Do you think Northern Ireland is a burden to the UK?

It does if they end up with a hard border. And we will just disagree on what democracy is.

Democracy is the majority vote of anything being enacted.

As for a hard boarder the uk is long putting one up regardless, so we won’t have broken it.

Also the eu has been using the Irish boarder as a negotiation to try and keep us in certain projects like the customs union from the start.

The Irish have said they aren’t putting a boarder up and so have we.

If neither of us are then who is going to?

what i like about NI is that the people are still serious about things. on the mainland nobody is serious except Mr Rees-Mogg.

There is definitely exaggeration on both sides about the border issue - the EU and Ireland are overstating the extent to which a hard border will be needed without being in the CU or SM and the DUP and some Tories are overegging the extent to which staying in the CU and/or SM would make a huge difference to Northern Ireland.

We are only facing all this pain because the Tories cynically rely on the morally and politically bankrupt, medieval DUP to keep them in office.

Northern Ireland has been nothing but a lead weight around the English government for decade's and untold amounts of money has been piled into the country that provides very little benefit to England. The sooner we can get rid of NI the better. They are holding up Brexit to suit themselves and they are so argumentive they cannot even hold their own assembly in Storming. Cut them off with nothing and hand the keys to Dublin!

I really don't think the DUP are significant players in all of this. They don't have particularly strong views on the border issue. It was really raised by the Irish Government, the European Commission and the Remain campaign. Even if the DUP wasn't supporting the Government, I don't think the question of the Irish border would be any more straightforward.

To an extent, but not early as much as Scotland and the north of England.

The north of England or really the outside of London has been designed to be a burden as the people making decisions of what investment policies to pursue looked solely at the highest ROI and put the money into London.

A poor policy.

It was never a "policy", those places were always less developed because they are a lot further away from the major trading ports and thus economic activity.

Yes it was policy, the government for many decades has looked at investment in a very limited way and given the little it has invested to the very highest ROI projects which means London.

I really don’t know what you are going on about with ports as all of these places are right next to them we have a small country.

Interesting to think about this topic a year on. It seems the DUP do care about the border, or at least go through the motions of doing so. Actually I think they are now trying to respond to modern opinion in Northern Ireland, which has significantly depolarised on these issues and is now very much in favour of open trade, borders and co-operation with the Republic.

I think it's fair to say that open borders, trade and co-operation with the Republic is no longer a particularly polarised issue. Far more people are comfortable with it than they were in the past.

The biggest bugbear with the DUP - and I actually agree with them to a large extent on this one - is the cost of creating internal barriers with Great Britain. Which is their central objection to the new Withdrawal Agreement and the arrangements there.

I live in the north of Ireland and the funny thing is, they dup think they are British but the British think they are Irish .Politics as a whole in NI is a joke, DUP is a laughing stock to the rest of Europe! Ireland should reunite to stay in the EU! Or else face consequences in coming years