the "baliffs"were recruited from NI and a private "security " firm based in Lisburn. Now remember that a number of them were in hospitals,so their accents and indeed the licence plates in the fans...

Tommie and OT and any one else interested or otherwise. This has no particular linkage with Brexit per se but does indicate the potential for trouble, and why the NI backstop and the concerns I amongst others ( including a very articulate John Major a week ago) have about an unsatisfactory...

Be thankful for SMALL mercies methinks

It seems I have risen in my own estimation!!. I am now esteemed...now if I could only get my family to believe that!. However I note that Fingers is equally esteemed, .. So talk about being damned by faint praise.

One can imagine the headlines.... "Tory MP slashes maternity hospital costs".. straw is eco-friendly