You can probably guess where my sympathies lie. When the aforementioned scum murdered Lord Mountbatten of Burma, one of the best and noblest Britons alive, they lost my sympathy forever. As the first Queen Elizabeth said: Let the Irish hang themselves.
the question not asked is what were the british doing in ireland in the first place?
The open border is an essential component of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of Republican/Unionist violence in 1998. It was not signed just by a ‘traitor British politician’, but by all the main parties to the violence, by the British and Irish governments, and subsequently endorsed by large majorities in referendums both north and south of the border.
Closing the border now would risk much, much more than just trade.
Hundreds of thousands of irish men women and children were deprived of heir land, killed, injured, impoverished, robbed, starved, denied their civil rights, and enslaved by the british. Mountbatten was sent into *that* situation by the British. Given the full context, Maybe mountbatten was just another unfortunate victim of british imperialism.
No, it wasn’t a “traitor politician” but the Good Friday agreement - signed by all. This ended the Northern Ireland troubles.