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In a speech in Belfast on Friday she is expected to brand the bloc’s calls for regulatory alignment north and south of the border as a “backstop” solution in the event of no deal as “unworkable”, and repeat her assertion that a border down the Irish Sea is unacceptable to any British prime minister.

Theresa May: I will never accept EU's ideas on Irish Brexit border: EU27 must ditch ‘unworkable’ plans and break impasse, PM tells Belfast summit


So...

1. We are committed to there being no change to the current border arrangements between ROI and NI
2. The UK will not be remaining within the CU or the SM
3. The UK will not accept NI remaining within the CU or the SM without us
4. We demand that somebody else sort this out.

So that's what we're getting from our supposedly Rolls-Royce civil service: if we are hit by a "no deal" scenario, "not everything will be perfect" and "we shouldn't assume it will be smooth"

http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=86937

Carry on up the Khyber springs to mind (again)

Carry On Regardless (of the awkward things like facts)

After the recent Chequers gathering, Johnson said that accepting May’s Brexit deal would be like “polishing a turd”. He has a point. It’s now painfully clear that whatever agreement is reached, it will satisfy few leave or remain voters. What Johnson does not acknowledge is that it is his turd. If he is incapable of clearing up after himself, the least he can do is not blame the stench on others.

Morning.


https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... nd-support

"Reform"

Reform will look at the design of the sickness element and what more can be done both to prevent people from flowing onto the benefit

Where to start..

For all the bellyaching about the left’s obsession with “identity politics” – a term now so maligned it can mean whatever you want it to mean so long as you don’t like it – the right has most effectively leveraged identity (rallying people through race, nation, religion, gender, myth and nostalgia) to political and electoral ends.

“It used to be a pretty good deal to be a white, Christian male in America, but things have changed, and I think they do feel threatened,” Mutz told the New York Times.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... in-america

"The world of national sovereignty, racial purity and ethnic homogeneity is not coming back because it never existed and cannot be created from whole cloth."

- Gary Younge

good point

Queen's private estate records £20m profit but could take Brexit hit

Duchy of Lancaster surplus rises 4.9% on last year but Brexit is seen as ‘strategic risk’

The Queen’s accountants have warned Brexit is a potential risk to her finances as she received another record multimillion-pound surplus from her private estate last year. (Guardian - my emphasis)

Despite her supposed lack of power, maybe she is *the* one person who might actually "stop Brexit"?? Now there's a thought......

It is genuinely amazing how Crace has come on in the last year or so, really thought he was awful when he orginally replaced the still missed Hoggart.

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.... but said in public straight after that it complies with them

Hoggart could only have dreamed of the material Crace has, day after day.