Thread: Britain outside the EU
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Old 19-02-2024, 20:49   #5982
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by jonbxx View Post
Ireland would have a choice of breaking one treaty or another. The EU courts could insist on Ireland closing the border or be suspended from the European Union but the power sharing authority of the Good Friday Agreement could insist on keeping the border open.

Luckily it didn’t come to it but Ireland had a stark choice - leaving the EU or risking the peace process in the North. I am not 100% convinced that peace in another country trumps EU membership. Any Irish politician suggesting leaving the EU wouldn’t be around that long
And putting another EU country in that bind would hardly lead to any sort of free trade deal being signed between the UK and EU. We would deservedly have been treated like a rogue state and paid the economic price.
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