all dealt with remotely and doesn't have any physical structures to what extent has to be caught by surprise by how strongly the irish board the issue has a marriage in the negotiations well it's been it's a marriage because the irish government changed it it's t. shock and the new t. shock has made this a big issue for his own political reasons and also because he wants to be seen very much as backing the e.u. the previous teashop was already involved in committees looking at technological solutions he stopped on that and i think it is using the border not the belfast agreement good friday agreement as a way of trying to force the united kingdom into staying in the customs union which of course would be totally against everything that we voted for because if you stay in the customs union you don't have your access to trade you don't have to follow the e.u. law and you have to pay money so it's not leaving the e.u. but if you've been surprised by the extent to which the teacher has managed to

marshal the entire negotiating team of the european union behind this cause i know i'm not surprised because the irish have always had a very very clever role in the e.u. after all they got millions of millions of times over many years they're not beginning to become a net contributor and that might change the the attitude of the public but no i'm not surprised and the e.u. the commission and have seen the northern ireland border as a way again of trying to thwart i mean they really do think that if this keeps going on that eventually people will say let's have another referendum that is not going to happen and finally a cape if. you might have a big if perhaps a man present something to the commons does she then we'll have a majority took over the pru customs union vote from the house of lords yes and the customs union vote in the house of lords was a very peculiar kind of wording. it wasn't actually saying stay in the customs

union but yes i think the more important one coming back from the lords of course is the date to keep the date in they took the date and i'd be i would just say something that most people talk about that i think will be a lot more labor m.p.'s who will abstain and there were a number of at labor m.p. substandard last time gets hardly noticed but after the council elections after what's happened up in leave the areas i think we'll find that a lot of people will say we're not going to let the nords actually try to really give us an exit in name only but you're a liberal woman to your fingertips are you really going to come to the rescue of a beleaguered tory prime minister i be coming to the rescue of of the people of this country who voted to leave no no it's the box to leave and also i think to help jeremy corbett who has stuck very in a very difficult situation to what was in our manifesto and what he knows is long term the right thing for this country thank you so much thank you. that was

demonstrating that proved bracks that views i'm not confined to the tory benches and that nor my own universe views are not confined to the day you p.c. this is what the prime minister had to say on the issue of this week we want to ensure that we are able to continue to trade in this frictionless away as possible and the suggestion now the suggestion the suggestion that trade at the moment is entirely frictionless is actually not correct so we have set we have set free very simple objectives for a future customs union now i will say to this house that achieving those objectives which i just search out is not is not easy it is difficult there will be some who will say actually forget about an independent trade policy that is not the position of this government. so maybe some who say don't worry about the northern irish border that. no it's the position. that was to these i'm

a prime minister's questions yesterday i'm not trying to the studio by shouldn't say in members of the european parliament martin i understand welcome to that like simon show martina the lighted to be here thank you for having mail and but i haven't the support not not not just the shin thing but i've been really successful in getting the european parliament members did the european commission to to support islands objectives in the in the blitz in the goetia and somehow he managed that. well i would actually say that it has been shin fein it's being in that is about the irish government and also the european parliament and the kind still to understand the importance of the good friday agreement and international agreement that's large that the united nations and the european parliament has a duty and an obligation to uphold international treaties and the county anything that's going to facilitate the damage or violations of time of knowledge was that

of the good friday agreement among hundreds of european parliament period absolutely no i have to say that other than the fact in fairness to the m.e. pieces but they're all of them saying that in the context of the peace accord handshake and when we went on the diplomatic offensive almost leading up to the referendum because norma's talking about ireland everyone was talking about scotland everyone was talking about scotland jur in the debate and even the british government like we were an afterthought even i don't even think we were an afterthought that said we went on a diplomatic offensive try to ensure that we could jar nurse support for the remain fault and we did that in the north but then after the referendum martin mcguinness led that offensive for us in the european parliament and we met with hundreds and hundreds of m e p's i personally have sat time with them all and when the first resolution came to the parliament after article fifty was triggered i am one of the

lead negotiators for the left on bracks it for the group where a member of and i resisted are signed up to the joint resolution unless and until we secured that it would protect the good friday agreement in all of its parts that there would be no hardening of the border in ireland and the unique and special circumstances were taken in their kind in fairness when the five hundred sixteen m. e p's folded for that across the parliament those that didn't consisted of the two yonder unionists m.p.'s ukip and british conservatives but all. if the other parliamentary piece appeared there they supported it but they didn't really understand what all of its parts meant so i took from april until the second resolution and tobar knocking on m.e.p. stores and that was one of the reasons why when we first knocked at the doors we asked them for support for designated special status for the north to remain within the nurses the problem for your producers are we are there for you and your lamb went to them and because they didn't understand the different strands of the

agreements we says here is my good friday agreement because unionism and the british government was saying that the e.u. didn't feature in the good friday agreement well it's actually features fifteen times to the agreement i made your opinion were you able to convince people that breaks it was by jeopardizing the good friday agreement was professionally produced the piece at risk when you yourself were released from prison as a result of the good friday agreement well i think someone like myself personifies what we as irish republicans how much not just that we have stretched ourselves but what we have done through this peace and political process that we have been engaged in and i think people could see where we're at where we're at and where we intend to go and there was to be no damage done to the agreement and the second resolution of the parliament the parliament was very clear and the parliament voted not just for the good friday agreement protection and all of its part but it also

said that if britain did not rate remain in the custom union in the single market that the north needed to in some form so the parliament at that time there were five hundred sixty ammi piece and that's because they understood that we couldn't have two divergent standards of european regulations in an island if they were going to pursue their strand to the all ireland element of the good friday agreement so overwhelming support for ireland not just in the parliament but also in the kinds of as well the chief constable of navarre and said recently that if there's any physical infrastructure on the board of them that becomes a potential target for terrorists or do you agree with. the war's over and we need to be clear about that and there is no support whatsoever in ireland north or sorry for return to conflict that said we shouldn't ignore we want the chief constable has said and what we need to do is ensure that there are no circumstances created that would allow anyone to explore to situation the british government as

a coal garant or of a peace process as are the irish government and its lords to the united nations and so when the british government said in the joint report in december that there would be no physical infrastructure no checks no controls at the border at all and ireland that they would do that with a backstop arrangement if they didn't have the other two options and they haven't secured those so far and the backstop was going to ensure that we would have full alignment with the custom union of the single market for the island for the north that we would do so to support the erisa cooperation in ireland as well as that we would also support the good friday agreement and the all land economy but most importantly and no one's really talking about it apart from shin fame but they will there will be no diminution of our rights to be no reduction of russian firms because the war is over the war is over of that there is no doubt and the

republican movement and ireland that has got support for a drive and the peace and political process and shin fein i under the leadership of our president mary lee make government will be driving forward a scenario for irish unity done so in a way based on the principle of consent the principle of consent was built into the good friday agreement another something that we all have to be very clear about that the constitutional position of the north should not change unless we consent to it or we didn't consent to this before to remain within the law two hundred thank you very much indeed thank you. two years ago during the european referendum campaign. anyone of the city as gave a second thought to what was going to happen to ireland if they achieve that ambition and a majority and not after the end of last thought it would be the stumbling block to that ambitions but that is no exactly what has happened to these i'm a doesn't have

our problems to see she has a split cabinet the lords are revolting scotland and wales are deeply unhappy but it is the irish issue and the issue of the irish border which is transcending the negotiations the european union had three objectives when they started to negotiate in process one was to make sure that britain paid its jews to. protect the rights of european citizens they have been achieved and the thought was to make sure there was no border an island and i had no doubt two years ago when campaigning in delhi the heartbreaks was incompatible with a soft border and ireland and that chicken is no well and truly. perhaps not for the first time in british politics what chuck shall call the steeples of a man and tyrone have a man's to dominate the landscape because whatever else to these army has to worry about there is no doubt that that island beyond the island island of ireland now

has the key cards in the negotiations. the united states can always had a tool to use in its tax on other countries. economic sanctions are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries a true talking about. and

there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. we have a responsibility for the whole. and we need to make rules for the rest. because without us there will be. six guys just by that's all survival. when customers go by you reduce the price. in elf well reduce the flour. that's undercutting but what's good for market it's not good for the global economy. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who feel to me to people this is the simple song alone even some company against elsewhere they invite private

companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us that all post. was she got she got on the going to go buy been this is just because i'm out of political office and more you know i'm going to lift the bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more and more it's about to hurt and to reduce. of. course.

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