Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Where next for Britain after Brexit and the Iran crisis?" video.

I dont think fanatical remainers will win anyone over by threatening to break up the UK just because they didn't get their way.
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@jamesrosejr33 The SNP have been campaigning for decades to split from the UK. And do you really think the loyalist community in Northern Ireland will break away from the UK for the sake of the EU? - You don't know your history.
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@TheThomson94 Do please explain.
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@TheThomson94 Ok. I dont think fanatical leavers will win anyone over by threatening to break up the EU just because they didn't get their way. Not really the same tho, is it? Because of course leavers won a referendum over the issue. And thats how such things are decided in a democracy.
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@Altolin Do you genuinely believe the SNP would have ditched Scottish independence if remain had won? After all, they called for another Scottish independence referendum almost as soon as the last one was counted. The Good Friday Agreement commits all sides to preventing a hard border in Ireland. What it doesnt do is allow one side to make unreasonable demands the other. And then threaten a hard border if they dont get their way. And why wouldn't I support Brexit? After all, whether you like it or not, thats what the country voted for.
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@Altolin The SNP will always find a reason to demand another referendum. Leaving the EU isn't unreasonable. Demanding the UK effectively split to suit the EU is. The UK originally entered the EU with no referendum at all. Membership was finally confirmed with a single referendum. There is no 'right' decision. If you believe in a federal Europe, thats fine. Its your right to argue for it and vote for it. But what you don't have a right to do is disenfranchise those who disagree with you by overturning a democratic vote when it goes against you.
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@Altolin The Good Friday Agreement does not commit the UK to remaining in the EU. And, like I said, responsibility over the border issue applies to all sides equally. It does not allow either side to make unreasonable demands the other. In other words, it does not allow the UK to demand that the EU split to accommodate the UK, just as it does not allow the EU to demand the UK split to accommodate the EU. It commits both sides equally to work to ensure there is no hard border in Ireland. If the EU makes demands unacceptable to the UK, and refuses further negotiation (as the EU is), and then threatens to put up a hard border in Ireland if its demands are not met, then the EU is going against the Good Friday agreement. Just as if the reverse was the case. The UK is not responsible for the EU creating a hard border in Ireland simply because the EU doesnt get its way. In that situation, the EU would be responsible for breaking the GFA. The UK doesn't owe membership to the EU. No member state does. And the UK existed long before the creation of the EU. Your hated and distrust of the idea of a UK outside the EU has fanaticized you to the point where you cannot see clearly.
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@Altolin ''Respecting the GFA without separating Northern Ireland from the UK is now contingent on either our remaining a full member of the EU or on us remaining a part of the EU's major institutions outside of full membership of the EU'' No, it really isn't. The GFA does not bind the UK to EU membership. It commits all sides to come to agreement to prevent a hard border. And there are a number of ways that might be achieved other than UK membership of the EU. For example, in the event of a no deal Brexit, the Irish government is already considering ways to prevent a hard border. These include conducting checks away from the border. This has already been discussed with Germany. And of course, the another way would be for Ireland to separate from the EU. Only that would be unreasonable, right? - But certainly no more unreasonable than demanding the UK split. And does it even occur to you to ask that, if the GFA bound the UK to EU membership forevermore, then by what mandate? The 1998 GFA referendum was held only in Northern Ireland. And the Republic of Ireland. The rest of the UK never got to vote. How is it then that the UK's future could have been decided by referendum in only a small part of UK and a foreign country? Hardly democratic, yes? Your problem is that you refuse to recognise that the UK has the right to leave the EU. And because it will, you believe it should be justly punished (by someone) as a result. And you see the separation of the UK as part of that punishment. This infantile thinking is much like a child breaking something because, if he can't have it, then no one can. Only the UK won't come to an end simply because you didn't get your way. You might not like it, but life goes on, mate.
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