It'd certainly be a shame to see the CTA altered but what else can you do?Aren't the DUP opposed to that? It might solve the NI-ROI issue but creates similar problems between NI and GB. Wouldn't it mean tariffs on NI "exports" to GB, border checks on NI citizens? And, of course, the DUP see it as a first step to unification.
And if we ignored the decision? Then what? We don't know if businesses will be fucked up, i'm sure some will and others will rise and take their place.
At the end of the day a decision was made, we can't now change our minds because those who lost shout loudest.
And you're spouting about democracy, yet in denial about a result you didn't like.
A referendum was called because of public demand, nobody successfully challenged it because there was
a general consensus for one. Never, anywhere, were there any clauses on the percentages you refer to, it was held,
and more people voted out than has ever been than in any other referenda or election.
There has been no downturn in our economy because of the referendum, we've taken a dip because of the recent
election throwing up a hung parliament, which is entirely different.
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-06-15/dup-backs-theresa-mays-vision-of-brexit-not-philip-hammonds/
"the DUP was 100% committed to the UK leaving the single market AND the customs union"
If they don't have them, doesn't everything just go via Ireland?It'd certainly be a shame to see the CTA altered but what else can you do?
Would we be allowed to have non-tariff between Rep. Ireland and UK in the event we don't get non-tariff to the single market? I presume not, it being a single market and the Rep. being in it.
Tariffs between Ireland and UK would be ludicrous.
That's nice. NI also needs no border between them and the ROI. I look forward to the solution that squares that tricky circle.
That is out of the question. Opening the doors to millions of people coming from a war zone (many jumping on the bandwagon from perfectly stable places) is not a sustainable solution - there are always world conflicts, commonly in Africa/Middle East. Permanent residency is not a solution to an issue of requiring temporary safety. I've said on here before the UN need to back a proper, long-term solution for these temporary matters. If large numbers of people from poorer countries constantly move to the richer countries, it will eventually cause serious problems for that country and collapse infrastructure to support that many people - turning a well performing country into a shithole those immigrants wouldn't chose to live in.
Besides all that - legally speaking (as long as they haven't agreed prior), there is zero right for people to demand a country they are not from or have citizenship in to take in any immigrants. Those are matters of sovereignty to decide what's best for their own people, unlike international humane laws against chemical weapons and the like that require external pressures to ensure basic human rights.
I'm not saying don't help refugees, I'm saying do it sensibly in everyone's interests. It's in the interests of those refugees to be helped to live in their own country and build that country into a good place to live. There are other complex issues then though such as exterior countries meddling for their own gains without conscience for the people there - these types of countries need to be held to account.
A united Ireland would do that. Imagine the DUP bringing about that........That's nice. NI also needs no border between them and the ROI. I look forward to the solution that squares that tricky circle.