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Everyone - I mean everyone - connected with Brexit needs to read @CER @sammarclowe's dispassionate piece on the search for alternative arrangements on the Irish border. Its only TWO PAGES. But if you only read ONE SENTENCE it should this (highlighted) 1/
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@Cer I have been guilt of getting hot under the collar about the lack of realism on the ground realities of @BorderIrish and the willful ignorance of those what basically don't want these realities to get in the way of a 'clean' #brexit. /2
@Cer @BorderIrish I do understand those frustrations, but the ground realities are as they are.
It is also deeply regrettable that those frustrations are triggering old reflexes on both sides of the Irish Sea. /3
It is also deeply regrettable that those frustrations are triggering old reflexes on both sides of the Irish Sea. /3
@Cer @BorderIrish So please ignore my fulminations and read Sam Lowe's (future member of DIT advisory board fwiw) dispassionate analysis (which btw is shared by technical officials I speak to on UK, Irish and EU side who would just love this whole thing to go away)./ 4
@Cer @BorderIrish But this issue cannot be wished away on soundbites and fudges. That's the damned probelm with #Brexit, the solutions must be operable.
And so, as Sam says, the Irish Trilemma (h/t @JohnSpringford Lives. Mores the pity. 5/ENDS
And so, as Sam says, the Irish Trilemma (h/t @JohnSpringford Lives. Mores the pity. 5/ENDS
