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now we're approaching labor m.p.'s to block a job when you see the rubric sitting right where the most iconic servitude of m p's oh the world into. the european union to do with the clean memory the silly knowing that. the second problem with the prime minister's cunning plan is it jimmy carter may be wise to the tactic and to cling to right to the government's rescue he may say why should i believe you i here today i'd go into mortal prime minister about to be the place by breaks a tear by the fall why don't hold an election no rather than after you've gone in the autumn so let me ask you had she been the leader of the opposition uninvited and drug trial point this year would she have been foolish enough to accept. so as to be her duty to resign or just back to the usual mable it however whatever else may be said about me is latest move at least as
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a change in the script we've broken out at long last of the talk to a process of never ending thoughts on this team deal now she was on the d p this may even be a relief to the m.p.'s who this week of being fixed to their benches were the same superglue as a climate change protesters themselves to the glass in the visitors gallery. on the route. the prime minister clearly intends to be the last woman standing on bricks it before she finally keeps her promise to resign. what it sees amazed big position to her backstop proposal despite its very clear articulation many times including on this very program when she perceived certain the stock market not going to go anywhere that's a question i'm asking the chill us and our civil servants to to listen to those are a values around her who thought we were bluffing they know no i we're not often but in this show we examine how the big city baby changing the fixed assumptions of
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northern irish politics but first your tweets mess just and even those we've had so many and a sponsor the wonderful young people we had on last week sure from belfast fiona says are great sure the young people were smart articulate and above all decent i have every confidence in the future simply listening to them thanks alex now we bit wiser or northern ireland. patrick says the future looks bright with these young students for the whole of ireland love your shoe alex martha says well said young ones times are a change in tommy said those youngsters are definitely tuned in to what's happening fantastic and finally tony says as a seventy year old living in the south do is young people were amazing the future is in good times couldn't agree more to it now over to alex in belfast where parliament square in london was crowded with proof demonstrators last friday a demonstration of a very different kind was taking place nor moment communities were demonstrating
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against the threat of a hard border from the heart breaks that i spoke to john shared with them one of the organizers of the protest. dr showed welcome to the exam i'm sure it's very much of a your farm on the board and for minor tell me a bit about how does your farm meet the border i suppose the best way to describe it is if you just imagine an eighty degree angle. and where we meet the border i am thoroughly at a ninety degree angle so it only leaves me if only my only access to the north is about forty five degrees forty five degrees of a country that i was born and reared in and could always go three hundred sixty degrees in the country you know maybe my memory is playing tricks on me but i seem to remember jewing the b.s.c. places started years ago that i haven't even paisley me could avoid the the export by the if of my method did you take that as
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a sign that perhaps economic imperative sometimes prevails over a traditional attitude they always do they always do economic imperatives you know which is why we in northern ireland want to hold the economic status that we have at the moment on the island of ireland recently you met michel barnier the european negotiator the came to become to see the farmer already at the bottom to be sure a keen understanding of the of the issues involved when he can for a keen understanding we actually met him in a guild hall in derry he wanted purely to discourse with border communities and business people how it was going to affect them in the referee day lives and he insisted he says i have to represent the twenty seven i have to represent them legally and that's all i'm here to do legally says so i don't want to hear anything about flags around i'm starvin to your ideology but tell me about the organization that you're a problem member of headed that just arises the situation developed
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a spontaneous a grassroots organization for twenty twenty five years you know where was used to dealing with people all along the border. knew many people and those people just came together after the referendum to. this is terrible because this is going to absolutely ruin our businesses and i think it's the fact that people along the border authentically realize the trading that goes on from north to south and back from south to north they have it's in their psyche it's in their blood in the early so they have a good perception of what it meant to leave europe if you could get just for the sake of argument if you get the six hundred fifty members of the house of commons up to your health and you had them assembled more or less like you assemble your sheet for would you be said i just may keep them corralled of there for as long as i could and and bring a doctor to see them i think that they haven't they certainly weren't thinking of the border and they certainly weren't thinking of northern ireland when they were
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having a referendum we had responded i had responded i spoke to him very very close to the farm and showed him two communities we stood looking down on the villages of black lion boku and i told him he was just putting a sledgehammer between the two of them and he that they would be very polite because he always says to us we ball a lady on our stand is leighton articulate but his business isn't going to the wall he can move his business he can even tell the people really hard as he already has i know that i'm making a lot of money both himself personally and for us companies. but the audacity to turn round and united kingdom people who could be fifty years before they would have the theoretical grip britain or united kingdom that they hope to harvard mediately withdrawing from europe he knows well enough like that that's not true. so you know it's people who look at them and just feel that the far right has gone too far do you think. the debate over the us there for years is
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changing the undergrowth of northern irish politics you know we've had to fix blocks for a long time is it changing people's perception to. opening up the constitutional question over there that out there that people know even though a lot of people don't want to put their head above the parapet but people know where they make their money. they know where their progression comes from i wouldn't see the border community against drugs that are just an underground thing and affecting how it affects our daily lives we look much waiter out of the not plenty of people are asked beginning to ask exactly which union you want to belong to the united kingdom or the european union one we have all of those going to be. a settlement there always is live despite the confusion and despite the best efforts of politicians are you confident that the case that border communities ability
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to collating will will win for well as you say there's always been a settlement the way we look at it is that we wanted to remain. the backstop i suppose is the best of a bad lot and we hope to still plenty in that backstop where it is. i think that europe won't move honest legalities of it have been properly explained europe i know do not want to get into the constitutional business of the united kingdom. but they also have to protect their single market and they also have to protect their customs union and the only way that can be done on the island of ireland is to make sure that the regulatory line which is already there on the scene at the ports is held and intensified to the fact that maybe only three percent checks would be taking place now and i'd say they're
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looking at maybe an eighty percent check so people simply cannot believe why the backstop can't be accepted they're having met michel badly the european negotiator the euro europe lifestyle farmer you used the negotiation could you have done business with them yes i could i think that i think the westminster. needs a few michel barnier is amongst of the six hundred fifty members. it's unbelievable to call yourself the fifth largest country in the world and for the last two and a half for may as well call it three years no nearly i like this still have not been able to hammer out. a trade deal. with the biggest consumer bloc in the world a lot of people don't realize how little it was costing to stay in it in billion wasn't it in believe me it was ten half don't realize erasmus schemes the
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don't realize the integration on security they don't realize the integration in the economy on health on research on education all those things i don't think of ever being properly articulated to the general public know if regs is such a good thing why are six hundred fifty employees in such chaos if it was such a good thing whiteland to just go obviously the must know something that we don't and i think they have respect. doing upon themselves and what's likely to happen in the future i don't agree to put it well he says i think the realities of the present day are starting to catch up with the theory of the opportunism after breaks and jarmo have to. comply i kind of government here this may come before i can say next time you see me show badly this is a quick scores go it's
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a loving cup scotch whisky only scotch whisky no french brandy none of this stuff only scots and liquid and give me a good trick of one of these red lines it. thanks very much i like the grit thanks very much i'll treasure that joins us after the break when alex speaks to keep players in the northern irish economy. breaks it count down on archie. i fulfill the search and you can in the politics of this issues and the watching the hollywood movies because in contrast to hollywood movies you do not know what the messed up on the major development because it is just like us at all that's
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almost a cop but you know i also have a. life of comedian lead in elections and you have violence a lot of developments which would not be possible to have in what you would movies because this is why you can you politics is so interesting. young in a sense have come to us. especially brutal budging incidents because you so often do see their mothers be killed but also be caught up unfortunately. i do believe and laugh and smile i see it's a new system once the home for the expression changes and.
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welcome back one of northern ireland's most successful entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry recently made his first ever intervention into the political debate of the province. dr bill will see why bedsit was bringing people from off the sidelines and onto the pitch but was lee welcome to the exam ritual delighted to be here. you have someone very prominent successful business past the north belfast and elsewhere but you're somebody who wasn't too said much about plot politics but recently you've been putting your head above the part of what is moved to make some political statements absolutely i do not want to return down the the dark days so that border i you know the thought of that coming back fills me with
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fear we need to do what's best for northern ireland we need to do much best for our economy and if we have a strong economy that should not just be for the business class that should be for the good of all the people of this province. a large number of people were kept well away from segments of the middle classes people who normally would be living or drawing political parties been a vast to get involved in politics during breaks is changing or yeah i mean the say in the back in one thousand nine hundred plus wanted to play golf and never returned as probably true fact in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight anyone to give it any degree of thought knew that compromise was the way forward but we had politicians who put simple answers to complicated questions one was british rule and the other birds bred it and they were very simple answers to their communities
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anyone who thought about it knew that there was a horrendous sectarian dirty little war going on and they decided the best thing to do was keep your head down and try to build a business many people would argue that the backstop deal is advantageous potentially for normal but the prime minister seems incapable of getting on all. government across official it persuasively so. serious danger despite overwhelming opinion you'll find unrepresented and cries unanswered. there is not only a great danger i think that's exactly what will happen but both are major political parties are way dime by the past the day you pay. i mean have never liked anything about europe and entrust only social and fear. of never been european they've been that lately they've come on board because they say that it gives them
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some political advantages but i've harvard an opportunity they should've in my humble view they should have got the. piece together they say they're on the party for all arrant and so they're the only party that sets both sides of the border they had an opportunity to go over and make a point and then pulled back for other things changing behind the scenes i mean the changes were seamen normally supportive of the d.p. supplanting traditional unionism should unfeigned supplant it with the opi they've been within the blocks but couple circumstances capable of picking people think the balls particularly if we are peoples but why human life will hooters for them this is actually a way to to energize a bit of creative thinking people who no longer associate themselves with any religion there are a lot of people like that you know from the low forty's and there they have just
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turned their back on the whole political situation they have no interest in politics at all they feel there's nobody there they represent them so that leaves the supporters of the two blocks shelf in the day you paid and they both suck the life blood of the two small. or parties that you mentioned and pretty much adopted their clothes and they sit there and i'd i don't think they are any either party wants to accommodate the other the whole brags that thing i think has made the day you pay particularly think twice they saw themselves as the party of business and here is business and you're not representing us you have no understanding of what will be better for us and in turn a better for for the community and i think that has made the day you piece sit up and take notice but they are not a part they used to make
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a new turns or quick changes it's just not within their or their whole makeup and then cynthia and they just set the whole thing they just say year these are huge changes we must get in here and get involved but they won't. they want to turn parliament they leave those seats empty and they're just going to make the boast the most of a tricky situation bill if you could get all six hundred fifty members of the westminster parliament to one of your top class with tails for a week and you had the most corrupt of their what would you be saying to them don't come i do this room and tell you you have brought together some sort of compromise that represents all the people of the u.k. and absolutely pick up your bloody bill in the way it. will waltz with q so what.
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i'm going to offer to all the employees there let me give up with the quick the scots go if a loving cup thank you very much give me quick moment. just score escape or thank you very much thanks again. the trends that bill wall slee has identified have started to be picked up in polling a recent survey a show in deep dissatisfaction with the bracks a process with an increasing majority for remain across the province backing for the new board of poll and the irish unity is approaching party with opposition with a significant twenty two percent of protestant photos expressing support for such a referendum the polling shows opposition to united ireland only forty five percent still thirteen percent ahead of support but with more than twenty percent undecided and among young people the gotten out of his father of support for ai this unity
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within touching distance of the opposition twenty years of peace brought the dividend and border communities nearly was once the economic black spot of the entire province though the economy is flushing i spoke to dr khan of patterson a director of enterprise northern ireland and one of the key figures leading this change dot com a partisan welcome to the examined show thank you you've been instrumental many of the development initiatives a mile and but it when you see in the border area that didn't do it was substantial success do you attribute that to the the good will the sort of after the peace agreement or will be in other aspects been instrumental in getting the economy moving and the cares of nuri were up. in the first half of my life. experience i grew up in a housing estate my father was on employed was one of widespread spread poverty
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thirty percent of the population in the one nine hundred seventy s. well without it without work. on employment in your area is two percent so it's a remarkable transformation not to throw be able to foreign direct investment or public sector employment in the case of noori but the home grown older printers are able to take advantage of an open border and i know there are businesses the poetry is can get in the way of the economic development. politics often kind of create an economic so much but the consent to get in the way of that could well get in the way of the success you've been enjoying in u.t. the problem of bragg's and i had mixed national a down to the decision the house to be made it choose to be there are a sure bradish whichever choice you make consequences but will the choices change many people who perhaps. interested in the limitless whether to keep a poet so close or perhaps came from
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a woman seeking for you to do this but. the price of that's not the fret in the bottom line. the sort of thing that shifts that i think what i and all others have been trying to say at the people in the unionist community is don't think of your irish dimension as being you know something that house to be limited if you're expressing an irish an issue also expressing a european identity and if you could get the six hundred fifty members and i was the colemans to newly i'm sure all of them unemployment the nation the state nobody wants to risk what would be the key point you would have you'd make to the assembly of parliamentarians who unexpectedly the said upon us you know to respect the opportunity that people are. having you know in all their jurisdictions and all for the past of what you saw it's about collaboration and sharing i would say at a pace in the hundreds of columns you know you don't have to assert your british
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miss people you have to give a lot of self par you know widely low moved for all of your you're lying your language you're not there to hear your music the example that you have given to the world in so many respects that's enough to be getting almost you know you can conquer the world without without having to a start some nineteenth century and period. historical model that's no longer going to be accepted. in the field of economic forecasting you know if i was asked to do you know to make a political fool what do you think the endgame of the bee is going to be and the way i think this was an actual or says i'm that was all was going to have to hop on . the board of view of a narrow group. a reaches of british society the elites. those that continue to make money out of bragg's of caylus but ultimately they're going
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to roll into the ball first but i cound say brags that can save them so we've toured the british population without explanation i can see that succeeding the next generation to to do good to be to these these ideals of sovereignty and against the economic development well it might be the last some men before i came here was speaking to a group of primary seven kids and your ear but the last ones from the force how often the last and to respect the all or. whatever we do whatever disagreements we have we don't turn to violence because violence is ultimately self destructive so if we've learned our lesson and we hear. why there are threats from one. section of the population here i don't think that not. grit can survive if so will not last and i think will apply spragg that people will have learned that there's nothing wrong in paying europe and you don't have to be exclusively british so.
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i'm of a certain age and i'm of the star trak generation and i believe in the starship enterprise ok that captain car could be on the bridge but without a spark of that as you heard of that is check off. the starship enterprise could not have gone boldly to strange new new or those dots a model that i grew up with you know we're human beings and ultimately we will conquer the challenges we face but only if we do it well don't count out of southern full get to that's why we have plenty of good is a quick and the only stipulation of course in presenting you with it is only school in the cli of course thank you it's been a pleasure a pleasure thank you thank you oh here in east belfast this wallace piece small and the short starred separates a conflict on glee from the predominant doing just potentially exists between north and south but within communities you have the economic realities frew the blacks
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debate starting to bring about a change of attitudes a potential political realignment the question is is the leadership here in order to make that realignment a reality and will it be entirely to secure nonviolence peace and prosperity. i know from being on myself and over the shore it's good bye for my. back because there's been a survival guide book stacie just i'm all going to start at least.
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