Posted on 06/09/2019 1:44:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Tory leadership hopeful Sajid Javid has said the Government should pay “hundreds of millions of euros” to solve the Irish border issue and break the Brexit deadlock.
The Home Secretary told the Mail On Sunday he believes a technological solution to the problem can be found and Britain has a “moral and economic duty” to cover the cost.
Preventing a hard border on the island of Ireland has long been a major stumbling block in the Brexit negotiations, with the EU proposing the controversial backstop to avoid such a scenario.
The backstop is an insurance mechanism in the Withdrawal Agreement that would keep the UK in the EU customs union and Northern Ireland in large parts of the single market. […]
Meanwhile, another Tory leadership hopeful, Boris Johnson, told The Sunday Times said he would scrap the backstop altogether and settle the border issue only when the EU is ready to agree a future relationship. …
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What you say makes a lot of sense.
And that’s why it’ll never happen.
Have you seen what the so-called Republic of Ireland (a province of the European Union since 1972) did with respect to homosexual “marriage” and abortion in recent years?
Northern Ireland is the only part of the British Isles where both of the above remain illegal. The only part. So it is far less godless than the EU-slave counterpart.
Also, such a breach of the Good Friday Agreement would mean bloodshed starts all over again, and it would spread all over the island.
I’m afraid it makes no sense.
“The most sensible, workable, and cheapest solution would be for the UK to just give Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.”
Why would Northern Ireland want that!
No reason to prevent a “hard border”.
It’s fine.
UK to just give Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.
And then there’s the fact that while a lot of people in NI would like to join the Republic, most in NI would not.
Honestly, I can't remember what was in the Good Friday agreement. I can't imagine that in 2019 there is anyone left on that island who has strong enough feelings about religion, strong enough to kill or die for it.
The next religious war in Ireland will be between the Shiites and the Sunnis.
who has strong enough feelings about religion, strong enough to kill or die for it.
Did you know that during the troubles you could be tested on how you pronounced the name of the letter ‘H’? Apparently the Prots pronounced it one way and Catholics another. Say it the wrong way and you could be killed. I doubt very much that the killers on both sides were deeply religious souls.
I totally agree, but there’s just way too much hostility there for this ever to be a workable solution.
Actually Northern Ireland is still extremely religious and socially conservative compared to most western countries. All that religious tribalism between Catholic and Protestant has encouraged people to cling on to their religion as a totem of identity wheras it has fallen away in the rest of the UK and Ireland.
Under the UK Northern Ireland is, constutionally largely autonomous (the current suspension of devolution due to deadlock between SF/DUP notwithstanding). If they reunited with the Republic, they’d probably lose this autonomy and join the Republic in their giddy charge towards cultural marxism, whether they liked it or not, or else they’d have to take up arms to prevent it.
I suppose you’re ready to give New Mexico back to Mexico as well?
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