Ah.
This afternoon.
US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May (top) at Chequers, Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire and inflatable Trump during protests in in Westminster, London.
His finest hour.
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This morning’s UK The Sun
He said the Brexit proposals Mrs May and her cabinet thrashed out at the PM’s country house Chequers last week “would probably end a major trade relationship with the United States.”
“We have enough difficulty with the European Union,” he said, saying the EU has “not treated the United States fairly on trading”.
He also said Mrs May had not listened to his advice on how to do a Brexit deal, saying: “I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn’t agree, she didn’t listen to me. She wanted to go a different route,” he said.
Donald Trump and Theresa May meet amid Brexit storm (BBC)
Oh, wait now.
Cathal O’Rourke writes:
This BBC Spotlight thing was on the other night. Includes:
Environmental profiteering!
Dirty Ukrainian Money!
The Tories!
The DUP!
Brexit !…and a cameo from Christopher Wylie (top), of Cambridge Analytica infamy, and the FBI agent who brought down the Wolf of Wall Street
Stick the kettle on etc, and to the pitchforks afterwards.
Slurp/FIGHT!
The proposal includes a 10 mile-wide buffer zone the length of Northern Ireland’s border
Was it for this?
…[UK Brexit secretary] David Davis is devising a new Brexit plan to break a talks deadlock by giving Northern Ireland joint EU and UK status as well as a border buffer zone.
Under the radical blueprint, the province would operate a double hatted regime of European and British regulations at the same time, so it can trade freely with both.
FIGHT!
Graph via The Sun
From top: Michael Barnier and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar; Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, Mr Barnier and moderator: Áine Lawlor at an event called “The Brexit Negotiations: State of play and future direction” this afternoon
This afternoon.
Dundalk Institute of Technology, County Louth.
The All-Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit: Fourth Plenary Session featuring the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michael Barnier.
He said there can be no Brexit withdrawal agreement without a “backstop” option for the Irish border,
Mr Barnier denied claims from Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), that he has been “aggressive” towards Northern Ireland unionists in the Brexit talks.
The DUP leader said earlier that Mr Barnier did not understand the dispute and was not an “honest broker”.
In response, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator said he was not ready to engage in “polemics” with Mrs Foster.
He said he had not approached the negotiations in a “spirit of revenge”
Barnier warns of no Brexit deal without border backstop (BBC)
No Surrender
at— Ian Paisley MP (@ianpaisleymp) April 26, 2018
Gulp.
BREAKING: @PhilHoganEU tells Seanad @OireachtasNews the UK government “has to face up to the fact that decision time is here on #Brexit” He claims we are stuck in the UK’s “self-imposed contradiction between its reassurance of a soft border and its hard line demands” pic.twitter.com/AoaclzUwsM
— RTÉ Politics (@rtepolitics) April 26, 2018
He looks well.
Yesterday.
Eamon Mallie writes:
…apart from the poor grammar I was a little taken aback to see this poster at Belfast International Airport…
The Lads
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From left: Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Trade, Darragh O Brien, Liberal Democrat former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg, former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine and the Labour Party’s Lord Adonis , Fianna Fail TD Stephen Donnelly
Yesterday.
Buswell’s and Leinster House, Dublin 2
The Fianna Fáil-hosted British ‘cross party conference on Brexit and future of Irish Border’ took place with former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, Liberal Democrat former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg, and the Labour Party’s Lord Adonis in attendance.
Sir Nick, Lord Heseltine and Lord Adonis, all of whom are campaigning to keep the UK in the European Union, are visiting a series of European capitals to shed well-fed tears with like-minded Europhiles.
Rollingnews
Komm Zu Mama
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany yesterday
Varadkar said that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed” and that he’s reassured by the depth of support from Germany, the EU’s most populous country.
“Ireland can rely on us,” Merkel said.
In Brussels, European Council President Donald Tusk was upbeat about over all progress on Brexit before chairing a two-day summit starting Thursday.
“We have achieved success” on defending the rights of citizens hit hardest by Britain’s departure and the divorce bill that May’s government must pay, Tusk wrote in an invitation letter to the leaders.
He said that May has accepted the idea of “full regulatory alignment between Ireland and Northern Ireland if there is no other possibility to avoid a hard border. This bodes well for the rest of the negotiations.”
Germany reassures Ireland over Brexit border impasse (Washington Post)