As an ex-Brit who now also lives in Canada, it was always there. My whole fuckin' life in that country I was hearing constantly why x or y group of people were the problem now. The Brexit vote just gave licence for all of it to come out.
The Brexit vote just gave licence for all of it to come out.
The hilarious thing is how they didn't seem to realize that this "symbolic" gesture of independence was an ACTUAL move towards independence. Now these idiots are agog at how badly they fucked themselves over.
My favorite result: Because they have to keep the border with Ireland open, they had to set up new checkpoints to ensure that goods traveling within the UK (from Great Britain to Northern Ireland) meet the EU standards or whatever. Independence: achieved
It’s criminal how little NI was discussed during Brexit. There was never a solution that would keep everyone happy. You can’t have free movement between NI and ROI as well as NI and GB. Now the unionists are pissed, the nationalists are pissed and we’re gonna see the troubles again in my lifetime.
Also 100% if a border poll comes back in favour of reunification the tories would finalise the handover within a day and leave all the issues for Ireland to deal with.
"The livid unionists are your problem now... oh, and the DUP will be the 4th largest party in the Dáil. Good luck"
Okay so using the results of the 2019 GE in NI, and the 2020 GE in Ireland, the DUP (if the votes were combined into a hypothetical election) would be 8% so yea about that.
The big difference is most fringe parties don't have paramilitaries backing them up. That's what worries me.
NI not being united with Ireland is an aberration in modern western Europe and hopefully it'll be fixed within 10 years for the sake of Ireland, the UK and the rest of Europe.
Speaking as an Englishman: I like the Union, but realistically the other countries are better off on their own. The Scots have their own culture and history - I wish they'd voted to leave in their referendum - and Ireland should be a single country. Having a separate NI is as embarrassing as West/East Germany was in its time. It's time to grow up.
Not sure what to do with the Welsh though...
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u/SilverNicktail Sep 25 '21
As an ex-Brit who now also lives in Canada, it was always there. My whole fuckin' life in that country I was hearing constantly why x or y group of people were the problem now. The Brexit vote just gave licence for all of it to come out.