When UK leaves the EU, it will no longer be obliged to comply with all EU regulations with regard livestock. Logic could deduce that they will simply continue with same regulations as EU in order to smooth any prospective free trade deal for agriculture produce. But then you would have to ask, why leave EU if they are simply going to comply with identical rules and regulations?
They seem quite focused on achieving a trade deal with the US as a matter of priority, the US have made it clear that agriculture/ food safety standards will have to be lowered for that to happen.
Doesn't augur well for the hopes of no border checks. Animal produce from UK, if standards do fall, will be prohibited from EU.
If EU were to prohibit British beef, I would imagine reciprocal measures by UK to prohibit EU beef.
Ensuring, the need for border checks on both sides.
So we are going to plunge this country into a No Deal catastrophe because we are afraid of the IRA.It is simply not conceivable that any Irish government would consciously assign Irish citizens to border and customs checkpoints at the NI border, knowing that at somepoint in the future such a post will be violently targeted.
So we are going to plunge this country into a No Deal catastrophe because we are afraid of the IRA.
The "any tweak to the existing cross border trading arrangements will destroy the peace process and bring back the IRA" is entirely bogus. Not just me saying so. Dan O'Brien and Eoghan Harris of the Sindo have been beating this drum for some time now.
I remember the civil rights movement in NI. The banners shouted One Man One Vote. The burning issues were discrimination in housing, in public sector appointments, protestant domination of the main industries, a sectarian police force. Nobody was in the least bit exercised by the long queues at the border, which were mainly the result of the southern state trying to protect its basket case economy. The backstop is bogus but it suits the EU to use it to back the UK into a corner, and we play the patsy to that strategy.
The "any tweak to the existing cross border trading arrangements will destroy the peace process and bring back the IRA" is entirely bogus.
Not just me saying so. Dan O'Brien and Eoghan Harris of the Sindo have been beating this drum for some time now.
I remember the civil rights movement in NI. The banners shouted One Man One Vote.
The burning issues were discrimination in housing, in public sector appointments, protestant domination of the main industries, a sectarian police force.
Nobody was in the least bit exercised by the long queues at the border,
The backstop is bogus but it suits the EU to use it to back the UK into a corner, and we play the patsy to that strategy.
Yes, I would be very annoyed if customs blocks were established on the M1. That is not going to happen but even if it did I would not have an urge to resort to violence, and I would not support those who would. So indeed we are right to resist a return to a hard border. We made this case early doors and more power to our diplomatic service we succeeded in making no hard border a key EU objective. But it was hugely cynical to tie this desire to the preservation of the peace process. It is the height of hypocrisy to criticise SF for their glorification of IRA resistance and then use that threat as a bargaining counter in the EU/UK negotiations.
But it was hugely cynical to tie this desire to the preservation of the peace process. It is the height of hypocrisy to criticise SF for their glorification of IRA resistance and then use that threat as a bargaining counter in the EU/UK negotiations.
The "any tweak to the existing cross border trading arrangements will destroy the peace process and bring back the IRA" is entirely bogus. Not just me saying so. Dan O'Brien and Eoghan Harris of the Sindo have been beating this drum for some time now.
I remember the civil rights movement in NI. The banners shouted One Man One Vote. The burning issues were discrimination in housing, in public sector appointments, protestant domination of the main industries, a sectarian police force. Nobody was in the least bit exercised by the long queues at the border, which were mainly the result of the southern state trying to protect its basket case economy. The backstop is bogus but it suits the EU to use it to back the UK into a corner, and we play the patsy to that strategy.
I’m trying to understand this, seems as if it might make sense but it is late at night, I will address tomorrow.But it is not a threat - it is an indication of a significant risk. If there was a proposal to cancel all Garda speedchecks and breathalysers for the next year in order to divert resources elsewhere I would say say there is a real risk of a sharp rise in road deaths. I am not thereby threatening to get plastered and speed up the M1.
The Government pointing out the reals risks of violence after the establishment of a hard border is not threatening violence but pointing out a reality. Disaffection and disruption fester. Small confrontations can easily escalate. Tolerance levels in the community change - not overnight but incrementally. Like you, I would not support a return to violence either - the same way I wouldn't drive plastered down the M1 in the absence of checks. But there are those who will - in both scenarios.
Last Friday An Taoiseach told the MacGill Summer School that the Government would have to consider a forum on Irish unity in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Leo has shown his inexperience on a number of occasions but talking about a united Ireland is hardly playing to the FG base; they are the people who put the border there in the first place.leo varadker is equally as bad in shamelessly playing the green card
However we are guilty of the exact same jingoism with regard to the backstop and this talk of a united ireland,
we have been very critical of boris johnson and the brexiteers for their nationalistic little england narrative. However we are guilty of the exact same jingoism with regard to the backstop and this talk of a united ireland, its actually leo varadker and not sinn fein that is most guilty of this now. Leo Varadker has departed from the traditional even handed approach to northern ireland of previous taoiseach. Enda Kenny or bertie ahern would never have indulged in such talk especially at such a delicate time.
Boris johnson has been accused of blatant electioneering over the last few days, leo varadker is equally as bad in shamelessly playing the green card
Not sure I get the "plastered speeding up the M1" bit; I always suspect that the resort to analogy is a sign that the original is unconvincing. But I accept the semantic point. It is not a threat in the sense that (unlike SF) Simon Varadkar would not actually support or encourage violent resistance to customs checks. But they are big time using the "risk" of such a return to violence as a bargaining counter. This is deeply cynical, I almost prefer the more honest direct threat from SF.But it is not a threat - it is an indication of a significant risk. If there was a proposal to cancel all Garda speedchecks and breathalysers for the next year in order to divert resources elsewhere I would say say there is a real risk of a sharp rise in road deaths. I am not thereby threatening to get plastered and speed up the M1.
The Government pointing out the reals risks of violence after the establishment of a hard border is not threatening violence but pointing out a reality. Disaffection and disruption fester. Small confrontations can easily escalate. Tolerance levels in the community change - not overnight but incrementally. Like you, I would not support a return to violence either - the same way I wouldn't drive plastered down the M1 in the absence of checks. But there are those who will - in both scenarios.
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