No it isn't.
No they didn't and no, there doesn't have to be, look at Switzerland.
Don't be silly, of course you can.
A Blatant Lie by BJ about Trade between NI and GB.
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No it isn't.
No they didn't and no, there doesn't have to be, look at Switzerland.
Don't be silly, of course you can.
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Was there a border between NI and GB before Brexit?
It's in the single market though, and you won't see lorry loads of toblerones queueing at the border. And although they do trade deals within the umbrella of EFTA, they also do their own FTA's.
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UK is a 3rd country
Switzerland is in SM, it pays a fee, it has FoM.
There is still a customs border.
I'm not sure what point you are making
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So we now agree, that there was about 275 (268 exactly) border crossing checkpoints, and there was about 300 total crossing points, but the minor roads were not manned, but blocked.
And there was considerably more than a few checkpoints?
I'm glad we got that sorted.
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No, but I distinctly remember you referring to "a few checkpoints sprung up during the troubles".
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And neither country can recognise the sovereignty of the EU because...............it's not sovereign, it's merely a collective of nations.
And each member nation has their own sovereignty. Therefore, together they have collective sovereignty.
I.e they can invoke their own sovereignty, or they can invoke their collective sovereignty.
Think of the US model, where each state has a degree of sovereignty, or they have the collective sovereignty of the US.
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Ireland was one country, They rebelled against English rulers who were impoverishing them, and actively practising severe discrimination against Catholics, to the point that protestant immigration from UK was actively encouraged. It was another example of cultural genocide.
The result was an imposition of the NI/Ireland border by the English Parliament Act.
I suggest you research your history and stop believing the propaganda fed to you by interested, but dishonest parties.
Last time I looked the wiki entry on the potato famine had been severely straightened out post the good Friday agreement. I was glad to see that given comments from some people in S Ireland.
The Catholic or not one problem reminds me of England long ago. No comment. These things happen.
Where do you get this crap from.
Ireland is in the British Isles.
The Irish are British same as the Scots, Welsh and English are British.
The Irish national identify was the creation of the Roman Catholic church as part of its conflict with Protestant England.
This nonsense you promote that the Irish were a homogeneous race who lived in splendid isolation until the big bad English came along and spoiled it all, is ******.
Immigration to Ireland from Britain didn't begin with the English parliament, it has been going on for 1000's of years.
People have been migrating around the British Isles since time immemorial,
If it wasn't for migration from N. Ireland to N. Britain, the country known as Scotland would not exist.
Internal migration within the British Isles has always gone on, it was the R. Catholic church which has fostered the absurd myth that the Irish are a race apart.
Unless of course you are Chinese, Japanese, etc. etc.
N. Irish but also British, someone can be Scottish and British, just as someone can be Welsh and British.
The problem with Irish nationalism is that you can only be one or the other.
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