re: #57 NO SMOCKING GUN!

If Brexit brings about a united Ireland, that would be one good thing to come of it. The Brexiteers seemed determined to tear down the UK if that’s what it takes to achieve Brexit. The Unionists in Northern Ireland are getting thrown under the bus and learning that the English right’s xenophobia extends to them as well.

Quite honestly, a border in the Irish Sea is the logical solution to the UK’s Brexit impasse. The only reason former PM May was unable to achieve Brexit was because she was forced to rely on DUP support in the Parliament to maintain majority status.

At this point, quite bluntly, the Tories have nothing to lose. They’re a minority government for all intents and purposes, so PM Johnson can tell the DUP to fuck off. Mind you, Farage will almost certainly make hay about this, but it’s a political calculation - if the Tories can achieve Brexit by the October 31st deadline, they stand to win a majority at the next election and then they won’t need to worry about Farage and his Brexit Party, as they’ll become instantly irrelevant once Brexit is done and dusted.

And if that means losing Northern Ireland?

So be it. The Tories will take that chance. Frankly, they’d be fools not to.