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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #BrexitBetraysBritain @fascinatorfun
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This makes me so sad.
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Here are some photos of the border that are worth a good look and a good think.

C.30k people cross it each day.

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And a car driving in the same direction for 6 miles crossing the border 4 times.

bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-nor…
“She slept with her head in the Free State and her backside in the North”.

Sounds of swooping helicopters and British squaddies voices...the spiked community.

thejournal.ie/readme/our-par…
Newly disclosed documents charting the process...show the Border runs along the middle of 11 roads, which is more than twice the number originally believed, while the frontier meets in the middle of at least three bridges and dissects two ferry crossings.

irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…


5/ Why is the border existential? It is not only about economics. It is about identity & freedom from the chains of never-ending conflict. The economic argument of trade with the UK is a not the dominant mind-changer. Like Brexit, this is about politics.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

“1,068 transplants from 692 donors were carried out in Britain using organs from donors in Ireland in the past decade, making the country by far the biggest donor to UK patients. “

An act of considerable generosity.

Hard Border in return. Right.
“But say the worst happened – would the British army return to enforce the law? Would its soldiers be willing to risk life & limb knowing it was the perversity &vanity of their politicians that had put them there – a final British misadventure? There would be no stomach for it.“
That was Ian Jack looking at how the border came to be drawn and reflects on the current political folly.

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I am deeply ashamed of the country of my birth (Wngland) and am glad my Irish born parents are not alive to see the shameful disgrace our current set of politicians are making not just of our U.K. countries, busy tearing them apart, but of their country of birth.

For what gain?
England, even.
Adding a great thread from @JasonJHunter on the EU supported PEACE PROJECT that followed on from the GFA commitments.to build Xborder cooperation, community & trade ties.: Important drivers for the EU project we are currently harming.

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YouGov, 25,000 sample 21/12/18-4/1/18.

Remain v May’s WA, Remain leads by 26 points: 63% to 37%.

Remain v No deal
Remain 16% lead. 58% to 42%.

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“I find it very hard to believe,” he found it very hard to believe, “that the guarantees, made to us by the Russian authorities, that they won’t deliver.”

He’d better believe it! theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan…
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