No it doesn’t. A united Ireland will need more than a customs border down the Irish Sea to convince unionism that their inA definite step closer to a United Ireland
I should have finished what I meant to write (posting in the middle of the night is fraught) The custom border doesn't change anything much for the north, in fact being politically in the UK and economically part of an all Ireland economy, The EU and the UK is win win for unionists. Economically secure with a vast array of funding available via Dublin/EU and London. The middle class unionists will happily have both passports, and already ignore the border. I don't see how any of these arrangements will win WC loyalists away from their attachment to the Queen and see their interests lie with the South. As for Westminster, WC loyalist distrust and fear it as much as anyone else, they've always looked over the their shoulder fearing an English sell out.
They rejected an amendment to some bill or other that would have reduced it to zero a few months ago, didn’t they?
There was this (defeated) amendment back in 2016.
Yes but I think this is irrelevant noise - was prohibited whilst in the EU.
It was a price of Brexit...I expect the Tories'll have some kind of financial investment for NI, messaged with great fanfare as a way of placating people...20 new meat wagons and a brand new barrack, that kind of thing.
Not immediately but In time Dublin will be pushed by the northern executive to make a case for it. The all Ireland economy gives Dublin more clout in the north, gives the north a voice in Europe.
in my work we import some items from Germany that you can't get in the UK. They already stopped supplying us last October, awaiting new rules.
I really hope this isn't the case.. It looks like it is though.
That's a short term view.. What happens once our buccaneer rulers start diverging from the level playing field? The contradiction becomes more contradictory... It'll be a slow process but the possibility for the border arrangement to become untenable is there, leading to a choice between one or other having to be made
If the leave campaign had said they'd keep fofm they'd have lost much of the racist vote
The guardian were saying anyone thinking about voting leave were thick racists
The leave campaign appealed to people's basest instincts but the remain campaign didn't make what to me were obvious points, namely that there were flaws in the EU but these might only be addressed by remaining within the union and working for reform. Foremost among the many weaknesses of the remain campaign was a refusal to see the EU as anything but perfect even tho Cameron had tried to get some changes just months earlier. So much might have been different if Cameron had called a referendum prior to his negotiations with the eu, asking 'should the UK remain within an unreformed eu' and then telling Brussels that without changes the UK might leave. By his going cap in hand without a mandate for change he ensured he'd get crumbs and not one of the fine Belgian waffles
Remain obvs
The fortress EUrope typesRemain obvs
