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More on the Brexit mess...
Apr. 18th, 2019 01:27 pmwww.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/us-politicians-and-brexiteers-clash-on-concocted-border-issue-1.3862750
Wherein we find that:
"The visiting US congressional delegation had a forceful and at times heated encounter with pro-Brexit UK hardliners as the American politicians rejected claims that the Border was a “concocted” issue.
The delegation, led by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, met members of the pro-Brexit European Research Group, led by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, on Monday. The meeting was part of their mission to the UK and Ireland this week to stress that there was no chance of a US-UK trade deal if Brexit damaged the Northern Irish peace process."
Just what the rest of us have been saying all along. So much for "Project Fear" chaps, eh? What about Project Understood-the-implications-of-the-stupidity-of-the-idea instead?
Now just what are the chances of theeejits enlightened, forward-thinking leaders who dropped us this deep in the mire recanting and telling the great British public the truth about their original assertions and promises?
The GFA was guaranteed by the US and the EU, as well as the UK and the Irish Republic. Now what piece of magic will make the GFA consistent with Brexit? Unicorns and other Chimæra spring to mind, excepting they appear much more realistic than the rather imaginative ideas the ERG have for non-existent-border border control. It should be the ERG's battle cry. Border control for the non-existent border. And we want it now, and/or in the unspecified future, or never.
I'm thinking of calling it the oxymoronic expression of perfect cognitive dissonance.
Wherein we find that:
"The visiting US congressional delegation had a forceful and at times heated encounter with pro-Brexit UK hardliners as the American politicians rejected claims that the Border was a “concocted” issue.
The delegation, led by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, met members of the pro-Brexit European Research Group, led by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, on Monday. The meeting was part of their mission to the UK and Ireland this week to stress that there was no chance of a US-UK trade deal if Brexit damaged the Northern Irish peace process."
Just what the rest of us have been saying all along. So much for "Project Fear" chaps, eh? What about Project Understood-the-implications-of-the-stupidity-of-the-idea instead?
Now just what are the chances of the
The GFA was guaranteed by the US and the EU, as well as the UK and the Irish Republic. Now what piece of magic will make the GFA consistent with Brexit? Unicorns and other Chimæra spring to mind, excepting they appear much more realistic than the rather imaginative ideas the ERG have for non-existent-border border control. It should be the ERG's battle cry. Border control for the non-existent border. And we want it now, and/or in the unspecified future, or never.
I'm thinking of calling it the oxymoronic expression of perfect cognitive dissonance.
