Passport to Portadown
I discovered yesterday that there are now more people in Northern Ireland with Irish passports than with UK ones.
What a sensible bunch they are, the good folk of Northern Ireland, taking advantage of their right to a passport that allows them to live and work anywhere in the EEA.
I assume an awful lot of Unionists have taken advantage of this happy opportunity to get themselves an EU passport. It’s so handy for dodging queues at airports, business trips to the Continent without the need for a visa and staying in your holiday home longer.
Doubtless it comes with an EHIC card and perhaps it lets your children take advantage of the Erasmus scheme. Certainly travel to and from Ireland is as simple as ever and the local economy is still in the Single Market; which is nice.
Luckily, the government has seen that this has all been a terrible mistake and will soon be breaking international law to start a trade war with the EU to sort out this mess.
Except they can’t close the Irish Passport Office, that remains open to all.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.