United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to give UK its Sunday name, is the epitome of artificial state. ... Ireland on the other hand was English colony, and was brought into the orbit of what would then be known as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in..…
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which props up May’s government, said it would support her. . ... The most contentious section of the deal was an insurance policy known as the “backstop” designed to prevent the reintroduction of border controls between the UK’s Northern..…
Alas the backstop, designed to ensure that the border between the north and south of Ireland remains open, is part of the former. ... The impact of no-deal could be even worse for Irish Republic than for UK and it would not help keep its border with the north open - so I..…
The 2015 Act setting up the Referendum also set up “voting areas” or “Counting areas”, of which there were 382 – “326 in England, 32 in Scotland, 22 in Wales and single areas for Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.” . ..…
Last August in Italy the Migrants mainly coming from former Italian colony Eretria had been stranded at a port in Sicily before Italian deputy premier Salvini finally allowed them to disembarked after Ireland and Catholic Church in Italy agreed to take most of them in. ..…
In addition the 10 MPs of the Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland’s largest party, which is socially conservative and pro-Brexit) will support the government. ..…
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