Losing Northern Ireland wouldn't break the UK. It's losing Scotland that would; without it they'd no longer be the United Kingdom of Great Britain that they've been since 1707; and would instead go back to being just the Kingdom of England.
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So they have "Great Britain", which is composed of England, Wales and Scotland.
And they have the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" with the addition of NI, or "United Kingdom" in short. So if NI leaves, they lose the status of "United Kingdom". They will only be left with "Great Britain", pretty big drop in status. And this may create the domino effect necessary for a new Scottish referendum.
BMD should be happy though, more taxpayer money for England after all, since it's all about the money.
No, it would no longer be the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but it would still be the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which they have been since 1707.
It became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. Then they changed to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922, with the Irish Republic obtaining its independence. Losing Northern Ireland would therefore undo the Acts of Union of 1800, but not the Acts of Union of 1706-1707.
Bank of England ‘reluctant’ to talk about Brexit harm, says Bank of America
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey faced a Brexit row on Friday after it was accused of being “reluctant” to talk about the harm caused by Britain quitting the EU to avoid upsetting the Government.
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Without Brexit UK could have easily afforded the 138 F-35's.
Now you can't even talk about the problem, you have a leader who changes the rules specifically to excuse his rule breaking.
UK has fallen so far, and it continues.
Nobody said there would be a hard border with NI/RoI. Neither RoI nor UK will put one there, and the EU will have to accept that. The cross-border trade is negligible anyway.
They will still buy 138 F-35s, just not Bs, they will buy some As.Bank of England ‘reluctant’ to talk about Brexit harm, says Bank of America
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey faced a Brexit row on Friday after it was accused of being “reluctant” to talk about the harm caused by Britain quitting the EU to avoid upsetting the Government.
Without Brexit UK could have easily afforded the 138 F-35's.
Now you can't even talk about the problem, you have a leader who changes the rules specifically to excuse his rule breaking.
UK has fallen so far, and it continues.
I doubt RoI would agree to put one in Ireland. So what it boils down to is whether the EU wants to scrap a near $1tr dollar trade deal that benefits it greatly on the basis that there may, or may not, be a few £k of sausages going from Britain to RoI via NI minus customs checks. Given that they have EUR31bn of illegal narcotics sales annually and a porous southern border, it hardly seems like a priority. If we say we won't send any there, that should be accepted. And it's not like withdrawing the deal gets them a hard border anyway.
Functionally the current customs border does nothing anyway. Britain is allowed to trade non-EU standard goods with NI, so they customs check it between Britain and NI, but then it still has to be allowed to pass into NI anyway. So the EU is paying customs agents to essentially do nothing.
This is how politics works. All sides try to gain leverage over the others. If the UK backtracks from the NIP, that's breaking a treaty, then the EU will stick a hard border in Ireland. There's nothing more to it. The EU will then be able to negotiate with the UK from a position of strength. A hard border in Ireland is in the EU's interests, so you really think they won't use it?
RoI won't let them stick a hard border in Ireland. It's a government-breaking policy in RoI.
To keep out illegal narcotics and illegal migrants. But the EU has EUR31bn/annum sales in illegal narcotics and millions of illegal migrants, so you might ask why they bother having borders at all, and especially why they're so bothered about a border where none of the aforementioned is likely pass.
The problem of the Irish border is that it's a catch-22 situation. Legally, the EU cannot allow the absence of border between the EU and the UK; Ireland and Norn Iron cannot allow the presence of a border between them, and the UK cannot allow the presence of a border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So it's a complete deadlock. The ways to solve it are:
- One of the parties cedes and break their principles
- The UK rejoins the European Union, eliminating the need for a border in the first place
- Northern Ireland secedes from the UK and unites with the Republic of Ireland
Polio virus found in London sewage samples
The last case of wild polio was contracted in 1984 and the UK has remained polio-free since 2003.
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As relevant thread was locked, hence posted the news in Brexit thread.Polio virus found in London sewage samples
The last case of wild polio was contracted in 1984 and the UK has remained polio-free since 2003.
