Westminstenders: The Tunnel or Bridge

[RedToothBrush]

Apparently negotiations are in the black hole of the EU tunnel or should that be on the back of the fantasy of the Boris Bridge?

Another week closer to complete meltdown.

I'm guessing that our world beating customs solution will be based on blackboard and chalk.

It's becoming tiring - and a little embarrassing - to have to keep on pointing out that Canada is not the UK.

I'm beyond depressed and furious now with our exit from Europe and Covid on top. Billions of £ have left the UK. Good people will keep leaving the UK. We have the Tories for 3 more years at least. This really is the end of "Great" Britain and I feel so sad for my children that their future will be so badly affected by these awful, awful people.

Should the portaloos that the government has proudly announced it’s helpfully going to be putting along the routes to the ports be called “Nigels”?

peregrina yes absolutely re 2019 Election. Labour and Lib Dems decision was appalling and they are absolutely complicit.

I would be very surprised if it wasn't the end of the United Kingdom - the question is When?

@Peregrina

I would be very surprised if it wasn't the end of the United Kingdom - the question is When?

The only question is whether scotland or NI go first.

We will, in the NoI. I fully expect reunification next five years. We only need 50% +1. And we will have it.

I wondered myself if NI would have a big push to reunify in 2022 - 100 years after the split?

Yes there is a big push...I had hoped to attend some Think32 events this year but thanks to Covid it wasn't possible. Quite a lot of young people who would traditionally have been unionist are seeing it as a real option now too.

@TheQuietWoman

We will, in the NoI. I fully expect reunification next five years. We only need 50% +1. And we will have it.

That's what I'm worried about. 51% will not lead to a smooth reunification.

Ochon it is really important that it is a new Ireland where everyone feels welcome and that's why I would be happy if the referendum took place even in ten years, to give us time to make that happen. The DUP would have a few seats in Dublin.

@Peregrina

I wondered myself if NI would have a big push to reunify in 2022 - 100 years after the split?

Star Trek has 2024

@TheQuietWoman

Ochon it is really important that it is a new Ireland where everyone feels welcome and that's why I would be happy if the referendum took place even in ten years, to give us time to make that happen. The DUP would have a few seats in Dublin.

Having 49% of the population of NI opposing reunification would make that very, very difficult. I thunk a more gradual approach would be much better and more successful.

The DUP would have a few seats in Dublin.

Not necessarily. It would depend on who the people of NI return in their constituencies. However, it is important that all voices are represented.

Just for @bellinisurge and anybody else with a shiny new Irish passport

Meanwhile for those of us stuck in mainland UK with total or partial pub curfews

Thank you @ListeningQuietly 😊

Running with the theme of old adverts
look at the foods from before the single market

It really fucking pisses me off that leavers are now making out like they just wanted a Canada deal like EU initially offered. The Canada deal has a dispute resolution system that involves EU judges. No fucking way did they want that. Like always they wanted to benefits of the Canada deal with none of the responsibilities of it. Cakeism.

The decision to slash bursaries for MFL PGCE courses, along with Brexit and other joys, means that a joint PGCE exchange programme between my university and a UK one is doomed.
But, hey, who needs native French speakers to teach French, eh?

And here are tomorrows ads.

@TheQuietWoman

We will, in the NoI. I fully expect reunification next five years. We only need 50% +1. And we will have it.

Really? 50%+1? That sounds like an extremely dangerous, disruptive and divisive majority on which to base any significant change.

Manchester chief constable doesn't want his people to be piggy-in-the-middle.

He also knows that chief constables answer locally, not to Westminster

... and his force will have to police locally, long after Covid has gone

• the public take decades to forgive on the occasions when the police use force to impose something unpopular on them

His letter in full:

oops reached sodding MN photo limit 😡

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