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Hard Brexiters’ (Habib’s nonsense) stance on the Irish border is nonsense – “I can tell you, I grew up there
For most of my childhood, our garden backed on to a UK customs checkpoint which sat at the terminus of land behind our garage.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
For most of my childhood, our garden backed on to a UK customs checkpoint which sat at the terminus of land behind our garage.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2/. “I’m sure this isn’t some red herring I’ve imagined, because I’d have likely conjured a more thrilling sight than the squat little prefab that blighted our view of the main road until 1997. “
3/. “On the other hand, however fevered my imagination, I doubt I could have made up the time an IRA bomb blast destroyed that building, damaging our windows and blowing a section of its wall into our field – with its kitchen sink still attached.”
4/. After the GFA, the customs hut was sold so that a large family home could be built in its place. The couple who live there are extremely nice but I’m sure they would object to having a customs outpost erected in their bedroom.
5/ There’s 300 miles (482km) of border. That’s a lot of family homes, petrol stations, cow sheds and kickboxing gyms. While I will admit I quite like the thought of some pencil-necked bureaucrat having to evict a gym filled with oiled-up Derry and Donegal martial artists,
6/. “doing so across Northern Ireland would be the most expensive and logistically arduous engineering, staffing and planning job in UK or Irish history. It would take a great deal more than 85 days and £2.1bn. “
8/. For those who want to read more this account is very compelling.
“She slept with her head in the Free State and her backside in the North”.
Sounds of swooping helicopters and British squaddies voices...the spiked community.”
thejournal.ie/readme/our-par…
“She slept with her head in the Free State and her backside in the North”.
Sounds of swooping helicopters and British squaddies voices...the spiked community.”
thejournal.ie/readme/our-par…
9/. Since this thread Habib responded...and so did the author of the article.
If Habib thinks that his attitude will do anything other than sow the seeds and fertilise dangerous discord that will surely cross the channel he’s learnt nothing from history.
If Habib thinks that his attitude will do anything other than sow the seeds and fertilise dangerous discord that will surely cross the channel he’s learnt nothing from history.
