I have no doubt that many Brits are now looking to move to places like Ireland to escape Brexit food shortages. It will go down in history as the British diaspora invasion of Ireland. It will be their new land bridge to Europe.
Whether it be a genuine cultural matter of reclaiming their lost heritage or just doing the maths on purely economic grounds where the push factor is greater than the pull of remaining in Blighty, my bet is with the first! Brexit will shape more than just the price of bread!
For Irish nationalists or republicans that might pose a future conundrum in light of any United Ireland where the struggle for an Ireland free of ‘the Brits’ will be difficult to attain when there will be more English accents on every street corner than ever before!
No doubt modern diversified and multi-cultural Ireland will welcome and accommodate those fleeing Brexit with Irish roots but it will have some impact on demographics, even voting patterns in the future just as the Welsh have found with the lure of cheaper property into the west.
The prospect of border hopping Brits is an amusing nuance for us Irish as we gaze bemused across that thin stretch of water that historically has divided us in so many ways. It’s history 360 as the Brits are now the ones drawn to Irish shores to escape hardship in a new Ireland.
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