It’s unavoidable.”Holland: “Why?”Tim O’Connor: “Because that is what a border between customs regimes is. “Not a stupid question you’re asking,” wrote Helen Joyce, expressing a wish that UK politicians would ask questions too. What precisely is “new” about Irish Border concerns? And where is the evidence that the Irish campaigned en masse for Brexit as part of this cunning reunification strategy? You then watch gleefully as an ignorant citizenry lashes out at the EU, Ireland, anything with European in the title, academics, judges, banks and British industry bosses who “talked down” Brexit.

Source: The Irish Times November 29, 2017 01:00 UTC