Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
by peteretep on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:49PM
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There's a really simple answer to this. You said:
> All it requires is that the UK accepts that EU customs checks are performed between Britain and Ireland ... I have no idea why the extreme brexiteers find this idea so objectionable?
Generally they don't. However the government is only in power with the support of the DUP[0] who see it as THE END OF THE WORLD, and it would be a complete anathema to Ulster loyalists[1], whose are (essentially) half of the Good Friday Agreement.
In short: if they accepted this, the British government would fall and armed conflict could well break out again in Northern Ireland.
> All it requires is that the UK accepts that EU customs checks are performed between Britain and Ireland ... I have no idea why the extreme brexiteers find this idea so objectionable?
Generally they don't. However the government is only in power with the support of the DUP[0] who see it as THE END OF THE WORLD, and it would be a complete anathema to Ulster loyalists[1], whose are (essentially) half of the Good Friday Agreement.
In short: if they accepted this, the British government would fall and armed conflict could well break out again in Northern Ireland.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_loyalism