Thread by @pmdfoster

SO. Can confirm, per source, that this plan reported by @tconnellyRTE IS indeed in the UK #Brexit backstop proposal that Boris Johnson will start to brief to EU Leaders tomorrow, per @Telegraph - utterly extraordinary /1

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…

https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1178760377678618626

@tconnellyRTE @Telegraph It is, frankly, hard to square these proposals with UK being a co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, but it reflects a strand of thinking that has been evident in the @BorisJohnson administration from the start, via the thinking of @Policy_Exchange and others. /2

@tconnellyRTE @Telegraph @BorisJohnson @Policy_Exchange It is also present among advisers like Daniel Moyla @danielmgmoylan and his articles for websites like Brexit Central /3

brexitcentral.com/ireland-rock-b…

@tconnellyRTE @Telegraph @BorisJohnson @Policy_Exchange @danielmgmoylan It is the same ideas put forward by @Policy_Exchange in their report on the border which accepts some "violence" will be inevitable - and implicitly the fault of journalists! /4

policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/994232313188900864?s=20

@tconnellyRTE @Telegraph @BorisJohnson @Policy_Exchange @danielmgmoylan I go back to threads passim about the Customs Park at Newry (a target for the IRA) - a border is a border even if it's set 10 miles back. How far is Newry from the wiggly line itself? Break a map out, why don't you? /7

https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1164439932074627072?s=20

@tconnellyRTE @Telegraph @BorisJohnson @Policy_Exchange @danielmgmoylan You would have had to live in a hole the last three years to think this has any propsect of being accepted by the EU side or the Irish government.

This could not be seen as a serious attempt to get a (negotiable) deal, given EU positions. 8/ENDS