Brexit

Johnson off to Northern Ireland to try to sort the mess of his own making

Yep, the Northern Ireland protocol

In 2019 Johnson put a customs border in the Irish Sea

Johnson’s trip is because the DUP refuse to elect a new speaker to the Northern Ireland Assembly in protest and after the recent elections

The protocol is the solution to the problem Britain faced after voting to leave the EU and then deciding to leave the customs union

By insisting on “regulatory divergence” from the EU (the ability for Britain to set its own standards) the UK had to put a goods border somewhere: either on the Irish mainland, or in the Irish Sea

Any solution would come back to haunt them

Now he needs to pacify the MPs who put him in power

For the past week there have been threats that Britain will undermine the protocol unilaterally

And a lot of crap about how the EU is being unreasonable

All a bluff

The irony of Britain’s Northern Irish problem is that the solution most likely to win cross-party/cross-community support is the one that does not involve any border

If only Britain had remained in the customs union (and single market) in a softer Brexit, or had no Brexit at all

Good job "we've got Brexit done" isn't it?

The so called 'NIP' is a complete red herring and the DUP knows it. 

It's a matter between Westminster and the EU and has no bearing on devolved government in the 6 counties.

The electorate in the North also knows this.

It's the same old unionist veto being trotted out again because they have no cards left to play and they know that the end game is approaching.

It will only hasten the only real solution and that's already happening - a United Ireland- with the erosion of the DUP vote to the Alliance party and worrying for the DUP in their heartlands such as  Lagan Valley.

The liberal unionism of the Alliance Party are SF's next target area as they hope to supplant them with a core Republican message and that is practical solutions can be found in a unified country rather than the endless intransigence of the DUP and their Brexit supporting British masters.

James Connolly stated that if Ireland was partitioned there would be a 'carnival of reaction' on both sides of the border.

Any new Ireland would see the dismantling of both the Northern State and Free State as we know them.

This is the Republican project.

Despite the current fudge we're experiencing with the so called' NIP'.

I was discussing this with an Irishman the other day. When I expressed my support for a united Ireland he was like 'nah, you can keep the north. The orangemen are your problem, we don't want them,'

Our Government. Led by Liars and incompetents

Happy Brexit Day

Six years ago today 52 per cent of people in the UK voted to leave the European Union and 48 per cent voted to remain. David Cameron would soon whistle away from the scene. Theresa May would preside over three years of bitter negotiations and parliamentary wranglings before Tory MPs turned to Boris Johnson to finish the job. The UK would eventually leave the EU three-and-a-half years later on 31 January 2020

Brexit then slipped from the national conversation as the pandemic took hold. It was said the economic effect of Brexit was indiscernible from the convulsions of the pandemic. That’s changing now. A report published yesterday from the Resolution Foundation found that the long-term effect of Brexit will be “to reduce household incomes as a result of a weaker pound, and lower investment and trade”. In front of the Treasury Committee in March, an unnerved Rishi Sunak conceded that the collapse in UK trade “might well” have something to do with Brexit. The OBR wrote last year that exports and imports will be “around 15 per cent lower in the long run” than if the UK had remained in the EU. Brexit, they predicted, would reduce the UK’s potential GDP by around 4 per cent

Thanks fuckwits