Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Brexit: Trade tensions increasing in Northern Ireland" video.

  1. Forgotten? They don't care.
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  2. Except for Ulster Unionists.
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  3. @Boby Crush The border in the Irish Sea is causing the problems...the UK should have stayed in the Single Market and the Customs Union.
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  4. @Boby Crush 'The EU is causing the problem, using NI as a political football and they just did the dirty on Ireland by shutting the border.' First of all, no border has been closed in Ireland. The problem has been caused by the UK, changing the status quo by leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union. The decision to this occurred after the referendum at the Tory Party Conference in October 2016 - after the referendum. Nobody in Ireland voted to have customs border in Ireland. 'If the EU don't budge then the Protocol will have to go.' The EU may budge, it will not be enough for Brexiters, it never is, they always want more. It will be interesting to see what happens next.
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  5.  @catchagrip.9468  The people of Northern Ireland did not vote for Brexit. Nationalists are on the cusp of being the majority in Northern Ireland and did not want any customs posts on the border (or away from it). Johnson's solution was to put the border in the Irish Sea - that was a British suggestion, not an Irish or EU one. This is going to bring the issue of Irish unity to a head much sooner and rather than it coming about naturally through changes in relationships over decades, it will be in response to alien values in England. The Unionists are having the rug pulled out from under them by Brexit. Brexit is a bad idea and can only work if others are prepared to accept their role as collateral damage.
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  6. The trade tension relate to Brexit and the border in the Irish Sea, which the UK agreed too but can cope with.
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  7. Brexit means Brexit, but all the problems it is causing are the EUs fault.
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  8. Why would Ireland leave the EU??
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  9.  @eckyx9019  Brexit means Brexit.
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  10.  @1bluetoe  These are not circumstance under which Ireland should be united.
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  11. Why? Is an agreement with the UK not worth the paper it is written on?
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  12.  @MoebiusUK  Its all Brexiters have got...
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  13.  @diegolove173  Well said.
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  14. How is the EU trying to destroy the NI economy? This is a consequence of Brexit, suggested by London and supported by the DUP.
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  15.  @eckyx9019  Well, it could mean Brexit but without the actual consequences of Brexit.
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  16. I've seen that quotation before. What was the context?
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