Posted on 05/13/2016 9:48:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A vote by Britain to quit the European Union might reignite conflict in Northern Ireland because it would re-erect a border through the country, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday. […]
The minister said that an Irish representative had once told him that the conflict in Northern Ireland was currently quiet “because there are no borders in Ireland.”
But if the United Kingdom were to quit the EU, “there will be a border again between Ireland and Northern Ireland. And that could at least have the potential of rekindling a conflict that has seemingly calmed down,” he said. …
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Another Irish Rebellion?
Simple, Eire will have to leave the EU as well.
(and maybe the Germans sould stay out of the British debate, unless of course they really want a BREXIT)
Why would there be a border? Couldn't England just leave Ireland alone and still quit the EU? I have no knowledge of the Irish/English conflicts. Please explain.
Yep, that's a good one. It will be fun to see how desperate the EU gets as the vote nears. I wonder what's next. Maybe:
A vote by Britain to quit the European Union might cause Russia to attack Poland.
A vote by Britain to quit the European Union might cause Poland to attack Russia.
A vote by Britain to quit the European Union might cause Britain to attack Poland and Russia.
The Irish rebellion was a German plot during World War I.
And the IRA were Commies funded by Moscow.
A Brexit could also trigger global warming, cats and dogs living together, forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
A vote by Britain to quit the European Union might cause the Vikings to attack Britain
Because Northern Ireland (Ulster) is part of the United Kingdom, not the Republic of Ireland. Currently both the UK and the Republic of Ireland are parts of the EU, and there is an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. But if the UK (which includes Northern Ireland) withdraws from the EU, that could change.
Good point. Time for Ireland to get out of the EU.
The Irish rebellion was a reaction to 400 years of British oppression of the Irish nation and people.
Landlady: Of course it's his big day Thursday. They've been planning it for months.
Johnson: What's happening then?
Landlady: Well it's the North Minehead bye-election. Mr Hilter's standing as the National Bocialist candidate. He's got wonderful plans for Minehead!
Johnson: Like what?
Landlady: Well, for a start he wants to annex Poland.
Heading to Ireland next week, Dublin, Galway, Adare, Dingle Peninnsula.
Never mind the “borderless” situation being due to the Good Friday agreement, which is not EU-brokered. If anyone would be erecting borders after a UK departure, it would obviously be the EU itself, walking all over Ireland’s sovereignty and inserting itself into an agreement that does not concern them.
“The Irish rebellion was a German plot during World War I.”
No, but the Germans certainly supported it. Don’t forget the Irish had been rebelling against English oppression since several centuries BEFORE there was a Germany. To see the kind of German support for Irish rebels the best thing to do is look at the career of Roger Casement:
Prelude to Easter Rising: Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany by Rheinhard Doerries.
Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary by Seamus O’Siochain.
The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running: Recollections and Documents edited by F.X. Martin.
Then, if you can stomach it, there’s this to balance out (way downward) all of that patriotic stuff about the same man: http://www.amazon.com/Roger-Casement-background-sexuality-political/dp/095392873X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463159939&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=Roger+Casement%3A+Imperialist%2C+Rebel%2C+Revolutionary+by+Seamus+O%27Siochain I have not read the Black Diaries. I don’t think I ever will. Casement did so much good in his life I would rather focus on those things.
The French certainly supported our rebellion, but it wasn’t a French plot (although some English officials may have claimed it was for all I know).
Germany, again, stoking yet another Irish Rebellion?
Indeed, if the UK left the EU it could negotiate any deal with Ireland it wanted, including maintaining the status quo. In fact, the UK and Ireland already have an arrangement called the Common Travel Area which provides for open borders in all the British Isles. That’s a bilateral agreement unrelated to the European Union. So they can continue it if both countries want that.
Problem solved.
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