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The Brexit deal touted by Boris Johnson is impossible to deliver

Irrespective of what is the "best" politically, the question of technical feasibility should be considered. The Withdrawal Agreement results in an unachievable timetable Without considering the political desirability at all, in my view the new Withdrawal Agreement is unachievable in the time . The new proposals mean that there would be a new business need to track whether products coming into Northern Ireland are for consumption there, or export, or inclusion in manufacture, in which case the destination of the manufa ctured item becomes important. Indeed the item might become part of a unit which is not exported but which becomes part of a larger product which is exported. This creates a need for new cross-organisational and cross-border disclosure and monitoring arrangements. There would need to be cross-organisational information systems, otherwise the administrative burden would be intolerable. Disagreement about the requirement EDIT: Questions would arise a

It's time to stop being victims of lies and to use opponents' lies to advantage

For too long we have allowed liars to win. There is a better way. People have found this “better way” to be empowering. Read on. The lies show what truth the liars are very afraid of. The fact that they lie shows how powerful that truth is. This assists us to construct hypotheses that our opponents seem to believe. The lies are an indication of the truth that the liars fear. Examples of such hypotheses: 1. Very many of the British people do not want Brexit. 2. James Cleverley knows that Keir Starmer speaks convincingly about Labour’s Brexit policy. 3. Boris Johnson is very worried about the report on Russian interference in the 2016 referendum becoming public before the General Election. 4. The Leave campaigners who spoke about trade deals in 2016 knew that those Trade Deals would be very difficult. To start with number 4: if Gove, Davis etc had believed in a real Brexit then they would have campaigned for a real Brexit. So we can tell from the lies that they had other motiv