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    #41
    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    The EU was flexible enough when negotiating the backstop to meet UK government requests.

    And the EU has been flexible enough with the extension requests.
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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      #42
      Originally posted by WTFH View Post
      And the EU has been flexible enough with the extension requests.
      What choice do they have with the UK holding all the cards?

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        #43
        Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
        The EU was flexible enough when negotiating the backstop to meet Irish government requests.
        FTFY.
        His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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          #44
          Originally posted by WTFH View Post
          And the EU has been flexible enough with the extension requests.
          More extensions = more money. I thought all contractors knew that...
          His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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            #45
            Originally posted by Mordac View Post
            FTFY.
            Meanwhile, back in reality, the UK insisted that the backstop should apply to the entire UK and not just NI, and the EU acquiesced.

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              #46
              Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
              Meanwhile, back in reality, the UK insisted that the backstop should apply to the entire UK and not just NI, and the EU acquiesced.
              The UK negotiators (long since sacked due to utter incompetence) should have been insisting that no backstop existed anywhere. Instead we have a bag of tulipe and Boris has 95 days to pick some bones out of it. On the plus side, he's got Dom Cummings doing the needful, so at least we're now employing a vertebrate.
              His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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                #47
                Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                The UK negotiators (long since sacked due to utter incompetence) should have been insisting that no backstop existed anywhere. Instead we have a bag of tulipe and Boris has 95 days to pick some bones out of it. On the plus side, he's got Dom Cummings doing the needful, so at least we're now employing a vertebrate.
                Should have, should have...

                But back in reality and despite your self-pitying delusions, the EU was flexible enough when negotiating the backstop to meet UK government requests.

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                  FTFY.
                  Is this true? Wasn't the backstop a UK requirement? We forced this into the WA, and then we said we don't want it. Unfortunately, the Irish see this as a good solution, that the UK has thought up, and want to stick with it
                  I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man

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                    #49
                    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                    And the EU has been flexible enough with the extension requests.
                    Way too flexible. I suppose the art of negotiation is letting the other side have your own way....

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                      #50
                      Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
                      Meanwhile, back in reality, the UK insisted that the backstop should apply to the entire UK and not just NI, and the EU acquiesced.
                      Do you have any evidence of that?

                      Brexit and the Irish border - Wikipedia

                      The Irish backstop is a name referring to the European Union's proposal to keep Northern Ireland in some aspects of the European Union Customs Union

                      Please correct me if I am wrong. Oh okay, keep quiet like normal then.....

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