RE: Have to admire pm may11 Mar 2019 18:08
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Of course you can admire her.
But I don't. The backstop is her doing .
As I have posted before:
Mrs May, having said at the outset in October 2016 that she wants to leave the customs union and single market, has never put forward a workable proposal to deal with the Irish border.
The EU proposed their own solution, which was to put a customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea. But Mrs May rejected this The EU grumbled and groaned, and last December grudgingly offered Mrs May an all-UK customs union for the backstop β something which she promised would satisfy the DUMrs May, having said at the outset in October 2016 that she wants to leave the customs union and single market, has never put forward a workable proposal to deal with the Irish border.
The EU proposed their own solution, which was to put a customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea. But Mrs May rejected this The EU grumbled and groaned, and last December grudgingly offered Mrs May an all-UK customs union for the backstop β something which she promised would satisfy the DUP. And then Parliament voted it down by a 230-vote margin.
P. And then Parliament voted it down by a 230-vote margin.
If you had listened to David davis on Marr u would have heard how she took over and did it her way. Her way was never to leave the EU per se but to create a monstrous entanglement with the EU that we not be able to extract ourselves from