Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[Pickman's model]

Surely that means that the rest of the UK will be in the same regulatory regime? Unless there is some amazing plan to put a border between Northern Ireland and Wales, Scotland and England?

see the posts about a border in the irish sea passim

 

[Kaka Tim]

see the posts about a border in the irish sea passim

if thats the case it wont be long before we hear the dulcet tones of the norn iron unionist headbangers screaming in apoplectic rage.

 

[Pickman's model]

if thats the case it wont be long before we hear the dulcet tones of the norn iron unionist headbangers screaming in apoplectic rage.

screaming in apoplectic rage is the only tone they have

 

[littlebabyjesus]

if thats the case it wont be long before we hear the dulcet tones of the norn iron unionist headbangers screaming in apoplectic rage.

And there's the DUP that campaigned to Leave. Almost as if they didn't think it through, the stupid bigotted twats.

 

[gosub]

And there's the DUP that campaigned to Leave. Almost as if they didn't think it through, the stupid bigotted twats.

I think DUP got as far as "what do the Fenians want? we'll do the opposite"

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I think DUP got as far as "what do the Fenians want? we'll do the opposite"

Yep. McGuinness was very vocal in opposing the very idea of a referendum.

 

[Crispy]

This Connelly chap now says The draft text on Ireland has since been updated to include the phrase "continued regulatory alignment" rather than "no regulatory divergence", acc to well-placed sources

That is not enough for a seamless border, surely.

it's starting to sound like a mathematical definition.

"Lines which do not converge? Or lines which converge at infinity? It matters!"

 

[Winot]

A border drawn by MC Escher.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

A fractal border.

 

[Crispy]

A fractal border.

Brexit could be delayed forever while they measure it

 

[2hats]

Brexit could be delayed forever while they measure it

It most certainly needs examining at every level.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Brexit could be delayed forever while they measure it

The devil's in the detail.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

article is from 6 months ago.

I know and everything he said was going to happen is happening. There will be no deal from the EU, they are stringing the UK along, so we either crawl back or fuck 'em off. All this pissing about we're seeing is just a waste of precious time.

 

[Silas Loom]

Neither crawl back not fuck 'em off are meaningful positions on their own. Either would require talks. Lots of talks. Talks take time. In fact, there's nothing at all that could conceivably be done in the remaining Article 50 time.

 

[Pickman's model]

Neither crawl back not fuck 'em off are meaningful positions. Either would require talks. Lots of talks. Talks take time. In fact, there's nothing at all that could conceivably be done in the remaining Article 50 time.

oh i think the government will think of some way to while the time away

 

[hot air baboon]

‘In the absence of agreed solutions the UK will ensure that there continues to be no divergence from those rules of the internal market + customs union which, now or in the future, support North South cooperation +protection of the GFA.’

so the Irish Gov has leaked this draft as "we got NI" whilst there's a fair amount of fudge in there unless I'm much mistaken

 

[Silas Loom]

It's not vacuous. If true, it means continued ECJ governance, and accepting new rules, as part of the (prolonged) interim. Across the whole UK.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Neither crawl back not fuck 'em off are meaningful positions on their own. Either would require talks. Lots of talks. Talks take time. In fact, there's nothing at all that could conceivably be done in the remaining Article 50 time.

Fuck 'em off doesn't need talks. We plant the nut on Junkers and catch the next Eurostar home. No €50bn bollocks, just a phone call to the WTO to get that ball rolling, get building some customs facilities and from March 2019 be one of the countries of the world which is not one of the 27 members of the EU.

 

[Silas Loom]

Fuck 'em off doesn't need talks. We plant the nut on Junkers and catch the next Eurostar home. No €50bn bollocks, just a phone call to the WTO to get that ball rolling, get building some customs facilities and from March 2019 be one of the countries of the world which is not one of the 27 members of the EU.

You do realise that this is complete nonsense? Even no-dealers are clear that they mean a no-deal deal, rather than the absence of any deal at all. The impact of what you suggest would be insane. There would, quite genuinely, be no food in the shops.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Fuck 'em off doesn't need talks. We plant the nut on Junkers and catch the next Eurostar home. No €50bn bollocks, just a phone call to the WTO to get that ball rolling, get building some customs facilities and from March 2019 be one of the countries of the world which is not one of the 27 members of the EU.

So what? British people living in the EU, EU people living in Britain? Just fuck em.

That's not an option. It never has been.

 

[Pickman's model]

So what? British people living in the EU, EU people living in Britain? Just fuck em.

That's not an option. It never has been.

of course it's an option. it might not be to your taste, but it's still an option.

your liberal blinkers are getting in the way of your thinking. again.

 

[Winot]

Fuck 'em off doesn't need talks. We plant the nut on Junkers and catch the next Eurostar home. No €50bn bollocks, just a phone call to the WTO to get that ball rolling, get building some customs facilities and from March 2019 be one of the countries of the world which is not one of the 27 members of the EU.

How are you going to get your clients flown home on 1 April 2019?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

So what? British people living in the EU, EU people living in Britain? Just fuck em.

That's not an option. It never has been.

Yeah, fuck 'em all.

Unless the EU want to start talking seriously about moving forward, I would suggest that Eire prepares for waves of refugees flooding in from Kilburn...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

How are you going to get your clients flown home on 1 April 2019?

In a Lancaster Bomber.

 

[gosub]

‘In the absence of agreed solutions the UK will ensure that there continues to be no divergence from those rules of the internal market + customs union which, now or in the future, support North South cooperation +protection of the GFA.’

so the Irish Gov has leaked this draft as "we got NI" whilst there's a fair amount of fudge in there unless I'm much mistaken

turns out there wasn't any red or blue paint available for May's "red, white and blue Brexit"

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeah, fuck 'em all.

Unless the EU want to start talking seriously about moving forward, I would suggest that Eire prepares for waves of refugees flooding in from Kilburn...

yeh that will go down really well in e.g. cricklewood, liverpool and glasgow.

 

[gosub]

Yeah, fuck 'em all.

Unless the EU want to start talking seriously about moving forward, I would suggest that Eire prepares for waves of refugees flooding in from Kilburn...

don't think you've been to Kilburn in a while

 

[Silas Loom]

Yeah, fuck 'em all.

Unless the EU want to start talking seriously about moving forward, I would suggest that Eire prepares for waves of refugees flooding in from Kilburn...

The EU is talking seriously. The people who are talking frivolously are the ones who are pretending that immediate independence from the EEA, the ECJ and the EU customs union is in any way possible.

 

[2hats]

turns out there wasn't any red or blue paint available for May's "red, white and blue Brexit"

You read it here first.

 

[2hats]

Fuck 'em off doesn't need talks. We plant the nut on Junkers and catch the next Eurostar home. No €50bn bollocks, just a phone call to the WTO to get that ball rolling, get building some customs facilities and from March 2019 be one of the countries of the world which is not one of the 27 members of the EU.

So who is part of the decision making process at the WTO? Anyone you’ve told to fuck off recently?