Following his resignation as Theresa May’s Brexit Secretary in November 2018, current Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended his actions citing May’s intention to accept a ‘backstop’ arrangement, which would see the UK stay in a customs union with the EU, and would form the basis of our future trading relationship with the EU, rather than the free trade deal that he had been arguing for. What Raab also revealed at that time was that EU negotiators, with the apparent approval of Martin Selmayr, then Secretary General of the European Commission, had indicated to his negotiating team that the loss of Northern Ireland would be the punitive price the UK would eventually be forced to pay for leaving the European Union.
Raab is quoted in an interview for the Times saying, “There were certainly swirling dark forces in the commission, which you would hear rumbling that Northern Ireland was the price the United Kingdom must pay for leaving the EU… That’s totally irresponsible and reckless and not something we should give in to.”
Raab repeated this assertion several days later stating, “You would hear swirling around in Brussels – particularly the people around Selmayr, Martin Selmayr in the Commission, and some others – that losing Northern Ireland was the price the UK would pay for Brexit,” said Mr Raab.
“This was reported to me through the diplomatic channel.
“It is one thing to defend your interests robustly, but there is another thing in the spirit of so-called European unity to be trying to carve up a major European nation.”
At the time Martin Selmayr and others at the EU Commission denied having said any such thing, however the contents of a telephone call on 8th October between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggest that Dominic Raab was probably accurate in his assessment of the position held by the Commission.
A spokesperson at the Prime Minister’s office at No.10 reported, “The call with Merkel showed the EU has adopted a new position. She made clear a deal is overwhelmingly unlikely and she thinks the EU has a veto on us leaving the customs union. Merkel said that if Germany wanted to leave the EU they could do it no problem but the UK cannot leave without leaving Northern Ireland behind in a customs union and in full alignment forever.
“She said that Ireland is the government’s special problem and Ireland must have at least have a veto on NI leaving. Merkel said that the PM should tell Northern Ireland that it must stay in full alignment forever …”
When we now visit the text of Boris Johnson’s much hailed agreement with the EU, we find that in exchange for the UK being able to leave the EU, we are to leave Northern Ireland behind subject to all of the rules and regulations of the EU single market and the EU customs area, and that in an elaborate contrivance of ‘double-speak’, we are to believe that Northern Ireland will continue to be ‘legally’ a part of the UK, although for all practical economic, regulatory and trade purposes it will be a part of the EU.
All of this we are told, is in order to ‘honour’ the terms of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, that there should be no physical border between the North and South of Ireland and no customs checks at the border. This however is a fiction, as within the text of that agreement there is not a single mention of infrastructure relating a physical border or of customs checks.
We are also told the response to any ‘transgression’ of the spirit of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, would bring about a resumption of terrorist activities on the part of the IRA.
When one reads the text of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, it is apparent that its effect is intended to prepare the way for an eventual united Ireland. As many pundits commented at the time of the signing of that agreement, it was in effect a treaty of surrender by the British government to the IRA. This has been laughed off by government representatives on many occasions and members of the security services have conveniently come forward to testify that the agreement was reached when the IRA realised they were facing imminent defeat in the face of superior resources and intelligence held by the British government, however this is a lie. The resources at the disposal of the IRA were certainly dwarfed by those at the disposal of the British security services, but successive British governments lacked the will to implement the measures necessary to either defeat the IRA militarily or the broader republican movement, politically.
The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement was a surrender treaty, not heralding an immediate, complete and unconditional surrender on the part of the British government, as such a thing would not have been accepted by the electorate, and nor would it have been accepted by Ulster Unionists or the Loyalist paramilitaries. It was and is a treaty that creates the conditions in which the North and the South of Ireland will increasingly be treated as a single island with shared cross-border institutions, and an eventual all-Ireland government created under the auspices of the EU.
In order to placate the Ulster Unionists and the Loyalist paramilitaries, the continued union between Ulster and the rest of the United Kingdom was supposed to be preserved by a requirement that constitutional change would require the consent of a majority of both Unionist and Republican traditions, but now, Boris Johnson’s new Brexit agreement proposes that Northern Ireland must remain within the EU single market and customs area unless a simple majority of the population of Ulster votes otherwise, roughly five years from now or at one of the four or eight-yearly opportunities provided beyond that, and as Unionists are now a demographic minority in Ulster, and Republicans together with unaligned groups increasingly a demographic majority, it is unlikely that Northern Ireland will ever vote to leave the jurisdiction of the EU.
Effectively, the lack of will on the part of the current British government to withdraw from the EU unilaterally — with no-deal — to take the decisive action needed to retain the integrity of the United Kingdom, the price of our freedom will indeed be to surrender Northern Ireland to Eire and the EU.
It is ironic that following the Irish War of Independence 1919-1921 and in negotiating the freedom of Eire, the Irish Free State, Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, negotiating for the Republicans, were forced to leave six of the counties of Ulster under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom as the price for their freedom, and that now following the continual cowardice and lack of political will on the part of successive British governments, the price that the we British are now required to pay for our freedom from the EU is the surrender of those same six counties.
Without doubt Ulster Unionists have been shamefully betrayed by the deal done by Boris Johnson, but so too have the British people been betrayed as we see the further political dismemberment of our islands.
It should never have been necessary for the people of Ireland to seek independence from those of us who live in the rest of the British Isles, but the capitalist governments of our empire made the mistake of treating the Irish, not as citizens of Great Britain, but as a subject people who had been conquered and colonised. There has also been an historic failure on the party of successive British governments to fully integrate the Welsh and the Scots also, although they were never treated as shabbily as past governments treated the Irish. The Welsh and the Scots have however been encouraged to think of themselves as separate and their interests as subordinate to the interests of England and our Westminster government.
It should never have come to pass that The United Kingdom or Eire should have voluntarily opted to become subordinate provinces of the EU, a European tyranny. We British had long been an independent nation with a proud history and having at last won their independence from what they saw as one tyranny, it is literally astounding that the Irish government and the Irish people have volunteered to subordinate themselves to another, greater, tyranny. And what is worse, we will unless our government are careful, face calls from the Scots and the Welsh nationalists for their respective parts of our islands to be allowed the same EU colony status Boris has just arranged for Northern Ireland, and the UK and our islands will be politically dismembered even further, weakening us all in the face of that greater tyranny.
More than ever before we need a government that has a keen sense of nationhood and a desire to unite the peoples of these British Isles as never before. We must make sure that the Scots and the Welsh feel as much a part of Britain as Yorkshire and Hampshire, and we must make them feel that their cultural traditions are honoured and respected as sister nations. Furthermore, should we ever regain it, we must use the benefits of our eventual independence from the EU to win the hearts of those people of British tradition living on the Island of Ireland and to woo the people of Eire into a closer and closer bond with the United Kingdom and in doing so prise them away from the EU, so that the sister peoples of the British Isles can one day become a proud, independent and prosperous whole, with no borders to divide us, and free from tyranny.
By Max Musson © 2019
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Michael Woodbridge
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There’s also the bigger picture to our present EU predicament, not only do we need to woo back those of Irish stock into the Anglo-Saxon/Celtic nation which constitutes the essence of our folk, we also need to woo back our compatriots in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and any other part of the world where our people exist in significant communities. As the saying goes, “Blood is thicker than water.” We can’t expect to do all this in one go but the first step has to be Brexit. Once we’ve achieved Brexit, almost at any price, we will have re-introduced the essential principle that a government’s first duty is to the welfare of the racial community it represents.
frederick dixon
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Excellent article. Grim reading.
Alec Suchi
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An informative article, Max. It would seem that parliament is not prepared to leave the EU under any circumstances, including the recent agreement negotiated by Boris Johnson which is little better than leaving in name only.
Any agreement reached with the EU must protect the six counties of Northern Ireland from being separated from the rest of the UK in all circumstances, as the interests of Unionists is paramount. They are the most outwardly loyal and patriotic people of the UK and their interests must not be compromised.
Notwithstanding the shameful intrigues of a traitorous parliament, perhaps it is fortunate that the “Boris Deal” had’t passed which could allow a general election to be held, allowing pro Brexit parties to fight a common cause and rid parliament of those acting contrary to the decision of the Referendum.
John Tyndale lamented the separation of Eire from the rest of the UK, and in time we must strive to form a united political structure representing all the interests of the British Isles, even if the individual geographical areas enjoy autonomy in daily affairs.
JH
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Your analysis is very sound. From the first day I heard the word ‘backstop’ – buckstop? – I strongly suspected that relinquishing Northern Ireland would be the price the EU would exact for leaving. So it has transpired. NI has been de facto annexed by the EU with the view to long term Irish unification. The UK has placed a border in the Irish Sea between NI and the rest of GB – where none existed before – despite the fact the bulk of its trade is with GB. Utterly crazy! There should be a proper border between NI/ROI, otherwise migrants will simply flood into the UK that way (the MSM never mentions this, does it?)
Not one single Tory MP voted against the 2nd reading of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill the other night, the measure that agrees Boris’ disastrous ‘deal’ in principle. Not even the so-called hard men of the ERG opposed it. I thought the ‘Spartans’ were made of sterner stuff but they have turned out to be men of straw, not steel. The real worrying bit is that many renegade ex Tories backed it as well, including arch Remainers Ken Clarke, Philip Hammond, Oliver Letwin & Amber Rudd. 19 Labour rebels also voted for it – mainly from Leave voting constituencies – but I suspect they are more interested in saving their seats than in delivering Brexit. (The motion passed by 329 votes to 299).
Boris’ ‘deal’ is little better than May’s ‘deal’. We would be better off staying in the EU than leaving on the terms of either, but that was the plan all along, wasn’t it? In politics motive is all important and I don’t trust Boris one little bit. For all his bravado and bluster he is basically a closet Remainer. He’s not an instinctive Brexiteer and he has made many pre-EU statements in the past. I strongly suspect his ‘conversion’ to the Brexit cause had everything to do with personal ambition, not real conviction – it was the easiest way for him to become Tory party leader then Prime Minister. He is someone who will do and say anything to get to the top. Corbyn, oddly enough, is a closet Brexiteer. He wants to nationalise the railways and public utilities – which is much easier to do outside the EU – but he’s a weak leader in a Remain dominated party.
It’s Leavers who should be taking to the streets and holding mass demonstrations, not Remainers. We are the ones who should be getting angry as we’ve most to lose. When you fight a war you often have to form a coalition against a common enemy. The Left do this all the time. Why can’t the Right get its act together? What is needed is an alliance between people like ourselves, and like-minded persons in UKIP, BxP, right wing Tories and non-Marxist Labourites who can unite over Brexit and opposition to mass migration. If the Westminster traitors get away with overturning Brexit it will be the biggest single act of robbery in the history of this country.
Max Musson
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You are right on each point. We should form coalitions, but there is a lot of politics that prevents this.
kerdasi amaq
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As far as the European Union is concerned; nation states are redundant and are to be obliterated.
Why do you think that they are so keen on importing third worlders to Europe? It isn’t for the benefit of the indigenous population.
In the long run, Europe will be composed of mongrelised Islamic half-breed mudpeople and the Pope will convert to Islam to take control of this new Europe.
Max Musson
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“In the long run …”, but only if we do nothing to create an alternative future.
Stefan
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Unfortunately Irish politics of any sort is pretty much a deadening impenetrable bore to most of the English.
It’s not a vote winner & I think the two parts will become one in the long term if the majority want that.
There will always be a minority who are unhappy.
I don’t know what we do about that.
JH
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One Ulsterman is worth up to ten Englishmen in the current climate. When Unionist communities come under attack or their culture is trashed they at least fight back. They don’t roll over and take it lying down like most folk on this side of the Irish Sea, nor do they look forward to their own extinction. We need them on our side because they represent some of the best British stock in the UK, the ones least infected by the mental illness called liberalism.
In his desire to appease the EU and Sinn Fein/IRA, so-called Unionist Boris proposes dividing the Union by placing a border in the Irish Sea, something he originally opposed, and something even Terrible Theresa May would not accept. On top of that, Westminster has just added insult to injury by imposing ‘liberal values’ on NI – legalised infanticide (abortion) and sodomy (same sex marriages). Pity it can’t export these ‘liberal values’ to the third world instead.
IRONKRAFT
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Speaking of “Unionism”, I notice yet another website and movement, run by Mark Collet.
Is this going to yet again, split any mass joining and activism, of Britons, in light of the fact, Western Spring, is literally doing the same thing?
Regards.
Max Musson
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Western Spring advocate a policy of community activism and entryism, whereas I believe Mark Collett’s aim is to create a nationalist political party and to contest elections.
I don’t think I need to explain why overt electioneering is a fruitless waste of time and effort for nationalists as there are already more than enough articles to be found on this website explaining this fully.
See: https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-futility-of-electioneering/