when you show such weakness on me i think that the prime minister has at this stage now i got to consider does she take her heels and go she even tear back some of the compromises he's already offered to the un say ok what we're going to fight a fight that's mine and we'll get the sort of i twenty nine march you will finish up paying the consequences your german carmakers will pay the consequences france's french winemakers will pay the consequences the irish economy will pay the consequences because it will lose its mian market in the g. b. and g. b. where we're up for a fight fighting talk there from sammy wilson no by one single independent unionist all of northern ireland's m.p. sitting in the commons are democratic unionists this is because it has been a long standing tradition of northern ireland second largest partition fane so abstain from sitting at westminster despite the election of seven m.p.'s however there is no such part of them taking their seats in the door island dublin or in the european parliament city earlier this year to alex she's been leader made aliya

mcdonald explain their stance an abstention isn't westminster and their approach to ireland in europe it's a new leadership in theory and when you look at the the strong influence the decisive position of the democratic unionist with only one hundred full of m.p.'s not have in the house of commons are you tempted to profess the abstentions policy and make a forty into the parcel westminster and upset the back so awful can't now. we don't take our seats we continue in that tradition because for us irish political decisions are to be made right fully in our and in four irish people thirty years of troubles twenty years of peace but of course a breakthrough process which some people believe is a fundamental blame go to the peace process how do you evaluate the braggs us and the good friday agreement are mutually incompatible you cannot have brags that you

cannot have a forcing of the north of ireland i was of the european union on the one hand and still claim to honor in word and spares and last are the good friday agreement is in our view as stark as the us and i listened to theresa may and i listened to others from the english tories saying that. don't worry about the border in ireland ireland will be fine on the one hand and then insisting that britain will leave the customs union leave to single marcos and so on and of course the reality is that those two positions are completely as odds with each other i think the tories have played a very dangerous game no way can our and or show darren and or will argument be the collateral damage in the midst of all of that. the idea of reimposing

a border on the island is not just economically disruptive it's potentially jeopardizes the entire political infrastructure of the good friday agreement the executive itself in the north the assembly the northern institutions are built. are premised on the notion of european standards and regulations and lol so this is a big problem for us bragg's this is a disaster and i would not say that the do you. have what i what i would understand are considered to be a position of huge strengths i think they they find them says a particular moment in time with a particular mathematical as relationship don't get me wrong i think this confidence and supply arrangement between the tories and the day is. is wrong i think it absolutely compromises the british government's claims to

impartiality or independence i think is highly problematic from that point of view it's one of the all the political consequences of bricks of this provision of course or from the peace accords for a referendum or my own under certain circumstances an irish unity is it your opinion the blood makes such a referendum very likely or indeed inevitable at some stage i think it demonstrated very clearly just how vulnerable the north of ireland is in the within the union because let's face it the people in the north voted to stay and yet that could be totally disregarded and i know for reals a scenario where investment into arlen's the economic activity right across the island people born on the island of ireland. who take for granted the fact that they can do simple things like travel throughout europe like europe is

people's hinterland now people have grown up with the. access for education for work and so on but even unionist politicians of advising people who cares are a fiver as well precisely precisely because these are things that people value i wouldn't go so far as to say that it makes irish unity inevitable but i certainly think it underscores the common sense of the united are and the common sense of actually managing our own political affairs and not allowing other forces beyond you to actually overrule and override decisions democratic decisions made by the people i think that it sets that are very clearly i was speaking to mary lou mcdonald in dublin earlier this year but this week she was buck in front of the house of commons delivering a press briefing after a meeting with the prime minister she turned to the subject that one unintended

consequence of or no deal bret's that could be to provoke conditions for the poor an irish unity in northern ireland after say theresa may took her fees really to say nothing terribly new. i think it's worth remembering that. from the outset when the article fifty process was triggered and when the negotiations started everybody accepted including the british government that there was a particular case to be bait for ireland that there is a particular area see the border about the entrusts of our island north and south and that there was a common and shared to objective to protect the good friday agreement and all of its parts to avoid any hardening of the border and to ensure a no to of citizens' rights mrs may for. i'm very high on happy to record that since that time the british government have rolled back on those commitments and we can only surmise that passes on the say so of the d u p a

parsi who do not represent all right to kill a did you of the majority of people in the north of ireland who voted to remain so we've heard this evening mrs may talk about a temporary backstop a temporary answer that we need to be absolutely care that breaks this itself is not a transitory events the consequences of us will be long. and will be deep and so the backstop arrangement the answers to the questions for ireland have to be ensuring the idea of a time bind or a temporary little arrangement simply will not cut the mustard and if mrs may hitches her wagon to the most extreme rags to tears including the d u p i think this history will judge her very badly we're now at crunch time these are times of

history these are times of big decision and it would not be acceptable for mrs may to act purely for political expediency whether that's to hold her go for months or her party to gather what your. right now from his big leadership at long term leadership she has to do the right thing by our in and nothing short of will suffice and let me also say this too to those of a unionist persuasion who perhaps mice wish for a hard brags and to misguided belief that that somehow resolves the issue of the border in ireland let me say this if there is a crash if there is a hard spraggs us what then there will be an immediate demand for a referendum on irish unity it would not be. in any way acceptable that all of the damage of a hard bragg's be visited on the island of ireland and for the british government

to accept. north and south to simply take thousand on the chin and be philosophical about it so if there is a section of unionism and i've heard this articulation very irresponsibly by some who believe that actually are hard breaks this is a good day out for the union i would say to them thank you again i think long and the thing current is clear both should see in the mean business in terms of this bright struggle so joyous off the brake on the little democrat unionist party hoping scope of last week's don't leave. anything in which they are prepared to settle.

that's the i believe that north korea will be ready to nuclearize very soon there could be well saying that angry men about some of the nuclear weapons and materials to be taken to russia and disposed off there and then on the basis of mutual trust the united states and russia could help north korea in the energy sector for example build a gas pipeline and that's going to railroad tracks. you know world of big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes for watching the

hawks. prosecution will need to become almost. equal where you push. the threat of fines. by the number one place you do i mean yeah i mean i mean political pressure on that i needed to know through security dimension knows what opponents are kind of business models he was my american corporations. he's sold them good mental disease has. seen. the solution. and association. i noticed when he saw it is just somebody he's of till he came to. an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy.

it's. truly just a. welcome back after the dramatic intervention of the d.p. last week threatening if necessary to vote during the government's budget next month the fall of the week and the confusion and threatened resignations and not just in the usual bricks suspects but from some pitas the considered loyal to the prime minister and a statement on monday treason he tried to buy time still under pressure from all sides but in particular from the d u p which he confirmed it single market

customs union the u.k. leaving the e.u. together with new park high you've got off either in the single market or customs union differences here the u.k. leaves the united kingdom but when the u.k. leaves the european union it will be the u.k. that leaves the european union we will be leaving the european union together i'm very clear there should be no hard border between northern ireland but as we've put forward proposals we can deliver on that and maintain the integrity of our union and of course what we're looking at in relation to z. and we made that very clear when the european union made their proposal that would effectively have carved northern ireland away from the rest of the united kingdom in their backstop proposal it's precisely because we cannot accept their backstop to a backstop because they continue to want to work to want to see that in fact what we want to see in a backstop is

a situation. northern ireland business is. great britain and the european union actually that would be a good movie this is alex spoke to senior de shannon to have his assessment on why the crisis has passed. can i take you back to last december when the democratic unionist party the prime minister of the dangers of the so-called. do you believe the. disappointment we are where we are because we felt that. we had made our position very very clear unfortunately we've had a lot of. discussions with rumors and. all the allegations and stories put forward but the thing's been pretty clear this week has been a difficult week this week probably will be the culmination of where we are we're not happy with where the direction that the prime minister is indicating. and we're

very clear we are we are. we want to be treated. as everybody else. you would be prepared to withdraw support from the. serious. political. serious because. i was. dead in the agricultural. leader we met as a group last week we. on the agricultural because we were against the bell as such but because we need the government and we didn't tell them in advance we were very clear that we are prepared to push. if we find this is going in the wrong direction it's not.

told us last week. again. what i would suggest to the prime minister that. we only have one option and not one option unfortunately the one i want to see. as a whole despite the opposition. i'm not represented in the house of commons either because. the. position does not give you a response ability to represent all of the opinion. not just the position

which was only supported by a minority a sizeable minority but still a minority. majority . vote. but remember. the. regional vote. taken. so how do we how do we move forward some of my colleagues and some of my friends would be of the opinion that we. want the prime minister to my party leader. but if we can't get them we have to look at the the. also.

let's look at getting a. bring a conclusion successful conclusion. and those talks discussions and finally jim shannon. complacency complacency. about. is that they believe you wouldn't kinds of the general election and the potential to make government for use been known to be on the left of. the thing but for many of your colleagues that would be the end is that the reason why the government up until now has been complacent about the attitude of the democrats. i'm not sure. how you got themselves in the box there. but as i said to someone they were not afraid of elections. we take our money get

to the people and we let the people decide. if there was an election. in the house from either side with a few exceptions to that i. don't have any wish to see and our prime minister or government whatever it may be i believe the prime minister at this moment if he looks at where she is on course. and carefully and in cooperation with the i think we can find a way forward but she's got to respect this. has got to. thank you very much i can . survive an analysis of the week where island has once again dominated the. alex spoke to join tong professor of british and irish politics at the university of georgia welcome but. some people because it surprised by the the vehemence both the democratic unionist party state the position of the. last

week in this program last week or even nigel dog in the in the commons with the prime minister on monday what lies behind strong statement of position. i don't think we should be surprised that the u.p.a. has always been an anti european union party and the d.p. is always believe that northern ireland must be an integral part of the united kingdom in constitutional and economic terms of course that the pisa ports divergence in other respects on issues like same sex marriage and abortion but in constitutional terms that the u.p.a. fears that anything that aligns northern ireland more closely with the e.u. and in this case the republic of ireland given what's proposed in respect to the border that's the slippery slope to united ireland then the d u p as the hardline yunis party that it is will not countenance anything like that despite the fact that northern ireland voted as a whole in favor of remain they do you don't seem to have tempered the policy

against the european union at all nor do they seem frightened of another general election certainly not fright of an election because the have medically sealed boxes the northern islands ethnic blocks the day you people still be top dog among tunis if there was to be a general election tomorrow the d.p. would probably return with ten seats possibly eleven seats so the piece that they don't fear the general election secondly the outcome of a general election may well be a hung parliament again so the d.p. could potentially still have influence certainly the conservatives with the largest party and the d.p. are bluffing when they say they will vote things down or like a budget conservative budget i think that's part of the reason that treat them a won't conclude any sort of agreement with the anyway given that cannot get its budget through the house of commons is frankly a government paralyze you can't do anything you can't approve any expenditure you can't even approve payments the european union that will form part of the divorce

settlement so the d.p.s. position is very very very important indeed the only way they could be bypassed would be of treason may could come up with a leave package that attracted the support of labor and. he's on the opposite side it was up a moment just a moment in the prime minister's statement last monday where she seemed to suggest to be that they could actually end up in a preferential position to the rest of the united kingdom with full free trade with the u.k. market and preferential access to the european market but that's not something even a preferential position that they do you get interested in northern ireland could actually enjoy a boom time if the d.p.p. would relent on this position but the d.p. have this almost paranoid fear which you know admittedly is partly a consequence of the legacy of the troubles that they are being you know the deeds of trans fair. been placed upon them to force them ever closer to the outer public

and eventually united ireland that they're being shipped out of the united kingdom goes down the road that she has tentatively proposed and certainly hinted at tonight will dodd's in a statement last monday so the thinking about this jewel alliance developing between the scottish conservatives and the democratic unionist party would it be fair to say that the scottish conserves and the do you have in common that they will never never never accept economic profound because the fear of the political consequences to the union. yes constitutional politics from everything else for both of those parties the d. u. p. talks about northern ireland's position in the united kingdom being threatened on an almost daily basis davison say she never wants to hear anything more about an independence referendum but she daily talks about constitutional politics and has tried to mobilize the anti independence vote behind her party thinking about the

developments or lack of them from a fein perspective that the second largest party in northern ireland the third largest party in the public of people in shouldn't fear in a poll jealous that the influence of the do you have at westminster which they can never have a substantial this party or do they think that the way things are the slog might work to the benefit of their ambitions for a united ireland. chavez been hugely critical of the d.p.'s relationship with the conservatives at westminster they argue it's a partisan relationship which isn't any good for the people northerners or as a whole and it's to the detriment of the nationalist community yes there have been voices that have said why don't the shin fein why don't you take your seats at westminster your your seven seats to which you're entitled on the basis of shem feigns mandate but it's too big a step for him for him to swear an oath of allegiance to

a british monarch it will be very hypocritical of him fain to do that it would also be very divisive within shin fein you need a two thirds majority within the party for them to take their seats so it certainly isn't going to happen in the short and medium terms if it ever happens professor john tong thank you very much indeed my pleasure. in the run up to last christmas to resume a thought she had clocked the first phase of the blacks at the goal she actions only to be pulled up short by a flag of convenience friends in the d. you be in the said that she ignored the vase of all of them blacks are said to david davis by keeping our allies out of the loop until the very last minute the ghost of christmas past let the prime minister off of a humiliating delivery a warning and some big u.s. words on the backstop. it seems unlikely that the ghost of christmas present will let off so lightly the images presented to the prime minister for this winter are not appealing there is no commons majority for the checkers fudge or anything that

resembles that the only way to avoid the unpalatable choice between an eye this border and an eye they see barbara is to stand the single market and the customs union ironically the may be a parliamentary majority for the us but it would split the conservative party asunder meanwhile to pursue a basic trade deal of color the plus might itself good don't to defeat in the commons and it would represent the final political humiliation of facing defeat on someone else's policy conservative m.p.'s might conclude if that's to be the direction of approach it would be better advocated by someone who actually believes in it for three some h.r. between a brussels backstop and some northern irish hard cases life is far from easy she would be forgiven for believing that things could hardly be more difficult. should remember that the most terrifying spectacle that the kittens in store is not the

ghost of christmas past or present but the spirit of what is yet to come. now if that wasn't enough for the embattled prime minister in next week's show we examine for that as a full the looming celtic problem for me is the good ship but i know steaming towards the scottish iceberg in the form of a legal case which could blow the european debate white open. unity and reform group will be choking on the g n t's not only is it the last night the utopian court that they saw despise the love of it but it's been brought by the jocks well it's certainly ok often but we'll see you next week so it's goodbye for now.

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