Brexit

[DrPatrickBarry]

Interesting interview this mornign in Radio 4, with the woman who is head of the CBI in NI. They are very happy with the deal, as it gives them access to the UK, Eire and the rest of the common market.
Business interests (that keeps the NI economy afloat), do not matter to the DUP, thir bigotry and desire to protect their "Britishness" is much more important.

She was saying they have spend the last two-plus years trying to get the DUP to see sense, but to no avail.
They seem to want to ignore facts:

"Seamus Leheny, the director of policy for the Freight Transport Association, said Northern Ireland was “disproportionately disadvantaged” by Brexit but pointed out that while there were 800,000 freight trips between Northern Ireland and Britain, there were 4.6m between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland every year"

Just saying something is a "made up" issue does not make it true. Monitoring trucks crossing a sea border would be so much easire than millions of micro business transactions crossing the land border. And apparently 80ish larger companies are responsible for the vast majority of the trade across the Irish sea.

Another thing to note is that the majority of trade between NI and the GB is via Dublin because Stranraer is such an isolated part of west Scotland.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...qSP8yFZj6MMaY0

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/b...-37034957.html