Have The E U S S R Re Ignited The "Troubles"?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-boris-johnson-calls-for-urgent-action-from-eu-after-it-undermined-northern-ireland-protocol-12207249

[TrevorThePug]

Asking the EU to sort out the mess that the UK created?

That's taking back control folks. Blame shifting level 12.

[Spicerack]

Where do you live, Trev?

[ToraToraTora]

TTP, wrong post?

[ToraToraTora]

back to the bad old days?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55901429

[TrevorThePug]

Don't worry Gove has gone cap in hand to the EU begging them to extend the NI grace period by another 2 years. Phew!

[ichkeria]

No. Despite the uncertainty caused by a Brexit most in NI didn’t want.

It’s a mystery to most outsiders why the DUP supported Brexit in the first place because they’ve opposed every implementation of it so far.
Believing that shapes can be square and circular at the same time is bound to end in disappointment

[New Judge]

I think if "The Troubles" (aka civil disobedience and serious violence) resume it will be the fault of the UK government for agreeing to the outrageous NI Protocol. NI has been used for the last four years to weaponise the Brexit process. It was quite clear from events a couple of weeks ago that the EU did not give a tuppenny stuff for the "Good Friday Agreement". It spent the entire Brexit process telling the entire world that a border in Ireland could never be countenanced yet it told its Irish lackies to impose that very border a the drop of a hat in an effort to recover their major ballsup with the vaccine. Meantime we have EU Customs inspectors patrolling and controlling the movement of goods within the UK.

The NI Protocol should never have been agreed. The thought of a border in Ireland (between two independent nations) was deemed too unacceptable to contemplate but an internal border within a sovereign nation, policed by a foreign power, is quite OK.

The PM needs to tell the EU that the Protocol isn't working and they must find another way to preserve the integrity of their Single Market and Customs Union because we cannot do it for them.

[ichkeria]

The "troubles" aren't going to resume.
If they ever do it won't be because of threats of a "hard border" in Ireland. It's more likely to be the prospect of the very opposite after a border poll made more likely be Brexit.
But I think and certainly hope Ireland has moved on from that.

[TrevorThePug]

....the protocol that Gove stood up in parliament and said was a landmark agreement and the best for both sides.

I sense another u turn. Whoops!

[New Judge]

//...was a landmark agreement and the best for both sides.//

The trouble is he neglected to mention the side that is in the middle, i.e. Northern Ireland.

[TrevorThePug]

Maybe Gove might come up with something new, I don't know, maybe something like..... say....Theresa May's backstop. For instance.

[maggiebee]

Lets just be honest here - Brexit is a total mess and Westmonster want to apportion blame for something they started. Can you really blame the EU for taking this stance? You are either in or out in my opinion, although the usual suspects will argue against this.

[ichkeria]

N Ireland can't be totally in or totally out, that is the problem, hence my comment about squares and circles