Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "EU says tensions with UK stem from Brexit, not N.Ireland protocol. There is no alternative!" video.

The idea to put the checks in the Irish Sea came from London, not Dublin or Brussels. Own it. You gave Boris a landslide victory on the back of it.
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@martinmold1051 There has never been vote on partition in Ireland. It came about through an agreement by Unionists who were a minority in Ireland and the British government. The majority were not consulted. Democracy has nothing to do with it.
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Finished with the UK.
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@Rallan You have evidence he kicks puppies?
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@Rallan Was he accused of it? He's right though - Brexiters blame others for their failure of the EU to give them cake.
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@anasjudge1937 It came from London. I KNOW you would like to think otherwise, but the movement on the Irish backstop came from Boris. Ireland has no say on such a matter.
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@anasjudge1937 Boris wanted a deal. The Tories wanted to get past the NI Backstop and get on with the trade negotiation. Johnson had already been to Dublin to discuss the issue with Varadkar, so when he decided to put the Customs and Regulatory border in the Irish Sea, he asked Varadkar to spare him the humiliation of travelling to Dublin again and instead they agreed to meet in Liverpool to discuss it. Varadkar agreed to Johnson's solution to the backstop and gave Barnier the nod to begin negotiations. The EU was not going to negotiate with the UK on a future relationship without the support of its member state. The EU did not use Ireland, Ireland used its membershop of the EU. It is impossible for you to accept this because it is contrary to your belief that the EU does not care about its members and it highlights that a small country inside the EU has more clout with the Brussels and a large country outside. That's not a good look for Brexiters. The only people who forgot NI were Brexiters. They never considered the border the in Ireland, perhaps because the assumed the EU would have ignored Irish concerns because they consider Ireland an non-entity. They may have taken it for granted that Ireland would have decided to leave the EU with the UK because many Brexiters think Ireland is economically dependent on the UK. This deep ignorance of Ireland is a significant factor as to why you are in this position. The other factor are the DUP. They saw Brexit as an opportunity to put a hard border in Ireland against the will of the Irish people on both sides of the border. The Irish government were alive to threat and was then that Varadkar became more vocal. The DUP never anticipated that voting down the backstop would lead to Johnson throwing the Unionists under a bus and making some unionists feel more distant from the UK. The reason the DUP is kicking up such a fuss about current arrangement is because they are losing support to either more moderate or more extreme unionist parties. London is just cranking up the tensions. If there had been no Brexit there would have been no problems, but we are where we are. It is not clear as to why you think it required the EU to put Ireland 'up to' standing up for its own interests.
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@ProfileP246 I think they will rejoin in a generation possibly as independent states.
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Brexiters love liars. They elected one PM.
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