Posted on 09/08/2019 6:32:08 AM PDT by KC_Lion
The British would be wise to find a way to finesse the issue. This could be done by establishing Northern Ireland as a special customs zone, permitting free trade and movement with the Irish Republic but re-establishing customs and immigration barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of Britain.
That is the only solution.
However, in may 2017 Theresa had an unnecessary election in which she lost the Tory majority and had to get into a coalition with the northern Irish party the DUP which opposes what you described.
Since then, everything is stuck. Thanks to the DUP
Since Boris wants the government dissolved, adopting the plan that I have described ought to do nicely as a way to get the DUP to help trigger an election.
How? Labour won’t vote in a no confidence vote
I do not think that Labour can maintain that stance for long in the face of votes that show the Tories no longer have a governing coalition due to the defection of the DUP and that a hard Brexit is going to happen. As Theresa May learned, the public tends to punish MPs whose party is trying to game them for electoral advantage.
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