Brexit: Kate Hoey says Ireland would have to pay for physical border
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[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-42137597"]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-42137597[/URL]
[QUOTE]The Republic of Ireland would have to pay for a physical border with Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the EU with no deal, a Labour MP has said.
The EU has said "sufficient progress" has to be made on the Irish border before negotiations on a future relationship can begin.
Kate Hoey, a Brexit supporter originally from Northern Ireland, said there is no need for a physical border.
She criticised the Irish government's approach to the issue.
"Why don't the Irish government actually become more positive about this and start looking at solutions with their closest neighbour and partner," she told BBC Radio 4.
"After all, we are a friend of the Republic of Ireland, the relations have never been as good and yet on this issue it seems like they're more concerned with keeping the rest of the EU satisfied than actually looking at concrete, positive proposals.
"We're not the ones who are going to be putting up the physical border.
If it ends up with a no deal, we won't be putting up the border, they'll have to pay for it because it doesn't need to happen."
However, Fine Gael Senator Neale Richmond defended the Irish government's stance: "We have been very positive, we have laid out from the outset how we would like things to go and how we'd want certainty.
"The British government have been very, very late and have continually changed their position."
He added: "We haven't made the decision for the United Kingdom to leave the EU - you're making the decision, a decision that affects us far more than anyone else on the continent."
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Please help. Im dying in the middle of a resturant.
Reminds me of something... something about mexico paying for some sort of wall which will never ever happen... might be the case here. Don't see why NI or ROI would want to pay for something neither of them want, but the fucktards behind brexit are having to kneel to.
Brexiters continue to shit the bed and blame the smell on the dog, more at 11.
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52926943]Tories continue to shit the bed and blame the smell on the dog, more at 11.[/QUOTE]
Lad. This was a Labour MP.
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52926943]Tories continue to shit the bed and blame the smell on the dog, more at 11.[/QUOTE]
as much as I hate the tories, this was a labour MP. Think it's better to point out the brexiteers than the tories for this one
It's pretty clear that the Republic is being leaned on by the EU and used a tool to lever the situation.
[editline]27th November 2017[/editline]
Obviously the solution to the border issue is to remove the border entirely by annexing the Republic as the first piece of the new Brexmpire.
She doesn't seem to understand that - by EU law - Ireland is REQUIRED to have a hard border.
She basically is demanding that Ireland goes against EU law.
Classic trying to seed conflict/shift blame tactic
[B]Build a wall! Build a wall![/B]
Humanity is doomed :v:
So she's saying the opposite of Donald "we need more walls" Trump, that the Irish would pay for it as we [I]wouldn't[/I] build a wall on the border.
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52926949]Lad. This was a Labour MP.[/QUOTE]
Ah shit, I skimmed and just assumed they were a fucking Tory. I can't tell if that's more telling of Brexiter mindsets or my bias against conservatives. Bit of a think should be had there.
Anyway, fixed my post to be more factually correct.
"why doesn't the irish government help us out on this more, just last week we were trying to shove the whole thing under the rug and ignore it until we had a deal from the rest of the EU and now they're just making it hard for us, so selfish."
Clearly the government are doing such a shit job of this because they don't actually want to go through with it.
They ought to stop wasting everyones time and just put their hands up and say "okay yeah we're not doing this"
I think politicians tend to forget just how fragile the situation in Ireland is. Just one foul move during the brexit talks and expect the IRA to come back bigger than ever, that's something everyone should keep in mind and actively avoid
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