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This guy (James Delingpole) arguing that India, China and America trade with the EU on WTO terms, so we can do that too.
Which of those countries trade on WTO terms with their closest geographic neighbours?
NOT A SINGLE ONE!!
STOP DECEIVING PEOPLE!!
#BBCtw
.@SamGyimah: "We can't ignore the market of 500 million people on our doorstep!"
THANK YOU
#bbctw
It gets better!! This is PRICELESS! #BBCtw
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Ooops! I'm so sorry! 😅😅 #BBCtw
I think I woke @Will_DryOFOC up laughing at this 😳
Oh god! His bio!! @JamesDelingpole
I can't cope! 😂😂😂😂
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Thousands of lives were lost in The Troubles: British Lives. Irish Lives. Unionist lives. Nationalist lives.The people of Northern Ireland paid the highest price for the peace that the Good Friday Agreement created.

This was at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
I rang my friend over in Northern Ireland before tweeting this, because I know that many people on the other side of the Irish Sea do not see things the way the person in my video describes them AT ALL. I am sorry for that. This video is aimed at a specifically British audience.
In the past 48 hours I've presented two completely opposing sides of the issues in Northern Ireland and been thoroughly and passionately criticised for both.
Which proves the obvious point: The current arrangements maintain a delicate balance that we shouldn't be messing with.
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Britain is responsible for centuries of bloodshed on the Irish island, which was only ended by the Good Friday Agreement creating a delicate balance between Northern Ireland's attachment to the UK & Ireland.

Both Brexit options skew that balance. A GOOD Britain wouldn't do that.
So... when I point out that in light of our colonial treatment of our Irish neighbours since the 1500's, I'd like for the country I love to avoid tarnishing its moral reputation further by not trashing the very thing put in place to make amends, I get this
And who doesn't love a classic
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@JamesDelingpole Two issues with your piece.
N°1: you assert, "Britain traded perfectly well for the large chunk of history it has spent outside the EU." This is a spurious argument. The EU didn't exist then. We are going from the best possible trade terms with the EU (SM+CU) to worst (#WTO).
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