In a nutshell right there
Marina on the money as always
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Yes but they’re comedy gold.
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Benny would do a better job FFS
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Barristers spend their lives as advocates for stuff they don’t believe, perfect apprentiship for a politician.
Years ago some one I knew, having done a bit of acting and getting bored with being broke went back to Uni and did a Law degree and went on to be a barrister. He was exempt from the first year of the Law degree as he had a 1st in English from Cambridge. I asked him if the English degree was that relevant, he said not as much as the two years he spent doing stand up!
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Bless. A casual read of the sentence would revealed my feelings towards Neil.
I just happen to feel that holding our numptie politicians - May AND For It Is He, Jez to account comes higher up the list of important shit than “does he upset poor little Owen & his friends on the left.”
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Helen McEntee making John Humphries look a complete cunt on R4.
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Standard
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Humphrys was heavy-handed and his main aim seemed to be to bang home the fact that the border in Ireland is a problem whose ‘solutions’ are all unacceptable to someone in power somewhere. Since it’s politicians’ job to resolve this, and since she’s clearly a politician, would McEntee like to say how she thought a resolution should be achieved.
McEntee leaned towards the EU’s position which is based on a thesis which is questionable, to say the least - viz. that because the UK has decided to leave the EU it is the UK’s responsibility to roll over whenever that decision raises a problem. She did make a couple of valid points, which Humphrys completely ignored, which were a) that the Irish backstop might not be the whole problem with the WA, so sorting it out might not be enough to get the deal through parliament anyway and b) that the backstop wasn’t one side’s opening position but instead was the final agreed position of both sides after two years’ detailed and tough negotiation.
If I had to bet on it I’d say that on March 30th there will be no border infrastructure or checks. Whether there ever will is moot.
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I agree - we won’t have the manpower or infrastructure in place to implement and meaningful checks. And while neither side might want them, they will have to be put in eventually (I’m assuming no agreement), otherwise we’ll both be in breach of international law. We can get away with it for a while, but it won’t be forever.
This annoys me about project fear - even in a hard Brexit, not much will change on 30 March. It’ll take a while for the shit to reach the fan. I’m dreading the glee of the Brexicunts when little changes.
On Monday’s r4Today show, Humphrys will be asking Emmanuel Macron if France would also consider leaving the EU so that we can avoid any difficulties arising between Dover & Calais.
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Some of them are. Others are wrong in other ways.
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I did read it and felt you were wrong to assert that AN is the most competent interviewer on the BBC.
I don’t know why you needed to mention May, Jez or OJ what do they have to do with it?
Love the term “Airfix Patriot” for Mark Francois on Twitter yesterday.
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I’d that’d had been me in her place, I’d have this been saying, ‘you made this mess why the fuck do you expect us to fix it for you - piss off dick bag’. Humphries‘ side seemed to revolve around making it Ireland’s problem. 
The fear is that the EU will force Ireland to stand its border guards up before the WTO forces the UK to do the same. If that’s how it turns out then it will be Irish citizens getting shot at and the Irish authorities who will have breached their GFA commitment to no hard border. I think that means it really will be Ireland’s problem. Wailing ‘the nasty Brits made us do it’ isn’t going to cut much ice with the terrorists and whoever supervises the GFA.
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