Maybe I am missing something. What does this event have to do with the UK getting out from under the thumb of the Germans in the EU?
Care to clarify?
You have to cast back to the nature of the Good Friday Agreement. That treaty brought peace to Northern ireland after years of bloodshed.
Membership of the EU made it possible as it meant that the border between NI and the Republic became notional. It meant that the proddies could still be British and the Catholics could see themselves as Irish , albeit living in Europe. The GFA did away with Trade barriers.
Both sides accepted the agreement and it has brought 30 years of somewhat fragile peace.
Brexit changed that.
Brexit took the north out of the EU. It meant that the border was reimposed and the north was separated from the republic.
This pissed off the Catholics who saw their treaty being ripped up.
To nullify that the UK decided that there would be no border between the two countries and that the border would instead be in the Irish Sea. Thus NI was not separated from the Republic but would be separated from the UK.
This pissed off the Loyalists. Their whole identity is wrapped up in being British and the province must be treated the same as any other part of Britain. i have to add that they were lied to as well as the lies to the catholic community.
The Northern Ireland protocol, which this is, was something that Jonson agreed to but never intended to keep. The main party in the North gave November 1st as the date that it had to be removed. the day came and it hasnt happened. It was their paramilitary wing that torched the bus yesterday. They will be polishing their guns and bombs today.
Jonson and his crew are in a bind. If they rip up the current treaty then it will be the IRA that starts bombing. There is no solution to all of this. If there was it would have come up in the last 5 years.
So Northern Ireland is set to go up in flames because of something that they voted against. And our children will grow up in a country scarred by sectarian violence, just like we did.
well done Jonson , you lying bastard.
Maybe I am missing something. What does this event have to do with the UK getting out from under the thumb of the Germans in the EU?
Care to clarify?