Re: Brexit : Cox: we're still screwed! Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on March 12, 2019, 1:07 pm, in reply to "Brexit : Cox: we're still screwed!"
... And it was all supposed to be so easy! What's changed is the wording, but not the meaning. The EU has moved a fraction in the UK's direction, but in practice the 'compromise' is nothing really, substantial new or particularly different. The backstop/border issue is still there and the UK can't unilaterally change it without EU agreement. Which sinks it for the DUP and the Tory nationalists. May's gonna lose tonight. I've heard government ministers talking about the border issue and saying that there won't be a hard border, the scrutiny won't be at the border, but somewhere else using 'alternative arrangement', which don't yet exist and may never exist. The point is where does one impliment the tech-fix, on the old border, or on the new one, further indland? So the current border isn't absolutely solid and sacrosant for the British Government, they are prepared to, in practice, move it somewhere else, for now. Only the DUP won't accept this 'dillusion' of the border and what amounts to the Irish Republic moving the border further into Northern Ireland and British territory.
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