Posted on 12/13/2019 6:05:51 AM PST by Cronos
A comfortable majority for Boris Johnson means his Brexit will happen.
That will have profound implications for Northern Ireland.
It will likely mean a new "Irish Sea border" in operation in little over a year's time.
Mr Johnson is expected to bring his withdrawal deal back to Parliament next week, beginning a process that will take the UK out of the EU by 31 January.
The UK will then enter a transition period, effectively a standstill arrangement where EU rules still apply.
That transition could continue until the end of 2022 but the prime minister is adamant he will only allow it to last until the end of 2020.
So during that year the UK and EU will attempt to negotiate a long-term trade deal.
In parallel the two sides will also have to work out how the Northern Ireland part of the withdrawal deal will work.
They will effectively be designing an Irish Sea border.
And there should be no doubt that the current deal will mean new checks and controls on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
The withdrawal agreement means Northern Ireland will continue to follow EU rules on manufactured goods and food products - the rest of the UK will not.
That will mean some goods will have to be checked as they move from Great Britain into Northern Ireland. The nature and extent of these checks will have to thrashed out by an EU and UK body known as the Joint Committee, which will oversee the whole withdrawal agreement.
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The IRA...attempting to do with bullets what they can’t do with ballots.
looks here like they DID win with ballots so no bullets
I think the long-term ramifications will be that Ulster ditches the UK and Ireland is reunited.
Now that the Republic of Ireland is a thoroughly secular Eurosocialist cesspool where one can get all the abortions they want, why wouldn’t they?
well, Northern Ireland was recently forced to legalize abortions by the UK.
Note that the EU can’t and hasn’t forced Portugal or Poland to make abortions as easy as in the UK or the Netherlands
With such a big mandate he should not take the same deal. Take a much better deal and the threat of no deal
It means that northern Ireland is ceded to Ireland.
1. he already went to the other 27 countries with this deal and agreed it with them. The deal was made by him
2. he already got parliamentary go-ahead on it.
You really expect him to turn around and cancel his own deal?
Yes. If he’s smart. If I got offered a job for 50k and accepted it no one would blame of if I went back asking for more if someone offered me 70k days later and if they didn’t comply I’d take the job worth 70k. When the facts on the ground change you have to be able to adapt.
the border areas are also more pro-reunification.
This is the best option - NI remains politically part of the UK, so satisfying the unionists, while being economically joined with the republic, so satisfying (somewhat) the republicans.
It is the best solution
the difference would be if you already signed an agreement.
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