They should have the same rule as in snooker where if a player commits a particularly catastrophic foul his opponent can take the free points and force the miscreant to play the mess he’s made.
VB
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I’ll bet The Sun’s Irish version said something completely different, despite being largely the same paper. They’ll be fucking moaning and pointing the finger if the shooting and bombing starts up again, which is sadly quite likely if we feck Brexit up so badly that a hard border is imposed.
1 must have a soft border with 2
2 must have a soft border with 3
3 must have a soft border with 4
1 must have a hard border with 4
How’s that going to work?
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Boris said it would be easy. Perhaps he will paint the explanation on the side of a bus so we will all believe it.
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The only way it’ll work is if the UK/EU trade deal can maintain soft borders all round. It’s a catch 22 as the Irish/EU won’t talk trade before border guarantees are made.
Appallingly, Stronzetto has been testing the waters in Sandhurst to glean if anyone is up for the ‘Mugabe maneuver’ Surely not everyone in the armed forces are completely devoid of common sense? I would actually prefer a military junta right now, particularly if it was headed up by a Grubby figment Field Marshal manservant.
Why do I need to subscribe to the FT, Stu?
Strange
NOVEMBER 6, 2017 John Burn-Murdoch 31 comments
The wealthiest parts of the UK, including London, Oxford and Cambridge, are best placed to weather the storm from growing automation, falling immigration and an ageing population, according to research.
An analysis by Localis, a think-tank, suggests that the existing inequality across the UK is likely to worsen during the next decade, with some regions being left behind as robots start taking jobs and immigration falls after Brexit.
Localis said that London and Brighton were particularly well prepared for the upheaval from automation, with both cities having a young and highly skilled workforce that can adapt to new ways of working.
The think-tank also considered the reduction in availability of migrant labour that will follow the UK’s exit from the EU. Employers in heavily exposed industries such as farming are already experiencing staff shortages in the wake of the referendum vote.
Some large farming employers say they will have to replace the lost personnel with machines, since they are unable to find UK-born workers, suggesting the loss of migrant labour may in fact act as a catalyst for the spread of automation.
London and Brighton again fare well by the migrant labour measure, and are joined by the golden triangle between Oxford, Cambridge and the capital, which has particularly few people working in the most exposed industries.
At the other end of the scale are places such as Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Hull, all of which have high numbers of people employed in exactly the low-paying and low-skilled jobs that go to migrant labourers — or may soon go to robots. About one job in four in Northamptonshire is in one of the most precarious industries.
Localis calculated an overall score for each of 47 English strategic authorities, combining the share of the workforce employed in industries at high risk from automation and migrant labour shortages, the share of the population aged 65 and above, and the workforce’s qualifications.
Brighton came out on top, and had the highest scores for automation, age and skills. London, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and the west of England, which includes the university cities of Bristol and Bath, round out the top five. Lincolnshire was bottom of the pile, chiefly because of high automation risk and a low skills base.
Additional analysis of Localis’s labour market resilience scores shows that a gradual polarisation of English labour markets has been under way for a decade, and that the places identified by Localis as most at risk from future shifts are those that have already suffered the most.
The employment rate in Lincolnshire, whose labour force is the most precarious in the country, is still 2 per cent below its pre-recession total in 2007.
Fellow struggler Northamptonshire has fared even worse. In 2007, 67 per cent of its adult population was in work. Ten years on, the figure is 62 per cent.
Even putting aside the threats of automation and a shrinking migrant labour force, the basic health of English labour markets is diverging. In 40 of the 47 English regions, the age profile of the population has grown further from the national average during the past 10 years.
Meanwhile, in East Sussex, the ratio of 65-and-overs to under-65s has risen from 28 to 34, taking the retirement hotspot from nine points older than the average to 12.
A similar fracturing process is happening with skill levels, where the gap between the national average and each of 30 regions has widened since 2007.
The share of Brighton’s adult population with at least an NVQ level 3 has risen from 13 to 15 percentage points above the national average, while the West Midlands’ skills deficit has widened from 8 percentage points to 11.
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I know I am, but what about the link?
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Just copy and pasted it above
Thanks, but I’m going to bed at 11pm
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Short version;
Places that voted Brexit have blasted both feet off
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Karma.
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Much better 
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Ftfy
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I don’t believe there is anything in the GFA about soft borders with Eire.
You are probably right - who would have thought that any dick head would put them at risk?
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TBH Chris, thre is nothing in the GFA about the soft border. The promises are all from the Brexiteers and DUPers
Fuck 'em, poxy EU twats.