BREXIT

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They better not bloody budge one inch on the backstop

Absolutely! The EU need to show loyalty to member Ireland,  not the departing UK.
It will be interesting to see what May's 'alternative arrangements' for the border are. Patrolling unicorns no doubt.
The Irish border: there are 300 potential crossing points. If we leave the EU without a customs agreement there will have to be border controls. It would only take one man taking a pot shot at a customs post to bring back soldiers, tanks, barbed wire, helicopters – and worse.