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{"id":2551,"date":"2020-09-11T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nowadays.org.uk\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2020-09-11T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:33:51","slug":"has-brexit-resulted-in-a-resurgence-of-anti-british-sentiment-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nowadays.org.uk\/has-brexit-resulted-in-a-resurgence-of-anti-british-sentiment-in-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Brexit Resulted in a Resurgence of Anti-British Sentiment in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In the wake of recent Brexit talks the possibility of a no-deal trade deal looking ever more likely, questions have been asked about Northern Ireland and the border. The arrangement in the current Withdrawal Agreement means there would be no physical border instead a border is effectively placed within the Irish Sea. This is what lead the DUP to condemn the deal and seek its renegotiation which meant that for once, all of the political parties in Northern Ireland agreed on an issue; the current deal will not do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The population of Northern Ireland have been very wary with Brexit as it could lead to the resurgence of terrorist groups such as the \u2018New\u2019 IRA. On the 18th<\/sup> August 10 members were arrested in a cross-border initiative from the PSNI and the Garda\u00ed, with 1 arrested in Heathrow Airport. The PSNI estimate that the \u2018New\u2019 IRA have between 150-300 members with Forbes in 2014 stating that the group have an annual income of $50million from drug-related activities, alongside funding from sympathisers in the US and other countries. The recent arrests show that the threat from dissident republicans are very real and their illegal activities are ongoing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More than two decades after the Good Friday Agreement, MI5 are still focusing a large portion of their resources on thwarting dissident republican\u00a0activities. One of their most recent exploits was the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead in Derry by a \u2018New\u2019 IRA gunman while observing a riot. The current threat\u00a0level\u00a0to Northern Ireland from\u00a0Northern Ireland related terrorist attacks is at SEVERE, which means an attack is\u00a0highly likely\u00a0at any moment. The level has remained the same since the EU Referendum showing the UK government acknowledges the level of dissident republicanism and yet routinely ignores that threat when discussing possible border infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2018, 30 so-called \u2018punishment shootings\u2019 or \u2018knee-capshootings\u2019 were carried out by the \u2018New\u2019 IRA to instil fear and show the ability of the group to operate outside of the PSNI\u2019s operations. The political wing of the \u2018New\u2019 IRA is called Saoradh (\u201cLiberation\u201d) which has routinely called for the end of the \u2018illegal occupation\u2019 of Northern Ireland and has recently stated that violence is inevitable on the island as a result of Brexit. Their leadership is composed of ex-IRA and Sinn F\u00e9in members who hold violent and socialist views and see Sinn F\u00e9in as \u2018false prophets\u2019 and claim both the Northern Irish Executive and D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann as illegitimate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the past 4 years since the referendum Northern Ireland has been treated with contempt by the Tory Government in Westminster. Prominent Conservative front bench MP\u2019s such as Jacob Rees-Mogg and Michael Gove have previously stated that in the case of no-deal that no one would ever erect a border; suggesting that both the UK and Irish governments would be happy to leave a backdoor into both their countries unprotected. Boris Johnson has also stated that their will be no checks on GB-NI goods, we now know this is be a lie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Northern Ireland does not have many friends within the UK either with the SNP and their leader Nicola Sturgeon routinely criticising both the old (Backstop arrangement) and new deal which gives the province access to both the GB internal market and the EU single market. Sturgeons stance has infuriated many across the island as they question her awareness of both the Good Friday Agreement and its commitment to frictionless movement across the border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The recent arrests of top members of the \u2018New\u2019 IRA and a recent flair of republican ideas come as no surprise to the Northern Irish population. They knew this was coming and that all it takes are a handful of people\u00a0who\u00a0feel disenfranchised with the current status quo\u00a0to turn violent. The Troubles started that way and so has the current BLM. As someone who comes from a border town and former IRA stronghold it will not be long before people will start to look over their shoulder again.\u00a0Unfortunately, the population of the province can do is hope that MI5 and the PSNI are well equipped to deal with as\u00a0Saoradh\u00a0chairman Brian Kenna\u00a0said,\u201cthe inevitable violence\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The current level of threat in Northern Ireland is \u2018SEVERE\u2019, meaning an attack could happen at any minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n