No deal off the table

[StealthPolarBear]

Will be interesting to see what happens next

@1tisILeClerc , I heard that from the DUP yesterday. Fucking duplicitous bastards. If they had agreed to this back in January we would probably have none of this shit.
Maybe WA can get through if something like this is cooked up.

either at the NI ports or English/Welsh ports could be discussed

English/Scottish ports.

bellinisurge
The practicalities, if customs were to be conducted literally in board the ship would be 5 or 10 minutes of the truck drivers time and the customs agents examining the loads. (perhaps a bit oversimplified but certainly not too far off). It would even fit in with JiT schedules.
The DUP were against it on principle.

Sorry, Scottish/English/Welsh ports.

The DUP claimed it made them too separate (like not having equal marriage or a woman's right to choose in NI doesn't make them separate ). They can finally see now that every obstructive thing they are doing just makes unification more not less likely. A "border in the sea " solution would actually buy the unionist community more time in the UK until demographics make unification inevitable. Tricky but inevitable.

GB ports maybe?

I don't know of any Wales-NI ferry service though, it's not a very practical route.

NI to Stranraer.

IMO the ones who were duplicitous were those that voted the Tories in; then voted Leave, then didn't vote Tory in the snap GA. Which opened the doors to the DUP.

If you wanted Leave, why not give TM the mandate? Instead of invoking the swivel-eyed loons of the DUP?

I'm not sure 'reunification' in Ireland is inevitable, given that The Republic aren't that keen; and as was made clear on MN recently, only the true die-hard, misty-eyed among the NI people really wants it, knowing the economic catastrophe that would follow, given that a huge percentage of the jobs in NI are state funded.

There is a rumour that cox may add to his legal advice, something along the lines of if the backstop threatens the good Friday agreement then the U.K. can unilaterally exit the agreement, which if he does, it seems it will be a ladder for the dup to climb down and may well get it over the line.