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Norway is not in the customs union, so perhaps not the best model to resolve the NI issue.Or at least making sure we go for the Norway option..
Norway is not in the customs union, so perhaps not the best model to resolve the NI issue.Or at least making sure we go for the Norway option..
Norway is not in the customs union, so perhaps not the best model to resolve the NI issue.
Oh, I thought it was. not good at all then.
I thought it might be the obvious easy solution. In that case, the obvious easy solution will be to cancel Brexit. if only.
There are precedents for countries to be in the customs union but outside the EU. Andorra, San Marino and to some extent Turkey (~ goods only) are in the CU but outside the EU and Schengen. Monaco is the same but inside Schengen.Oh, I thought it was. not good at all then.
I thought it might be the obvious easy solution. In that case, the obvious easy solution will be to cancel Brexit. if only.
The easy solution would be to cede NI to the republic - it`s what half the population want and most of the rest are DUP - job done.
Given Tories will only ever act in their own personal interests and they are only in power propped up by the DUP this option won’t even get onto the table. The more I think about it the more I become convinced this is the aspect that will derail Tory Brexit though. There just doesn’t seem to be any solution other than unifying Ireland, everything else requires a totally unworkable hard-border.
Half of Northern Ireland might want reunification, and it is roughly half of the Republic too ... until you ask "and would you be willing to pay more tax for that to happen?", at which point the rebel songs stop mid-flow with a strangled "it'll cost us how much?", and support drops to around a third (and that is before you get into how much it would cost).The easy solution would be to cede NI to the republic - it`s what half the population want and most of the rest are DUP - job done.
Is unifying Ireland a realistic possibility? I (only a foreigner) had always understood that the British subjects of NI would never stand for that. In fact would "rather fight than switch."
In a word, no.Is unifying Ireland a realistic possibility? I (only a foreigner) had always understood that the British subjects of NI would never stand for that. In fact would "rather fight than switch."
What you say makes perfect sense. But you say "Tory Brexit," and I seem to remember that Corbyn and the LP did not come out at all strongly against Brexit. That in fact both parties were split on this issue. Or is my memory playing tricks?
Brexit is in breach of the Good Friday agreement, as would be any border, as is the Tory buying the DUP. As I say I’m becoming increasingly confident this is where the Tory Brexit debacle will fail, not in Brussels ... but I suspect many lives will be lost along the way as the violence inevitably starts up again.
Well we could make it easier...Great Britain and Northern Ireland and then United Kingdom including Northern ireland.An interesting question is: does anyone in England really care if violence starts up again in Northern Ireland though, as long as it didn't spill over to the mainland? I mean, really? The average person doesn't even know Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
Brexit is in breach of the Good Friday agreement, as would be any border, ...