Has the backstop back-fired on Ireland? | 69 comments (69 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Has the backstop back-fired on Ireland? (4.00 / 2)

EU members want clarity in call to refrain from political power play.

PM May promised to be flexible in forthcoming plan B. Today she comes with more of the same.

EU wants PM May to alter her red lines.

Labour leader Corbyn wants PM May to drop no-deal option and to alter her red lines. Interesting for the Prime Minister to start her statement with an attack on the opposition leader Corbyn. Once again a show of Tory hate for the Labour leader.

IMO narrows PM May her choice to a no-deal or the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement with an adjustment to the backstop clause to favor Tory hard Brexiteers and the DUP unionists. Once more walking blind-folded into a dead end street. Nothing surprises me anymore.

A second referendum will not happen. The Labour leader strives for a soft Brexit in a Single Market.

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Mon Jan 21st, 2019 at 05:55:51 PM EST

Re: Has the backstop back-fired on Ireland? (none / 1)

See Independent.ie headlines today. It's a hoot.
Forget "Polish Intelligence" on borders.
"Plan B" is re-writing the GFA to "guarantee" open border ... on or before 29 Mar?

Pull the other one, laddie!

Hear the "freer hand" clapping with the "invisible hand"?

< wipes tears >

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Jan 21st, 2019 at 06:18:09 PM EST
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The Polish people in full circle ... (4.00 / 2)

The EU migrants from Poland were used as scapegoat to fearmonger a Leave vote in the Brexit referendum.

○ Brexit: The view from England's "Little Poland"

My earlier diary - UK Brexit Problem: Migration not Immigration [Jan. 2017].

An idle threat for Plexit to rattle fellow member states and Brussels ...

○ The proposed constitutional referendum questions

President Andrzej Duda first announced his concept of a constitutional referendum in May 2017 during celebrations of the 226th anniversary of Poland's May 3, 1791, constitution, known as the May 3 Constitution.

Rumsfeld's "New Europe" and the love for Poland from Trump and Netanyahu ...

○ Trump's Revival of anti-EU Sentiment in Warsaw
○ Xenophobia, Israel, Alt-right and the Jewish Question

After Brexit Europe will still be troubled by their new member states used as proxies to anger Russia.

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Mon Jan 21st, 2019 at 07:52:41 PM EST
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"anger"? (none / 0)

I'm of the mind, "exasperation" is the better fit, all around, ahh ceteris paribus and wutnot.

Question: How would you comment on the media reports suggesting that it was Abigail McCourt, 16, who was the first to help Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Jan 21st, 2019 at 09:09:54 PM EST
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Has the backstop back-fired on Ireland? | 69 comments (69 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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