Posted on 04/05/2021 11:53:36 PM PDT by Cronos
Masked loyalists are seen after hijacking and setting a car on fire at the Cloughfern roundabout in Newtownabbey, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Saturday, April 3, 2021. Masked men threw petrol bombs and hijacked cars in the Loyalist area North of Belfast. Loyalists and unionists are angry about post-Brexit trading arrangements which they claim have created barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. (Peter Morrison/PA via AP)
The disturbances followed unrest Friday and Saturday in unionist areas in and around Belfast and Londonderry, also known as Derry, that saw cars set on fire and projectiles and gasoline bombs hurled at police officers. Police said 27 officers were injured, and eight people have been charged, the youngest a boy of 13.
Britain’s economic split from the European Union at the end of 2020 has shaken the delicate political balance in Northern Ireland, a part of the U.K. where some people identify as British and some as Irish.
A new U.K.-EU trade deal has imposed customs and border checks on some goods moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. The arrangement was designed to avoid checks between Northern Ireland and Ireland, an EU member, because an open Irish border has helped underpin the peace process built on the 1998 Good Friday accord.
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Um...no. You apparently assumed I meant murders. Violence in the troubles did not only have bombs and killing. Beatings, kneecapping, burnings, etc. The thugs were into intimidation...easier to intimidate when they stay alive. I’ll take someone’s observations on the ground and who lived to tell the tales...that means not yours.
I will just quote you from your post # 11:
“He tells me that the troubles never stopped. They just don't use bombs like they used to. They still shoot each other and firebomb houses and cars”
And by the way, not only have I been to Northern Ireland, I lived and worked there for a year. Plus lived in Londonand the rest of the UK for many years.
Meanwhile just have a look at the crime statistics in London.
The Irish: 700 years of bad decisions. Why stop now?
This is already in place with some other neighbouring non-EU states, such as Turkey. The UK turned this down, ostensibly because it might prejudice future trade deals with third countries. So we are where we are.
Cui bono?
yup. I read an article about the Ukraine and it referenced the Serbian-Bosnian conflict. It started with "it's always easy to find groups of young men willing to do foolish things for money in order to create conflict."
A new U.K.-EU trade deal has imposed customs and border checks on some goods moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. The arrangement was designed to avoid checks between Northern Ireland and Ireland, an EU member, because an open Irish border has helped underpin the peace process built on the 1998 Good Friday accord.
No; the violence would make unionists favor putting up the border again, not rejoin the EU in earnest.
Graphics from the BBC don’t carry much weight with me. We’ve seen far too much vote fraud not only in the USA but all around the world, particularly these years gone by.
I think the British may have played a role in that, don’t you? Or do you just dislike the Irish?
CC
Another Biden Miracle....The Troubles are Back!
My family on my dad’s side hailed from County Cork. While I admire and honor my ancestry, I weep for the wooden-headednes and stubbornness that has led to so much tragedy in their history. The plain fact is that more often than not, the Irish were their own worst enemy. You don’t have to convince me that the Brits were bastards, murderous ones at that when it came to their treatment of the Irish..
I hear ya. Just a bit touchy on the subject. Historically the Irish weren’t very good at getting out of their own way, so you’re not wrong. I’m just a bit touchy I guess.
CC
The other half of my ancestry is Acadian, another group oppressed for their beliefs and driven from Canada to the Louisiana bayous to eventually become the Cajuns.
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