EU make offer to reduce 80% of post Brexit checks at NI border

[ReganAndCarter]

Some old duffer Mr Bumbalini visiting his daughter in N I

Stopped by Custums as he gets off the ferry his suit case gets searched . they find 3 pkts of sausages’s

he is stripped searched for other contraband and than duly charged with with ignoring E U law

bail is denied as Mr bumbalini awaits possible extradition to ******
For trial

Mr Bumbalina should have kept quiet about his little enterprise. He must have been overheard.

Remember: Walls have ears!

 

[ReganAndCarter]

It doesn't matter if he lies, cheats or steals. The British public have been softened up for this through decades of sycophantic media and client journalism. The BBC one time used to scare the pants off politicians but now the likes of Kuenssberg have just become their paid PR. Cummings outed her in his interview and if she had an iota of journalistic integrity she would have resigned.

Every democracy needs an independent source of truth or fact. One that is not reliant on ratings or advertisements. However politicians being what they are, they have politicised the BBC to the point it now has a revolving door between its news output and PR / Comms roles in Government.

The public are just saps.

Agree. Media are almost as culpable as the government in this mess. Same with Covid.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Whoops I missed something the so called deal does state - how to handle the Irish boarder problem. Diddley squat else.

Boris signed it so live with it.

You're as bad as transam with his persistent spelling mistake:
ounce ≠ once
boarder ≠ border
boarder = lodger, or student in a boarding school
border = frontier between different countries.

Handling the Irish boarder problem means evicting them, getting them to pay their rent etc.

 

[JohnD]

You're as bad as transam with his persistent spelling mistake:

that is because the despicable troll finds it amusing to mock the brain-damaged, uneducated or dyslexic members,

 

[transam]

that is because the despicable troll finds it amusing to mock the brain-damaged, uneducated or dyslexic members,

I have never mocked your lack of education

 

[JohnD]

Brexers to blame.

Theresa May, Johnson’s predecessor, said no British prime minister could ever agree to a border down the Irish Sea. But Johnson made that concession to “get Brexit done”, to force an election, to avoid creating a border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and to keep Britain out of a customs union with the EU.

 

[transam]

Blame the Labour Party and the ERG for the caper

yep corbyn and his party voted with smog and his group on the caper

 

[Vinty]

Brexers to blame.

Theresa May, Johnson’s predecessor, said no British prime minister could ever agree to a border down the Irish Sea. But Johnson made that concession to “get Brexit done”, to force an election, to avoid creating a border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and to keep Britain out of a customs union with the EU.

I think Boris has damaged the UK, no matter what happens with the N. I. protocol, things will never be the same again.
The psychological impact of his actions on peoples perception of what the UK stands for has been profound.

 

[Mottie]

The psychological impact of his actions on peoples perception of what the UK stands for has been profound.

Depends who follows in his footsteps. Trump is a distant memory (in my perception anyway) of loudmouth twittering, fake news US leadership.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Depends who follows in his footsteps.

And has to clear up his mess.

Although NI has been a thorn in GB's side for a long time.
It wouldn't surprise me if there is an underhand long-term objective of a NI - GB divorce.
Apparently, the population is inevitably moving in that direction.
Although not all Catholics support a re-united Ireland.
I assume not all Protestants support Unionism.

It is likely Catholics will outnumber Protestants by 2021 in Northern Ireland, according to a leading academic.
Dr Paul Nolan, who specialises in monitoring the peace process and social trends, told BBC News NI that there could be more Catholics than Protestants in Northern Ireland by the centenary of the foundation of the state.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43823506


New light shed on prospect of Catholic majority in North
University report shows how future trends might affect fluid nature of sectarianism
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pol...spect-of-catholic-majority-in-north-1.3891032​

 

[Vinty]

Catholics have always outnumbered Protestants in Ireland.
Protestants are still a majority where it counts and that is in East Ulster.
A form of repartition may have to be considered to secure a future Protestant/Unionist majority.
Anyway, in the last census only 26% of people gave their national identity as Irish against 45% who gave British as their national identity.

 

[ellal]

I think Boris has damaged the UK, no matter what happens with the N. I. protocol, things will never be the same again.
The psychological impact of his actions on peoples perception of what the UK stands for has been profound.

Let me paraphrase that for you...

He has f*cked over the UK!

Although camoron did worse by agreeing to the stupid referendum in the first place simply to further his own political ambitions!

Spot the link?

Both narcissistic sociopaths!