Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "UK says a deal on customs with EU is still on the table" video.
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elodie sheraton
I am Irish and - reluctantly - looked on at brexit with everyone else, gobsmacked wide for 3 years. The one thing I and other Irish people will not negotiate on - is freedom of movement on the island of Ireland - a hard border on the island of Ireland. THAT is the RED LINE from the Good Friday Agreement referendum that existed 20 years before brexit.
Despite all of that, the Irish people - the Irish government had been tolerant for years now. Personally knowing well how inconceivable, damaging and reckless this is.
"Controlling your borders" (which you had full right for non-EU nationals) risk infringing on ours, and the international laws of the GFA.
We voted for it over 90% in the Republic. Over 70% in the North In 1998. You cannot take that from us because the British said so 2 decades later.
My heartfelt plea - is why didn't the UK LISTEN - LISTEN to all of the warnings Irish people and diplomats gave about this since 2015! That brexit was going to be a most personal infliction by another nation. Other nations of the EU saw perfectly the extreme nationalist spiral the conservative media owned by Rupert Murdoch had on the working class. Triumphant lie after lie, overinflated and deliberately misconstrued half-lies about the EU, the migration and terrorism it had battled, and its parliamentary process that the UK did have significant influence over.
On the Irish Border, you cannot lecture us if you've failed to understand the most critical problem. There cannot be a UK with its own WTO tariffs without a WTO border on the island of Ireland. There cannot be a border in the first place, if free movement of people and goods are to exist.
If the people insist on a full brexit outside the custom s union, Northern Ireland must remain in the EU - if it's to stay in the UK after all.
Here's a secret. Many people in Ireland to the Netherlands know of British politics. We read news from other countries, from foreign sources of origin. And we can tell you that the British public were tricked into denying themselves that ability. Admitting to reading outsourced news is almost sacrilege there. That had blinded you to all the RED flags. Headlines and Tabloids are a poison.
This will prove to be the final Irish question. Over 200 years it's been ignored. We have been ignored for the final time, and not again with the weight of 26 countries behind us.
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