Time To Give Dublin A Kick Up The April?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42164874

[dannyk13]

TTT, do you not realise that Ireland (being a member of the EU) can veto any of our plans?

[Gromit]

Everyone (apart from the DUP and a few brexit extremists) agree that an hard border is logistically impossible. So some accomodation between the UK and the EU needs to be agreed. Paisley knows that and is just spitting out his dummy.

[Gromit]

Speaking of spitting out dummies...

[ToraToraTora]

then get your anti Britsh friends to start playing ball gromit or they'll end up with a kin great wall.

[Gromit]

There will be no big wall you silly man.

There will be a soft or frictionless border, and Paisley and you can lump it.

[Togo]

//Earlier, Ms Smith told committee members, she could not share details of the government's contingency planning over Irish border issues with them because of "sensitivities" over the Stormont talks, which she said were ongoing.//

Hang on,,,,,,when David Davis said the same thing regarding details of financial data wasn't he accused of holding the electorate and Parliament in contempt and told to cough up?

[ToraToraTora]

whoo hoo, touched a nerve there methinks, get the concrete ordered!

[ichkeria]

Another nonsensical intervention, hard on the heels of the Hoey.

Just typical DUP sabre-rattling, but a propos of what? There is not going to be a hard border in Ireland. The UK doesn't want it. Ireland certainly doesn't want it. The issue is that the Republic doesn't trust the UK government not to try and put one in place, as they have, it seems, more to lose from an open border. Hence the tension over this. But "shaking the cage" over what exactly? "You damn well trust us or we'll... er. ... shout at you!"

[Kromovaracun]

Completely childish attitude. No the UK should not "give Dublin a kick up the April." That's now how diplomacy works.

[KARL]

Time to........send out the gunboats and all the other paraphernalia and show the world what the UK's world vision really is.

[Gladeian]

Let us just walk away from all this squabbling amongst self interested minor nations whose only interest is to extract as much money as they can from the UK. We are one of the only major contributors to this corrupt and wholly inappropriate grouping of mainly lame economies.
Ireland being one of the most grasping and probably having an historic reason for wanting to inflict harm on the UK.