Caveat: Dartz will know way more than me.
There might -- and I emphasize "might" because I'm kinda talking out my ass here -- be a narrow possibility that Ulster could swear allegiance to the Scottish Crown rather than the English one and somehow rejoin the EU without upsetting the balance between Catholics and Protestants too much. But this seems extremely low probability, even among the low probability Brexit outcomes one of which we already know must happen.
As I understand it, the crux of the Good Friday Agreement as it works in practice is that people pretty much agree to let each other live -- not judge each other based on how much they like English culture or Irish culture. This is already eroding because some people feel like the English betrayed them once again. If Northern Ireland were to secede, the other side would take it as a betrayal. People with an English culture would suddenly find themselves closer to Poland and Greece politically than England.
Of course none of this would matter if half the Midlands would stop acting like spoiled children who don't want the brown people to play in their sandbox, and cancel Brexit. Well, that and not turning England into a dictatorship would help too.
There might -- and I emphasize "might" because I'm kinda talking out my ass here -- be a narrow possibility that Ulster could swear allegiance to the Scottish Crown rather than the English one and somehow rejoin the EU without upsetting the balance between Catholics and Protestants too much. But this seems extremely low probability, even among the low probability Brexit outcomes one of which we already know must happen.
As I understand it, the crux of the Good Friday Agreement as it works in practice is that people pretty much agree to let each other live -- not judge each other based on how much they like English culture or Irish culture. This is already eroding because some people feel like the English betrayed them once again. If Northern Ireland were to secede, the other side would take it as a betrayal. People with an English culture would suddenly find themselves closer to Poland and Greece politically than England.
Of course none of this would matter if half the Midlands would stop acting like spoiled children who don't want the brown people to play in their sandbox, and cancel Brexit. Well, that and not turning England into a dictatorship would help too.
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