Brexit.

[WT4E]

So has Arlene sleepwalked the DUP into a United Ireland?

I stand by my statement when everyone was calling for her head about a year ago. Please keep her she's the best thing to happen to Irish Nationalism in a long time!

[seafoid]

Today's events are the outcome of  the Anglo-Irish agreement signed by Garrett Fitzgerald and Margaret Thatcher in 1985 and of course Margaret Thatcher drove the concept of the Single Market. So Thatcher might need to be upgraded as well as FG, Adams did not contribute to either.

Nigel Farage should be given the freedom of Dublin

[seafoid]

Very bad news for Kerry. A hard border might have made it possible to beat Down and Tyrone in the month of September.

[yellowcard]

From the outset I could never understood the DUP stance of being strong advocates of Brexit. It was like turkeys voting for Christmas and so it is coming to pass. We still don't know the full details of this border agreement but if it is a de facto economic united Ireland then the unionists really only have themselves to blame here. There will be plenty of initial anger on their side but the fact that Sinn Fein are not involved in making any agreement undoubtedly will ease it a little and make it easier to stomach. Economically in every sense the deal makes perfect sense though given that the majority of citizens voted to remain. They simply just can't see past the constitutional issue.   

[north_antrim_hound]

Key phrase "no regulatory divergence"

If we get "continued alignment" that's a fudge and means nothing to anybody, other than a hurdle passed by May.

Correct, All-Ireland has won nothing yet

We wanted the flexibility the term gives us. It is only a fudge in that it gives us freedom in the event the UK get some fantasy sweetheart trade deal with the EU.

The UK conceded. We won. LV has done more to bring about a united Ireland in a weekend with a pen than Adams has in a lifetime of bloodshed. Get that through your heads.

Or west and brit
the two words 'ass' and 'hole' when put together are for people like you.

[mouview]

Might yet be all for naught if stage II talks fail and the UK go 'hard', or if Tories shaft May and elect Boris/alternative hardline Brexiteer as leader, or if UK changes mind altogether re: Brexit.

Utterly paradoxical that the best chance pro-Brexit DUP had of maintaining the status quo was to Remain.

[Tubberman]

Breaking: DUP leader Arlene Foster accuses Irish government of 'seeking to unilaterally change' Good Friday Agreement after Brexit deal reports.

Foster: 'We will not accept any form of regulatory divergence which separates Northern Ireland economically or politically from the rest of the United Kingdom'

[OgraAnDun]

Breaking: DUP leader Arlene Foster accuses Irish government of 'seeking to unilaterally change' Good Friday Agreement after Brexit deal reports.

Foster: 'We will not accept any form of regulatory divergence which separates Northern Ireland economically or politically from the rest of the United Kingdom'

Sign of things to come when a United Ireland is eventually brought about through a referendum.

[Il Bomber Destro]

It will be great when the Northern Command start running this island.

[north_antrim_hound]

It will be great when the Northern Command start running this island.

Could you expand on that because it sounds completely stupid so far

[seafoid]

Breaking: DUP leader Arlene Foster accuses Irish government of 'seeking to unilaterally change' Good Friday Agreement after Brexit deal reports.

Foster: 'We will not accept any form of regulatory divergence which separates Northern Ireland economically or politically from the rest of the United Kingdom'

Arlene's latest hit

https://youtu.be/j-fWDrZSiZs

Available on chlorine chicken records

[Il Bomber Destro]

It will be great when the Northern Command start running this island.

Could you expand on that because it sounds completely stupid so far

How does it sound stupid?

A United Ireland is nearing and SF attract the most votes across the 32 counties. It would be great to see the Northern Command running the country.

[seafoid]

Might yet be all for naught if stage II talks fail and the UK go 'hard', or if Tories shaft May and elect Boris/alternative hardline Brexiteer as leader, or if UK changes mind altogether re: Brexit.

Utterly paradoxical that the best chance pro-Brexit DUP had of maintaining the status quo was to Remain.

The longer the circus goes on the less support there will be for a hard Brexit .
The DUP allied themselves with fruitcakes. Tough titty for them.  There was no £350m per week. Inflation post sterling collapse is costing £400 m perweek.

[yellowcard]

Breaking: DUP leader Arlene Foster accuses Irish government of 'seeking to unilaterally change' Good Friday Agreement after Brexit deal reports.

Foster: 'We will not accept any form of regulatory divergence which separates Northern Ireland economically or politically from the rest of the United Kingdom'

More grunt from Arlene, fairly predictable though. She is like a broken record at this stage and the DUP have no-one to blame but themselves. She has been like a godsend for nationalists.

[BennyCake]

So if a soft border pisses off unionists, and the North remains as it is, should all nationalists in the North not have voted for Brexit in the first place?