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    I'll admit - I'm hella ignorant about the details of what the 'Irish Backstop' actually is (I'm afraid I mostly lost interest in following the increasingly pointless detail emerging from this clusterfuck many months ago) - but if N Ireland effectively stays in the EU, does that not mean that 'The UK still has a functional toe in the EU' so could continue financial clearing, etc, that The City (read: Tories) so devotedly fixate upon?

    ie. Instead of services leaving the UK entirely, they're effectively serviced in London and then routed through Belfast?

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    • Then instead of Squaddies doing a tour of NornIreland in the 70s, we'd have financial cunts doing tours in the 2020s, hopefully getting their knees broken...Nairn
    • It means the integrity of the UK is compromised, effetely parts of the uk are not same.shapesalad
    • Above all else a backstop in place would mean it's a good time to start a smuggling racket across the Irish border.shapesalad
    • finance/services maybe but not physical goods.lowimpakt
    • the default is a border solution asap. The backstop just makes sure that remains a priority.Fax_Benson
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