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Just once I’d like a solution to the Northern Ireland border problem to last more than a few hours

Just once I’d like a solution to the Northern Ireland border problem to last more than a few hours

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David Davis’ new plan for ‘buffer zone’ at Irish border to break Brexit deadlock branded ‘nonsense’ by the DUP https://t.co/mn3flKomCl — Sun Politics (@SunPolitics) June 1, 2018 Something tells me Brexit isn’t as easy as David Davis thought it would be. This is what he said in July 2016. Nearly two years on he still hasn’t sorted out the Northern Ireland border issue and that was meant to be the easy bit. Pic via @BuzzFeedUKPol pic.twitter.com/RbcXuEbxfE — TSE (@TSEofPB) June…

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Has David Davis just increased the chances of a 2018 election or Corbyn becoming PM this year?

Has David Davis just increased the chances of a 2018 election or Corbyn becoming PM this year?

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Excl: Revealed – David Davis’s new Brexit plan to give Northern Ireland joint UK/EU status and a border buffer zone;https://t.co/jCjUi6vMnD — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 31, 2018 Two big developments for the Max Fac option (the only one under real consideration now)1. DD has been persuaded a technological solution to keep the NI border open won’t work, so has moved to regulatory alignment ideas (1/3) — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 31, 2018 This may just win agreement from…

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If the DUP can make Martin McGuinness Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland then we shouldn’t rule them out making Corbyn Prime Minister

If the DUP can make Martin McGuinness Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland then we shouldn’t rule them out making Corbyn Prime Minister

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A Brexit deal that separates the Six Counties from the rest of the UK could rupture the DUP and Tory alliance for years. Over the last few years many observers on politics, myself included, have made assumptions that turned out be very wrong. Lib Dem incumbency would save them from a catastrophic seat loss in 2015, the electorate wouldn’t vote to make themselves poorer by Leaving the European Union, and Jeremy Corbyn’s backstory & a divided Labour party would see…

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If the 7 Sinn Fein MPs take their seats TMay’s future & possibly Brexit would be down to the Tory EU rebels

If the 7 Sinn Fein MPs take their seats TMay’s future & possibly Brexit would be down to the Tory EU rebels

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Lots of talk about today of the possibility that the Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, taking up its MP seats at Westminster. A call has been made by the prime minister of the Irish Republic, Leo Varadkar, who is saying that the Sinn Fein MPs should take up their seats at Westminster in order to make things better for Ireland. On the face of it this seems simple but I’m am less sure. For a century Sinn Fein MPs who’ve…

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Boundary conditions. How Brexit might be helping to lay the ground for the SNP

Boundary conditions. How Brexit might be helping to lay the ground for the SNP

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Some international boundaries are easy to understand. The Pyrenees form a natural frontier between Spain and France. The Kattegat conveniently separates Sweden and Denmark. While in the past each pair of countries has seen their border shift over time, the current resting place looks very natural. The boundary between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland does not come in that category. There are few obvious natural boundaries along the route. Donegal is almost cut off from the rest of…

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The coming West Tyrone by-election would only matter if the winner took his/her seat at Westminster

The coming West Tyrone by-election would only matter if the winner took his/her seat at Westminster

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Wikipedia The seat will have land border with the Irish Republic and EU following Brexit At last we have the first by-election of the 2017 Parliament. It is in West Tyrone in Northern Ireland where the sitting Sinn Fein MP has decided to resign following controversy over things that he posted on the internet. Given that following his party’s normal practice he has never taken his seat at Westminster the margins from last June look so great that the coming…

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Iff this is true then the chances of a 2018 general election have increased, the DUP will bring down Mrs May’s government

Iff this is true then the chances of a 2018 general election have increased, the DUP will bring down Mrs May’s government

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BREAKING: UK will concede that there will be no "regulatory divergence" on the island of Ireland on the single market and customs union, acc to a draft text seen by @rtenews — Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) December 4, 2017 Acc to one version of EU-UK draft: “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…

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