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  1. philosophical

    philosophical Well-Known Member

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    The UK voted leave.
    Two divergent systems either side of a line of demarcation, otherwise known as a border.
    If the UK does not intend to do anything they leave a completely free and open connection to the EU.
    Hence the UK won't have left.
     
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    The EU will not suddenly betray Ireland to appease Boris.

     
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    The Battling Blancmange is a feckless flyweight.

    As soon as he welched on Theresa May's backstop deal, he was being counted out.
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    I remember when May was telling the Scottish Police they would need to be prepared for massive civil unrest after she brought the UK out of the EU and they were asking why? People are saying it is going to be much worse this time

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-faces-no-deal-brexit-18959771

    Scottish Government may seek an ‘accelerated timetable’ for indyref2 from Holyrood following Electoral Commission intervention
     
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    Those voting leave voted to have a rock hard border around the UK.
    Unless leave means remain in their doublethink universe.
     
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    I did, some aid to some French MP who never won the election said it.

    At the end of the day, I guess it only matters what Macron's government says,
     
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    It matters that you were claiming it was happening. Your own article says
    and as I suppose you know Macron has shown no desire to make it easy for the UK so where is your source for what you claimed earlier that France was agreeing to the border being in France?
     
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    EU may try to force France to do so.
    The people of France who already suffer, see the yellow vests, will force France out of EU as consequence.
    Do you think those imbeciles in Brussels will be smart enough to understand the storm at their gate ?
    Of course not, they are bureaucrats (or should I say beuropcrats?), they would not figure what is going on until it is too late.
     
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    Boris is so desperate, his flailing about has now actually arrived at his fantasizing that Ireland (that regards Boris with distain, loathing, and contempt) might want to enter into a mutual suicide pack with the UK!

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    GALLOWS HUMOUR?
     
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    :roflol::roflol::roflol:

    I am sure I have heard posters on here saying that. It is certainly not the first time I have heard it. Boris and friends have no idea what it is like for any of the ordinary people of the UK, never mind Ireland. What I don't get is why they pick up his sound bites and go with whatever he or another one of them say. It certainly is nothing about sovereignty as they must know by now we are going to be another state of the US so I don't know what motivates them. It seems they just get a high on causing destruction.

    Now Boris, there is money in it for him and his hedge fund backers - that is something quite different.
     
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    America can supply all the food the UK requires at lower cost than the EU can
     
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    American 'food' is mainly appalling in my experience.
    Especially if you're a vegan or vegetarian.
    I know because I have at least been to New York where the staple diet seemed to be very manky pizzas, or large bits of carcass.
    I know you can't get a decent cup of tea in the New York I experienced, and a decent bar of chocolate? Have any of you had the stomach to eat Hershey bars? Vile crap.
    Don't get me started on American cheese, which by a very considerable margin is the worst cheese in the known universe.
    The only way Americans make their highly processed obesity creating food seem attractive to the fools prepared to be taken in, is to pour loads of money into advertising their mucky fodder.
    There may be some small scale corners of America with decent wholesome food on a small local scale, but the notion that America can supply the UK with industrial quantities of decent nourishment is laughable.
     
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    I was not suggesting that America sell prepared food to the UK

    It would be rather impractical to bake a pizza in New York and ship it to London

    Assuming the newly freed British still know how to cook they can get all the ingredients they need from America at a very fair price
     
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    The British not restrained by any outside force they have not agreed to accept, being 'free' is an erroneous concept in the debate over brexit.
    The 'fair price' you mention also compares the carbon footprint of transportation across the Atlantic to across the Channel does it?
    Maybe the Americans can use that excess food at home, and sell it in a way that would provide equal healthcare opportunities for their whole population.
    There are factors in play that don't always come down to money, but then again a lot of Americans know the price of everything but the value of nothing as Wilde would have put it.
     
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    And American wheat does not come with African or Syrian refugees who wade ashore looking for residency and welfare handouts
     
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    I must admit I hadnt considered the man made global warming we’re-all-gonna-die hoax

    But if you’d rather go hungry and die by starvation instead of drowning thats your choice
     
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    The problem Europeans have with modern Americans is that Americans don't recognise their own hypocrisy with regards to refugees and immigration, where America is a country founded by European immigrants who grew wealthy on slavery and genocide of the aboriginal peoples of North America.
     
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    I have invited you to compare the carbon footprint of importation from America with importation from Europe. The fact that you have dismissed it out of hand suggests to me you are yet another ignorant American nincompoop and barely worth discussing anything with.
    Come back when your IQ reaches as high as 10.
     
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    That would wreak havoc with Fake Don's multi-billion dollar welfare programme for American farmers.
     
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    I forgot when answering this last night that the DUP and the No Dealers apparently are intending on bankrupting Ireland if they do not do what it wants. Your post might be Boris thinking he is offering Ireland the carrot.
     
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    You are very ignorant of American history

    The agricultural south depended on slaves but industrial north did not

    And manufacturing is what made Ametica eye-popping rich and the envy of the world

    As for genocide that was common practice in almost all cultures during the 17th and 18th Century

    Its even rumored that the euro nations practiced it everywhere they went
     
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