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I'm not sure we'll get much meaningful discussion here. It's like having a debate of Trump vs Hilary vs Bernie.

Very much so. It's turned into the UKs very own replica of the US primaries, with much the same arguments.

I guarantee if we had a land border with Europe, someone on the leave campaign would be talking about building a wall :D

But at least you've got a moat ;)

If Trump is elected, he may have to build a second wall along the Canadian (Canadienne) border - to keep people in the U.S.

We do, with the Republic of Ireland... and we have a borderless travel treaty with them called the Common Travel Area which has existed in one form or another for nearly 100 years.

It's also a condition of the Ireland peace agreement that we keep it open. No EU, no peace. We'd have to renegotiate the deal, amongst all the others...

And if we leave it open? All the migrants will just flood through NI. The whole idea that we can control migration by leaving is absurd nonsense.

Not many people in my circles are excited about the upcoming presidential election - maybe democracy finally dies because the candidates are so uninspired that we simply don't go to the polls.

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