Last night.
RTÉ News reported that the British Government is allegedly proposing to build customs posts between five and ten miles along both sides of the border to replace the backstop, as part of the UK’s Brexit deal proposals.
However, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has dismissed the idea.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also dismissed the leaked proposal but told BBC this morning that it’s a “reality” that some customs checks will be needed.
Further to this…
Richard Cantwell tweetz:
Here’s a map [above] showing what a 10-mile buffer zone along *both* sides of the border would look like.
There are over 625,000 people living in the zone.
Last night, RTÉ’s Europe Editor Tony Connelly tweeted:
Meanwhile…
Tánaiste Simon Coveney responded…
Non-Paper = Non-Starter. Time the EU had a serious proposal from the UK Govt if a #Brexit deal is to be achievable in October. NI and IRE deserves better!
— Simon Coveney (@simoncoveney) September 30, 2019
Meanwhile…
Is it possible that all of our TD’s and media were asleep ten days ago when Jean-Claude Juncker said checks were necessary in the event of no-deal? Astounding the gamble they all made backing Varadkar & Coveney’s high risk strategy. https://t.co/pl67hdRL8C
— Robert Burke (@robertburke84) October 1, 2019
couldn’t that be turned into a free-market, free-trade, anything-goes zone of licentious sodom-and-gomorrah’esque zero-fupps-given, good-time economic area?
You looking at buying a house up that way for those exact purposes, Brother?
weekend getaway, milz
Two houses. One either side.
We’re BACK baby
Dunno. Best ask the Quinns
How about we re draw the Border? Bring Tyrone and Fermanagh back in, make Derry a buffer zone between the other 2 counties. It’ll make it much more smoother for us when Ireland is reunited for 2026.
i say we just invade the north and take it back. in six months time, the uk will be skint and the army will be out dealing with riots outside tesco for the last few tins of carling black label.
“…when Ireland is reunited in 2026”
Let’s hope not
in the event of a no-deal brexit, which is looking likely, you might have to rethink your stance.
as I’ve said before @scottser
you first
€€€
The situation which happened during the troubles could never invert- the British running of loyalist murder gangs would be impossible and besides- why would they want to be involved?
Plus- if the NI economy tanks because of Brexit, there will be a sizable percentage of Protestants who by that stage will be in favour.
There a lot more people like Drew Harris in the north than you might think- from Unionist backgrounds but who now consider themselves to be Irish- and that is before the worse excesses of Briexit even happen.
So the object is to get No Deal by making sure the EU reject their stupid proposals.
That was the gameplan of boris and co all along “ we want a deal, but, the eu are being intransigent”
Same reason he’s demanding the opposition call an election. He knows that without one he’ll be the one who has to go back and beg for an extension so it’s bluff and bluster as he throws a tantrum about it and grandstands for the conference before the big climb down.
It’s like a large intestine.
‘The Belly Border’ – hard to stomach.
Cast Iron?
Politically bullet proof?
We have achieved out goals?
Courtesy of Varadkars hired, not hired, re hired podium pronounciations in 2017.
In the meantime, the real FG leader, Coveney is grafting while Varadkar is adding to his store of photo memorabilia of celebrities he’s asked to meet.
Looks remarkably like a DMZ.
Funnily enough…
So the backstop was proposed to remove the need for a border and now it is proposed to replace the backstop with an even bigger border
Ehhh…… No!!!