Border in NI – the latest Remain Battleground
Remainers have still not given up. Yet again we can see that they don’t give a fig for proper democratic decisions which go against them – yes, I do mean the Brexit vote. Now, thanks to the ‘refurb’ scandal, their subterranean plodding has surfaced yet again. Their aim now is ‘Rejoin’.
We all know this is the wish of La Sturgeon who believes ‘Scottish Independence’ means ‘Independence under the Brussels boots’. Now it’s the turn of Northern Ireland where Arlene Foster has resigned and where the DUP is now hardening its stance, ready for the Stormont elections next year. It looks as if our opinion makers in the MSM are happy to surreptitiously support Sinn Fein, just as they’ve been happy to support La Sturgeon.
If this looks as if Remain is happy to destroy the Union provided the single parts rejoin the EU, then I think that impression is correct. Just as during the Brexit referendum, the Remain MSM, their Remain writers and the various NGOs seem to believe that this time, surely, they will succeed. However, the latest polls regarding another Scotland IndyRef show that at least for Scotland this isn’t a foregone conclusion (link).
As for NI … Thanks to the EU’s intransigence over the NI Protocol, thanks to the shenanigans of Remain on both sides of that border, thanks to the incessant cries about the Good Friday Agreement needing to be preserved – not least by the current US President – this now looks to be the latest front in the Remain/Rejoin war and never mind that this may lead to the break-up of the Union. Leo McKinstry writes for the DM:
“Arlene Foster’s sudden departure as Northern Ireland’s First Minister – and the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party – is a gift to those who hanker for a united Ireland and the dissolution of the UK. Her ignominious exit – ousted by her own side over her perceived softness on issues including gay rights and co-operation with Sinn Fein – has dramatically intensified the unionists’ sense of crisis, and may prove the moment where the cries for Irish unity rise to a crescendo.” (link)
Remember that there will be elections to the Stormont next year. Also remember that at the moment there’s a power-sharing agreement in place. If, as so many Remaienrs hope, Sinn Fein will be the winner then the doors are open to unify Ireland and thus take NI back into the EU fold. The first shots are already fired in the MSM by denigrating the possible candidates standing to replace Ms Foster – see the ‘list’ here. The writer, indeed the combined MSM ‘opinion’ is trying again to bring religion into this political decision. Thus “we” are told that ‘protestant bigotry’ is bad but nobody needs to worry about catholic bigotry – just as long as it’s tempered by the EU.
Interestingly, Whitehall seems to’ve woken up to the danger with ‘sources’ have been telling the Times that:
“Ministers are to warn the European Union that failure to compromise on the Northern Ireland protocol risks further damage to the peace process after Arlene Foster’s forced resignation. The government is concerned that the departure of Northern Ireland’s first minister is likely to result in the Democratic Unionist Party hardening its stance against the protocol before assembly elections next year.” (link, paywalled)
There’s more, and this is something Remain, Rejoin and all those who would destroy the Union seem to have overlooked:
“A Whitehall source […] pointed out that under the withdrawal agreement the Northern Ireland assembly has to consent to the protocol in 2024 and that without concessions the DUP could go into next year’s assembly elections vowing to oppose it. The new leader could also move to boycott permanently the North South Ministerial Council, the main body for cross-border co-operation between the governments of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.” (link, paywalled)
Ms Foster resigned not least thanks to the violent demos which recently took place in NI. I wonder if the instigators of those demos realised what much wider effect their violence would have. I wouldn’t go so far as describing this as an example of unintended consequences, but I do wonder if the string-pullers, not least in our MSM, are happy to recreate the troubles just in order to damage Brexit and destroy the Union in the process. See this next statement from that Whitehall ‘source’:
“Foster’s departure underlines the need for the EU to engage with us to find a constructive solution to the issues we are discussing,” they said. “It is vital the protocol operates with the consent of both communities in Northern Ireland.” (link, paywalled)
This consent is now in danger thanks to the political arsonists, not least because a Sinn Fein majority might lead to an end of power sharing in Stormont and thus to the collapse of the NI agreement. I confess that the byzantine arrangements of political decision-making in both NI and Eire are like a closed book to me, but we all must certainly be aware of the role played by Brussels in this set-up.
We must also be aware of the role played by all those who’ve been howling that the Good Friday Agreement must not be abandoned. They’ve utilised this point in order to scupper Brexit before and are now set to do so by trying to break up the Union thanks to their surreptitious support for Sinn Fein. As far as these inveterate Remainers are concerned, anything can and must be used, even unto the break-up of the Union, if it serves to get rid of Brexit.
A Time editorial seems to give tacit support for this argument when we read this interpretation of the current situation:
“The whole point of the Brexit arrangement in Northern Ireland is to protect the Good Friday agreement and the peace process. The EU doesn’t have to give any ground. But unless it does, unionist opinion will harden and the protocol will end up endangering the very thing that it was designed to protect.” (link, paywalled)
Does Mr Forsyth – for it is he who wrote this – really think the EU ‘will give ground’? Perhaps Ms Foster’s resignation is another item useful to attack Brexit by attacking BJ? It’s like hearing the old song, of always blaming Brexit and BJ but never, ever the fabulous EU. M Barnier’s stonewalling is already forgotten. It never happened.
However, there’s the latest from Brussels where the EU Parliament nodded through the agreement to the Treaty signed off by us on December 31st 2020. Have a look at this report by our friends at facts4eu who analysed the speech by Ms vdLeyen on that occasion. In regard to the NI Protocol they write especially that:
“Frau von der Leyen once again attempts to credit the EU with achieving peace in Northern Ireland. The simple truth is that the EU had nothing to do with it. Indeed, the truth is the exact opposite. By its insistence on the malign ‘Northern Ireland Protocol’ as a condition of the repugnant ‘Withdrawal Agreement’ last year, the EU has done more damage to peace in Northern Ireland than anyone.” (link)
This is something our Remainers, now belly-aching about possible ‘protestant bigot’ DUP candidates, want us to forget. They want us to forget the role played by the EU in this potential break-up of the Union. They are happy to sell out this country for the poisoned pottage of ‘Rejoin’.
I leave you with a significant observation, slipped into a long comment piece in the DT, about Cummings and how he is aiming to ‘topple’ BJ. More and more the whole “Cummings war” looks like a production of Remain-Rejoin who want to get rid of BJ without dirtying their hands while preparing the way for somehow getting rid of Brexit. See this:
“[Johnson] was told, at the time, that Cummings and his Vote Leave team were a cancer which, if cut out, would allow the government to repair.” (paywalled link)
We are of course left in the dark as to who told BJ this, using a quite disgusting comparison with a cancer that needed to be cut out. We’re also left to puzzle about why ‘government’ needed to be repaired – repaired from what? The covid and SAGE damage? Or indeed Brexit?
What is it about those nefarious anti-brexiteers that they would not just happily trash our votes, our expressed will, but even the existence of the Union? Has the EU made secret promises to reward them for their diligence should they succeed?
Meanwhile, take care, don’t get duped and
KBO!
Boris is just one of a continuous line of PMs who have been complicit in selling out this Country to ‘other powers’. Whether the end game is for global dominance or EU assimilation by jackboot it does not look hopeful! It’s like seeing lightning flashing in the distance and then hearing the thunder coming ever closer until the storm breaks overhead. You cannot hide from it, just hope that the damage done during the storm will not be too devastating!
This takeover has been planned for such a long time. Our secession from the EU was the catalyst that drove those who wish us harm to bring forward their plans for our downfall at a faster rate! Thus it has only recently become apparent how insidious our political system has become. No doubt that is why one T. Bliar has made a reprise! He always wanted to be President (Emperor???) of Europe. I am sure he thinks that he now has a fair chance of achieving his ambition! Now aided and abetted by our current Marxist-leaning incumbent of No 10! I’m not a fan of Cummings but I hope most fervently, that he blows the whole gaff wide open!
Good points Frederica.
“Our secession from the EU was the catalyst that drove those who wish us harm to bring forward their plans for our downfall at a faster rate.”
I would partially agree, Frederica, but this whole Plandemic, Agenda 21, Great Reset, build back better, agenda and deception, is not just about us, it’s world wide.
A more likely catalyst, in my view, is that a lot of their tools are based on the climate emergency lie. Earth is heading into another grand solar minimum and temperatures will fall. They are desperate to get their draconian changes in place within the next ten years, whilst they can still perpetuate their myth, and then claim the cooling is a result of those.
That none of their predictions, over the last 50 years, of global events or catastrophes has yet materialised, doesn’t stop them regurgitating them with new dates: arctic ice gone, islands submerged, drought and crop failures, mass climate-driven migrations, ad infinitum. Media censorship and mass propaganda has so far been able to keep the truth from the wider public. There is not a single actual emergency they can point to, and as the cooling picks up (or should that be down) it will become increasingly difficult for the myth to be perpetuated and the absence of need for their fake mitigations will become too clear to hide. It already is for anyone with half a brain. Sadly, the fake pandemic has shown that far too many people do indeed have only half a brain.
And even if there were to be a little warming, cold kills five-times more people than heat, and higher CO2 promotes crop growth, as record yields are proving. But there has been no trend rise in global average temperature, within the limits that such a thing can be measured, for almost two decades and it is now just beginning to drift downward. This year’s mass of record winter temperatures around the northern hemisphere, hidden of course by the media, except when unavoidable like the Texas disaster, are outliers of the trend. And ironically we will need all the fossil fuels we have to survive. Electricity doesn’t grow on trees; but in a round about way, coal did. The sun’s energy stored; the largest solar battery ever made.
This shows how data are manipulated to create a false narrative:
Good points Phil; sadly too many don’t seem to have even the necessary “half a brain” or maybe they simply don’t use what they have.
Phil I take your point about climate change. Not being swayed one inch by the narrative I firmly believe that iso many people have been brainwashed during their education to accept what comes out of the perfidious mouths of those who have manoeuvred themselves into positions of influence. If they had not been so exposed, they might have been able to realise what a scam this has been from the start.
I do believe that the EU was signed up to the scam and that because of the major influence being German, the Great Reset wasn’t unknown. I think they even approved it!
So I reckon when the Brits decided to throw a spanner in the works the acolytes of the ‘plan’ went into overdrive! COVID has been so useful to them too!
It’s just my thoughts and musings! I’m sure others know far more than I. Mine are just gut feelings!
Indeed many have been brainwashed in regard to climate change, the most prominent being the Greta girl. Sadly our government sees the benefit of it in imposing control and destroying life as we knew it. There is much evidence to discredit it but most simply don’t want to look for it.
Jack that is indeed true. Families have been split own the middle and lifelong friends have been sundered by disagreements over these matters. ‘Divide and Rule’ was ever the weapon of the tyrannical. It certainly seems to have worked today! It is beyond sad, it is pure evil!
I don’t quite know where to interject my “ah but” comment into this section of comments, but all I wish to say is that the real reason for Brexit which is never discussed or promoted is that the EU was the Enemy of this nation, that it was an evil Empire (ref comments by Borosso) that it was of totalitarian construct and of tyrannical intent.
Our establishment and body politic bought and encouraged the whole stinking lot, such that they were the enemy within, solely looking after the benefits and jobs (and pensions) they derived from it.
Result was they lied and cheated the electorate they were supposed to represent, increasingly obviously for 40 years till finally the penny dropped to the peasants in the grass roots ( certainly those that were directly employed byt the state weren’t bothered)
What I am trying to get across is that irrespective of nuances like GW or reset or pandemics etc Our big mistake. Has been and still is to talk of a “divorce from our FRIENDS in the EU” we never had friends in the EU
Now they continue to be the enemy, but harnessing all sorts of diversions like GW, pandemics, resets etc to fudge the issue, but keep us firmly enmeshed. .
With the supposed exit of Brexit our enemy is still within, but apparently free to act of their own accord,
We have exchanged one set of tyrants for another and perhaps harder ones to get rid of.
Could Remainers be right, it’s safer back in?
Agree with almost all, but as to your last sentence: Not a chance.
That was the Remainers’ endless chant: stay in and drive reform. But we have seen how far that ever got.
At least there is the remote – extremely remote, yes – possibility of sense breaking out and actually making use of our freedom.
Well Roger, I cannot disagree with your reading of the ‘reason’ for Brexit at all. It’s a ‘given’! But only the perfidious politicians talk about our FRIENDS in the EU. I’ve never thought of the EU as ‘friends’. Some European people yes but not the ‘body politic’. Never in a million! And No! No! No! The Remainers are not right. They never were right and they never will be right!
Obviously, if I meant the last sentence, there is a fair chance that I could end up with quite a bit of my body parts damaged or missing.
But I think we are stuck with this lot, now rampantly in charge who have no intention of even pursuing never mind realising the benefits of Brexit nor putting the Great back into Great Britain, nor really regaining our rightful position on the world stage.
They hold the whip hand and even if we get rid of them they will only be replaced (in the short term) with much of the same, but even more dedicated to getting us back in
Unless Boris can be persuaded to do an 180 degree Volte face and make it a proper Brexit in the short term, it means we are presently under the heel of boss number one, ruling with his mixture of EU regulation, gold plated by Boris with some of his own evil
Perhaps it would be easier to say yes, yes, yes and quietly work at going our own way and getting a proper Brexit from Boss number two at least once removed in Brussels
The problem is we don’t seem to have any wriggle room, or anybody with the right attitude to take the whole situation on and give it a good shaking.
Well done Philosophical. Given that the Sun is a Star, our fate really is ‘in the stars’!
I suppose I’m glad the Global Warming Scam will be clearly debunked in the future, but I wish you could explain this, to our less than half a brain, leader, before ‘our goose is cooked’!
“Cummings and his Vote Leave team were a cancer which, if cut out…”
Made me laugh.
So, cut out the one anti-body factory and leave the entire body politic riddled with leftist metastases. Projection at its finest.
I do not like Cummings character, particularly his animosity to other Brexiteers. He could never subscribe to ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend.’ His ego needed him to be the sole hero of Brexit. He also needs to feel he is in charge, but then Carrie took that position.
But there is no doubting how effective he can be; hence that entire body politic, and the MSM, gunning for him.
So as long as he rubs up my enemies the wrong way, I can put aside my distaste.
Phil O’Sophical, I think I agree with you.
The sum total of the Government ( Including Civil Service, Sage , Ad nauseum .) is to trash the economy, frighten everybody. Destroy the Balance of payments, and lay the groundwork for something coming down the track. It could be collapse of Curencies, collapse of Asset movements, Private armies, Ignorance of Union Reactions.Woke seizing power., Uncontrolled reposession, You name it… If police can no longer Handle Law and Order, or even handle it badly or too late. ( This is some of what happens when the state controls the media too early. and eagerly )
It interests me because the purpose of the pandemic seems to be foundering a little.It was neverintended to kill healthy people, But has it done all the other responses expected, and could it bethat the balances have shifted in an unanticipated way ? Some of the responses for example could never have been anticipated the same. A good example being Test And Trace. Shambles.. .. The quality and use of SAGE, unbelievably over estimated,. ( these are not just UK wierdnesses.). The random actions taken politically have done much to disguise events and trendsleading to silly decisions and wierd political reasoning.
Trump was so correct its embarassing. Saved by the States choices. Absolutely spot on. As was Boris until he got removed to hospital and others smelled power.
We do know that one of the purposes was to inflate the culprits wealth ( But of what ??) through un controlled QE etc handing billions over.
And they still refuse totell us if the total, all reasons, deaths per day, week etc etc is below or similar to other years.
Viv I hereby beg your forgiveness and indulgence for about what I am to do.
I have read your piece this morning regarding the whole Irish question following the resignation of Arlene Foster – and the dangers that it could lead to return to the EU by the back door and breaking up of the United Kingdom and the eventual loss of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
You will know that I posted a comment late last night on an aspect of the Irish economy that I had dug up from the Business section of the Daily Telegraph under the heading of an article there on 24th April 2021.
“President Biden is the biggest threat to Irish prosperity for 40 years” I added some of my thoughts about the possible continued long term involvement of Eire in the EU. The article appeared to me to suggest Ireland was to be left by the EU to wither on the vine, as just another of their small country members.
Now I have read your article I have begun to wonder if the DT article had alerted Ireland to these dangers, so in effect their (and the remainers) plan B has been put into operation.
For information of all I have copied and paster below, all I said last night, apologies again if this does not accord with procedure rules.
Roger Turner on April 29, 2021 at 8:20 pm
Pauline asks about Arlene Foster is this the end of Northern Ireland, to be honest I`ve no idea, except her demise is actually a squirrel masking an even bigger shock to the whole Ireland economy and even whether Eire will be able to remain in the EU.
On Saturday 24th April 2021 the following headline appeared in the business section of the Daily Telegraph, followed by an article written by one Matthew Lynn (never heard of him)
“President Biden is biggest threat to Irish prosperity for 40 years”
I cannot give the whole tale here, but briefly, it goes like this.:-
Biden has a plan for a “minimum global corporate tax”, this he proposes to set at 21%.
The Irish presently have a rate of 12.5%, which they had only upped from 10% under threat of legal action .
Biden`s plan therefore provides a major threat to the Irish whose economy has flourished under this hyper-competitive 12.5% rate that is the lowest in the developed world.
It has long been the impression that Biden with his Irish ancestry would be good to Ireland, but appears in this instance unlikely to favour them and even though Ireland is among smaller countries and they maintain “somehow” their rate should be “accomodated”.to be effective it has to apply universally.
France (28%) and Germany (30%) or indeed the UK (19% and set to rise to 25%) are not really a problem in fact Germany and France have been trying to eliminate Ireland`s low rate for years and will show no mercy.
Add to the imbroglio that UK`s departure from the EU is hammering its exports, turning it into a net contributor to the Brussel`s budget, draining its resources, while the blocs war on the technology threatens to harm its most digitally savvy member more than anybody else.
Under the “Double Irish” (not a drink) but a fiendy clever tax dodge/arrangement, multi nationals have flocked to the country creating lots of well paid jobs.
Result its hugely lucrative role as a low tax base for multi nationals is over
Trade between GB and Ireland has already fallen by two thirds.
From being an efficient tax friendly manufacturing hub for the European market, Ireland is about to turn into a difficult expensive one.
Little income from Corona Virus Rescue Fund
End Part one
Roger Turner on April 29, 2021 at 8:30 pm
Part Two
The gravy train has now stopped between 1973 and 2018 Ireland received £40 billion transfers
and………..the EU is waging war on tech,effectively banning artificial intelligence Ireland`s strongest suit for Amazon etc.
Lynn points out that Ireland has had a brilliant run for 40 years, but has now run out of luck,
Particularly now discovering how false their “friends” in the EU have become, pity they didn`t learn a bit earlier,
They will now effectively become a small “broke” country looking for handouts.
(I believe they got one from the British government in 2008 after the big international monetary crash was it £6 billion?)
So the loss of the loquacious Arlene in the grand scheme of things is probably small beer, I believe Ireland will have to exit the EU. I don`t really envisage it uniting under the British crown, but I think it will have to become an independent member of the Commonwealth.
“I believe Ireland will have to exit the EU.” We may hope; far better to have a sovereign country as a neighbour than an EU member.
maybe I’m pessimistic but I can’t see the EU letting any state go from its claws.
Jack would this include a sovereign united Ireland?
and/or not a member of the Commonwealth?
I doubt that a united Ireland would be accepted by the NI people.
Jack haven’t we arrived at the stage of real politik
The people will not be consulted, it will be just deals done by heads of government,
Not sure whether the Irish government will have the degree of control over its own peepul as ours, but if the above forecasts are accurate and they face penury, I think it would concentrate their minds wonderfully
Its a big stretch of the imagination I know but the UK should be bending over backwards to let Eire know that they would welcome Eire to join the UK.
I guess we all knew that the Remainers would morph into Rejoiners. Boris played into their hands with his awful WA and there was never any doubt that the EU would use it to our disadvantage. By that and his more recent shenanigans he is far from being the PM we need and may well have added himself to the already too long list of traitorous PMs.
I wonder what else is being kept from us, particularly in respect of military matters.
………………..and the wholesale trashing of our economy.
I have never understood how they can not just appear relaxed about it, but even more continue adding fuel to the fire under the guise of “Covid measures”
I think the big picture is that we’re in one of the preliminary stages of the evil plan being hatched upon us: after years of cultural marxism to soften us up, its now the end game ; first we’re being brought to heel, subjected to intensive obedience training, eg muzzles, so that we will put up with the horrors to come without a whimper.
The next phase will be fiscal meltdown along with forced vaccinations
Then I think the UN Global Migration Compact will really kick in , and we will be invaded on a humungeous scale. Then civil war possibly, with people fighting each other instead of against the globalist criminals behind it all. EU states’ armies all under one central control point, under the control ultimately of the globalists. The Chicoms in this mix too.
And I wonder why they dont ask me to parties !
All reasons why the good citizens of the US will not give up their Second Amendment and Blair banned firearms. Another relevant question is why government is still funding the UN given its policies and openly published “Agendas”.
Apologies all round that I’m now more than a bit confused.
I understand that the reason Southern Ireland (whatever it’s properly called), became a relatively wealthy state, was that it became a ‘tax haven’.
Neither the EU, or Biden, like that. Perhaps that is also ‘not liked’ by global bodies either.
I thought there had already been pressures on S. Ireland to raise it’s taxes on big business.
May be there will be some kind of ‘Irexit’. May be the E.U. will start to break up. If so it would be ironic to say the least if it finished as France and Germany holding together as a European Empire!
Any way, there is more Unionist feeling and support in N.I., than just Arlene Foster.
Personally, I’m a bit surprised if the people of Northern Ireland are really supportive of Bliar’s Devolution.
For a long time, (yes many yrs ago), for every punt Southern Ireland put into the common market they got 8 (eight) punts back.
Then the dregs of you’rope were usered into the club and the ”rebate” became less.
Still a net recipient . . until now.
I do not believe it is possible for the EU to hold together later than Xmas 22. I think that Turkey is set for another Cyprus, Germany and northern EU states aee feeling their pride and not liking Civil Servants rule at all. Added to all this we have the basic problem of the world .. ..Internet