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90% of the 3600 deaths during The Troubles were in Northern Ireland, which voted 56% remain.

So who SHOULD be the loudest voice screaming "We will NOT let Brexit threaten peace in Northern Ireland"?

The UK (incs Northern Ireland) Prime Minister or Irish Taoieseach Leo Varadkar?
@LeoVaradkar @BorisJohnson In other words...
How can it be that the Irish Taoiseach is fighting harder to protect peace and security on the territory of the United Kingdom than the Prime minister of the United Kingdom?
@LeoVaradkar @BorisJohnson It's almost as if our Brexit politicians think their political games are more important than the welfare of British citizens... independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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I'm in Bromsgrove.
I over heard a @brexitparty_uk activist saying "it's all Remainer twaddle". I asked him what specifically. He said all of it. I said but what specifically. His response... "F**k off arse hole😡"
And this lovely fellow walked past, called me a "f**King traitor" and said "ill f**King drop you".
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Femi
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The people who say the EU would be CHOOSING to punish us if they put tariffs on UK goods, are the same people who say that we should leave on WTO rules (which legally force the EU to put its tariffs on UK products if there's no actual deal).
Remember this argument? "Do you really think they'd be stupid enough to put up tariffs, when they know how much they sell us".
Well most cars manufactured & fish caught in the UK are sold to the EU, so apparently we're "stupid enough" to force the EU to put tariffs on all of it.
For specifics, here you go. You've all heard about how the EU puts tariffs on goods coming from outside the EU, well the WTO, specifically GATT article 1, says the EU has to apply the same tariffs to us that that it applies to everyone else, if we don't have a deal.
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Femi
@Femi_Sorry
48% of the UK voted to approve our current relationship with the EU. The government is trying to throw that relationship away in the name of the 52% who don't all approve of any of the alternative relationships on offer.

And yet somehow... some people think that's democratic?
Any rational person looking at those facts would conclude that we're heading towards a relationship with the EU that has an approval rating lower than 48%.
Then what? After No-Deal Brexit we end up having to have another in-out referendum on whatever treaty Boris Johnson then negotiates?
And this whole thing turns into Groundhog-Decade?

OR maybe... before we massively change our relationship, we democratically evaluate the new one!
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Katy Hayward
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@VP Pence assured @LeoVaradkar the US “will continue to encourage the UK & IRL, to ensure that any #Brexit respects the #GoodFridayAgreement.”

This challenge is a live one.
And it’s going to remain so.

NI civic & business groups urge 🇺🇸 Congress to uphold this commitment.
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@VP @LeoVaradkar In a letter to 🇺🇸 @SpeakerPelosi they summarise conditions for #peace which must be protected through & after #Brexit:

* Normalisation of security arrangements
* Economic stability & investment
* Equal rights & non-discrimination of citizens here
* Cross-border cooperation

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@VP @LeoVaradkar @SpeakerPelosi They note “the growing sense of danger in N.Ireland
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NI is set to suffer worst effects of a #NoDeal or ‘hard’ #Brexit.

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Brigid Laffan
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1. @hayward_katy & @DavidHennick1 have outlined the reasons for the backstop in detail & done us all a service. This thread is about the implications of the current impasse for British-Irish relations-the context of what is playing out. @BrigidLaffan
2. #Brexit brings into sharp relief the troubled history of the two islands. What is shocking yes shocking for Ireland is the carelessness with which our neighbour went about its #Brexit business. @BrigidLaffan
3. Having spoken at events during the campaign, I was left with the overwhelming sense that most in the audience did not know what the implications of Brexit would be for the island of Ireland & more significantly did not care-yes did not care despite platitudes. @BrigidLaffan
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Katy Hayward
@hayward_katy
THE KEY QUESTION at the nub of the fuss re: #Brexit, the #backstop & @BorderIrish is this:
What the heck has the European Union got to do with #peace here❓

Well, the ANSWER is, when all's said & done, pretty simple.

It’s about the British-Irish relationship.

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This was acknowledged by the EU itself 35yrs ago in the Haagerup Report on resolving the conflict.

I'll explain this now by summarising my paper from Cooperation&Conflict @SAGECQPolitics.

[& you can see the Report here. Hurrah for @CAINWebService] 👉
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111 people were killed in 1981.
In May 1981, @EuroParl_EN passed a Resolution recognising the EU had ‘no competence to make proposals for changes in the Constitution of N.Ireland’.

110 were killed in 1982.
The Troubles were raging. And there was little prospect of resolution.
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Lord Snoutintrough #FBPE
@Rowland72James
Thought I'd offer a few thoughts as to how this whole #brexit business is so bitterly divisive to the extent that foreign diplomats liken the divisions as being akin to that preceding civil war
For one thing there simply is no middle ground any soft #brexit means losing any say over the rules we still have to obey maybots duff deal was an attempt at compromise and was blown away as a worse version of the status quo.
#brexit also tears up the democratic social contract for both sides. Any democracy relies on all parties accepting the result of a vote but any campaign must also be conducted within the law
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Rachel Lavin
@RachelLavin
There's a sense the significance of the conflict in Northern Ireland & the importance of protecting the peace has been lost in #Brexit drama.

So the #BrexitBorderlands project set out to chronicle the Troubles in a new way - interactive data visualisaiton.

Thread on data here:
This is every death over 30 years of The Troubles visualised.

The tool is weepeople.css by @ProPublica and the data is from Post-Mortem, a database of deaths by Michael McKeown, hosted by @UlsterCAIN.

Read 'The Irish Times - Keeping The Peace' here:

irishtimes.com/news/world/bre…
Deaths are listed chronologically with a shadow to represent every single person who died in 30 years of the Troubles

Click on a figure to find out the individual's name and how, where and when they died.

irishtimes.com/news/world/bre…

#BrexitBorderlands
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Pete North
@PeteNorth303
1. Plenty of people are talking about the serious threat #Brexit poses to the economy as though remaining was an entirely consequence free decision. It certainly wasn't. By voting to remain we might very well have deferred one or two problems but they would only ambush us later.
2. For starters the stresses that led many to vote leave would still be present and would remain unaddressed. Had we voted Remain the establishment would have paid lip service to the losers but by now the referendum would be ancient history and theyd revert to business as usual.
3. And business as usual is exemplified by the Mayor of London whose top priority this week is to ban burger adverts on the tube. Nevermind the slow motion massacre on the streets of London. This is the bread and butter of the Westminster bubble.
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