Bordering on contempt
Britain’s historic disdain for Ireland is reaching new heights
David Hannay
Still standing after some testing local elections, a year after she squandered her majority, Theresa May might be beginning to look like one of political life’s great survivors. In truth, however, she has endured purely by pushing all the most difficult decisions on Brexit down the road—most especially where these touch on the fraught question of the island of Ireland.
Fecklessness towards Ireland in a British politician is nothing new: it is a matter of historical record, over centuries. But now, as the Brexit negotiations grind remorselessly on and towards next year’s 29th March deadline, the disregard is reaching new heights.
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