Brexit is going to ultimately get cancelled if May loses tonight, isn’t it?

[Burney]

Actually, I think the risk of a permanent custom union doesn't come from the EU, it comes from a Labour government taking over the Future Relationship negotiations. To that extent, I take your point.

But that could happen even if we were granted the legal right to unilaterally exit the backstop. And so if the DUP were truly concerned about a permanent customs union, they would surely oppose Brexit in its totality on the grounds that a mere change of government could precipitate one.

NI did oppose Brexit in its totality for exactly this reason. They finally found a modus vivendi after 200-odd years and we fûcked it up by having bigger European fish to fry (pretty much a microcosm of Anglo-Irish history right there, btw ).
However, if given a choice between the U.K. and any suggestion of being governed, affiliated with or at the mercy of the Irish Republic, the DUP will always choose the U.K. They will fight anyone - including us - to stay British.
There is only one thing the DUP is concerned about: the terror of being ruled by Fenian scum. Literally nothing else matters.
The sad truth is that this whole thing has come down to weird, Irish shít.
I don’t blame you for not getting it. Not many English people do.

[Arsenal Alcoholic Review]

NI did oppose Brexit in its totality for exactly this reason. They finally found a modus vivendi after 200-odd years and we fûcked it up by having bigger European fish to fry (pretty much a microcosm of Anglo-Irish history right there, btw ).
However, if given a choice between the U.K. and any suggestion of being governed, affiliated with or at the mercy of the Irish Republic, the DUP will always choose the U.K. They will fight anyone - including us - to stay British.
There is only one thing the DUP is concerned about: the terror of being ruled by Fenian scum. Literally nothing else matters.
The sad truth is that this whole thing has come down to weird, Irish shít.
I don’t blame you for not getting it. Not many English people do.

Yes it's all quite surreal really. The Orangemen don't want a hard border nor do Soros Fein but we have the EU calling the shots of what happens in Ireland and nobody can see the problem.

[Burney]

Yes it's all quite surreal really. The Orangemen don't want a hard border nor do Soros Fein but we have the EU calling the shots of what happens in Ireland and nobody can see the problem.

The whole thing is bizarre and ironies abound. For instance that Sinn Fein ('we ourselves' or 'ourselves alone', lest we forget that its whole raison d'etre has always been Irish self-determination) has long been the loudest voice of Euroscepticism on the island of Ireland. And yet now it attempting to exploit an act of Eurosceptic self-determination of precisely the sort it has long advocated for Ireland and is using Ireland's membership of the EU as a means of achieving a united Ireland by the back door.

Breathtaking hypocrisy and cynicism.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

And yet now it attempting to exploit an act of Eurosceptic self-determination of precisely the sort it has long advocated for Ireland and is using Ireland's membership of the EU as a means of achieving a united Ireland by the back door.

Breathtaking hypocrisy and cynicism.

A body politic exhibiting self interest and cynicism? Astonishing

[Burney]

A body politic exhibiting self interest and cynicism? Astonishing

You used it!

[redgunamo]

My genocidal maniac brig.gen African warlord uncle used to say something like that too.

Sandhurst, you see; even brings out the best in the worst of us

They will fight anyone - including us - to stay British.

[Burney]

My genocidal maniac two-star general African warlord uncle used to say something like that too.

Sandhurst, you see; even brings out the best in the worst of us

We've all got one, haven't we? Can make Christmas awkward at times.

[redgunamo]

We've all got one, haven't we? Can make Christmas awkward at times.

No-one ever mentioned it back when I was a kid

[Burney]

No-one ever mentioned it back when I was a kid

I've always fancied being a warlord. It sounds ace. What's the pension like?

[redgunamo]

I've always fancied being a warlord. It sounds ace. What's the pension like?

Actually, that was one of the things that first attracted me to the army life; boxcars full of used banknotes.