You claimed to care about the Greeks...
Actually, I didn't, despite decameron's regular pokes to the contrary. What I said was that I cared very much about whether or not we should belong to an institution that was prepared to do what the EU did to the Greek people, which was to eviscerate their economy and thus their livelihoods
purely in order to rescue their disastrously flawed project (Ever Closer Union > EMU > Ever Closer Union > USE).
but you don't appear to care about NI / Ireland border checks... and the impact that will have on the citizens of NI / Ireland and potential for civil unrest.
There will be no NI/Ireland border checks
at the border, exactly as now.
No, it isn't.
The inference is that it isn't possible to believe any claim that you care about any nation other than your own.
There's no such inference. You're making it up.
The NI / Ireland was clearly known and spoken about before the ref, this is nothing about the EU using the border as a means of presenting Brexit etc,
Yes, the NI/Ireland border was clearly known and spoken about, as I wrote above. It subsequently became about the EU using the border as a means of preventing brexit/keeping the UK in the SM/CU/keeping the UK within the EU's regulatory orbit. I would go further and speculate that, for certain parties, it was also about the annexation of NI from the UK. You could look upon it as some all-round opportunism on the part of the EU for their purposes and Irish nationalist factions both within and without the Irish government for theirs.
it is an issue that the UK is directly responsible for bringing about and needs to be working WITH the EU to try and solve.
Officials on both sides of the border were working to find techological solutions during the Kenny premiership. This process was very quickly stopped by Varadkar, who is considered something of a Brussels poodle in regard of Brexit, and saw the border in terms of the opportunities that it presented to stymie brexit.
Your claim that there will never be a border is absolute nonsense given the direction we are heading in at the moment.
There is already a border. It is an international one, and it separates two entirely distinct tax, VAT, excise, political, monetary, economic and legal entities.
... And to further claim that my criticism of the use of the word is itself "weaponisation" - ...
That is very precisely what it is.
It’s the GFA itself that ‘weaponises’ the border.
It only works because the because the border is open. The whole leave campaign was predicated on us have borders with the EU. How did they not notice this might be an issue?
The fact that Brexit supporters can’t see that and almost everyone else in the world can speaks volumes.
Stephen
The entire Irish border issue is part of the same fabrication that brought us 'sequencing' the 'Barnier Staircase' and all the rest of the EU/remain bullshit. All of it was and is designed to frustrate brexit, and in the EU's worst case scenario to maintain the EU's regulatory imperialism over the UK, as it enjoys doing over as many of its neighbours as it can.
There is one very straightforward solution to the Irish border issue, and that is the achievement of an FTA between the UK and the EU. The EU, with the connivance of much of the UK establishment, Parliament, Whitehall, the legal profession and global bigCorps, has spent the last 4 years doing everything in its substantial powers to prevent that from happening, and thanks at least in part to the strenuous efforts of Varadkar it quickly came to see that the Irish border would be the single most useful item in its toolkit.