With the common travel area between ROI and UK being retained they will be setting a precedent for Scotland to have the same should it vote for Independence. If the economy tanks post Brexit people in the North of Ireland the people there will look South and given the inevitable demographic shift from a Unionist to Nationalist majority in the near future Brexit net effect in the North will could be to speed up the transition to a unified island of Ireland. The thing is Unionist will only have themselves to blame, the turkeys that voted for Christmas
Aren't they only looking at that because of the shared land border? Scotland doesn't share a land border with any part of the EU
Unionists have tried to argue that this would mean there would have to be a hard border between England and Scotland.
You mean a common travel area between an independent EU-member Scotland and England?Interesting
There already is one, Hadrian built it. Needs a bit of work in a few areas but shouldn't take too long.If we rebuilt it would we get the Scots to pay for it? Seems all the rage now
I'd be happy for us to pay for it, if it means we take the large chunks of Northumberland and Cumbria that are north of it with us
If you're lying, I'll chop your head off.
They won't be happy about that, they voted leave.
Och ay the noo. cannae not build wee wall just south of Liverpool
The parliament vote means nothing its just a gimmick.
'Greater Scotland' with the southern border along the M62
For Scotland to get another referendum and for it to be legal it requires Westminster to sign it off so to speak. Not a hope that they will allow another referendum during the Brexit process. Nicola Sturgeon should be aware of this.
Aye. it's boss isn't it.
I'd gladly take Liverpool as an enclave within England, a bit like Gibraltar.
Of course it means something. It means Brexit that the tories will make the whole parliament formally complicit in approving whatever shit deal Boris and chums get because the alternative (no deal and trade on WTO terms) will be so unpalatable that nobody will vote against them.
Europe breaking up might lead to some interesting eventualities.
No fucking way are LFC joining the SPL.
Brexit put the crack in the dam, just a matter of time now.
I'm not sure. I see where you are coming from but it would be politically dangerous for the Tories (or any Westminster government for that matter) to deny a referendum. Even Ruth Davidson and David Mundell have said that Westminster should/would not block a referendum.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/03/ruth-davidson-next-pm-should-not-block-scottish-independence-ref/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-government-would-not-block-a-scots-vote-l0wsqr33s
But then you are talking about secession illegally if it came to that.
How? Where did I say that? I was making the argument that it was unlikely that Westminster would deny a referendum.
They aren't going to give them a legally binding one at this moment in time are they? I think they would deny them although I might be wrong but I think they will just say you had a very recent vote and that was it.
"Because it is only by coming together as one great union of nations and people that we can make the most of the opportunities ahead."
Crosby Nick never fails.
It's all fine, and old man from Boston on the news says we're Great Britain and we'll be Great again.Phew, panic over everyone!
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