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Originally Posted by Angua
Would throw in the anti GFA DUP having a confidence & supply arrangement and May was always on a hiding to nothing.
Her red lines at the start of the negotiations have caused problems as well.
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Well yes, after the disastrous 2017 election they got a seat at the table. I did have them in mind further back when I referred to nationalists (UK variety).
Had May won decisively in 2017 my guess is that we’d be looking at a harder Brexit for Great Britain. I’d guess Northern Ireland would have maintained special status and alignment with, but outside of, the EU. I doubt many would have genuinely cared - the people in the North voted to remain and even those that voted to leave know that’d give them economic advantage being both inside the UK politically and with single market access economically. Unfortunately the few who cared were key to winning votes in the HoC.