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Brexit Discussion Thread VI

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    #9632
    ThePanjandrum
    Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭ThePanjandrum


    tuxy wrote: »
    The GFA says that both the UK and Ireland must work together to align policies on both sides of the border.

    I don't see how the UK can implement a hard brexit without breaking this agreement.

    Borders and customs arrangement cannot be discussed in the North-South Council as it is outside its competence.


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    #9633
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 67,152 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Imreoir2 wrote: »
    The EU won't have to make any threats or turn against us, if the British fail to uphold the GFA then we will erect a hard border ourselves. The single market is our market, we have to protect it. The UK will also have to put up a hard border if they don't want to be flooded with cheep goods from all over.

    I think we have to start the discussion about this. Putting on the green jersey and protecting the SM as you say.
    But for that to work, FG need to fill the vacuum and start pushing hard and unequivocally for a UI. We cannot isolate those in the north again as Lynch did when he allowed a reluctant IRA to fill the vacuum back in the day. Take partition by the scruff of the neck and end it. Not everyone is going to be happy, that is just a reality of this.


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    #9634
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users Posts: 5,803 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    Interestingly, the Swedish Democrats have dropped demands for an in-out referendum from their political platform, and now want to reform EU institutions from within:

    https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sd-byter-fot-vill-inte-langre-lamna-eu

    Ironically, many Eurosceptic parties are moving closer to the centre, and joining the ECR, so if Cameron had held his nerve, the UK would have been in a rather more powerful position after May's elections.


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    #9635
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,600 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    This thread is nearing the 10,000 post mark. Thanks to everyone involved. There is a new thread open here. This thread will be locked shortly. Please feel free to start posting in the new thread and by all means quote posts from this one if preferable.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #9636
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,600 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    This thread is nearing the 10,000 post mark. Thanks to everyone involved. There is a new thread open here. This thread will be locked shortly. Please feel free to start posting in the new thread and by all means quote posts from this one if preferable.

    Locked.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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