Whitehall definitely does not care about NI. Johnson doesn't care about the UK or anyone else apart from himself. His followers will gladly lie and cheat to suck up to him. There is an even wider implication than NI, or the EU. The status of the UK on the worldwide stage is at stake if they go through with this.
I guess, but do they really want to be the government that lost Northern Ireland? Scotland might give it another go, then, and now you're the government that broke up the United Kingdom.
I don’t think they actually give a feck to be honest. The Tories can spin it as giving lasting peace to Ireland since a border poll passed and it’s up to the people to decide their future.
As a foreigner I never noticed that Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales together have like half of the UK surface but barely 15% of the population. Without important natural resources in play, it sounds economically inconvenient to keep the union (although I imagine there are more important reasons than money). Is it?
Nobody in England gives a flying feck about NI. I’ve met English people who didn’t even know it was part of the Uk. Not even kidding. They just assumed Ireland was Ireland.
Nothing shocks me these days, but that's actually shocking.
I hope so.
Truthfully I'm not sure people really care about other counties let alone countries.
I’m surprised English people don’t know NI is part of the UK - I suspect that’s a dense minority - but it is telling just how few English people (me included) have been there (as compared with Scotland or Wales). It’s only part of the UK because over 100 years ago they got armed to the gills and managed to persuade an army regiment to mutiny.
It's most certainly a nuisance and don't forget that NI barely featured at all in the Brexit debates in Britain prior to the referendum.
See Massive Spanner's reply.
NI 's comparative success after Brexit is not only irking the Brexiters because Ni's exports to the Ireland/EU have soared when previously they were more heavily reliant on 'exports' to GB. This has also shown Scotland that although currently heavily dependent on England as their customer ,as it were, the EU market could become much more lucrative and bigger market than England. So what seemed a little far-fetched not so long ago may not be so far-fetched now and Whitehall is in serious danger of losing Scotland and are quite worried.It's most certainly a nuisance and don't forget that NI barely featured at all in the Brexit debates in Britain prior to the referendum.
But I will say that Brexiteers definitely do care about any evidence which shows that NI is doing well relative to Britain, or least other regions within it, post-Brexit. Evidence which quite clearly exists as a result of the protocol and retaining access to the single market. So there's a significant motivating factor there for the Brexiteer types to ensure that's not the case.
See Massive Spanner's reply.
NI just isn't seen as an integral part of the UK, in the hearts and minds of people in Britain. And despite the fact that it is technically part of it, it's also in fact a contingent part.
Whilst losing Scotland would be seismic, losing NI would be a minor tremor.
Fair play predicting Napoleon 200 years in advance. Or maybe 400 years in advance? Or there was the one 500 years ago? You've just annexed the country so many times its hard to tell. The whole famine / genocide 20 years after he died feels a bit of a harsh measure to protect yourself from Napoleon though.
Pitt’s abolition of the Irish parliament and creation of the UK was driven by the Napoleonic crisis. I take your point although England is not alone in being brutal in protecting its flank - see Russia and China for current examples.
I was just taking the piss really. I know what he was saying, just thought it was kind of funny.
I thought the interviewer was a bit stuttery at first, but he does a decent job. She's like a robot spouting the same lines over and over, ignoring the morality and impact assessment questions.
He did a decent job compared to most interviewers but just as she was caught like a rabbit in the headlights he eased off.
Yep, we're doing them a favour and she said that twice too.
She is the first person to fail the Turing test.
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Liz Truss gave it away in her interview: "Diversion of trade towards North-South instead of East-West" or in other words trade is going too well between Northern Ireland and the EU whereas all the barriers put up by Brexit makes the rest of the UK look really dumb and we can't have that.
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Are they supposed to pick up all people sailing in the channel and take them to Rwanda?
Permitting foreign ships to abduct people in British waters is what Brexit was really about.
Yes. After they've kidnapped them then they set sail to the nearest Rwandan port.
If you are Rwanda you accept and pick up english looking fishermen.
Why are you focusing on technicalities?
