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Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke @kevinhorourke
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Johnson's linking border issue with Dover and Calais comes here, at around 3 minutes 25 seconds. This is what I always thought they were up to.
They are trying to use the border in order to pursue their cake and eat it strategy: free trade with the US etc and no borders with Europe.
as argued here: dropbox.com/s/z4h69fzblew1…
They're not looking for a special deal for Ireland. They're looking for a special deal for the UK. A deal so special that it is, in fact, impossible.
Finding a solution to how the UK-EU border in Ireland would work was a priority for the summer, Mr Davis (Brexit Minister) said, so it could be a “test border” for the rest of EU.

ft.com/content/7def4e…
(8 July 2017)
Cynical, immoral, and ignorant.
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@davidallengreen is of course right: if HMG reneges on the backstop it previously agreed this may well lead to a no deal Brexit, considerable economic damage to Member States including Ireland, and the very hard border the backstop was designed to avoid.
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They clearly intended to use the Irish border issue to force the EU to accept no border controls anywhere, despite HMG being free to do trade deals with others, diverging in terms of regulations and all the rest of it. They were incredibly cynical.
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Just a quick reminder. On the backstop, HMG has not only signed up to the December Joint Report, it also agreed in March that...
"a legally operative version of the “backstop” solution for the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, in line with paragraph 49 of the Joint Report, should be agreed as part of the legal text of the Withdrawal Agreement, to apply unless and until another solution is found"
In line with Paragraph 49, NOT in line with Paragraphs 49 and 50.

And NOT temporary: it is to apply unless and until another solution is found.

This concession in March is too often ignored. The source is here:

ec.europa.eu/commission/sit…
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