17-10-2018, 21:14
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Government & Post Election Discussion
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Now you are being fanciful. I go to Nor'n I'ron frequently and nobody to whom I've spoken, and I do ask, favour Irish unification. It's a Catholic-Proddy thing. Surely you know that.
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They also don’t want JRM’s solution of checkpoints like they had during the Troubles...
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“There would be our ability, as we had during the Troubles, to have people inspected. It’s not a border that everyone has to go through every day, but of course for security reasons during the Troubles, we kept a very close eye on the border, to try and stop gun-running and things like that.”
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https://www.statista.com/chart/12012...-irish-border/
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the Irish border, one of Brexit's major flashpoints. It stretches 499 kilometres and interestingly, it has more crossing points (275) than the whole of the EU's eastern border (137). During the Troubles, the British army sealed off the majority of the routes between the Republic and Northern Ireland with only 20 of them remaining open.
Today, approximately 35,000 people commute across the border every single day. On a monthly basis, 177,000 trucks cross it, along with 208,000 vans.
Every month, it also handles around 1.85 million cars. In terms of annual trade, goods flowing from Northern Ireland are worth €1.83 billion. Trade in the other direction is worth €1.9 billion to the Republic of Ireland.
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