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“there is nowhere in the world where 2 different customs /market regimes have a frontier across which trade flows without checks, controls and infrastructure. But all the energy among the Brexiteers has gone into trying to escape this inescapable reality.” irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan…
2/.

It could not be clearer: what is ruled out is not just posts on the border but any infrastructure, any checks, and any controls that do not currently exist.
This, remember, is not just an Irish or EU demand. It has been the official British line all throughout this process.
3/. Excellent from @fotoole

“The tyranny of fact”.
4/ “ever since it became clear that this technology does not exist, the internal project has been what Whitehall officials privately call “keeping the corpse warm”.

The corpse is now cold.“
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
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Start Making Sense – George Monbiot

“Is this democracy’s death spiral? Are we falling, in this and other countries, into a lethal cycle of fury and reaction, that blocks the reasoned conversation on which civic life depends?”

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“So what do we do? How, in particular, do we discuss genuinely alarming situations, like Brexit or climate breakdown, without triggering threat responses? The first thing the science tells us is this: treat everyone with respect.”
”The stupidest thing you can possibly do, if you want to save democracy, is to call your opponent gammon.”
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Boris Johnson's Brexit plan hangs by thread as EU dismisses weekend talks | Brexit | The Guardian

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NO. NO! We shan’t set aside a weekend for pretend “intensive negotiations” when you can’t be arsed to provide workable solutions.

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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“We will meet again on Monday to give the UK another opportunity to present its proposals in detail.” The spokeswoman added that the proposals did not “provide a basis for concluding an agreement”.
“An EU official said: “The UK often asks for meetings to keep [the] process going; we agree we should leave no stone unturned. But there is nothing useful that could be done this weekend.”
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕷 #FBPE
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This might have focussed on Qatar, Egypt & Nigeria but it caught my attention because, like so much of the Brexit astroturfing, it was being driven by PR firms.

Here a load of Facebook messaging apparently fronted by grassroots campaigns came through associates of Lynton Crosby
Many of us have noticed a big uptick in divisive tweets dripping into our accounts.

Worth stopping to think whether they too are being driven by a series of “professional” orgs just as here.

I know that @marcowenjones has been researching an overlap between this story & Brexit
So you have a sense of the familiar ground that seems to be common between this Qatar etc story and what is happening here, a little reminder of one of the U.K. Brexit/ Johnson based stories. Here is just one link.

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