Thread by @mafevema

A great article by @NickCohen4 but also worrying. "The Tories wanted to use the fury of the Ulster Protestants Carson led as a weapon against the Liberal government."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Perhaps the Tories want to use the furor of Unionist as a weapon again but this time against the EU & Ireland which outsmarted them at every turn of the negotiation?Perhaps Gove really wants to destroy the GFA?

You write that the Tories then "did not care that rejecting Home Rule would lead to war in Ireland". Can we assume they, ruthless as they are, would care that rejecting the NI Protocol would lead to a hard border in the island & a renewal of hostilities?

The DUP "hope now that the EU’s brief threat to impose a vaccine border in Ireland will save them" The EU regulations (if unchanged) wouldn't have done this. Merely an obligation to declare vaccines leaving the EU for NI in an export declaration.A mistake blown out of proportion.

"There’s no way out. Now, as always, the choice is a soft Brexit or no Brexit, which they ruled out; a border on the island of Ireland, which the world will not accept; or a border in the Irish Sea".Sure the UK would pay a price particularly with the US & the EU. & the EP hasn't

yet ratified the TCA.But the UK would blame the EU & ultimately might get away with it with those living on the island paying the heaviest price. So I genuinely hope that NC is right, that their recent bluster is just bluster, like with the IMB but a part of me is not so sure.