Wait, I'm a little confused by this: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/03/police-reinforcements-for-northern-ireland-in-case-of-no-deal-brexit-1000-officers-training-trouble-hard-border … Is this saying that, should the UK hard Brexit, that they'd.....close off Northern Ireland from the rest of Ireland? That seems like a *very* bad idea.
Oh man, I hadn't even considered North Ireland's role in the Brexit debacle: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-44615404 … That's a full rundown of the issue, and it could mean a breaking of the Good Friday peace agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement …
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The interesting part of the Good Friday agreement is that N.Ireland remains part of the UK *until* a majority of the people of N.Ireland vote to not be. Yanking N.Ireland out of the EU could easily be the catalyst of a referendum that removes them from the UK.
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The implication of N.Ireland voting to leave the UK and join the Republic of Ireland (or, just be their own country) could then domino to Scotland and other parts. I know Scotland has already been pro-EU and threatened to leave, so having N.Ireland do it could help.
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And, the Good Friday agreement established an interesting 2 point agreement: Most people in N.Ireland want to be in the UK. But, a significant amount want to join Ireland. Thus, why it's left up to the people through democracy as to where they belong.
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So, given that this basically just happened to the UK with Brexit ("We vote to leave the EU!") it'd be *crazy* hard for the UK to argue that the people of N.Ireland couldn't also vote to leave the UK. Shall we call N.Ireland leaving the UK..NIxit? Ohhhh, that's a good pun.
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For real - it's everything. NI is propping up the current government (via DUP), it's doomed to be negatively affected by Brexit-induced regulatory burdens ... oh, and they voted "Remain" by 5 to 4: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36614443 … -- if NI ever decides to choose EU over UK ...
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