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Is The Prospect of a United Ireland, The Best Thing About Brexit?
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It has been nearly eight years since the referendum vote, four years since the United Kingdom formally left the European Union and it has been three years since we left the single market and chose to implement a hard Brexit.
And yesterday marked the start of a new era in the Brexit drama: the commencement of checks of goods coming into the United kingdom from the Irish sea, a step which will mean far greater hardships for millions of people in these isles and something far more significant too.
Seriously and what exactly was that?
It was announced that the power sharing arrangement was due to return to the Northern Irish assembly with Sinn Fein’s Michael O’ Neill expected to take the important role of First Minister.
It was bad enough that the Boris Johnson government failed abysmally to negotiate a soft Brexit, which would have kept us in the single market, but what’s happened in Northern Ireland has shown the degree to which our entire polity has been catastrophically affected by the decision to leave the EU.
The Democratic Unionist Party, which took its position as the leading party in Stormont (where the Northern Irish Assembly is located) for granted, found itself betrayed by the British…