No, try again.Purple I should probably have used the term pan-catholic rather than pan-nationalist as the sectarian divide between the two views seems even more stark than the nationalist/unionist divide.
The point is we never tried. Leo's legacy in all this is that he saw it as a contest as to who could have the brightest red lines.I don't think a minor, or even major, concession to Teresa would have changed anything as this is all about a civil war within the Tory Party but we shall never know for sure.
The point is we never tried. Leo's legacy in all this is that he saw it as a contest as to who could have the brightest red lines.
It looks like the UK Gov is determined to crash out - they have rejected the Withdrawal Agreement that was drawn up with the involvement of the UK negotiators and accepted by the PM - yet they have failed to propose an alternative. All the Irish Government can do is stick to its guns. Let the UK make its own decision. The EU have made clear that if the UK want to discuss a trade deal in the future (which they will have to) then all the committments in the current Withdrawal Agreement (including the backstop and the "divorce bill") will have to be dealt with first.
The issue is not the backstop. It is the Tory civil war and their fear of the Brexit Party. There is the secondary issue of the DUP - taking the same path that the leaders of Ulster Unionism has taken for decades - going for short term triumphalism ( a hard Brexit and sharper barriers to the ROI), while alienating the middle ground that they will depend on to "preserve the union" in the longer term.
UK LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on opposition party leaders to install him as caretaker Prime Minister to avoid a no-deal Brexit.
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Could be the perfect storm for the UK....leaving the world's largest trading bloc with a Marxist at the wheel...what could possibly go wrong!
It's being referred to as a "Meat Loaf Brexit" - "I'd do anything to stop a no deal - but I won't do that"
Varadkar has succeeded in uniting unionists in NI to see the backstop as a Green/Orange struggle.
In fairness, he is not calling on the parties to form a on-going government with him.
Small steps....
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It wouldn't work - he wouldn't hold confidence of the house for anything other than extending and calling an election - the debate may be whether to call a general election or hold a second referendum first. I suspect he might want to do the later but I doubt that would keep some of the conservative rebels on side
Varadkar made it into an Orange/Green struggle. Hardly.
It was Arlene Foster who telephoned TM to say a NI only backstop would weaken the union.
Objectively it is a nonsense to say that a NI only backstop threatens the union, (consider all the other borders in the Irish sea on gay rights etc.) but the DUP having been caught on the wrong side of the Brexit debate, needed something Orange to rally their supporters around and the "border in the Irish sea" (which was an idea created by the British Government, I believe) was perfect.
I think if he were in power (even in a caretaker role) he would be more likely to win an election.
Unionists see everything through the lens of an impending green takeover and always have, if we took unionist preciousness - "neurosis into consideration every day, we'd might as well stay in bed, you cannot assuage paranoia
.being able to export into both the EU and the rest of the UK (and whoever the UK agrees to trade with after Brexit).
And yet they have the opportunity of a life-time.....being able to export into both the EU and the rest of the UK (and whoever the UK agrees to trade with after Brexit). All this with cheaper wage costs than the RoI. If NI was to then get autonomy regarding taxation they could reduce Corporation Tax. There would then, IMO, be a lot of companies here wondering why they don't move up the road....
And it seems Nationalists would rather live on three spuds a day than see a 1% increase in the (already fairly extensive) visibility of the border.Unionists would rather live on three bowls of rice per day than see their precious union diluted 1%
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