Irexit?

[Kromovaracun]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/235821

A petition has been launched to offer Ireland membership of the UK after Brexit as a way of solving the impasse over the border. It currently has 2,000 signatures, up from 700 yesterday.

This comes a few week after John Humphrys, a host of the Today programme, made the same suggestion in an interview with Ireland's Europe Minister on Radio 4:

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/01/28/news/radio-4-presenter-suggests-ireland-should-leave-the-eu-and-join-the-uk-1537240/

Full 10 minute interview here, for those interested:



Why on earth is this deluded suggestion gaining any traction whatsoever? Does anyone here plan on signing?

[ichkeria]

Just explain to them that it would mean the UK having to join the EU again ... :-)

[ichkeria]

It’s mostly people in N Ireland, to my shame, who’ve signed by the look of it. Top of the league being East Antrim - home of arch Brexiter Sammy (“does my bum tan?”) Wilson and East Belfast.

[gness]

Oooo....that's cruel, Ich.......aren't they in enough of a confused tizz as it is without our gentle humour adding to it?... ;-)

[ichkeria]

As I said I’d like to think this was the brainchild of someone with a sense of humour. If only I could be sure ...
As for Sammy Wilson, sorry Sammy but I can’t get that picture from the Sunday News front page all those years ago out of my head.
And never will ...

[gness]

Had to google that one, Ich....is that really him and his bum in the whispering grass in 1996?

[ichkeria]

Well I fear it is guess. Although I’m not going to check it out again :-)

[ichkeria]

Gness !

[modeller]

It might be better than 'No deal !

[Khandro]

It would make far more sense if N.I. joined the Republic - and good riddance! there has been nothing but deaths and trouble for a century.
More people have died during that time in proportion to the population - (civilians, British soldiers and police), than in the WWII blitz on the British mainland.

[Kromovaracun]

Yes, and we finally have a peace settlement which brought all that to an end. Why jeopadise it?