Posted on 09/16/2019 4:53:57 AM PDT by Cronos
The Democratic Unionist party has for the first time signalled it is prepared to accept some post-Brexit EU rules for Northern Ireland as long as the Stormont assembly has a say.
The party’s chief whip said it was looking at regulatory alignment with the EU in the agri-food sector as a way of avoiding a hard border with Ireland.
“Where there is political will, there is certainly a way,” Jeffrey Donaldson told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland. “I think it is still possible to get that agreement.”
He said the party still had great difficulty with the proposed backstop solution because it created trade barriers between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
But he made it clear there could be an exception: keeping the same EU rules across the island for animals and food. This would avoid disruption to the cross-border meat and dairy trade that the Ulster Farmers’ Union last week said would be a “total disaster” and force farmers out of business.
Donaldson said: “We want to avoid a hard border on the island so we are looking at ways in which we can find practical solutions that address this, in particular in areas like agri-food.
“The prime minister today as you know is meeting with Mr [Jean-Claude] Juncker to discuss these. We’ve had an input and will continue to have an input to the formulation of the proposals of the UK government which I believe are gathering apace, so I believe it is possible to find practical solutions to the concerns that not only we have but that the Irish government have as well.”
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1. The UK sets up Northern Ireland in the EU customs union unless NI votes 67% to leave the customs union or leave the UK and join the Republic of Ireland
2. The rest of the UK leaves
3. The UK agrees on the 30 years stretch payment of dues (the 33billion) for Farage's retirement fund etc.
4. the UK leaves on 31 October
If Boris can pull this off, he will get a big re-election without the Brexit party (which would be destroyed)
There was a poll done in the last month in Northern Ireland, which by the thinnest margin (51 percent)...the public agrees it would be a better thing if Northern Ireland was part of Ireland instead. It should be noted...adults over 65 were vastly against the idea.
I think Nigel would be fine with that. His objective is to achieve BRexit, on terms which are favorable to UK.
Once that mission is fully accomplished, BRexit Party would dissolve anyway, and Nigel would move on to the next issue.
51% is not a viable number to have a change in jurisdiction.
If it was 61% or even better 67%, then yes, northern Ireland would be better off in the Republic, but 51%? That’s a recipe for disaster.
Better to have NI in the customs union and rUK out of the customs union.
I think in the next 20, 25 years the % of support may veer towards NI becomes de jure part of the RoI, but unless it goes up to 67%, they shouldn’t change
I don’t think Farage would be fine with that. He’s made a lot of money by being anti-EU and being an MEP.
When the UK leaves the EU, he loses his meal-ticket. His next move would be to parley his position into local politics (remember - when he was a member of the Tory party, he never got elected to parliament)
Nigel had a prior career as commodities trader. He can always go back to that, and make more money.
He didn’t have a “successful” career - it was rather modest.
He was not a wealthy man in the City. He has made more money as an MEP.
Nigel chose to skip university and follow his father into the City after finishing his studies at Dulwich College, a private school in southeast London. In 1982, he joined Maclaine Watson, a traditional English commodities brokerage.
Maclaine Watson was taken over by the Wall street brokerage Drexel Burnham Lambert just before Fara entered, he then joined RJ Rouse and Co which was then acquired by the French bank Credit Lyonnais.
he was FIRET from Credit Lyonnais Rouse after taking a drunken friend on the floor of the London Minerals exchange.
He started Farage Futures — which didn’t do so well - in 1994.
during its either-year life Farage Futures made total net products of GBP 874K — so a modest brokerage.
In 2003 he founded Farage Limited that went bankrupt.
His money since then has been from teh UKIP, being an MEP and the Brexit Party - incidentally the Brexit “party” isn’t a party but a private limited company so far.
Always look at the debts when you value a company. It sounds like Farage Futures made several *billions* more profit than, say, Deutsche Bank.
No need to concern-troll about Nigel Farage. He’ll be fine.
Actually he didn’t make billions. He made about 800K over 8 years.
Nothing to sneeze at, yes, but no billions.
And that was 15 years ago
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