Foreign meanies

[northernladyuk]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...things-through

Ireland has issued a stark warning that it will block progress of the Brexit negotiations in December unless the UK gives a formal written guarantee that there will be no hard border with Northern Ireland.
In sharp remarks before a breakfast meeting with Theresa May, the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, said Brexit-backing politicians had not “thought all this through” in the years they had been pushing for the UK to leave the EU.
Outside the Gothenburg social summit in Sweden, Varadkar suggested he would block any progress to negotiations about the future relationship with the EU unless the UK was prepared to take a hard border, in any form, off the table between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

[Bean]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...things-through

So unless the UK commits to removing a particular negotiation outcome from the list of possibilities, the Irish PM will block further negotiations, thus leading inevitably to a hard brexit and a hard border (which he doesn't want)?

Genius

[Eirikur]

Ireland should finally throw off the shackles of their colonial masters and join Schengen, **** the border with NI and open the border to the rest of Europe

[northernladyuk]

So unless the UK commits to removing a particular negotiation outcome from the list of possibilities, the Irish PM will block further negotiations, thus leading inevitably to a hard brexit and a hard border (which he doesn't want)?

Genius

Your logic is faulty. This is about leverage.

[northernladyuk]

Ireland should finally throw off the shackles of their colonial masters and join Schengen, **** the border with NI and open the border to the rest of Europe

You see how long it takes to get from Letterkenny to Dublin without crossing the border.

[Eirikur]

You see how long it takes to get from Letterkenny to Dublin without crossing the border.

Closed border doesn't mean you can't cross it anymore just a passport check an d you're on your way.
And the number of people per year traveling from Dublin to Letterkenny compared to those traveling between Dublin and the rest of the EU must be negligible

[Troll]

Ireland should finally throw off the shackles of their colonial masters and join Schengen, **** the border with NI and open the border to the rest of Europe

No bog jumpers are going to dictate policy to Blighty... seal the Border

[northernladyuk]

Closed border doesn't mean you can't cross it anymore just a passport check an d you're on your way.
And the number of people per year traveling from Dublin to Letterkenny compared to those traveling between Dublin and the rest of the EU must be negligible

The numbers transiting NI are significant and it is currently seamless. If you are flying passport control is not much more of a burden.

[AtW]

The numbers transiting NI are significant and it is currently seamless. If you are flying passport control is not much more of a burden.

There won't be much flying after EU Open Skies get closed...

[northernladyuk]

There won't be much flying after EU Open Skies get closed...

The EU will allow humanitarian supply flights into London, Scotland and NI.