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Is that a presumptive start to violent objection to the protocol?
EU make offer to reduce 80% of post Brexit checks at NI border
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Northern Irelands border problem is caused by Johnson
I agree with that to an extent, bit like Chamberlain and Hitler.
That deal didn't last and this one won't either.
The deal has sprung up again for NI. Wont be able to buy UK chicken nuggets and sausages mentioned politicly but suspect it will have the same effect on other things.
The interim period is going to be extended again to get around this. All EU's fault not that they accepted the conditions within the deal.
Even if it is a deal to continue dealing - this is an example of that. It seems the official way of exporting there to another part of the UK is turning out to be trickier than the people who actually do it thought it would be. It's all down to avoiding checks at the actual boarder between NI and SI.
Out of interest did NI vote stay or leave the EU?
The interim period is going to be extended again to get around this. All EU's fault not that they accepted the conditions within the deal.
Even if it is a deal to continue dealing - this is an example of that. It seems the official way of exporting there to another part of the UK is turning out to be trickier than the people who actually do it thought it would be. It's all down to avoiding checks at the actual boarder between NI and SI.Out of interest did NI vote stay or leave the EU?
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NI voted to Remain by a fair margin, but DUP campaigned to Leave.
Yet it's the DUP now complaining about the NI Protocol.
You couldn't make this up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36614443
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resul..._Union_membership_referendum#Northern_Ireland
Lagan Valley, of which Poots is a rep, voted by a narrow margin to Leave.
Arlene Foster's constituency voted to remain, by a sizable majority.
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Maybe a union with a different country would be the best solution. I wonder if theres a handy alternative which is more democratic than the UK?
like the Boers, nobody likes them, nobody wants them.
Former Prime minister Jim Callaghan considered an independent N. Ireland.
The successful Ulster Workers Council Strike in 1974, (which was directed by Barr), was later described by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees as an "outbreak of Ulster nationalism". Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan also thought an independent Northern Ireland might be viable.
The successful Ulster Workers Council Strike in 1974, (which was directed by Barr), was later described by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees as an "outbreak of Ulster nationalism". Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan also thought an independent Northern Ireland might be viable.
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I genuinely think he's just a lackey for the ERG.
I think he'd throw his hand in with anyone that he thinks would further his career.
Whether he eventually jumps ship and admits it was all a gigantic mistake, or whether he's forced out, or whether he continues to bluff his way through, I'm not sure.
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There's still people who believe the earth is flat.
Ulster nationalism is a minor school of thought in Northern Ireland politics that seeks the independence of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom without joining the Republic of Ireland, thereby becoming an independent sovereign state separate from both.
Independence has been supported by groups such as Ulster Third Way and some factions of the Ulster Defence Association. However, it is a fringe view in Northern Ireland. It is neither supported by any of the political parties represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly nor by the government of the United Kingdom or the government of the Republic of Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_nationalism
Independence has been supported by groups such as Ulster Third Way and some factions of the Ulster Defence Association. However, it is a fringe view in Northern Ireland. It is neither supported by any of the political parties represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly nor by the government of the United Kingdom or the government of the Republic of Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_nationalism
Minor but growing school of thought.
Independent states have boarders or choose to have none. As SI is in the EU going that way would achieve nothing unless NI joined the EU. What that would do is apply the EU problem to all UK exports and stick some sort of tariff on the other way round
unless the UK did a trade deal with them to avoid that. Then the EU would feel that the level market was under threat unless the UK agree to tariff free on all EU exports here.Just the sort of smokescreen a politician might choose to say solves all problems.
Interestingly the UK chicken nuggets to NI cropped up on the news today. Sounds like the same brexit negotiators are arguing the toss about it. What ever they agree has to be approved by all heads of state anyway. The other item mentioned was haggis. Like nuggets it trivialises the problem without really clearing up all goods that are affected. I suspect chilled or frozen as nuggets are usually frozen and haggis
chilled I think and a very significant part of the Scot's exports LOL.
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NI will never go independent. DUP are too attached to UK to remotely consider it.
NI would end up re-uniting with Eire.
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