No chance.
The EU wants a hard Brexit to create chaos in the UK.
Witness the Irish PM, threatening to stop planes flying to UK using Irish airspace.
Irish PM mocked for saying he may ban British planes from airspace | Daily Mail Online
OK, he is a raging PCvirtuesignaling idjut.
Ireland’s Leo roars like any EU bully but his UK flights threat is all hot airspace
Rod Liddle
The Sunday Times
July 22 2018
This Northern Ireland border issue that is vexing everyone, especially the Irish taoiseach, seems fairly simple to resolve. Indeed, it scarcely needs resolving. If we do not want a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic and the Irish do not want a hard border, who the hell is going to put one up? Who is going to build the customs posts and fencing and provide the requisite surly staff?
If the European Union insists upon customs posts, surely it becomes a discussion between Ireland and the EU and nothing to do with us. And does anyone, other than Ireland’s smirking taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, think the EU would be stupid enough to do that? It is surely another one of those chimeric threats from an increasingly authoritarian supranational bureaucracy that is currently facing rebellion on all fronts.
But, if so, let them march over with their hammers, barriers, tin tacks and multiple forms and see how that goes down with the people of Ireland.
As a nation state, we decide what happens with our borders and the Irish would be minded to do the same — unless after that “one thousand years of Anglo-Saxon oppression” they have lost sense of what it means to have an independent nation state and to control your own borders. That I doubt. If that really happens, Ireland will quickly understand from where the present oppression emanates: not London but Brussels.
Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar
It is true, of course, that we have oppressed Ireland since the financial crisis by bunging it more than £20bn of UK taxpayers’ money to bail out its wrecked economy, for which we expected no thanks and, indeed, did not receive any. That was, I dare say, perceived as colonialist and patronising by Mr Varadkar and Mrs May should probably apologise to him.
Young Leo is rapidly becoming my least favourite world leader, currently tied in last place with that simpering alleged sex pest of a Canadian, Justin Trudeau. I accept that there are various fat, medal-bedecked Marxist thugs in Africa, one or two preening fascists in the ’Stans, good old Kim, plus some leaders in the Islamic world from Jakarta to Ramallah who are much worse. But they preside over Third World satrapies and so are discounted. I meant from what we might call the First World.
Leo’s latest offensive is to warn that UK airlines could be barred from flying over Irish airspace post-Brexit. I’m sorry — I hate to be rude — but the man is plainly a moron. You’d imagine 90% of planes out of Dublin fly over British airspace, so if it becomes tit-for-tat, that’s your economy buggered again, and the end to the operations of Ryanair and Aer Lingus. While, by comparison, about 10% of British planes probably fly over Irish airspace.
So this is another paper tiger, a chimera, a false threat occasioned by spite and pique, which has rightly been ridiculed across the world on social media.
And yet he is not alone. The entire process of negotiating our exit from the EU has been accompanied by much the same sort of stuff: empty threats and vindictiveness flung at us each week by the rabble of drunkards and lawyers the EU employs to make sure that anyone who wishes to leave the benighted institution gets first of all a punch in the face and then, later, a punch in the face.
I was for “leave” for reasons of democracy and sovereignty — but only just. And yet now I wonder who would want to be in a club like that. A club so terrified it will soon cease to exist that it will stoop to anything in its attempts to cow and bully those it sees as miscreants.
The Hungarians, the Poles, the Austrians, the Italians, the Catalans and pretty soon the Swedes. I think we’re in good company, right where we are, no matter how inept and credulous our government.
It is often said we should worry about the world we are leaving to the younger generation. I am more worried about the poor world, given the younger generation who will have custody of it.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-flights-threat-is-all-hot-airspace-xwwv7gxn0
