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To obtain that, Pfeffle would have to demonstrate exactly how his alternative system would operate. For the moment, 1) he has no alternative system on offer, 2) he is refusing to enter discussions unless the EU first agrees to pull the backstop from the agreement.
That is a recipe for no discussion and no deal. The notion that the EU would sign an agreement in which no watertight arrangement was provided for in respect of the border of the free market and customs union, and of the particular needs of the island of Ireland, is unicornical. Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore L. Cohen
How well this flip-flop goes down with electors is immaterial, because he's five years out from the next election (and the list of horrors he will have done by then will be so long that the betrayal of the Unionists will be barely a footnote) It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
1) he has no alternative system on offer
Well that's not true. He has a unicorn stampede scheduled for All Hallows Eve.
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