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NEW: Northern Ireland manufacturing/business groups @ManufacturingNI invite Malthouse Compromise group (AAWG) to NI to "stress test" their ideas first hand. (Letter below)

RSVP? @OwenPaterson @NickyMorgan01 @IDuncanSmithMP @kitmalthouse @SteveBakerHW @MarcusFysh @DamianGreen
@ManufacturingNI @OwenPaterson @NickyMorgan01 @IDuncanSmithMP @kitmalthouse @SteveBakerHW @MarcusFysh @DamianGreen This business groups in full. Lot's of experience actually crossing and managing @BorderIrish - the kind of nuts and bolts stuff might be useful to learn about as you design a border solution...
@ManufacturingNI @OwenPaterson @NickyMorgan01 @IDuncanSmithMP @kitmalthouse @SteveBakerHW @MarcusFysh @DamianGreen @BorderIrish Forget Number 10 stitch ups etc...per @alexwickham story here.

Perfect chance to explain to fretting NI biz how the Fujitsu borders (or is it Utterberry?) are going to function... from Derry & Crossmaglen to the Sunny Uplands /3

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Peter Foster
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So 57 Brexiteers abstained tonight, which - if you're a mad optimist - maybe creates space to ditch the Malthouse nonsense.

I CANNOT understand how @theresa_may allowed herself to be played on this one. Once again allowed ERG to set unattainabel bar. /1
@theresa_may There is talk of EU 'concession' - something that Cox says convinces him backstop is temporary - but ask yourself why the EU thinks that gets the deal done? Because it pretty clearly wont. /2
@theresa_may Then ask your self why the EU would ask @campaignforleo to make a politically painful concession (having backed him to the hilt) if it doesn't do the job. That way they still haven't got a deal, and they've asked Irish to take one for the team for nothing. /3
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Peter Foster
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Northern Irish businesses are being left in the lurch by #Brexit - what does that mean? /1

@ninusinessinfo, @UlsterBusiness, @NIChamberofCommerce, @FBS_NI @RetailNI @CBI_NI @InvestNI @JPCampbellBiz @NIBusiness @RetailNI @julianoneill @boardroom_ni ⁦ telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/…
Just spent three days on the road talking to NI business - a haulier, an engineering firm, a concrete business, a ship fitters...

What does Westminster #Brexit impasse mean when denominated in real world currency? /2
It means that haulage company may decide to invest heavily in the Republic to continue to serve its customers - which means some of their 200 employees in the North are likely to lose their jobs. They will also pay more of their taxes in Dublin, not to the Exchequer in London./3
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Peter Foster
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So. End of a grim week for #Brexit. Everyone says ‘no deal’ is impossible right? Can’t happen? I’m not so sure. Here’s why

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Let’s start with where we are. An impasse. Quite something that best we can agree at this late stage is to “take stock” before end Feb. /2
As Donald Tusk said, there is "no breakthrough" in sight. February is now essentially a lost month..../3
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I'll show my working below!

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