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Boris parachutes into Westminster, Union Jack streaming above him, victory in hand and either calls a new referendum or declares the old one null and void because circumstances have changed.
* i.e. pander shamelessly.
Scotland forces a divorce from the not-so-UK, and threatens to build a Great Wall of Haggis if anyone in the South doesn't get the memo. Scotland then tells a tragically desperate Northern Ireland, "Yeah, thanks, no, we've got our own problems you know." And Northern Ireland looks south. Hard Orange resistance, Hard Green retaliation, and Irish Alzheimer's are likely to put some blood in the streets, but since it is now possible to distinguish between the Republic's legal code and Canon Law, the swing voters are more likely to vote for cash than creed. With a Taoiseach who is something more than a ham sandwich, the Republic could actually unite the island, and Ireland could be a modern version of what it was in the 6th and 7th Centuries: a light in the regional darkness.
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. And that is what you are here for, Richard. Some day we shall have to choose between England and Europe.
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