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05-16-2018, 08:09 PM
Detoxifying the UK’s exit from the EU: a multi-national compromise is possible
(http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/06/27/de-toxifying-the-uks-eu-exit-process-a-multi-national-compromise-is-possible/)
There is a constitutional compromise that would avoid the genuine prospect that a referendum on Scottish independence, promoted by the SNP and the Green Party, will lead to the break-up of the union of Great Britain. The Scots have every right to hold such a referendum, because the terms specified in the SNP’s election manifesto have been met—namely a major material change in circumstances.
The same constitutional compromise could diminish the likelihood of turbulence spilling into Northern Ireland, and destabilising its union with Great Britain. The same day that Nicola Sturgeon publicly indicated preparations for a second Scottish referendum, the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin, demanded that a poll be held, as is possible by law, to enable Irish reunification. Sinn Féin has a point. Many in Northern Ireland fear that a UK exit would restore a hard border across Ireland, and strip away core European components of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Does the narrow outcome of a UK-wide referendum automatically over-ride the terms of the Ireland-wide referendums of 1998, and a majority within Northern Ireland? Good Friday should not be superseded by Black Friday. It would be perfectly proper to call for a border poll to give people the option of remaining within the EU through Irish reunification—especially if there is no alternative that respects the clear local majority preference to remain within the EU in Northern Ireland. But there is such an alternative.
EU says to regulate Northern Irish trade unless Britain acts fast
(https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-barnier/speed-up-brexit-talks-eu-demands-as-draft-treaty-published-idUSKCN1GC1LB)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Wednesday laid out how it would regulate Northern Ireland’s trade if no better solution was found in the fast-closing window before Britain’s departure from the EU, prompting furious reactions in London and Belfast.
Northern Ireland 'may become part of EU customs territory'
(http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43219559)
Scotland, N Ireland can stay in EU says Merkel ally
(https://www.ft.com/content/7bb5752e-73a2-3a4d-859c-b1c4497d9ba1)
They seem to be getting particularly desperate. It would not surprise me if the EU supported leftist,communist aligned "nationalists" in Northern Ireland and Scotland in order to cause the political disintegration of the United Kingdom.
(http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/06/27/de-toxifying-the-uks-eu-exit-process-a-multi-national-compromise-is-possible/)
There is a constitutional compromise that would avoid the genuine prospect that a referendum on Scottish independence, promoted by the SNP and the Green Party, will lead to the break-up of the union of Great Britain. The Scots have every right to hold such a referendum, because the terms specified in the SNP’s election manifesto have been met—namely a major material change in circumstances.
The same constitutional compromise could diminish the likelihood of turbulence spilling into Northern Ireland, and destabilising its union with Great Britain. The same day that Nicola Sturgeon publicly indicated preparations for a second Scottish referendum, the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin, demanded that a poll be held, as is possible by law, to enable Irish reunification. Sinn Féin has a point. Many in Northern Ireland fear that a UK exit would restore a hard border across Ireland, and strip away core European components of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Does the narrow outcome of a UK-wide referendum automatically over-ride the terms of the Ireland-wide referendums of 1998, and a majority within Northern Ireland? Good Friday should not be superseded by Black Friday. It would be perfectly proper to call for a border poll to give people the option of remaining within the EU through Irish reunification—especially if there is no alternative that respects the clear local majority preference to remain within the EU in Northern Ireland. But there is such an alternative.
EU says to regulate Northern Irish trade unless Britain acts fast
(https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-barnier/speed-up-brexit-talks-eu-demands-as-draft-treaty-published-idUSKCN1GC1LB)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Wednesday laid out how it would regulate Northern Ireland’s trade if no better solution was found in the fast-closing window before Britain’s departure from the EU, prompting furious reactions in London and Belfast.
Northern Ireland 'may become part of EU customs territory'
(http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43219559)
Scotland, N Ireland can stay in EU says Merkel ally
(https://www.ft.com/content/7bb5752e-73a2-3a4d-859c-b1c4497d9ba1)
They seem to be getting particularly desperate. It would not surprise me if the EU supported leftist,communist aligned "nationalists" in Northern Ireland and Scotland in order to cause the political disintegration of the United Kingdom.