Sorry, didn’t know you had a crystal ball.
Any chance on letting us know the numbers for today’s Euro Million’s?
At the moment we have the Good Friday agreement which guarantees there will be free travel between NI and Eire.
i.e. no checkpoints, no border control.
If we leave the EU, there will have to be border control between NI and Eire, just the same as there will be border control between the rest of the UK and France at the Channel tunnel.
If the UK breaks the Good Friday agreement by introducing border control between NI and Eire, there is a good chance that the hot heads in the IRA and other groups will start up the troubles again, especially when you consider there is an option in the Good Friday agreement for a referendum to determine whether NI should join with Eire or remain part of the UK.
Breaking the Good Friday agreement will also not sit well with the USA, so any chance of a trade agreement with them, may well be scuppered.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but I guess you must have one?
I was just replying to your words where you stated one of your reasons for not leaving the EU, -
“We won’t get e resurgence of the troubles in Northern Ireland.”
If it is all that fragile a peace, then how come remaining in the EU equals peace, Leave equals violence?
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) does guarantee free movement. Although we basically had that before the GFA anyhow.
All parties agree to that.
I would point out that there is still a border in many forms, - different jurisdictions, taxes including VAT, road signs (including speed limits in kilometres immediately on crossing any roads into the Irish Republic), Livestock laws, etc, and the Pound to the Euro difference.
The GFA also guaranteed that NI remains part of U.K. so I hope we hear Americans complaining about the backstop.
The real problem sits outside Brexit and is the failure of Westminster to get local government in NI working.
Too much pandering to the threats of violence, without countering it and challenging it.