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Matt Carr

4 Mar, 10 tweets, 3 min read

So the GFA begins to unravel, exactly as predicted. Exactly what the little boys with matches who went romping into the oil refinery said would never happen. Proving once again that Brexit was a reckless & unforgivable act of political arson theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…

Given their long tradition of sectarian murder, who believes that the protests against the NI Protocol promised by the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando will be ‘peaceful and democratic’ for long? Esp. after the threats last month thejournal.ie/larne-brexit-c…

In its statement rejecting the protocol, the LCC warns of the ‘strength of feeling’ in the loyalist community regarding the NIP. So it’s very much ‘peaceful and democratic’ protests for now but...

And now the U.K. gov is poised to tear up the NIP in order to placate this ‘strength of feeling’ that it ignored two months ago, and please the Brexit Neanderthals of the URGHH! and distract from its shortsighted and reckless stupidity that is flushing businesses down the drain

Which means presumably, that the EU will take retaliatory action and that sooner or later the regulatory checks will shift to the NI-Irish border if the UK continues on its current course, which means violating the GFA, creating the ‘hard border’ the NIP was intended to avoid

Thereby violating the GFA, which will not please the Biden administration, and more to the point, will not please the nationalist community, whose ‘strength of feeling’ on this issue is no less passionate than the loyalists, and which also (ahem) has its own paramilitaries...

All of which could have been avoided, had the UK remained in the SM and CU, but no, the Brexiters had to have their sovereign tea, even if so many were forced to drink it and choke on it, and now they have the stunning gall to describe Northern Ireland as an ‘EU colony’!

The result is this disastrous trajectory, the old dark alliance between the Tory Party and Unionists dragging NI towards calamity once again. Of course all this could lead to a United Ireland, but, and it’s a very big but, that outcome was supposed to be consensual

That was the point of the GFA. Now the protocol and its consequences have the very real potential to produce a Troubles redux - the bastard son of the Brexiters’ Empire Redux fantasies.

Of course a government with even a modicum of decency and common sense would have

recognised these risks and done everything possible to address them. But Johnson, Frosty, and the Brexit Bolsonaros didn’t give a damn and they don’t care now. They are political vandals and arsonists.

Northern Ireland is one more reason why they should never be forgiven.

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