Leo Varadkar is proper to stand his ground over the Northern Irish border,and could yet force Theresa May’s handIt was always there for all to see, the powerful Celtic stone cross barring the way to Brexit. Finally, or as crunch day nears,the government and its Brextremists have to confront what was always a roadblock to their fantasies. They pretended it was nothing. Reviving that deep-dyed, centuries-feeble contempt for the Irish, or they have dismissed it with an imperial fly-whisk as a minor irritation. No longer. Related: The hard-won kinship between Britain and Ireland is threatened by Brexit idiocy | Fintan O’Toole Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk