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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Till she screwed it up with her Maybot mantra. A totally useless misjudge of everything.
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The GFA does not mention the border.
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The GFA led to the removal of border checkpoints, so it’s fairly relevant.
The concern is that a re-imposition of these could lead to the Troubles flaring up again, and since we lost 3,600 in the previous Troubles, no one (sensible) wants that. As Jonathan Powell, the UK’s GFA chief negotiator put it "“
Having a soft border was crucial because that meant the issue of identity was really removed from the table. You could live in Northern Ireland all your life and be Irish (have an Irish passport, never notice there was a border), or you could be British, or you could be both. If you have a hard border and we go back to the concrete blocks on small roads and the border point crossings and all that, then the identity issue is reopened.”
I don’t think people living in mainland Britain really understand how much life has changed in NI because of the GFA.