'Pure Farce' | How Brexit Changed Northern Ireland 

Unfortunately, only 16,141,241 people knew that leaving the EU would be a bad idea.

"No-one looked at the wider aspects"? It was explained in detail, many simply preferred to ignore it.

A Tory MP said to me “we would love to get rid of Northern Ireland but there is no easy way to do it.” Ireland for the good of all its people needs to be reunited.

UK : We want to leave the EU EU : OK NI and Scotland : We want to leave the UK. UK : Pi55 off.

Brexit was never explained to people properly ?! There were hundreds of experts that warned you about the consequences, from the UK, from the EU, from all over the world, but you listened to Farage who just said: project fear! That's it, somehow 2 words matter more for your vote than hours of logical debate and arguments.

There is a go fund me, for a statue of Jim mc Allister to be erected on O Connell street in Dublin, for his political dedication to a united Ireland....

Little England waggled its wee-willy-winky on the world stage - and it fell off.

I don’t like people pretending that Brexit wasn’t properly explained to them. I also don’t like people pretending that it hasn’t been properly implemented. Brexit has been exactly what every expert and informed voter said it would be.

People in Republic understood it quite clearly,Only the gang that bang their chests and beat their drums didnt???

Aren't they the lucky ones! NI residents can get EU passports because they're entitled to and Irish passport!

Best solution for Northern Ireland is to join the United Republic Of Ireland!😊

English people voting for Brexit should have known that rules bind you or limit your actions but also give you freedom and leeway for actions. That’s the case nationally and it is the same inside the EU. It was the Tory party(members) which couldn’t stand the fact that other countries had a say in these rules. You see the same inside the UK, where England doesn’t allow other nations to have a decisional say in politics. The populous vote of England is bigger than all the votes of the other nations combined and the English parties won’t allow a change in this, like in other union countries. England has the majority in both houses. The UK is the odd one out here, where one country decides for all other countries inside the union. If this were the case inside the EU, there wouldn’t be an EU. You’ll have to give up power to come to a successful union. England isn’t ready to do so. Not in the EU and not in the UK.

Really unfortunate there, picked the one day of the year when it rains Ireland

Brexit never explained to people properly. It was and you fell for it. It was always obviously about the Tory party and nothing else...

As a european, I never understood why NI don't want to reunify with their southern brothers. I know the conflict has been very bad, but they seem SO irish to me, and SO different than the english that I don't get it. Also, when you see how little London do care about them, you would run away immediately. I really don't see any reason for them to stay with the britons. Any.

NI voted remain where is the devolved democracy.

We need to rejoin the single market, or the decline will continue and more young people will leave.

United Ireland coming soon

Eejit Tories

I think there was a remain campaign as well how told the downsides or am I wrong.

The inclusion of the first lady's argument is quite disingenuous. This video is implying that the lady has had to now switch to doing her food shopping in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) because Brexit has caused food price inflation in the UK meaning it's now too expensive for her to shop in Northern Ireland (NI). This simply is not true. What the lady is actually saying in your video is that prices in Lidl (in the RoI) are cheaper than at Centra (in NI), and that food prices in general (irrespective of supermarket brand or country) have gone up recently. Centra is a small, more expensive chain of food shops, similar to a Tesco Express. Both Lidl and Centra have stores on both sides of the border. Lidl is of course cheaper than Centra. Even before Brexit, people will have crossed from one side of the border to the other (both ways) to do their food shopping if the cheaper branded supermarket happens to be located on the other side of the Border. Cross-border shopping always has been a thing and always will be a thing. It's actually far more common for people in the RoI to cross into NI to do their shopping; UK food prices are 10-15% cheaper than in the RoI; go and do this video in Lifford and hear them all talking about 'how much food prices have gone up in the RoI' and how they 'shop over the border in NI where it's cheaper'. There are loads of very good examples of how Brexit has been bad for Northern Ireland that could have been used; but trying to claim that 'Lidl is cheaper than Centra because of Brexit' is simply not true, more sloppy journalism from The Independent. Not surprising when you've got a non-local journalist who is seemingly unaware of local supermarket brands let alone the complex economic situation of which she's (trying) to speak about.

Irish unity it's the only solution for brexit!

Correct me if I am wrong but NI is almost in the EU (part of SM and CU, have FoM, etc) so being on the border between NI and Eire is probably a place NOT to discuss Brexit. We Europeans (EU) are signatories of the GFA to maintain the border OPEN, the let people be free to move. If NA is a joke (if it is) it is simply because the GFA (also signed by the UK) is incompatible with any form of Brexit. The GFA was made possible because both the UK and RoI were part of the EU.

Why didn’t you bring an umbrella?

Éire 32 🇮🇪

I hate what the Tory’s have done to the UK especially risking “The Troubles” again in NI just to pay back the DUP for all the DUP’s support in the Tgatcher Years and ever since. Basically this Tory Eton Swill don’t care what happens to anybody,even the Tory Voters,anywhere in the UK and now Starmer will have to clean up the enormous mess.

people voted for change and change is what they got but not the change they expected

If cross border trade continues to grow, and the south is 2x or even 3x the income of the north, young ppl from NI will move south, and NI will become more reliant on the south. At some point London will find it to their advantage to say, "hey, Dublin, can you pls take this on? "

Brexit supporters firmly believe that there is absolutely nothing to worry about ; things will work out over time . As they say , “ Don’t Worry Be Happy “ .

Milk trucks cross the border twice daily, to processing centres in the Republic. NI milk can still be incorporated in dairy produce in the Republic, freely moving throughout the EU, because of the Windsor framework. NI students are still in Erasmus because the Republic pays for them to be, as is right. Few realise that no original legislation has been passed since 1973, in the UK, in the areas of environment, public procurement, transport safety, water, wastewater, waste, working time.......because for as long as transposition of EU Directives, agreed by all Member States, was happening, nothing else was needed. Now it's not happening in NI anymore, and nothing else to replace it, is happening either.

Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to remain but overall a small majority voted to leave, affecting everyone.

Im glad Brexit happened. Means a United ireland is now inevitable 🇮🇪

The 4th Field is coming home .... suck it up DUP 😂

Serves the Unionists right. Be a citizen of the country you are born in, not a country that is a separate land mass. No one in Southern Ireland would bother them and the Irish government would be fair. It is their Scots-Irish stuberness that is at play. It is the same in the South U.S. where with the Scots-Irish it is ‘our way or the highway’. The Irish Catholics arriving in the U.S. in the 1800s had a terrible time as they encountered discrimination as bad as anything they had experienced from the English invaders. It is all changed now and the Scots-Irish can stew in their own juice until dooms day; they either assimilate or perish. They are cut off from Europe and the rest of the world. Good luck with that. Some later U.S. Presidents had caustic comments to make about them. It was Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson who decimated the Native Americans. Not necessary, with rights all around there could have been harmony. Live and let live.

Does that shop not sell umbrellas? 🌧👀😅

As someone watching from afar I was surprised there wasn't another referendum asking for 1. Swiss/Norway like deal with EU with customs union and free movement 2. Unique UK deal with EU with customs union and free movement 3. Unique UK deal but no customs union or free movement 4. No deal brexit breakup That would have put an end to everything isn't it? Surely people would have rejected no deal brexit to say the least, and the government would have a clear mandate to follow. Why did you guys make simple things hard? Not saying my third world country is better, just curious why not take things to logical conclusion?

FFS learn how to pronounce Gallagher!

Why do you put all that plinked plinked noise when some people are speaking...goes on...gos off..The bits without noise is quite interesting... So what is wrong with the human voice as an instrument..Bloody Annoying..spoils the piece..

brits out Saoirse don hAlba saoirse don hÉireann

Come on kier we are all waiting for you!

Lidl rules

Who would benefit most from a united Ireland? Who would have to pay more?

Milligan was right. This is Puckoon.

Whatever gets a unified Ireland

you'd think she'd put a coat on

Vote for a United ireland and you wouldn’t have to go a cross the border to go shopping

The English dont want immigrants and they wouldn't want the Irish. Referendum please.

It could do without the flubbadubba music.

First point made was prices, that has nothing to do with Brexit the same has happened all around the world USA, Canada, mainland Europe etc. The second man to talk didn't really make any point at all. Lady in the shop similar to the First Lady spoken to.. costs are up all around the world nothing to do with Brexit. Costs are equally up in the Republic of Ireland.

Ulster people are never happy.

The people of NI have to decide whether they are British or Irish. The whining about "we don't want a border" is fantasy as long as NI remains part of the UK. All countries that border EU countries have worked out how to deal with this issue. Why can't the UK?

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Open borders work

DUP eh.

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Ireland will be joining the EU army soon, they will also have to pay tax like the rest of Europe. It is the EU that's punishing you.

Southern eire shudda left wit us.

Brexit was explained time and again. Johnson knew the petty predjudic 1:51 es of the British. He knew the BS you wanted to hear and the idiots followed him.

It won’t be long now.

Won't be long now, till we pray to the west.