The volume of trade between the EU and the UK was £634 billion in 2018. The total trade volume between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic was £5.4 billion. This is a ratio of more than 100 to one. I understand why the rest of the EU places a higher value on the interests of Ireland than the UK. I do not understand why they place so little value on their own interests.

Shorter Munchau : Fuck the Irish. And the Sudetenland too. The fellow clearly has an impaired sense of history. Appeasing someone who has no interest in being appeased...

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